Sharing Steem posts on Reddit

in reddit •  7 years ago  (edited)

As you know I am the moderator of the subreddit r/steemit, I'm in the process of receiving full permissions on it if the Reddit admins will allow it which means I am going to be able to invite more people to help me moderate it and turn it into something else than the #postpromotion and #help channels on steem.chat. Of course those posts will be allowed as well but we want it to be a nice onboarding place where people can easier find the information they are looking for with some daily sticky posts about discussion, etc.

I want to create a new incentive for sharing your Steem posts on Reddit. Over time a lot more posts are being shared, most of them on the popular cryptocurrency subreddit r/cryptocurrency. They are bringing some traffic to Steemit but it is not a lot and people don't share their posts often. We are missing the viewcounter on posts at the moment but I am hoping it will be back soon and improved.

The incentive will be to reward these posts with votes that get a lot of visibility on various subreddits.

This does not mean that you should cheat your way and use bots, etc. If found cheating and going against Reddit's rules you will be disqualified from future participation. It is just an incentive to share your posts more. Users will be invited to a discord server where they can submit how their Reddit shares are doing and users will reward them accordingly.

These are the traffic stats from alexa.com that we want to improve.

Through this link you can easier check all posts that have been shared on various subreddits linking to Steemit.com:
https://www.reddit.com/domain/steemit.com/

We will also accept posts that go to busy.org and various other Steem front-ends.

If you are interested in participating, send me a message on Discord at Acidyo#8038.

Users that are interested to help moderate the subreddit can join the discord server as well, I believe there were some that have been in the past and thank you to those that have remained active on the sub and helped newcomers.

Thank you for your interest.

If you have any further questions about this feel free to ask them here in the comments.


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Woooo, sounds like a great idea! I'm on reddit every day, but I hadn't ever thought of sharing Steemit posts there, lol. I understand that every time a #postpromotion channel is created on Discord, a thousand minnows start sharing their stuff every second, lol, and it's really hard to say what's good or bad from that.

There's normally no input, no participation, no quality checks, everything in chronological order, just adding to what is usually called the "spam channel". But reddit has proven that thousands of users can share one place and provide a lot of content and if they are nice contributions that fill the hivemind with a nice feeling, those posts can get a nice share of votes.

I'm all for this and I'd frequent the subreddit. I'd even propose to moderate it if I knew the implications, but I guess I can talk that over on Discord, right? I'm excited about this new project. <3

Since cryptocurrency is big right now, I thought it might be worth having a chat here about Steemit. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised it's not being discussed more in startup communities.

About 5 weeks ago, a buddy of mine, who's been deep-diving into crypto over the last year or so, told me that I need to check out Steemit. He knows I love Reddit, and post in this sub a lot, and he was like "Why don't you post somewhere where you get paid everytime someone upvotes your content?"

I kinda called BS at first, or didn't have time, or whatever, but I eventually started checking it out and realised a few things:

  1. There are people making serious bank on this platform. Particularly with the way crypto-currencies are going right now.

  2. It's still in its infancy, which means it's a really good time to establish a presence

  3. Over the last few weeks they've started to see exponential growth (something like 12k+ new accounts this week), which means huge future potential.

I'm still not completely sold on the platform, and there's a ton of crypto-stuff under the hood that I will probably never bother to understand, but I do kind of like the model. Roughly, upvotes (either on posts or comments) earn you Steem, and the amount you earn depends on how much Steem the voter has. Similarly, if you upvote stuff early that makes it big, then you earn Steem for curation.

Other major differences from Reddit include embeddable images, and more of an emphasis on who follows you - eg, my default "front page" is full of posts from people I follow.

Yes although a lot of the things you say are correct it wasn't much related to this post, gave you an upvote for your time anyway.

Welcome to Steem.

Thank you soo much my dear @acidyo

So I've been sharing my blog posts on steemit subreddit. But that really help bring in more traffic to steemit, now would it? So should I share my posts on other subreddits instead?

P.S. You should maybe hold off pouring acid over reddit for the time being

So should I share my posts on other subreddits instead?

Yes posts shared on r/steemit won't count, the point is to share them where you can bring a lot more visibility to users that haven't heard about Steem yet. Your posts should be posted in the appropriate subreddits depending on the content of it.

You should maybe hold off pouring acid over reddit for the time being

:D

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Congrats. That’s been a long fight to get that level of access but you always wanted to promote Steem more on reddit.

Here’s hoping you get the keys ASAP because long overdue considering how much you’ve always wanted to do this. 👊

I haven't thought about... sharing the post somewhere else.
When I think about it, people are becoming the real creators here after getting experience in posting and interacting with their followers.
Actually, it's not a bad idea.

