Branded posts just clog up the categories with pointless niches when we should have niche communities forming around the actual niche itself not the branded version of some of the influencers in the niche. Why? Branded tags are not self-explanatory and provide no value other than the fact that you’re in there for the exclusivity and potential upvotes from curation. If we want Steemit to be a long term thing we have to treat it like so. We have to tag correctly to build a proper index and directory of posts!

Essentially I think we need to fix this and I'm open to hear about solutions and takes on this. I think if maybe we could do 10 tags like on other platforms that have more tags allowed, we could have like 5 tags for information and 5 that could be used for branded tags etc.

If you don't know what I mean by "branded" I mean like if I had a hashtag #scottcbusiness and I required you to post using that to get an upvote by me or for a curation trail etc. I get the appeal, I get that it's been around way longer than me. SO, I am only suggesting we adjust it, not necessarily remove that aspect. I do think it's more important we have informational tags because moving forward with new members joining it would be harder and harder to find posts if they aren't indexed based on what information they contain.

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