I agree, the general vibe and plan has changed quite a lot, and not in a good direction. Allowing the introduction scam artists, the bot wars, and censorship brigades, to become entrenched and prosperous has changed everything.
Before you go. How do you feel about Steem\Steemit getting to keep all your content?
This was not the original deal. They removed the ability to edit and delete posts in response to the hack, and now they get to keep all your content. This will be used for SEO and indexing to attract more customers, but since you cannot add your new homepage to all your articles it will not benefit you unless link back here or duplicate it. Even reddit and facebook allow users to control their content, does this bother you enough to ask about changing it?
It was always understood that our content would be saved forever on the blockchain so I don't think that's something that should be alarming... but I don't even believe in the concept of intellectual property anyway so I'm sure plenty of people out there will disagree with me on this :P
It was not. The edit and delete features were removed from Steemit.com recently and can easily be put back. Of course you can go digging through the blockchain, which is fine, but the code and logic is already in place to allow people to edit and delete what shows up on a steemit.com search or in your profile. The features were removed for security and seo reasons, and not for the good of the users.
I was asking Rok about this because he has passed the cheerleading phase and posted an honest critique.
I see what you mean. You'd just like to be able to modify and delete old post from the interface, right? That sounds reasonable enough. Not something I'd worry about personally but I'd certainly vote in favor of adding that ability if it came up.
Yes exactly, like on every other social media service.
There is rarely a response to the user feature requests that get posted here, there have been complaints since it happened and they have been ignored.
Perhaps you could become the Pied Piper for the Social Media User's Bill of Rights? A user friendly campaign like that might get you a bunch more followers.
I don't think I would quite go that far. Steemit Inc. is a private company, after all and at the end of the day, they can make it however they wish. I'm looking forward to seeing more competition in the marketplace because, for now, we're stuck in a monopoly and there's little incentive to provide top-not service.
to be honest, I haven't considered this issue before.
some different responses that come up:
granted, I wasn't expecting to be changing my content, and anything I've published, I have with the acknowledgement it would be out there permanently. as such, I personally don't feel too attached to the matter - BUT, when you word it like that, I do agree with your stance that it might not be such a bad thing to change back.
It is yours, after all. You posted a ton of stuff, that's why I was wondering.
They just made it worse now too, you won't get any replies from any of those posts. https://steemit.com/steem/@tinfoilfedora/comments-are-now-disabled-on-old-posts-new-readers-cannot-even-reply-anymore#
In case you or anyone else wants to try to reason with them, There is a place to contact the developers, 2 actually. The Steem blockchain is developed by Dan and Ned from Bitshares\Graphene, and the Steemit.com website reads\writes to the blockchain is run by another group of developers. The projects can be found on github, and you can post feature requests and bug reports there. It's really the only place they respond to suggestions, because they are filed out in the open with the problem reports.
https://github.com/steemit/steem
https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com