>Now this isn't a 1 to 1 analogy because Steem isn't a gallery, and we aren't selling anything, but let's just look at some well known anecdotal realities. 

Steem is not SteemPeak, not Steemit, or any other frontend, now or ever. Steem will never be a Gallery, or a type of Gallery, but any frontend could be that. 


>New awesome content creator comes to Steem, is overwhelmingly warmly welcomed and showered with votes on their first post. Next post get's pennies. More pennies, more pennies, then suddenly a post that does REALLY well, more pennies.

Sweet, another Content Creator that despite not building ANY audience is seemingly entitled to blow up the spot, because steem.

>This comes from the fact that Steem hasn't hit a critical mass of users yet for the curation system to function in a natural and organic way. 

Pure Bullshit. Not fact, just opinion, and from one opinion to another, it's quite a stench you're promoting. 

>The stake is still in too few hands. 

Utter bullshit. Last post by Arcange that removes the frozen SunDumb Stake from calculations paint a VASTLY different picture than "steem is 43 whale accounts".

>The problem with all this(IMO) is that it creates a bad user experience for the best content creators. Let's just be real about something...all content is not created equal. It's my opinion that it makes more sense to continuously incentivise the creators with the highest value content than it does to "spread it around to everyone". If we use our collective stake to keep the best creators here, we'll get "the rest" because they will come here to CONSUME content.

So you want a Critical Mass of users to promote numerous who cares content creators but then again you are fine with 43 whales voting only for "zE Best" because that will bring the Critical Mass here, because.


>Coming to Steem to consume content in the past has been relatively pointless because there's not much in the way of actual curation.(Great stuff up, not as great stuff down in a decentralized consensus). There's a lot of other variables at play when it comes to what gets votes and what doesn't. That's fine, that's Steem, but now to the matter at hand...

Yeah, who cares about consuming content if the content isn't rewarded. So consuming content that has no rewards is pointless because no rewards. Because Votes, don't mind the mindnumbing array and amount of content that is produced profusely either because the immutability of the published content or because of the appeal of potential rewards, because curation. 

Yeah, no, the rest of the convoluted nonsense doesn't matter, why? Because Steem is not at all what you obviously think it is and I honestly think you do a GIANT fuck you Disservice to expressing in any measure "Steem". 

I think that the word spam refers to copying text and to multiple publishing. If you write different articles, but using your own pictures, the same ones, this cannot be called spam.

Today, you have one vision of the plot, tomorrow, perhaps you would like to present this work in a different fantasy. This is called creativity.

If we find a way to create indefinite payouts for evergreen content, that will be absolutely massive. How do you think cross-posting can help with this? 

well to play devil's advocate, for most users on Steem a "crosspost" doesn't appear as a post at all, it is just a text link to another post.  Only on steempeak does it actually appear as a post, and steempeak is still only a fraction of the daily users that steemit has.  It really isn't particularly surprising that people are flagging cross posts.  Put yourself in the shoes of a steemit user (I know, those are painful shoes to fit into).  An author you follow has published six posts into your feed, five of which are just links to the first one.  How is that not spam?  Do you really think a text link to another post is deserving of upvotes?  

I being using crossposting but actually came to a conclusion that it doesn't to much sense.
Because there will always be abusers and for personal posts if we resteem to blog all people can view it. To promote friends or good posts, we have always the possibility to make a post promoting the user and not just a post with a phrase that could say nothing..
Thank my view, I guess crossposting will not have a long life

Few months ago I took a break from steemit because I was barely earning anything. Recently I returned determined to try  this again. I think that crossposting and different communities should help a lot of people. So far for me it is not working- my best pieces that took months to create are earning pennies and my followers are dead. But it is not necessary a bad thing. I don't want to quit steemit for good so I will have to adapt. Perhaps in the future I will buy some steem and focus on curating content instead. after all consumers are needed as well.

There is definitely a lack of focus on quality contributor retention. The organic distribution is not sufficient for regular, high quality creators to grow a lasting interest in the platform.

And that's also damaged by the focus on spreading to as many accounts as possibly. Currently with lower activity and token value, the spread of especially curation teams is rather wide but as soon as there's more activity again, most will focus once more on making sure that new members are found and recognized. Which is great, but what happens after some months of contributing or reaching a certain reputation level? They're left out and unless they've found regular support of a whale or some orcas by then...

Interestingly enough, I recently read a prolific curator and supporter of steempeak's crossposting feature state they do look at how much the original post already earned. I had ambiguous feelings about that because it felt as if earnings define whether they appreciate a post or not. That's not going to help retention of quality contributors either. Besides... does it really matter? EIP introduced a matrix to avoid absurd earnings and keep lowly appreciated content (or farmed/spam content) lower in rewards.

>I think we need cultural shifts here on Steem.

Off topic in a way, but not, but is, but isn't - but hey, you asked for input...

Make something long the lines of capthca a requirement to upvote or downvote.

It solves all the bot/circle jerking autovoting, and means people have to make the effort to support (or criticize)

Using you SP, to 'support' or criticize, require _no effort_ - or cost.
Making people 'work' to support makes it all very much more organic.

Use technology to enhance the human the experience, instead of letting technology mold us...

It sorts the wheat from the chaff, the lazy from the intentional.

I've been using old artwork a lot.  At first, I never did such a thing because I assumed folks would think I was being lazy... yet those same folks who at the time would complain about something like that, were sometimes using the same damn images from pixabay over and over and over.  Dig for long enough here and you'll see hundreds of posts that have the same images from pixabay, published by many different people.

I'm thinking I've produced about 1000 images or more since being here.  I made my own pixabay and sometimes I'll use these images more than once.  Why not?  If I pull up an old image, there's a strong chance my followers today are seeing it for the first time.  It's not spam.  Of course, if all I did was post the same three images constantly, people would lose interest in my blog.  That would be a dumb move, so why would I do that?  


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Were you expecting to see Wicked Warren today?  No.  Chances are that's the first time you've seen him.  Wicked Warren might want to be a character in a future story someday.  Do the creators of the Simpsons start from scratch with every episode and create a new cast?  No.  They use what they have.

I will have to reread why there's a payout window because I honestly can't remember why or even if a reason was given.  That's another thing I'd really like to see the back of.

<sub>I'm not sure if I will actually get around to doing it though as I have a lot of 3d and not enough time XD</sub>

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