So, as you all know I did some fixes on the front end mentioned in the previous post. Here are some new updates which I worked on last week.
So, the following front end updates have been there
Cover Image
Before this, only the first image was added as the cover pic, but now you can change the cover image of a new post as well as the published post. Check screenshot for info
Option to choose a cover image and summary below
Summary of a post
In the same screenshot above you can see a summary field which is the short description for a post. Before this, the summary was extracted from the post which may not give clear info of the post, but now you can add a short summary here. It will be used in the list to show in place of old extracted descriptions from the main content.
Dollar value for comments
I previously published this update but missed something. You can check my previous post for more info.
https://blurtblog.tekraze.com/blurtdevelopment/@tekraze/blurt-dependency-updates-and-dollar-value-or-devlog-19-or-04-jan-2021
So, the thing missing was vote value in dollars for comments. The value only appears when comments were opened in a post view, and child comments did not show the value which I have not tested. Thanks to @double-u he informed me of this issue and I fixed this.
Value of vote in the dollar for comments as requested by @double-u
COAL list
This was a major update and many discussions happened on this before implementing this. I have enabled the coal list again and functionality, which now warns users that the account is fake, spam or posting plagiarised content. The voting option also gets disabled for the profiles on the coal list.
The coal list can be disabled in the user preference, if someone thinks, they do not want the list. The coal works on the front end only and not on the blockchain level.
Example account giya which is under coal list
We (the witnesses) also have raised the fees to tackle this issue temporarily, which you can know more about in the link below
That was all for now. See you again in some time with some more updates.
Feel free to let me know in the comments which feature you like.
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Excellent. You are doing very good work here on Blurt. Much appreciated.
Thanks
Yes, I agree with you
You guys are doing a great job.
Thanks a lot
Regarding posting the same content on other Platforms like Steemit and Hive…. If you post your own original content on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Blurt, Steemit, YouTube, Tiktok, Dtube, Twitch, Odysee, Minds, Serey, Blogspot, Wordpress, Pinterest, Noise, Tumblr, Twitch, MySpace, Geocities, Angelfire, Hive etc … there should be no penalty … as long as it is all your own original work. Period.
Yepp, that will not be counted. Only community-voted accounts will be added to the coal list and can be appealed if a wrong account is added, or the one added improves their content.
Also, there is active development going on for a more enhanced version for reporting and managing the coal list, which would be live probably next month.
What does it means with community-voted account? does it an account which get a vote from a community curator?
Will wait for the further development.
Community means, let say you are a user browsing through blurt.blog and find some accounts or just one account posting spam or plag content. So, you inform in discord or here in a post or just a comment on https://blurt.blog/@endplagiarism posts. But with proof as someone can intentionally report some account.
So, anyone from the team verifies and see if the account is really doing spam or plag and add them to the list.
So, in short community voted means, community reported.
oh I see, i miss understood that. I tough that the spam or plagiarist post which got a vote from a community which then get banned, or muted.
Thank you very much for you explanation
Wow bro! You have done really some important and appreciating updates! Thanks a lot for these nice updates! and hope by increasing fees plagiarism and spam will be controlled.
We were waiting for this. I was about to ask you about this too. But you have already given us such excellent information. You work so hard that's why I thank you from my heart for this hard work
Thank you so much for your work!
They are beautiful and also very important changes.
Thanks, just keep providing suggestions
Many thanks for this useful updates! It was faster than expected.
Thanks
This feature is very important for SEO. Thanks for the update
I don't like it. It looks like another discord mafia will decide what's good for me. It looks like hivewatchers secret discord court. It starts from plagiarism, ends on politics. Actually it worse than HV (they are approved by stakeholders who voted on their proposal), here nobody even asked me or other stakeholders for opinion
ps. I know this is on interface level, but we have only one interface
Attempts as mass behavior modification always harm the smaller accounts, and seem to often backfire spectacularly. How is this different from downvoting, or other methods of controlling content? There's so much here that will never be read, is spam really that awful? It is easy to spot. I ignore it. I do not support it. That should be enough, no?
True. Unfortunately most of witnesses have a "hivemind" mentality
simple comment/info bot would be ok
Um... did you read that proposal? ... more like a money laundering operation...
IMHO.
Yeah, they need a lots of money to keep that HBD on nice $0.95 level
The coal list is open for anyone to see. Only abusers will be added to the list. no political agenda here. And if there is please point it out.
but only one can edit it
blurt decentralization?
no. but there is more market freedom and freespeach than hive. make a blockchain blog with no token. no rules. lets see how civil the world can be.
