Today is my 12th day on Blurt and I think I must share my initial views about this platform.
About 12 days back Blurt Witness @ZahidSun messaged me and introduced me to Blurt. He said that Blurt is a new platform and it needs curators and people who write quality content.
I straight away visited Blurt.World and I started doing my search about who has built this platform and what it is all about.
What is Blurt?
Well, Blurt is a blockchain-based social media site where you can blog about any topic and earn crypto rewards.
Blurt is a fork of Steem so anyone who had a Steem account on Steem before July 2020 also has an account on Blurt.
Who created Blurt?
The man behind the Blurt is @megadrive founder of SocialGraph Foundation and he also runs a few projects such as Dlease, MinnowBooster, and many more.
You can read all about @MegaDrive's initiatives in his introduction post here: https://blurt.world/introduceyourself/@megadrive/i-am-megadrive
@jacobgadikian and @baabeetaa are the co-founders of Blurt SocialGraph Foundation and @ericet does most of the maintenance on the site.
Update: I learned recently that the whole idea of Blurt was @birdinc's and he brought the team together. I guess he is happy with the progress of Blurt!
Impressed
The moment I saw who was running the show I was impressed and I joined the platform.
My current stats
Over the last 12 days, I have written 10 posts and made 100 comments. I always try to make more comments than my posts because I want to interact with the people around here and get to know them, listen to their stories, and create genuine friendship.
As of today, I have 1325 Blurt Power and that is not a lot. My votes are still just $0.00 and I have read somewhere that it takes at least 2500 BP to be able to give out some reward.
What do I like about Blurt?
The platform is still new and not many people are active on it.
No Downvote Button
One thing that I love is that there are no downvotes on Blurt. Unlike Hive and Steem there is no downvote button and this is to prevent the flag wars, downvote wars that are very common on Steem.
Another thing that I like is that the Dev Team is always active on Blurt and the Blurt Discord server. They always try to answer all the queries and this creates trust among the newbies.
What do I dislike about Blurt?
There is not much to dislike on Blurt except that Blurt logo which looks as if it is swearing at us. I have urged and I invite designers to design a cuter version of the Blurt logo.
My Future Plans:
If you have known me from Whaleshares then you would know that I love doing shows and I use to run a Book show on the Altruistic Whaleshares discord channel and I use to participate in all the shows that happened on that platform.
So, I would love to start a show of my own for Blurt and build a close community of like-minded people who want to promote Blurt.
Conclusion
So, this was my 11th post and everything that I have experienced here. I hope this platform becomes bigger and I hope we all will get success in our lives.
Regards,
Imran Soudagar
P.S: Thanks to all the curators for curating amazing content. Special thanks to @blurtlife, @ecoblurt, @blurtfrica, @blurtcn, @helloblurt, @blurtchef, @blurthealth and @blurtwomen.
Thanks for the positive post! I have some good news, in the next HF we will have some improvements to the rshares and we will move back to a linear rewards system, so it will improve rewards for the smaller user.
To hear that is wonderful! Thank you very much!
Edit:
Dear @megadrive,
it is at this opportunity also possible to change the following for voting?
In my opinion it should make no difference if a user votes on a post after 1 second or after 6 days.
It should also be completely irrelevant, which possibly strong votes are still given after the vote of the user on the post.
I find all this unnecessary complications, which do not fulfill their original purpose anymore.
I would like to have removed all such nonsensical complications.
This also makes things easier for new users.
Thanks for your attention and best regards, @double-u
PS: I like BLURT very much!
Hi @double-u, thank you for the message. I am glad you like Blurt, I am honoured that you like it in fact, I appreciate positive feedback, lets us know we are on the right track. Are you referring to where users who vote first have a frontrunning advantage is that correct? Or are you referring to the 5 minute vote window, where if you vote in the first 5 mins the authors gets some of your curation?
Dear @megadrive,
Thank you for your kind answer and question!
Both.
The user who votes first should not have an advantage. He should not have more rewards just because strong votes are added later.
Author and curation rewards should only be calculated from this:
Nothing else should influence the amount of the rewards.
To the 5 minute window:
I don't know what it should be good for.
I would also like to get rid of it.
When communication takes place via comments, it would be nice if you could vote immediately as a signal that you have read the comment, without reducing your own curation rewards. This was the case on Steemit a very long time ago.
If there are no good reasons for the 5 minute window, I would also like to eliminate it.
I agree and make an additional proposal for @jacobgadikian and @megadrive. After the 7 day's payout period let the people they have not voted before, give their votes forever. And initiate payout every month or year, as you like. To stop the voting period has been a big mistake since beginning of the Steem. Yes, it saves performance of the blockchain engine. But it also prevents content from performance. Bloggers will love you for this significant step.
