Perhaps a trending page that detects genuine discource in the comments section of a post might do.
Do you use Steempeak? It's an excellent front-end. You can save drafts, schedule posts, and save your favourite topics. For responses, I use a combination of Ginabot via discord, partiko (when I'm not at the computer) and most importantly, the stuff that lives between my ears - the original plan for Steem.
Proof of brain. :)
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And I love it. Btw, @chekohler was going to write a post this week to make some suggestions for steempeak. So, he should also be part of our communication, I feel.
But yet you're not using the night mode! :) @jarvie and @asgarth are really approachable as some of the driving forces behind steempeak. They're done a phenomenal job that has gone very unrewarded to date.
I am also a Steempeak user, and use the beneficiary mechanism to pass 5% of my author rewards for each post I make to Steempeak. It's easy, and hope lot's of folks do the same.
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SEE?!? That was what I forget to mention in my last comment! I was going to say "but there's still a lot I haven't fully explored in the dapp. It's simply not that neat&clean as assbook or twatter. Nightmode??? FTW! CHECK!
Unfortunately, I've recently reactivated by assbook, asstagram, and I never left twatter. It's all part of a ploy to try and get some more people across to this platform where they may actually be rewarded in a minuscule way for their content, words, and opinions.
It'll be a slow burn, and I've tried before. I'll try some more. It's much easier to turn a creative, thinking, breathing thing into a crypto person than it is to turn a normie into a crypto person.
most definitely. It takes the will to learn and the creativity to overcome frustrations that might appear in a phase like that where everyone is still figuring out how we want to 'manage' this whole community. I believe in us. First, improve the blockchain, then the world! 🚀
That would be a far more useful trending page IMHO. Still, given the pandering rampant on Steem, the comments of folks pandering would still skew such a metric, albeit to a lesser degree than payout.
I reckon that we should each be able to create filters that recommends content to us, and that a real world reputation metric that is truly subjective would be a great utility for that purpose. There's probably not a better gauge than you suggest for an outward facing trending page, as folks not on Steem can't be availed of such a reputation metric. Engagement is probably the very best metric for such an outward facing trending page.
Thanks!
Edit: also, your parrot seems broken, you pirate. =p
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I'm yet to see a comment earn more than the post it is linked to for providing additional context or opinion; that isn't charged by a self-vote army, or some unscrupulous vote trading. That would be neat to see. Perhaps the "value" of all comments on a post relative to the actual post itself would be an interesting metric to show true engagement.
i.e post is $1.00, value of votes for comments is 0.20c, votes are from other parties that are not the post author or comment-leaver. That could have an engagement score of 20%, or something. Just thinking out aloud. :)
Regarding the "parrot": It's a chicken! The pet of my soon to be mother in law. It is named "Special". It once tried to wander into a pre-heating oven on its own accord. She's a silly chicken.
I have seen comments that organically were upvoted higher than the OP, but it's not common at all.
Chickens are the most vicious predators I have ever met the gaze of. I am damn glad to be larger than them. Prolly make good pets.
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