Hi,
it feels like you are thinking this same as hive or steem, but it is not. more features are currently under development, that will allow the community to report, appeal, and do more.
Each person in the coal list, can write an appeal post with an apology and do post original content and after 7 days, we analyze if he has improved that. But if he keeps repeating the same mistake, he would stay on the list.
There are others also but using the same code for now including mine. But you can toggle black list off in the settings if you want to interact with the spam and plag accounts.
But it's not just about spam, it's about trending and hot posts if the spam posts go-to trend and get votes. Orginal content authors are shadowed by those posts and may not get enough votes to survive here.
There is never a perfect system, but iterations can be done fixing with changing feedback, time, and requirements.
Thanks
Hivewatchers lol
Can I get a list of witnesses who decided to implement this Coal update?
I hope it is not a secret
It's not same as hive watchers, as team will only check reported accounts from community with proofs, not like themselves check and block.
You can count me one as witness supporting coal, but i do not have a list with me
Hivewatchers, Spaminator, and MANY OTHERS.
It would be OK with me if he run simple bot and comment on these accounts, same effect with no controversies
better if you discuss with the team and share ideas rather than just saying things, things improve when we discuss and not blame.
You can propose the complete solution you have in a post and share, that will be good than just comparing me to a hive watcher.
Exactly...
Which means they're doing it for OTHER REASONS.
Ohk, you can toggle coal off. But again saying, we are not like hive, never will be
Wow... So many updates this week sir. Many thanks to you and all blurt team for your efforts and hard work to make blurt become better day by day.
I'm very happy to see blurt's development so fast in the last few months since I joined blurt.
When I joined Blurt.blog, I found this platform very useful for sharing stories and honing my writing skills. Especially if there are witnesses who give appreciation and suggestions for increasing scientific capacity. But until now I haven't got it. I don't know if my post is uninteresting. However, there was no response at all from the Witness.
I also quite understand the hard work of some Witnesses, like @tekraze in developing this platform. Hopefully in the future the Witness can provide input on the author's work.
Hi @rahmattrisnamal thanks, but witnesses are also normal people. They do interact with people when they get time, and not all witnesses may interact with the same person.
They also like normal people, look similar content they like to follow and interact with. So, you may or may not get interaction with a witness, but with blurt users maybe
Yes, I noticed that too. Maybe in addition to responding to many users, there are still many other activities that make them unable to respond evenly.
Some time ago I also chose witnesses. But no response whatsoever.
I salute you @, even though I didn't vote for you, but many gave a very positive response.
Choosing a witness here is not like a key to get attention. Choosing a witness means choosing the person to support transaction and decision making on blurt. Witnesses are a kind of people that keeps check on blurt ecosystem.
Voting for a witness means you support them and want them to be on top of decision making, like an election process
Well, from some of your explanations, I'm quite familiar with the blurt platform. Thanks for the explanation, I'm glad to meet you here.
This is a complete post.
A lot of thank for your creativity post.
That's great. Thank you very much for your work👍
good job sir
Good work0
@tekraze... @tekraze... @tekraze... Always listening to users suggestions and adding amazing features for the benefit of everyone, especially, in a short time. This is a big WOOOW!!!! It was just last week I read a user who who suggested this cover image selection during @double-u 's pub, and in just a few days the feature is live. I so love and admire your works here on blurt. I feel so happy seeing this feature.
Thank you.
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Great work, thank you for your hardwork to make this platform a better place
I really love all the new updates especially the dollar value that was added.
Blurt 🤬 to the moon
Thank you @tekraze for all your hard work🙏 and all the #blurt development staff who have worked hard to make #blurt even better.
I thought the summary box was the tags box and couldn't understand why my post wouldn't load. Worked it out in the end and all looking great. The summary box was much needed and the pic selection is great. Thankyou
Nice to know. Thanks
Congratulations, your post has been upvoted by @r2cornell, which is the curating account for @R2cornell's Discord Community.
Thanks
Well done @tekraze. You've done what's best for Blurt. Thank you.
looks very good it alway getting updated keep up the great work blurt team
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This post is 100% educative!!!! The summary is really powerful !!! Bravo!!!
This is a development I've been waiting for personally for a long time. Especially systems that can monitor fake accounts or those who do plagiarism. Thank you so much for the incredible hard work of the entire Blurt team. Hopefully this can be the start for a more powerful future of Blurt, completely clean of fake accounts and plagiarized junk posts.
For it to be completely clean i see as an impossibility. We can definitely reduce it but we need more volunteers to point it out. hell make a post of the accounts with plagiarist found eith the evidence in it.