@afrog there is an attack vector there to that proposal, so a rewards farmer could keep creating new accounts and delegating his stake to them and then voting the same content, it would reduce the need to post fresh content and the chain would stagnate with old content. It would also endanger the namespace, causing all the good names to be taken up, so new users won't have a great name selection. We would have to make new accounts really expensive to create, like really expensive. tagged @double-u and @michelangelo3
Hi @megadrive,
Oh yes, this is really an important reason not to allow the possibility for voting for a long time.
Thanks for this logical argument!
Thank you for the argument and I have thought about it, dear @megadrive. You speak in Attac categories and I think the whole thing from the blogger's side. The only possible interpretation of your argument is that the only cause of my problem is reward farmers. Because they have existed since the beginning of the Steem, the blogger's gold will be devalued after seven days. Sorry, but that sounds like surrendering to the cause.
There is no surrender here, just that this idea could really lead to mass farming, worse than we ever seen and even less posts because people will just shuffle their stake and vote their old posts.
There needs to be a bit more thought put into it, to still allow it but not let it be gamed, one way would be to remove the delegation feature, but then that harms curation initiatives.
Ah I think the 5 minute window was created to create a level playing field for organic users, otherwise bots could snipe the second the post was created and frontrun real people, if we deprecate the frontrunning advantage the 5 min window would have less use.
There is one small advantage to the 5 minute window that was highlighted to me, have you considered that currently it helps deter self voting? So you have to wait 5 mins before self-voting, so it takes away the instant gratification and perhaps encourages the user to vote other content instead, also some self voters don't realise that if you vote too early it sends the rewards back to the rewards pool, so the unwittingly don't benefit from the full self-vote and curbs some of the extraction of rewards from self-voting by users that don't fully know the rules.
Hi @megadrive,
whether the 5 minute window remains or not is not so important to me.
I think it is important, that we deprecate the frontrunning advantage!
Author and curation rewards should only be calculated from this:
Nothing else should influence the amount of the rewards.
What does linear rewards system mean?
Non-linear: Vote value on low rated contributions (< 20 BLURT) are reduced up to 50%. With linear it makes no difference how high a post/comment is rated, Votevalue is always the same.
I guess we need Linear votes asap then.
As of now, my vote value is nothing and I am earning nothing from curation. I'll have to wait till I reach some good BP.
Seems there is a bug < 3000 BP, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Hi, do you know any autovoting script/tool for Blurt? Will you list BLURT on dlease?
There are some private autovoting tools but i dont know who uses them nor of any public ones. We would love to have dlease for Blurt and are waiting for the Blurt price to increase before introducing dlease as it is costly to run on a per chain basis.
hive.vote dev is a cash in hands dev kind of guy, if we had someone on blurt I bet he would sell the backend if we maintained it, would have to ask of course tho
i made a auto upvote bot for steemit couple of year ago, i have all script and bot with a lot of functions let me know if you wanna test it.
Yes. I thinks it’s soon. I will post updates.
It is a great start. The curated communities are a nice touch as well.
Yes, the communities are working well and slowly people are joining Blurt and soon there will be thousands more.
Yah, i don't like the logo too. It looks like an angry face, but blurt is friendly place. Should get a cuter and friendly logo instead.
Yes, I hope someone with the right skills and love for this community will design something cuter.
Maybe a good idea to host a contest to make a logo for blurt.
Agree. A public contest for anyone to come up with a cuter logo would be a good thing for the platform.
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Great write up on Blurt. I'm also a Founder of Blurt. Actually, I'm the one who brought the team and original idea together but it took a different direction than I wanted so I stepped back before it launched and now I'm happy to see it as such even though I had a different vision. Go Blurt!
Oh Wow! I never knew that you were the one behind Blurt. I'll add your name in the post soon.
It is good to know that you are happy with Blurts progress.
I really like the lack of a downvote button too. Having a fee for operations appears to be stopping the spamming of comments that occasionally happened on Steem. It is also less likely to get really small percent votes on Blurt because of the fee.
Yes, it is a relief that no one can downvote us and spammers have to think before they try to make spam posts.
But I hope the fees always stays low or else we might not be able to afford it.
Fees do need to be low and I hope we will get the option to get paid back in some liquid Blurt. I think that would help out people who may accidentally power up all funds or are just starting out.
I think the next hard fork will allow users to get some liquid Blurt. And my first mistake here was that I powered up all but a few decimal points worth of liquid Blurt left in my account. I had to power down and ask someone to send me some liquid Blurt.
Welcome Happy to have you here!
Hi @ecoblurt!
It is nice to see a nature and eco post curator here! I write and will write more posts about nature. I run a group where we plant trees for free to fight global warming.
I'll make a short post about it soon.
Hope to have your support.