What an excellent and common sense post, Steve. How many users have we alienated through this aversion to short form media? Yet, I see many 'poor' posts garnering $100s. There is too much perceived correlation between length, quality and reward.
If people judged posts primarily on sincerity and integrity AND we dumped autovoting and curation trails, we would have a much purer allocation of rewards.
The main problem however, is that curation is so well rewarded. Some large stakeholders often don't care about what they're voting on, only that they get their 10 full upvotes a day done to maximise their returns.
Here is where we find a paradox. It's often the same people who care the most about their curation rewards who are the ones who are in disagreement with encouraging short-form content!
Another problem that is getting worse is the stigma attached to short-form content. Many people are scared to death to make short posts for fear of being muted or ignored by large stake holders. Many feel the need to write huge posts, but I see many posts 'doubled' to make them appear to have large word-counts by posting in two languages.
We need short-form. We need a full suite of social media tools and mostly, we need the support of the mighty and powerful to encourage users to use them!
I like curation being well-rewarded 😁 and I like being able to give some of my voting power through auto-voting. I honestly don't have time to read lots of posts but there are accounts on Hive that I want to support and encourage to keep going because generally I like what they write.
But I agree, sometimes short form information, humour or beautiful photograph would be great and just what the doctor ordered.
The problem (for me) with short-form, if there is one, is the tendency to fragment discussion and debate and encourage pile-ons.
Your comment is longer than some posts. It' should be quality that matters, but we know that's not always the case. More manual curation would help for sure.
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fighting blind vote...
could be a good point to find a balance between "manual curation" both for posts and for comments?
you earn "money" if you comment. if your "manual curation" exists as it does for the creator of the post.
blind votes are allowed just to "agreement" for a comment
could it be?
Not sure what you mean. You earn from curation if your vote is big enough. The system doesn't know what is manual.
"The system doesn't know what is manual."
But the system does know what is a comment.
So, the system could give rewards only to comments.
In this way you get rewards only by commenting.
If someone comments with "!!!" very easily can have downvotes.
Everyone is more likely to comment actively.
The vote (as a single "like") to a post, should not bring any reward (in this way you would fight the blind vote and communities are more active and alive, with people who talk).
That is my solution, thinking about the blind vote
I doubt you will see a major change in how rewards work. You need to tell developers and witnesses your ideas. We can earn in many ways, but some people will want to automate it. There have to be incentives to vote and curation rewards are part of that.
so again we'll talk about how little interaction exists in a community (hive blog) where everyone is minding their own business just because they're interested in profit and not social interaction.
Connecting and playing games doesn't increase the value of social.
they are just active connections that feed the system.
but of single entities that only look at their own gain.
again, there is more interaction and exchange of ideas inside facebook and twitter (less on instagram, but it is a different social, based on the pleasure of photography)
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