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RE: The Odyssey: The Deafening Noise
I think that at somepoint, if someone really cares about quality content, some regulations have to be implemented.
It is very annoying to click on a video that offers something and delivers nothing, and that kind of noise pervades Youtube and other sites.
In the same way here in Steemit spammers are detected and even punished (blacklisted or flagged), in Youtube somethign similar can be done ether by thos ewho run it themselves, by some bot, or by the reported complaints of users.
If quality is the goal, if meritocracy is to be valued, then something must be done against the noise-maker, the cheaters; people would never self-regulate.
Self regulation only works when there is an incentive to self-regulate. Which there sometimes is, but usually such self-regulation disappears once money enters the equation. Which means that second layer solutions (interfaces) are necessary to regulate (curate) the good content from the bad. People value meritocratic content, they just would rather incur a penalty to get easy access to it rather than put the effort forward themselves to find it. Unfortunately, I don't really see a path forward where the noise is able to be silenced.