Using Memetic Strategy from the Meme-Wars for the benefit of Steemit.
While the power of the Steemit blockchain is blowing away peoples minds, many people are complaining. Most of the time ts is about not earning enough, other times its dissappointment that their work done isn't seen.
These problems seem to be connected, since the visibility of articles is very low. An article can not pushed to other people easily: votes are piling up on a post until it finally hits the main paige and is then shot into orbit.
Just to visualize the life cycle of the average post on Steemit I made this article: The Black Forest of unseen Steemit Articles. The post is only visible on the category "New Articles" and 24h later under "Payout articles".
So what happens is that people find out they need to get people to the article and end up sharing the link wherever they can. This leads them to go to Facebook, Slack, Twitter and other places where steemit user hang out.
It is clear that there is a need for adertising and sharing the articles.
Memes are more then just emoticons and pictures with two witty lines on it. They involve customes, word phrases, shapes, color schemes and much more. A meme is a running joke, something that triggers a feeling among an initiated group of people.
If this trigger is efficient, the meme is shared to increase the group of initiated people. With the group, this meme is becoming stronger: it is going viral.
This is an important factor: as the subjected value of a single picture is very low, the effective value increases the more people are pulled into it. Making a meme is little work, but having it go viral and facilitate multiple variations of it symbolizes an avalanche of value. This is why memes are now everywhere.
But this effect, of good articles being shared and thus increasing their produced value, is not easily donw on Steemit. The articles are seen, liked and forgotten. It is like going through a candy store, every candy is behind a curtain, you like it and put it back behind the curtain for someone else to find. But the thing is that this candy is infinitly being available. Meme-Cady is being reached around for everyone to taste until it gets fade in the mouth and people come up with better, newer tastes.
This is why votign must be equal to sharing. The candy has to be reached around to friends and followers.
The option for followers does already exists, but there is no effect yet. There needs to be a "friendlist" and a timeline where people can find the good stuff others discovered. There need to be more posibilities to find and share good candy!
The incentive to look for them already exists. If someone finds a new great article, he can share it with his friends, if they like it too they will share it and thus add their votes. This then makes it go viral until it is seen by whales and then also increases in value.
Vote/Reward and future visibility
This needs to be fixed quickly, because right now there are only little over 40,000 people here and articles are already falling into oblivion. What is going to happen if there are 1, 2, 3 or 4 million people?
