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RE: The Steemit Minute Steem News Powered by Dtube 10-05-2018
"Comments are free" yep and people (creators) included should start engaging with each other more in comment section. Dtube is still very sterile compared to Youtube or even Bitchute when it comes to comments. Comments are building community more that rewards which is sadly main focus of way too many steemians.
I try to comment (preferably communicate) as much as I'm comfortable with.
The problem I keep running into is that I don't think the average ThemTube comment is appropriate here.
If all goes well and the steem blockchain lasts for 25 or 50 years.
Or..
Maybe all goes excellent and the steem blockchain lasts for several hundred years!
I don't think that a "Dood Tht was FUCKkING Auesome dud!!4:20!!! Woohoooo,!" reply is appropriate here.
Some times it is, granted, but...
This is supposed to be an immutable, publicly available blockchain, for as long as possible.
That means by definition it's GOAL is to become an immuatable, everlasting, more or less "official", absolutely trusted, part of public History.
So watch what you say and try to say something you are comfortable with over a long period of time. i.e. Think great grand kids with their iPhone XLIX, Christmas morning, looking your shit up from 40+ years ago.
Because 50, 100, 1,000,000,000,xxx years from now someone will be able to use this blockchain to 100% prove that someone said EXACTLY something.
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about the endless new opportunities and possibilities that this opens up.
But like Spiderman said "With great power comes great responsibility" :-)
Nobody wants the absolute bottom of hypothetical comment basket from other "Tubes" yet they are inevitable if this platform will grow large enough. For now on the other hand we have another extreme which is near sterility. Vast majority of users are not engaging with creators, large majority of creators are not engaging with what is supposed to be their community a.k.a consumers of their content. If someone from the outside come to d.tube via shared link or embedded video somewhere else and sees this desert of nothingness in the comment section their first thought might be "wow it is dead here" and put this site aside as mere repository of backup uploads from Youtube like Dailymotion is at this moment and never come back. Their other reaction might be "this must be extremely moderated, commenting cost money (because they see dollar signs next to existing few comments)" which is inevitably followed by "why bother creating my account". This is not good at all.
Of course I am not saying people should comment just for sake of commenting but if you watch 10 videos a day and you really REALLY like OR dislike one of them, leave feedback.
I never realy consciously considered that one but now that you mentioned it, I've had that exact thought myself.
I'm personally going to try and make more comments.
I still feel cheap using the "Nice Job!" but I can see why even that is better than nothing.
This conversation has given me new ways of thinking about an issue. It's a perfect example of what I think these post comments are supposed to be about.
I thank you for that.