Happy Sunday Y’all! In hopes of blogging more freely (without always obsessing over only posting things that are perfectly formatted, written and presented... which leads to me avoiding it some days 😬); I thought it would be fun to start a Sunday Coffee Thoughts. I will essentially be practicing “free writing” about certain topics or thoughts in hopes of having a discussion here. So, join in!
Manual Curation
Let me start this by saying that I am NOT against auto voting. In fact I am lucky enough to be on many lovely individuals auto votes and I am not only thankful, but honored. The fact that they enjoy my blog enough to want to make sure I get a little love from them each and everytime I post is awesome.
I also know that this means some don’t actually see or read my posts. No, @soundwavesphoton I am not just talking about you so don’t feel singled out haha. So, while getting the vote is awesome... are we losing engagement this way? If we love these individuals work enough to support them on auto pilot.. don’t we want to read what they write too?
Now, I am not a very big account.. so for some I get that there is just no freaking way they can get through everyone’s posts.. there aren’t enough hours in the day. I get that, and I understand the only way you can ensure the bloggers you enjoy are supported, is to put them on autovote.
I want to read each post, and I don’t cast my vote on any post I have not read... which does mean I miss a few from time to time. BUT this also means if my vote (however small it is at the moment) ends up on your post I not only read it, but I enjoyed it. I don’t know why that is important to me, but it is. I do know I am a bit idealistic (too much so at times) and maybe it’s due to that and my stubbornness that this is just the way I curate.
Which brings me to my next point...
Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that allows us to make sure we don’t miss our favorite bloggers posts??
Favorites Tab
Ok, so MySpace (yes, I am old enough to have had a MySpace account) even had a top ten list ability. A place you could always have you favorite accounts easily accessible. So, dear Steemit god’s why can’t we have a favorites tab??😩
With all the wonderful tools that have been designed to compliment this platform, the fact that this one hasn’t been created yet is surprising to me. The ability to add individuals to your favorites and have a separate feed for them, ensuring you never miss a post, would be life changing for me. I know I can’t be the only one right?
So, what would this take? Is the technical side of it just too difficult to easily make it happen? Or is it just not a priority? Seeing that steemit is a blogging platform and as we know some of our biggest issues are engagement and user retention.. making it easier to actually find those authors you want to engage with would be pretty beneficial in my opinion.
So... Thoughts? Opinions? (Or maybe does anyone want to publicly announce they will be removing me from autovote after this? 😆)
Let’s get a conversation going!
Much Love And Happy Sunday,
Justine
Edit: That time when you use the wrong tag and can’t edit it because you somehow put it in the first tag, sorry busy god’s... ignore me