WIP and Ramble
3 years ago in Rant, Complain, Talk by adamada (71)
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I smell lots of community insight here... still processing.
Some very valuable insights into the crux of the matter. Balancing curation, economy and community is a tricky thing indeed. If you build it around a voting system/skinner box/monetisation then you need strong mechanisms in place for quality control and as you said...the strongest mechanism is a vibrant community that can act with agency and love for the subject.
The quality of the content very often reflects the quality of the community.
Don't play for votes...play for keeps! <3
The drawing turned out great even though I gotta say I like it best without the yellow background because the shapes read better!
I like your flavors.
True. It's easy to tell whether someone is just posting for the rewards rather than selling what they are really passionate about. Of course some can have a mix of both but for the most part, the best indicator is just how much time they spend connecting with the ecosystem, and the people around them.
I'm making it all up as I go along. No mastery for the color theory and my thought process was, hmm I haven't used yellow in a while, let's go with that. It's a WIP so there's plenty of details going to be thrown in somewhere down the road :P
To be fair to Piotr, he’s one of the ones back in the Steem days that actually helped me and kept me on the platform. This was before his project hope thing occurred but he sort of did the same, he had me write a few topics about something and he would get it huge votes but I would have to pay him back the liquid payout and keep the power up portion. It didn’t really net me much but it gave me a bit of purpose and exposure to certain elements and people here. For that I’m always grateful to him.
What I don’t like and disagree with very much is the way the community and project he’s most known for now has turned out. It’s just a vote selling operation really and it’s sad to see it turn out that way. He’s had good intentions but I think like many with either real-life needs or power issues, it’s fallen away from the ideals it was hoping to achieve. I’ve been unfollowing people who post regularly in there because it’s pretty lame now and I’m glad I didn’t get sucked into the game that he’s playing. It was a lot of time and effort for not that much reward.
This is the sell of how people are manipulated. You get motivated to post by being a tool for the program. I'm guessing the huge votes come from !tipu where it's from a wider pool of delegations. As far as I'm concerned, he used his tipu to boost posts that he can leech value from, frontrunning, and then piggybacking it to his program. It's a disingenuous scheme and you would rarely see him bother with users that have no interest in his project, no surprise and understandable but in the broader view, it's just shopping for people to be assed to give 50% voluntarily.
The idea that people won't get noticed for their hard work, it's the selling point of the program and the program is part of the program really. Community members are loved bombed and then it creates a feeling of belongingness, appreciation and indebtment while feeding the idea that the program values them a lot. If a community member posts without bothering with the 50%, the reason they won't be upvoted is because their content isn't good enough or there's not enough vp to go around, BS to me.
Being fair to the program I like the concept behind but the execution is meh. The program does help people get motivated and give out other benefits, that's a given, but the means have become dirtied to almost cult like. It's hard to appraise the wrong when the member benefits from the system.
The community I run on supports people that hardly give a fuck about the community account. They get all the votes for encouragement but majority are apathetic towards the cause. Not really a problem as the program is just alive to maintain a status quo for now. Most are just looking for fat upvotes and that's good because they can be somewhere else while I narrow down members I want to build on for the community.
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