Blurt Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Over the last month, I have spent at least 2-3 hours a day writing, reading, and commenting on posts here on Blurt.

I just do not come here to write, post, and vanish. I stay here, reading posts, watching what's going on, and I observe a lot.

I have a lot to say and this post might get long or longer than my most posts.

Yesterday I was talking with an old friend and I introduced him to Blurt. He was on Steemit and Whaleshares but when things did not look good he left and moved on to other projects.

He asked me one important question.

Why should I join Blurt?

Why should he join Blurt? Well, I went on to tell him that there is no downvote button here, no flags, small transaction fees for every action you do here like posting, commenting, and upvoting.

And this keeps the spammers away.

But is it really keeping spammers, scammers, away? I see posts where people are posting images that they do not own, I have seen people sharing crap content and getting thousands of Blurt in rewards.

Is it really keeping the spammers away?

When I first joined Blurt I felt that lack of downvote button and flagging will keep away the fights and wars. It has succeeded in keeping downvote wars away from this platform but it is also getting easier for the spammers to just post anything and get rewards or just self vote.

This cannot be ignored because I know 2 people who joined Blurt and then left quickly because they felt that the lack of quality control measures is going to make Blurt a hub for spammers.

Solution to stop spammers, and scammers?

I think we need to have the ability to flag accounts. We can form a team that can get the flag data and decide if the person can continue on the platform or not. It is a lot of work but it is needed.

I know there's the #Appeals option where we can inform about such users but it only works on Blurt.world and not on other sites on the blockchain.

I know the idea of Blockchain is complete decentralization but decentralization is also about the distribution of power.

Transaction fees

I love this idea of transaction fees until and unless they are tiny bit and it keeps the bad guys away.

But there is no proper guide on the homepage.

It just says:

Transaction Fees

Operation Flat Fee 0.001 BLURT
Bandwidth Fee 0.005 BLURT

I think people must get a bit more information about transaction fees and now and then I see someone getting confused and writing about it either on the official discord or they post here on Blurt.

Solution

Please add more information or a link on the homepage explaining the fee breakout.

Blurt Logo

I showed the logo to a few of my friends and they thought that the emoji was abusing. I understand the idea about the special characters on the logo but I for some reason do not like it.

Sorry, lol.

I had written about it on one of my posts and it actually broke out a conversation about creating a cuter version of the logo and a few people actually did succeed in making the Blurt logo cute.

I will leave you a link here so that you can see the various attempts by so many people to improve the logo.

https://blurt.world/blurt/@afrog/tried-to-make-the-blurt-more-friendly

Keep designing guys I am sure we will find some really creative version.

Community accounts

I am happy that there are community accounts and many newbies are getting really good support from these accounts.

This is something very unique to Blurt and if more people know about it then it might generate more interest among newbies.

My only request to everyone is to bring on more people and encourage, guide, and motivate people with rewards, contests to create more awesome content.

Comments, conversations, and engagement!

I have seen a lot of people complaining about the lack of comments or conversation here on Blurt.

What can we do to encourage more people to make more comments?

Well, I always try to make comments and people respond to my comments. It is good but it can be more.

How?

Well, for one we need to write content that encourages comments. Write stuff that makes people wonder, something that makes them think and your audience will surely leave some comments.

Some people have also suggested:

1. Upvoting on comments to encourage and reward
2. Decreasing the fees for comments or completely removing fees
3. Encouraging people by voting every 10 comments made by a user

All of the above suggestions are good but in my opinion, if you are passionate about what you have written then people will at least leave a thank you or a well-done comment.

I love what @double-u does every Sunday and he has written a post about it too recently. He encourages people to comment by allowing them to ask questions and his posts have hundreds of comments and he makes sure that everyone gets rewarded with his massive Blurt Power.

I will also try to start something like double-u and hope it will increase engagement.

Blurt price is going up up and to the infinity!!!

I congratulate the whole Blurt team on getting listed on so many exchanges. Its volume is growing slowly and it will increase in the next few months.

Since Blurt is already on a few exchanges it was easy for me to invite a friend to start writing here and he will be starting Blurt's journey soon.

The price of Blurt is still very less but it is going up slowly. I hope it will increase more and it will bring more people to Blurt.

Finally; a request

I request you all to go ahead and reward good posts, leave good comments, share stuff about Blurt on Twitter, and create buzz.

Share your view and just by sharing our ideas, and emotions that we evolve. Let's help Blurt evolve into the beautiful place for free speech that @megadrive, @jacobgadikian and the rest of the team dreamt of.

Until tomorrow,

Love,
Imran Soudagar