Sounds like a reasonable solution to the evident problem.
Time is the biggest factor for most however. As much as I would love to consistently find the great work of unrecognised authors, to do so would require a fair bit of time. The incentive should not be simply to upvote the work of a stranger, but to upvote the GREAT work of a stranger.
To simplify this process would help. Like a curation group who resteem quality posts receiving little attention into one account where we can take our pick.
Have upped & resteemed this for extra exposure. It is certainly a subject worth discussing.
I suspect there will be some big changes announced at SteemFest next month.
Thank you for your support and resonance @samstonehill.
I agree, a curation group, or even multiple creation groups for different catagories would be very helpful to reduce the amount of time spent looking through content.
Another way to simplify this process.... would be to use an automation system that delegates a few votes each day to a curator who specifically targets new and different users consistantly. Through the application we are building this will be an easy process. In fact, it will be effortless(after setup) to have a curator that matches your style to delegate your choice of votes to each day.
Thank you for your support Samstonehill~! May we discover and impliment how to bring this platform to the mainstream.
There is build-a-whale for this
Another aspect to this is what is one legitimately operates in a small circle. What I mean is if one is interested in a subject that isnt widely popular, there might be only a few people on here who are interested in that topic. Hence, all voting would be among them.
For example, if bird watching was one's interest, is there a wide variety of people commenting on that subject? It might be just where someone chooses to steem and, suddenly, they are penalized.
A intelligent and thoughtful perspective @taskmaster4450.
Yes... In a case use such as this.... Someone into a exceptionally niche subject would either have to delegate a few votes to a curator.... or would have to expand into another subject. Or they would become penalized.
In this case.... to me, this seems to be a question of the lesser of two negatives. Should we save the bird watchers from a penalty, at the expense of the entire steem ecosystem? Would that serve the bird watchers if steem lost its economic value to an a flooding of steem on the market?
Perhaps.... there is another way? Yet.... we have not been able to discover it yet. So, until a better solution is presented....
Should we forgo penalizing niche circles at the expense of the entire steem network?
Yes. THERE IS AN EVIDENT PROBLEM. I noticed that in a program, Steem Voter. I did not see any help from them. Like many programs online.
hello sir. I have an idea that you could help have a reach more than me: a simple "choose" button next to the upvote designed to send the post to a curator group that only other steemians can use.
Instead of going to discord to promote your post, other users can do it for you! We can also bring discord on a click away while being on steemit.
It's like the "promote" button but free and with a targeted curator team that will choose how worth is the post and upvote it accordingly.
There could also be a sub-menu that will pop out when clicking on "choose" where you can select the tags or the curator team you want the post to be addressed on like for example a "choose-for-art" tag or "choose-for-curatorteam1" and so on...
Regarding the bots problem eventually abusing the button then we will have made a "trap" for those bots/users where they click for their own fate more like a rat-trap for abusers and scammers.
people like @sherlockholmes and @spaminator even @steemcleaners would have an easier job collecting those "predators" as they would fall into them by their own act
So in the end one would chose wisely and honestly who should be on the curator's eye
I just thought right this moment that a "choosenot" button could also be implemented right next to "chose" for the reason mentioned above in this post of reducing or limiting one's influence
"chose" could also be very well "influence"
As someone who is brand new to Steemit it, I couldn't agree more. I'm very excited to become part of the collective and have managed to connect with some great content makers already however, it's only by sifting through a lot of what I can only describe as rubbish. I class myself as an adventurer and photographer but I'm struggling to find the great content I expected to. I'm assuming it's there but I'm having to plough my way through too much of what I'm assuming is auto-generated content to find the hidden gems. And there are some real hidden gems out there so think a curation group is a really great idea.