As much as we all made fun of him at the time, it is a good point. Just maybe could be said a bit better.
Your post upvote story is easy to explain: trending. Posts that move up on the trending list get many more votes than posts that don't. It's a very broken ranking. We were talking about ways to fix that in a previous PIMP meeting. Witty mentioned that his developer for the PIMP frontend had figured out a new way to display posts that avoids the abuse of "trending". If it works well, maybe we can get peakd to adopt it as the default.
Anyway, @acidyo makes some great points about the how communities are kind of broken. I think we really should go back to the drawing board and figure out how to redesign and redeploy them. In that redeployment I'm not sure if general communities like GEMS should even be allowed. What's the point? (I mean I know the point now, to attract the big curators in that general community; but I mean philosophically) Using a community should be for a very niche thing. Like my last post which I posted to the "Hive Collectors" community. Most posts there are people collecting things, usually stamps, but others as well. Very niche. That is what a community should be. If you join my community "Blockchain Poets" you expect poetry, not engineering or psychology or some whatever.
That seems very much like something a politician or a businessman would say. Lots of words to say a really simple thing! It would be cool if communities could start getting some more love. We have some good ones here that if they were on any other platform they would be overflowing with users. It's sad.
haha, well, that was Rummy. He and Bush weren't the best speakers in the world.
Anyway, I hear you about communities. That's why I think we really need to rethink them. Maybe we can talk some ideas with asgarth in the peakd discord.
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