Have heard so much about reddit but don't really know how it works. This presents me an opportunity to do a little research about reddit and hopefully join in this your scheme.

Thanks for informing us.

@eurogee of @euronation community

Greetings!

Not sure I am interested in being a moderator but would love to contribute to more content on reddit as it is obviously good for he Steem platform and as we know I love and am dedicated to its progress.

Lets be in touch. We haven't talked in a long while and I am sure there is much of common purpose we could co create.

∞§∞Full Steem Ahead∞§∞

I recently started to share my post in reddit after reading this post from @transisto, so I just sent you a message on discord because I want to participate :D

Woohoo! It's about time!

I've not been as active there as before but I stumble in occasionally to see if there is anything to respond to.

I wish we could get finer grained stats on Alexa based on specific sub pages of steemit (per blog redirect stats for example). I wonder if that exists? Maybe we need a link shortener to track clicks into the shared page hmm....

Hmmm, it might really help to promote steemit further. With sharing articles on reddit too.
I've never used reddit before, though :d

Is steemit.com our version of reddit?

I didn't know you were a reddit mod bro. And tho I don't really know If I can help with this one I wish you good luck, and congratulations on your full permissions leveling up.

sounds a good plan.. i knew reddit but never used it ..

Great post as always. Yes, I was handing out upvotes to people who commented on my latest post (The 175 Steem Giveaway for the Mayweather vs. McGregor Mega Event that just happened this past weekend). I ended up giving more and also upvoted all the entries. I'm thinking of doing another contest with US Open Tennis. Still thinking of the rules now. Hope you can join that contest as well !!!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Good plan! I'll keep that link opened in a tab, so I can upvote posts on both Reddit and Steemit.

Money from upvotes come from "tokens" which are traded (i.e. bought) on cryptocurrency exchanges.

It's basically a transfer of wealth from investors to users of the site.

Why would anyone buy this token?

With Steem Power you can earn more and cancel other people's rewards.

And on Steemit's particular interface your post will have more exposure.

Of course any site could interact with Steem's blockchain.

Sound is very good plan i had knowledge about it. but i never used it. Thanks for share this knowledge

It’s been awhile since social networks have tried to motivate users by paying them some “money” (either real or not). Take a look, for example, at the Reddit’s try:

We are thinking about creating a cryptocurrency and making it exchangeable (backed) by those shares of Reddit, and then distributing the currency to the community. The investors have explicitly agreed to this in their investment terms.

And there were some others:

Paid-for-post platforms are not new. A few forerunner platforms are Tsū and Bubblews which are now defunct. Both business models rely on posters to contribute content and their revenue is from advertisement. Patreon is similar but works slightly differently. Patreon is a network with content creators and fans directly supporting their content via monthly payments or per creation. So this is a direct tipping model from fans to content creators.

Also take a look at the Empire.Kred social network: Empire.Kred is designed to drive social media activity and interaction between the registered members. A player’s value increases, in part, as a result activity on social media sites and their own verified blogs and rss feeds. In addition, a player’s value increases through dividends paid-out by other members he or she has invested in. Thus, the social media activity of a player’s investments also contributes to his or her game wealth. It is in the player’s self-interest to follow, favorite, or otherwise contribute to the social media activity of those they invest in.

But let’s continue with Steemit!

Great it's an awesome idea to help the people who are still did not get the way to explore their work (Me too) it would be great to get visible to a bunch of people who are working together.

In the digital currency world, people love to talk about the “killer app,” a use for the technology that would bring it truly mainstream and compel the people who are dubious about Bitcoin to buy in. Many are still waiting for it, and say bitcoin needs it to succeed in the long run. Ned Scott believes he’s got it.

Scott is the cofounder and CEO of Steemit, a social network that runs on a new cryptocurrency called steem. Scott, a former analyst at food-industry private equity firm Gellert Group, and Dan Larimer, founder of BitShares, launched the network and the currency in April. Since that time, its market cap has ballooned from $2,000 to $300 million. The platform is very young, and has its problems, but it shows impressive potential.

Steemit works like Reddit, which Scott cites as an overt influence but says he hasn’t used. Steemit users publish a blog post—it could be any length, any topic at all—and other users can “upvote” it. The twist: Every upvote represents a small amount of steem power. Think of steem power as a representation of influence, because the more you have, the more power your upvote has to move someone else’s post up when you upvote it. Steem power can be converted to steem dollars, which at the moment trade for about $3.25 USD each.

That’s tiny, sure, but more steem is created from more activity on Steemit, and the $300 million market cap of steem is enough to rank it No. 3 among all cryptocurrencies, according to CoinMarketCap, behind only bitcoin and ether, the currency of the Ethereum network.

