I’m thinking the Steemit 2017 Roadmap doc must be TOP SECRET, because I almost never see it referenced and discussed on Steemit...
Why not?
My favorite part: Communities, and Moderation.
Target: Q3
So that would be Oct 1, right?
https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf
Feature: Moderation and Community Namespaces
We believe that high-quality content and communities of content producers and their audiences are the primary driver of growth of the steemit.com site, and in turn the wider adoption of the platform and STEEM. To this end, we wish to enable many users to build communities in parallel around curating specific types of content valuable to their audiences.
To enable this, we intend to augment our current tag-based organizational structure for posts with a new system called “communities”, a special group into which others can post articles. Two types of communities will exist: communities into which anyone in the world can post (where community founders (or their delegated moderators) can decide, post-hoc, which posts to hide from view) or communities in which only community founders’ (or their delegated authors’) posts will appear.
This system of moderation will function identically to the aforementioned comment moderation system, with all content (including hidden or moderated content) published permanently in the blockchain to prevent censorship. The steemit.com web site will respect the display preferences of the specific community maintainers (within their own community namespace only) while simultaneously propagating every participant’s voice throughout the blockchain to the entire world (regardless of moderator opinions).
We believe this unique approach finally solves one of the largest problems currently presented to social media services: the dichotomy between maintaining a high Signal-toNoise Ratio (SNR) for a quality content experience free of spam and low-value comments, whilst simultaneously preventing any type of censorship.
It is our hope and design goal for our services (all of which are published with full source code for easy deployment by anyone) to be replicated by others, displaying content according to the wishes and whims of each individual website operator, giving readers ultimate choice over the set of moderation opinions they wish to heed. steemit.com 9 of 22 Finally, a set of to-be-determined cosmetic features of a community’s profile page will be configurable by the community maintainer(s), to engender a feeling of ownership and control over the namespace. Target: Q3
Communities are coming to steemit.
We don't know what that will look like exactly.
Imagine a sub-reditt I guess.. and I want all the guitar players to hang out in my group? (for example)
Communities are defined as:
A) - a special group into which others can post articles
B) - build communities in parallel around curating specific types of content valuable to their audiences
The Roadmap seems fairly vague about Steemit Communities, but does discuss 2 types:
communities into which anyone in the world can post (where community founders (or their delegated moderators) can decide, post-hoc, which posts to hide from view)
communities in which only community founders’ (or their delegated authors’) posts will appear
I wanted to start thinking about, who and what creates a sub-group on Steemit?
I'm not really known for being a guitarist, so why would guitarists come to my group, unless I invite them to, and perhaps motivate them to come?
If I tell them I will upvote every post they make in my sub-group (not sure it has a special guitar group name, maybe not).
Conclusions:
We don't know several things:
- what communities look like, as far as how they are presented to users
- we don't know if sub-groups can be named as groups
- we don't know if there is any kind of motivation (beyond taking time to simply invite) for people to join a "Moderator's" sub-group
What else don't we know?
I would also guess, since this document was written Jan 2017, the plan would have changed by 6 months later.. and I have seen no updates on this subject in the past 6 months.