Want to respond to @ronan's feedback yesterday (and the feedback in the comments) with my own post so my response doesn't get lost in the thread Will start my saying I hear the concerns and am taking them very seriously and this is something I take personal responsibility to fix. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to write out their thoughts and see a ton of passion from everyone in solving these issues. As @ronan mentioned, Blossom has always had a spark and uniqueness and it's our job to make sure that spark doesn't go away as we grow. Here's my summary of the top problems I'm hearing and my plans to fix them: 🤖 1. The rise in AI slop posts crowding quality content - This was the #1 problem raised across the comments and is one we're actively working on. We're following @jacobb's suggestion of an 'AI detection' feature with the ability to see less posts like this. This is set to go live in 3-4 weeks, will see if we can accelerate this 😢 2. Us vs them mentality, hostility especially to new creators - This one is a bit tricky as we don't want to overly police what people say. But there's one example someone gave of a new user being called a loser that are blatantly against our community guidelines of respecting one another. I think the same way we've built in spam/scam detection, we need to do the same for these kinds of comments so we can uphold these guidelines better 🏆 3. Too many milestone posts crowding out quality content - I think there is an important place on Blossom for this kind of content as the milestones are encouraging to other investors in their journey (including myself). I think the issue more so is the volume of them. Curious for folks feeling this issue whether they've tried clicking 'see less posts like this' as that should fix this issue. If not I'll investigate and perhaps not a lot of people know about this feature. I think #1 and #3 stem both stem from the feeling that quality content isn't being rewarded... let me think deeper about how to solve this problem more broadly as I definitely see this too and I don't think fixing AI slop will fully solve this. One commitment I have is to spend much more time connecting with and chatting with Blossom's creators, I want to solve this problem as much as you guys do. One good news is we recently hired our first product manager (who is a Blossom shareholder and creator) who will be fully dedicated to helping me solve this and together we'll have much more time to chat with your all and think about how to solve these problems. 🙏 Let's get Blossom back to the glory days of this community!
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Canadian in a T-Shirt@canadiantshirt · 21h
Thank you Max! If anyone has any more suggestions, please share them below! 🙏
@maxstocks one of the features that could help good content spread is a “share” button which can help repost other people’s content to my feed and by design to my followers helping it spread further… today blossom only allows sharing via Direct message and that is limiting. Just a suggestion that could potentially help with rewarding the quality content we want to see spread.
Mr Financial@mr.financial · 20h
This is why you are a lovely CEO max. You have a hand on the pulse of the community you created. In fact, your moral compass is seen in the community guidelines and how you interact with posts 👊
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