I agree with you. Everything must start from each of us, so it will provide a good atmosphere for Blurt.
Gracias por compartir tu publicación en #Blurt. Tu esfuerzo significa mucho para nosotros; por eso has recibido un voto positivo.
Te invito a votar por @blurtlatam como Testigo / Witness
Thanks
Wow...great job.
Thanks for always working very hard to improve the platform.
This is a great development. Thank you!
The new updates are wonderful @tekraze.
Very cool.
Thank you.
A clear reblurt.
Very very cool! Thank you so much for your work!
Thank you so much for playing a very important role here.
@tekraze
.I thank you for the hard work of @tekraze and the developers of the blurt.blog platform. this is a big progress in early 2022, the blurt.blog platform is getting better day by day thanks to the hard work of you and the developers.
Thanks
Creating an article costs a lot, the fees are somewhat high, does this not limit entry to new users?
Fees may be reduced in time when witnesses decide. It has just started working and spam getting reduced, so may keep on going for long
Thanks for updating us @tekraze
It seems to me a new rule. The first time I went to post, I saw the post summary and thought what is it again. Later I understood the thing slowly. Thanks everyone.
Its just a custom summary added by you. It can be different from the main content which describes what the content is about in short
good work!
Thanks
Thank you!!
looks very good it .good job. I am very happy with this job .alway getting updated keep up the great work #blurtblog team.
How many nanometers do you bring us updates .
Hello sir!
Thank you.you done a great work.we appreciate you.
Hi, @tekraze,
Thank you for your contribution to the Blurt ecosystem.
Please consider voting for the witness @symbionts.
Or delegate to @ecosynthesizer to earn a portion of the curation rewards!
Thanks
This development is nice we appreciate
@tekraze
Very bad move for this blockchain
Interesting. How do you propose they deal with someone stealing your Photos and name from Instagram and posting as you ? You ok with that ?
report it to fbi cia nsa or your local police officials
Good idea.
There is no change at blockchain level.
The coal list works on the front end level only, and anyone can run a separate front end.
Currently, one running by @freakeao has an old version without the coal list.
Anyone can fork their own front end.
True, but blurt.blog is a official frontend of blurt blockchain. I think that we should use simple stake based voting system (something like POB uses) to approve changes like this one, so everyone would have a chance to decide
Hi the blurt.blog is surely an official frontend, but run by the foundation. So foundation has executive decision making on this.
But if there is a change on the blockchain level, witnesses as well community can do make votes for the change.
I've been thinking this - it's nice to see it written down.
I want this to be conveyed by foundation themselves, but i just wrote. Maybe a post explaining when and when not voting required, may be posted soon
It make sense for this to be the case. Somebody owns the URL, somebody is responsible for what appears on that URL. Irrespective of what the Witnesses want to happen on that URL.
yes, common man words. True. Witnesses are for deciding any fees, rewards, or blockchain level changes with their proposals. But some of these features may require witness consent, not everytime.
Please vote me bro..
thank you for making a summary of the post, I have filled in my latest post, stay motivated to make new changes here, I hope you are always healthy🤗🤗
nazmul82 steemit is my account.
So I guess I can't be on the Cole list. So you can consider.
How does you being on Steemit equate to you not being a plagiarist?
Your nazmul82 account is plagiarising content on Steemit too. You know that, we know that. I know the original source of your articles as I've mentioned to you on Discord. It would be nice if you were honest and admit to what we already know and then maybe we can all move on.
@upvu - you mention that you want to work with the witnesses and their COAL list - this user is on that list and you are upvoting them, here is their most recent upvote from you - https://blurt.blog/blurtafrica/@naziur/cambodian-gold-medal-winning-rat-is-retiring
@eastmael, @megadrive, @blurtmob, @socialgraph, @initblurt, @jacobgadikian, @saboin, @jeenger
Yea your account here and on steemit is ladled with PLGM. Your drowning in COAL it seems.
However being dishonest about your actions across the chain and still asking to be removed from the coal list is not looking promising at all.
Youll have to do as I have mentioned in your previous post.
Make a public apology to the blurt community. And in your apology you must include
after that "(come back to us after 7 days for reevaluation)" would be my auto response howver I recommend to keep you on the coal list indefinitely because your accounts show a very habitual nature to commit abuse. and lying about it will get you no closer to redemption.
Merry xmas
First, you denied you are not creating plagiarised content, and now you saying this after we gave proof.
We will not remove you from COAL until you post original content for 7 days and create an apology post with the appeal.