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The Steem Echo Chamber
Not sure if it's just me. But after about a week on Steemit, I'm starting to get a little bored with a bulk of the posts I see being how awesome Steemit is... Don't get me wrong. I like how the community is forming up (as opposed to all other established communities online) but it just feels weird how people are using a medium to sing praises about the very medium they're writing to - kinda like discovering paper and using it to write about how awesome paper is. :/
But I suppose it's only natural since things are pretty new and everyone's still excited about discovering it?
It is actually pretty awesome that it's one of the few blockchain projects that's getting quite a bit of non-techie usage.
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Have an upvote @ridz84! :D
Not trying to be a jerk, but these posts are just as prevalent as the #circlejerk posts. I'm not denying what you are saying, but I feel like the posts commenting on this are taking up more space in the feed than they need to. Instead of writing a new post about it, go to one of the others saying the same thing and up vote and comment there. Lots of little posts will get far less recognition than one big one.
Things will naturally improve in time. Many whales are no longer voting on echo chamber posts. This is why I am not voting on yours.
Neah, you're right. I just realised I added to the echo (didn't think it through far enough). And I'm realising why it's probably happening... I skipped reading the feed after doing random scrolls and just went straight to posting my thoughts. Perhaps there should be a UI option to just not have a post appear on the main timeline and just under an account's blog section.
Still not used to the the mechanics here.
Yup, I'm sure it'll improve with time too. I guess i'm at the point where i'm not sure what use cases the platform is trying to move towards and what sort of behaviour and community norms exist. On one hand there's the use of the term "blog" which sort of suggests writing one's own thoughts and giving other's access to it (much like what i've done, and not for the upvotes). On the other hand, there's writing it as a contribution of new value to a community (which would require one to read what's already posted to make sort of minimise already echo-ed sentiment/information. This is probably judged by upvotes).
Maybe something like a flag to determine if a post should be on the feed (is that what it's called?) or merely show in one's own "blog" section might be able to separate the two.
But yeah, like I said in my reply to @robsteady, I didn't realise I was adding to the echo until after I posted and you folks commented. Probably should have thought a bit more before hitting post.
This is great to know and to see. Great stuff for the long term health of the ecosystem.
Re: the points below @ridz84, I would say that this platform is going to evolve to deal with many use cases not one. We don't know either, it's a dynamic adaptive system, so what we do makes it go in different places, what whales do makes it go in other places. Steemit could end up being analogous to many different things or nothing at all.
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