[Steem Rep] Update - September 2024 | AI-Comments | Tags | Trendings Scores
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When I start to think about what I could write about my work on the Steem, I think of several things. When I try to write them down, I'm overtaken by current events or questions or further research, which I then usually prioritise.
In this respect, I'm very sorry that I didn't get in touch with you sooner.
I would like to address a few points that have recently been receiving particular attention.
AI comments
The reaction of some users to the AI comments from the Xpilar team did indeed scare me a little. Steem is a blockchain-based platform for exchanging ideas with other people on this planet, perhaps sharing personal experiences, celebrating anniversaries, etc. One more, the other less. This motivation is reinforced by the fact that you can earn rewards in cryptocurrencies through social interaction.
Social interaction is therefore the essence of the platform. For me personally, this is an interaction between people. We all know that AI is a current trend and is also coming to Steem. There's nothing wrong with consciously choosing to interact with AI. By the way, you can try this out with the !ask command from justyy's bot. Or use the AI clearly labelled in your posts.
But where is the social interaction when a computer programme responds to a post with a text that comes from the AI? Personally, I want to talk/write to people on Steem and not to the output of a computer programme. For me, such comments are no substitute for missing human comments. What should I be happy about? At best, I pay respect to the programmer for his performance.
Tags
In the comments section of this post (yes, reading comments is very useful!) I had read that the search engines also look at relevant tags and that you should therefore use tags that match the post. I'm not familiar with search engine optimisation, but it makes sense to me.
When we create a post in a community, the unique internal community identifier (you know it as hive-123456) is automatically added as the first tag. This is also done so that you can access the community posts with the URL https://steemit.com/created/hive-123456. The actual post then has the URL https://steemit.com/hive-123456/@author/permlink. And that's probably the problem. For the search engine, the part hive-123456 in the URL is not meaningful and is therefore obviously ranked low.
If you create a post outside the community and use a meaningful tag (for example #book), the URL for the post will look like this: https://steemit.com/book/@author/permlink If you now use a meaningful title, you may also appear in the search engine results.
But what does this mean for Steem and Steemit? Do we have to abolish the communities again?
Trending Scores
Maybe it's a mistake to put this topic in a Steem Rep post, but I'm still hoping for some feedback.
I know from some users that the 'trendings' (meaning the access to https://steemit.com/trending/) are a thorn in the side of many, because it sets false incentives.
The trending score is determined on the basis of the votes a post receives. Posts with a high trending score are displayed higher up on the page than others. There are therefore two considerations to ensure that investor contributions do not appear so high up in the trendings:
- Investor votes are not included in the trending calculation.
In this case, there would have to be a (adjustable) list with the corresponding accounts. This might not be very successful, however, as trail votes are often linked to investor votes, meaning that the score is still likely to be higher than for other posts. - Votes that occur within a certain time are not (or less) included in the trending calculation.
Here, for example, I could imagine a time range of 10-30 minutes in which the value for the trending score increases steadily. This should then cover both the investor votes and the trail votes.
Feel free to write me your opinion on the suggestions. I haven't done any tests on this yet, so I can't show you what impact one version or the other would have. But that will follow soon...
10.09.2024
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