Then of course the missing transparency with regular (at least weekly) updates on SMTs and development, as well as the non-existent marketing by Steemit Inc. are also things handled very poorly.
But hey, let's stay positive! At least the chain has people like us! 😉I don't think, that we have a quality problem with the articles here, but with people who upvote shitty hate posts of people, who can't write 2 correct sentences and pushing these useless posts to the trending page. This is where we should start and this is a huge problem. There are really good posts on Steemit, but most of them are not found in the trending section, because there you will find some egocentric sociopaths fighting their war about protecting the reward pool instead. Something that @ned strangely finds entertaining and good publicity - which makes me seriously doubt his judgement and leadership skills.
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I think there are many who especially upvote and comment trending posts just because they believe that they'll get a piece of the attention someone else just bought by voting for them. Actually it's the other way around. Trending is now known as the place where you definitely don't find quality content, and where no real social engagement is taking place.
I remember he commented a post from grumpycat or berniesanders once, saying that it was amazing how much traffic these guys were bringing to the platform. I replied to his comment asking him if he seriously believed that these two were bringing traffic from the outside - or if it was rather the case that the post just made a couple of thousand views for being boosted to a top trending position where it was found by the local drama lovers then. He didn't answer back.
Something needs to be done.Thanks for stopping by and keeping the ball rolling, @atmosblack.
This was exactly the post I was referring to! I was just sitting there and shaking my head... What you are saying about the trending page is absolutely true - at least they promised with the next community update, that the trending page will be gone. I personally never look there anymore, because of my anger management ;)
Haha, oh yeah the anger management...
The community feature was announced for in January 2017 for Q3/2017 to come. Now we're getting closer to Q3/2018, so honestly I've stopped dreaming of it :-)
If it comes: nice. If not, nobody would be surprised either.
Until then we've got to work with what we have...