Several years ago I would start my computer up, open chrome and head over to Facebook, whilst on there I would talk to my friends, look at their status updates and maybe make a few comments.
Fast forward to this year; I no longer use Facebook. This is because rather then a social networking website, it has become a FFest* of click-bait articles, 'Like' begging and re-posted content. Before I deactivated my account for good, I would be able to scroll for minutes at a time without seeing even a single status update from my friend (at least one that wasn't just a share from some click-bait page like Lad-Bible), and this was from an account that has only liked a very limited number of pages, none of which were the ones being displayed on my feed.
The reason I bring this up is because Steemit as a platform Really encourages the use of click-bait titles and longer the site is up, the more desperate the users will get. This will in turn result in users re-posting content found online rather then making quality, engaging post. Before we know it the whole site will be filled with SoFlo Antonios and Lad-Bibles.
Luckily for us though, the general user-base of Steemit seems to have their heads screwed on properly. At the time of this post you can head over to the Trending page and you'll find a diverse and appealing group of articles ranging from an introduction from a developer to Informative, self help posts.
All I wish to say though is please let this continue, let's not let our trending pages get filled up with uninformative, click-bait posts and continue to vote up those posts which we are actually interested in, not the ones we think will do the best.
I actually brushed on this topic in a prior post of mine that can be found here:
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it :)