Quote from: damashup on October 26, 2016, 05:25:39 PM

Quote from: missbit on October 26, 2016, 05:50:03 AM

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It should be fun and social, which is addictive, sticky, and viral.

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For the masses it should be mostly swiping and clicking. For content producers, they must be able to connect directly to their demographics and not be at the whim of some top-down control (whales, site-wide ideology).

Well-said. Could not agree more. Sticky? More of off-putting.

The content producers are mainly new untested bloggers who chase for upvotes from whales. These bloggers observe a trend on what kind of content is trending and starting writing something with "their in-depth research and hours writing" compared to people specialized in their technical field for years.

This is a very good example on IP. Just BS.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@kevinwong/the-end-of-intellectual-property-on-imagination-artificial-intelligence-and-procedural-generation

IP exists clearly for a reason. Just depends on which side you happen to stand. Also this author clearly omits science patents. clearly written for anarchy or the pirates Tongue

Such untested bloggers or what you call content producers who exist on steemit is why steemit will fail to attract and expand user base outside of crypto.

This argument is a bit like saying that Bitcoin would fail (after 6 months) as the only people using it were Satoshi and a handful of crypto nerds...

If well-established bloggers migrated onto Steemit, it would obviously be in the interest of whales etc to vote for them. As with most things early adopters are simply benefiting from being early adopters, not necessarily the cream of the crop.

Equally, if Steem or Synereo etc, gained mass adoption, the existing whales would likely be very quickly bought out and the modus operandi of the new whales would look very different to behaviours exhibited now.

The key for any of these "attention economy" platforms is mass adoption and user retention. An area which Steem/ Steemit has barely scratched the surface of given it's soft launch was in July and it's still in beta.

I for one will be interested to see how things begin to take shape over the next 12 - 18 months before declaring it dead/ failed after 3!

That's the answer right there why most people won't buy steem. Why should new investors buy steem or even steem power (which takes 2 years to draw down everything) to support new bloggers and their content, and pay their "salary" or even the whales? It does not make good investment sense in the content market. A lot of steemit content is shit. If it claims to be a content site, it damned better have good content and star bloggers. But all i see is shit content probably written by whales' friends (according to what most feedback says) and i guess that explains why shit got voted on so often. And you talked about "attention economy" when the content is not attracting eyeballs.

People will only invest in a content site if it provides value to the audience/masses or attracts users aka expands userbase. At this time, i don't see how both steem and steemit can provide any value.

Also, why hurriedly roll it out when it is premature is a big question? This, i leave it to your imagination on why.