The need for a story-chain function on Steemit by drwom

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steemit · @drwom · Jul 1 '17

$26.68

The need for a story-chain function on Steemit

![2000px-Celtic-knot-basic-linear.svg.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbgm1G7L9VYasteoCsFkH5kEebCjPk71hiyY1tYNxApVj/2000px-Celtic-knot-basic-linear.svg.png)There are loads of awesome, and I mean awesome, contributions on steemit, but I notice that apart from the comments section, you can't respond or build on the ideas within. This is especially problematic because of the imposed 7 day half-life given to each story under the Steemit rules. I am not complaining about this, to the contrary. However it seems that a lot of really great material gets buried under the weight of new material coming up behind.

I just watched a video featuring @zurvanic talking about coming improvements to Steemit including the new communities which are being planned (among other things). He was chatting with @bitcoinmeister. Their discussion made me want to re-pitch this idea, because I think it has legs and I really want to see it, or at least the functionality it will provide, be adopted here on our favourite social media platform.

My growth idea to help steemit along the way is simple: introduce the ability to tie (or chain) stories to each other (maybe call it an ideas-chain? ideas-knot?). This would allow for more developed thinking along a line of argument - perhaps even introducing a 'call-and-response' type relationship between steemers (?) whereby the original pieces could be tracked back to through the chain, allowing for a more coherent stream of ideas and collaborations than is now available through the comment section alone.

It could be peer-peer, or a single steemer could write a series of connected pieces, without needing to c&p the links back to each of the sources.

I can imagine this becoming a really powerful innovation over time that would enable steemit to become not just a blog site, but a creative knowledge bank.

If you like the idea, lets get behind it and make it happen! Please re-steemit!

Cryptotech is quickly becoming a bit of an obsession for me, inspiring me creatively in a way I seriously didn't see coming. I'd be really happy to engage in the big ideas playing in the creativetech background, and I'd love to engage with your ideas. To see where I'm coming from, check out my first steemit piece, 'What if the future arrived and we didn't notice' on https://steemit.com/@drwom
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👍 kevinwong, randowhale1, booster, jenkinrocket, kooshikoo, bulleth, drwom, dogeking, ryanjk8, htinlinaung

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@booster · Jul 2 '17

$0.04

<p>This post has received a 1.37 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @drwom.</p>

👍 drwom

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@bulleth · Jul 6 '17

Hi again (I'm trolling through your blog), this is a great idea. Presently we don't even have user notifications, implementing those and your idea would do wonders. FYI Steemit is on [Github](https://github.com/steemit/condenser), I'm not sure how feature requests are supposed to be put in, but on lots of other projects people just put it in issues and clearly mark it feature request. I've complained about lack of user notifications there, as far as I'm concerned, that is a bug: if I tag @JoeBloe here, you'd assume someone would let Joe know.

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@drwom · Jul 6 '17

Thanks @Bulleth
Yeah I think this idea is a winner.

On lack of user notifications - I had to scroll through my replies feed to see this - I didn't get a notification that you made this comment. Hopefully using the @Bulleth will help?

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@jenkinrocket · Jul 1 '17

$0.06

I totally agree. As an author it's kind of hard to justify releasing the 20th installment of a series you haven't written in months. Much better for them to be chained such that even if the person goes back to the original part of the chain and votes for it the author can still recieve value and visibility. Upped and resteemed.

👍 drwom

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@anarcho-andrei · Jul 1 '17

$0.05

I don't see how they could do that without fundamentally altering the rewards scheme to include old posts.  I recall there being that feature way back last year when  I got started, but they dumped that some time ago.  Still, it would be awesome to do that.  I'd love to see that as someone who has written series in the past and is releasing a novel as a series now.

👍 drwom

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@jenkinrocket · Jul 1 '17

Mm. I was thinking that maybe you could 'chain' posts together as suggested in this article, with any vote for a previous entry automatically going to the most recent 'link' in the chain. Thus the vote would technically be for a recent post.

As a caveat, you could only vote for the entire chain once per added new link, thus stopping certain abuses from happening.

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@drwom · Jul 1 '17

Thanks!
I wonder what else we can do to lobby for this? Any ideas?

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@jenkinrocket · Jul 1 '17

$0.06

Well, I know that the community has certain blogs run by the devs (though I don't remember which), and that now and then they ask for community input. Other than that, I dunno....I think having articles like this resteemed broadly might help also.

👍 drwom, tune

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@randowhale · Jul 1 '17

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This post received a 3.2% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @drwom!  For more information, [click here](https://steemit.com/steemit/@randowhale/introducing-randowhale-will-you-get-the-100-vote-give-it-a-shot)!

👍 nextgencrypto, drwom

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