I have high hopes for the Steem cryptocurrency as a long-term investment. I want it to succeed and become a mainstream coin of the cyber world. But I am just a humble writer and photographer. I am not a programmer, techie, crypto-financier, whale, accountant or other entity who can fine-tune the workings of the blockchain.
I’m like most of you. I want a platform where I can post, comment, upvote and get paid and learn some things on the way. My ultimate dream scenario is to be free to write and have that writing generate enough to supply my basic needs. I don’t need great financial wealth. I simply want to be free to follow my dreams without the burden of perpetual employment doing things I know are wrong simply to make a living or to be pinned to a geographical location because that’s where my job is.
In order for that dream to come true, Steemit has to succeed in a big way. I think it can. It’s going through some growing pains and technical problems but from everything I’ve read about it, its paradigm is sound. We all know there are issues and that improvements can be made, but few of us know how to bring our concerns and recommendations to light.
When I have problems, I go to the chat rooms and sometimes I do get help there. At times I’ll stumble across a post that presents a problem and a possible solution, but it may not receive much attention in the whirlwind of posts that blow through the Steemit blogosphere every day. Let’s work to make Steemit truly great.
Steemit needs a #suggestionbox. We can’t petition the devs directly with our ideas. They don’t have time and many of our ideas are probably unattainable, unwarranted or just plain stupid.
Some of us want to stop self-voting while others want to limit the power of the whales. “Quality” is sometimes confused with “popularity.” I think there needs to be a better method of tracking our monetary transactions besides going back through our wallet and adding up our Steem, SBDs and transfers which fluctuate daily based on Steem value and conversion rates.
And the truth is that maybe these fixes already exist. There’s just no interface where we can query and make suggestions, no global way to reach out and have our questions answered. #suggestionbox might be a simple solution to this problem.
Let’s make our suggestions and concerns available to the community. Let’s devise a way to see what changes we’d like to see and give the community a chance to consider and vote upon those ideas.
If you have an idea how to improve Steemit, create a post and then use #suggestionbox in the tagline. Now Steemians have a chance to go to that feed, see what ideas are out there, comment on them and upvote them or not. The feedback on the post might quickly provide an answer to your concern. Also, the amount of activity and the popularity of the post will create waves within the community that will be noticed by curators who can help pay you for your good ideas.
Most importantly, the devs will have easy access to those ideas that they can peruse anonymously at their leisure. They will feel no pressure and the ideas that are just plain dumb (yes, there will be many), can simply be ignored or better yet, their logic can be corrected via a gentle comment.
With #suggestionbox, we can freely present our ideas without fear of feeling stupid because we are noobs, or in my case, woefully undereducated and oblivious.
What do you think? Am I reinventing the wheel? Does something like this already exist? Thank you for your consideration and input.
