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My thoughts on sportstalk.

Since this site has been in operation I have spend a lot more time here than on steemit.com as the content is far more relevant to my interests and therefore a lot more enjoyable to pass the time. With that in mind I have powered up a decent stake and have been using it to both upvote and downvote the content I have seen there. Now downvoting on steemit has always been seen as a heated subject on the site with people taking it personally. To be fair, I must have used it less than 50 times in the past two years. It was also the reason that we had so much random shit on the chain with people posting random photos then fully upvoting them ten times a day.

Sportstalksocial isn't my site, that would go to @patrickulrich for creating it but I think it has great potential and would love to see it thrive through good content and passionate users. That's why i won't be shy to use my vote around the place. However I'm not the judge and jury so would like everybody's opinion and what kind of content guidelines we would like to see as more people experiment with the site and what Patrick would like to see for his project.

I think it would be good to have a set of guidelines in place for people joining the site which clearly state what is and isn't acceptable content for the site so that we can present the best possible view for those using the platform. This is only my opinion and you can tell me to fuck off if that's your view on guidelines but at least I can see how people would like to use it.

Setting standards.

In my opinion I would like to see,

• Posts with text as well as photos.
• Posts well written and formatted. ( Don't have to be essays, just clear and simple.)
• Posts on sports topics only. (Should these include the likes of chess, steemmonsters?)
• Esports kept on topic of competitive gaming.
• Unique works and not copy/ pastes.

I don't want to see,

• Random posts that mention a word like sport somewhere. (holiday pics, blog pieces that say i like sport at the end.)
• Photos with no text or context.
• Steemmonster posts or reward card posts.
• Plagiarised writing form another source.
• Reward farming where a person posts ten times daily and upvotes themselves. ( It's there already just like certain people on steemit.)

Now again I stress that this is only my opinion and the basis of how I will curate with hopefully a large stake behind it. I would like to know the communities opinion on these points or any other ones you can think off to give a clearer picture. It would be nice to have a common ground between the users which should lead to better content and a better site instead of falling away like steemit.com has been doing for the past while. So let me know about it and hopefully @patrickulrich will get involved too and we can put some community guidelines in place for us to grow.