The Virtues of Commenting, Diversity (Of Topics) On Steemit, & The Hidden Possibilities of the Steemit Platform

Alright ladies and gents. It's time to once again talk about our favorite topic: how to be super popular on Steemit!

Yeah, yeah, I know, I've been talking about it a lot lately. But it's because Steemit and it's blockchain social aspect are both deeply intriguing puzzles to me. And the money. Let's be honest, getting paid for your effort is awesome and what we want for the future.

Commenting is awesome. For many posters like myself who have a tendency towards post blog entries, commenting is something we only get around to on our own blogs (and even then, not always). It's a priority thing. Every person who contributes to Steemit has different strengths and different weaknesses. Right now the platform isn't quite diverse enough for people who aren't posting regularly about tech, science, travels, or crypto to grow at a decent rate. But don't despair! It's by writing and posting things you like and upvoting those things that the platform becomes more diverse.

We've got folks like @anarco-andrei writing about law. We have a fairly active fiction community, though that's sort of a tough beat right now, especially if you want to post consistently every day. Strangely, we don't seem to have many honest-to-goodness bloggers on the site, people who write about their lives and thoughts in a rich stream of consciousness kind of way. Well, except maybe lil ole me, from what I can see (yes, yes, I know there have to be others but I haven't found them). There's not that much demand for them on the platform, but I'm betting that that could well change sooner rather than later.

But back to commenting.

I'm not sure if it actually does that much for your blog, but it is fun to explore the social aspect of this social network (and remember, it is supposed to be a social network - something that competes with Facebook and Twitter and the like - I think that the platform just hasn't 'settled' yet, and better design will help with that.

They've given us this platform and left it to us to decide what it will be. So far we've decided that it'll be a blogging/news platform (even if it's 'blogging' less in the traditional here's-my-life way and more of the here's-me-traveling way [which, I must say, I have nothing against. If you can travel the world on your Steemit payouts, more power to ya, amen, and hope to be with you soon!]). But what it is can change whenever we say so. It could be more like Twitter/Instagram hybrid with a short post of a paragraph or less, with a picture included. There could be way for a person to weekly create updated lists of bloggers on the site worth noticing (there's already a few initiatives like this, but they mostly target new authors because of how hard it is to really get started and not burn out on the platform, currently).

The other day I posted in annoyance at seeing someone like @contentjunkie do so well on the platform using recycled content. But maybe that's actually cause for hope. It hints at something that I don't think we as a community have realized: Steemit is much more versatile then we suspect, even at this early stage.

Maybe it's time to hit this lab of a platform and start experimenting.

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