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Perhaps sometimes, we take our functioning brains and education for granted. We choose to spend our time with people that we can relate to in some way. So when we log in to Steemit, it can often be challenging. Some of us grew up with a sense of pride in what we do, knowing that with a little bit of luck, the hard work will be worth it. I can't remember learning this and I certainly knew it before I was an adult - whether consciously or not. So when people ask for help, hoping for an easy route, I'm not sure it's something that an adult can learn. As many here have already proven.
I've thought a lot about Steemit lately. There are a minority who are here for the communtiy - who feel that votes, rewards, etc. should and can be earnt. But I see so many accounts hunting the auto-votes - which are mostly generated by the people who have been voted as Witnesses. I want to "belong" here... In my nearly 4 years here, I feel like I've grinded to make everything that I touch a little bit more like how I want it to be... but with each day and each Newcomer that I see register, it feels like what I want it to be slips a little bit further away!
What happens if you start a new "newcomer's" community for a certain group of people and dump this one? We can pretend we all are the same but we are not. Different interests, different way of thinking, we are not raised in the same way and I noticed that IQ and education does play a role.
Most of the newcomers are introduced by family or a group and no matter how long they are on Steemit they always mention the same 3 names. They don't like to integrate and be part of something bigger. It's like you noticed it's the upvote and nothing else. I notice the same if it comes to the curators. They mainly stay in their own circle (time for me to start my circle there are about 6 I know they are Dutch and I can add 2 or 3 people from Belgium to my list.).
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Personally, I think that the idea of the Newcomers' Community should be dumped entirely. If people want to read an Introduction post, they'll find it.
Similar to alexanderkass, I wrote an introduction and waited for a response. Hours passed and I thought "What's taking so long?" "Why hasn't anybody said hi?" But when 1 out of 100 Introductions should stand out, it doesn't. It is lost because of the hundreds of pointless entries before them. I understand that now. But there will definitely be hundreds of bloggers who have poured their heart into something (more than once), had no engagement and thought "nah. This isn't for me".
I've sometimes thought "Perhaps all of us who are different should find our own corner and be together" but then even us different folk seek different things - even if we have the same mindset.
And that's where my sadness lies (in response to your other comment) - there are perhaps enough like-minded people but not enough with like-minded interests for feel a sense of belonging. At the moment.
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Unfortunately, there are people who do not use their IQ in something productive, some have taken on the task of creating multiple accounts to feed them with vague and low-quality content, the common factors are AI-generated texts, blurry images and little interaction in terms of comments.
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I guess it's easier to write a script that generates an AI post every day for eternity than it is to think of and write something meaningful.
I blame auto-votes.
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Without a doubt, and those responsible have unfortunately ignored this problem.
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You mean no interaction. Entire communities have posts with not one single comment and if I think there are two it's always an auto message from a bot/witness
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I mean, there are people behind users who are excellent, but they only create multiple accounts and share junk content to try to earn some reward.
Yes, there are communities with those conditions, you only see template comments or bots, after that, there is no more interaction.
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Same here... 😔
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