The Tokenized World: Relevant Content, Community Support... or Tag Soup?
As more and more "Tribes" ramp up on Steem-Engine and Communities/SMT's loom on some distant part of Steemit, Inc's horizon, I find myself looking at how people approach this brave new world.
Personally? I'm thinking to pick about 3-4 Tribes that feel interesting/relevant to me, and then putting my effort into those. Thing is, with the amount of time I have on my hands for social blogging these days... that's really about all I can reasonably hope to do. Besides, why would I be doing something I didn't care about?
Evidently, that makes me slightly "weird..."
Beach at the "Golden Hour"
"IT" Already Happened!
What is "it, you might be wondering?
"IT" was the first post I have seen so far that used all ten allowable tags to simply list 10 different tribes... and thereby completely omitting having a tag to reasonably — or remotely, even — help describe what the post is about.
Thurthfully, I figured it would only be a matter of time before we arrived at the point of such "tag soup" becoming a reality... with all these new projects... and I was right. Saw it coming, from miles away.
No, I'm really not so "gosh darned clever." I just have a pretty good grip on the psychology of "Humans Behaving Badly As Soon As There Is Money Involved."
And so, it was always utterly predictable that someone would stake their tokens from more than ten of their Steem-Engine airdrops, and subsequently use every single tag slot for a different tribe name, just so they could eek a few extra fractions of a cent out of the system.
Maybe I am just taking everything too seriously, but seeing this example of "Tag Soup" really did just make me want to slam hy head on my desk.
Bright and beautiful...
Being Idealistic... It Ain't Easy!
I guess I must be lacking certain parts of the basic building blocks of being human, because I just don't get this pervasive proclivity (many) people have for milking a system — a system that could really benefit them — for every drop it contains, usually with complete disregard for whether or not they are (A) destroying that system, (B) taking "right action" as people, and (C) helping to build something, rather than tearing that something down.
Alas, I am also enough of a realist to look at the world and recognize that it's typically the lowest common denominator that rules the day.
"But the system ALLOWS it!"
Well, then the system needs to be changed, because evidently people are utterly incapable of self-moderating. Maybe they need to code into the root system that you can have up top three tags for tribe names, and the remaining seven have to be descriptive of your content.
Of course, it's probably very unlikely that will happen. But being idealistic and all, I can but hope.
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