I see some people want to encourage short posts on Steemit, such as those you see on some other sites. Many people don't have the time to write long posts with lots of images and formatting, but they may find something interesting or funny that they want to share. I don't have any problem with that. It may encourage more people to post and potentially earn some Steem.
Perhaps Steemit needs a feature common to other social sites where they automatically include an image from the site you link to. We know that images are useful to get attention, but having to get the image link yourself is just extra work that many won't do. There needs to be an option to choose which image to use or to not have it at all.
Are there any legal issues with pulling through an image in this way? FB, G+ etc all do it, so I guess it's allowed. I'm always careful about what images I use on my posts.
I do agree with the post that we need to make Steemit a top destination for cool content. Steemit is often compared to reddit (and even copied the type of name). If people will post there just for 'karma', then why wouldn't they post here for more tangible rewards?
I prefer to write longer posts, but there's only so many of those I can do each week. I will also see articles like this one that I want to share, but I'll always write some of my own thoughts.
BTW I passed 2000 posts and comments yesterday! Not sure when I passed 1000.