Hey @acidyo,

Thats a great development. It will be interest attract more and more audience on this platform. I also prefer Reddit as a platform with compare to other social media platform

wow that's great @acidyo you remind me about my reddit account, long time i'm inactive there. I think its time to get back there. 😊

I really dont know much about subreddit. Only heard about it here on steemit. However, if the idea is for the betterment of steemit/steem, it is totally welcoming to me. I dont post about cryptos though, as you know i am mostly about science stuff. I really dont know how relevant that could be to this new idea. I am ready to learn.

Thanks

upvote for you!!

Wow this is a big breakthrough, it really is a good way of promoting posts, i can't wait to be part of it. Good job you have done sir.

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Awwwwww this is beautiful. What an insight. Thank you @acidyo for all you do. You're such a rare gem.

I think we should all post on reddit. I'm sure many don't know the potential of our steemit platform and steem blockchain yet.

I love this incentive.

Its a nice project to do. Steemit can do wonders there too!

Thanks for sharing

Wow it's interesting to know that you do so many things atbthe same time. You are the human curator at ocdnd at the same time a moderator at subreddit. You also find time to play and stream your games and curate other posts personally. I wonder how you manage to do all these alone.

Well I am interested in helping you out with the moderating job and would love to know more and how to go about it. Would chat you up on discord sir.

hey @acidyo i'm interested in helping out. i'm around all day, across various discords, which discord are you in do you have an invite link, would love to become a daily moderator. cheers.

Great.... This is so kind of you @acidyo putting the interest of good post up for visibility and upvote.

Reddit is on the fifth of most visited site.. This is good

I actually didn't know that it was so popular! To see it right there over all other sites is really flattering. I used to spend most of my time there before I came to Steemit.

Thanks @acidyo for creating this channel. It will be easy for us to share my posy from steemit to reddit. I want to participate in joining the moderate teams but it will be hard for me. Thabks @acidyo, and what your name on reddit please

Same username.

This concept will help one get more followership and more engagements if one comes with quality content, I think it will be so amazing really.
However when and how soon will this be happening?

I read your post.it's very helpful for steemit member.thanks for share your experience.

Congratulations There was a long fight to get that access level.Here you consider how long you always wanted to do this because you are expecting to get ASAP key

Did u/nedsteem on reddit go inactive?

This is really useful for the steemit community overall.

We need to spread steemit to everywhere

Finally, we are getting some moderation in that subreddit. It hurt my eyes every time I looked at the pile of junk people were creating there.

I do a lot of sharing on Reddit, in fact, a couple of my posts are in the top of all time there but people should be aware what content is good for Reddit and what is not. The basic explanation for this would be that Reddit is not Facebook and shitposts will get what they deserve.

I don't have time to help with moderation but I could put up a content guide for people who want to share their work on Reddit. If you need help with that let me know.

Posting too much shitty content could lead to a site-wide domain ban for Steemit and then we are all fucked.

I used to do this quite a lot but finding bandwidth problem. need to find a way to do this more productively.

excellent post ..loving to your blog.thanks for sharing..

thanks information @acidyo on your post.

Good good good good

Massive Kudos to you and anybody else putting in the hard yards to increase visibility of our epic community!

I had zero idea that Reddit had such a high AR and will be honest, even though I used to have some amazing discussions ther i thought it had become a little bit...dare I say irrelevant?

I think the biggest, scummiest, greediest market-share platforms have created a "paid for" smokescreen that is designed to make us think that they are at the sharpest end of the idea provoking, opinion shaping culture where social media is concerned.

Don't get me wrong, they have a point but not a particularly valid one although they are ridiculously visible (sickeningly too in the case of FB...Eeew I even feel dirty saying it.) But I see few initiatives there that promote social endeavors and initiatives to help the masses in the way I have seen here!

Let me confess something also, I genuinely don't care what Doris from Basingstoke ate for dinner and Mike from Wisconsin makes me sick showing off his new bling and Ferrari when I know how many people live in abstract poverty on this little blue/green orb we call home!

I am now very interested in using Reddit again and helping to make the masses of our revolution. Thanks for opening my eyes dude I guess even I am susceptible to mass media campaigns and blanket shutdowns of all other avenues of narrative.

If the Reddit community is as I remember fondly, it is one that would make the transition here smoothly and embrace the ideas and aspirations that we have here!

Once I am home again and on my trusty PC (Yeah I'm a dinosaur) I gotta re-engage with Reddit I think I have been missing a trick promoting our blockchain based community.

Oh man! everyday sees me more excited and enthused for the future, anybody else feeling the building lightning bolt's ready to strike change into the heart's of mere mortals?

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