Steem on, but on your best behavior

Why we should be doing our best on Steemit to create and support the best community and content, today.

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The world is observing

As you may have read, observer.com produced an article recently discussing Steemit and @neds new venture, the Smart Media Token. This is the basis of my blog today, and you can read that article here

While, in my eyes, the article isn't exactly positive towards this 'not unprecedented' protocol in overall delivery, it does prove one thing - we are now in the spotlight here at Steemit, and we now need, more than ever, to get our community in order and make ourselves presentable to our as it were, future clients.

Steem has worked well for Steemit. We’ll leave it to readers to judge the quality of the content on the site, but its viewership is strong. Alexa ranks it in the low 2000's of global websites. source

Reading between the lines here, I'd say Brady Dale is not overly impressed with what he has seen.

Now this is only one mans opinion, and who knows just how long he spent looking through blogs on the run up to the release of the article on the 3rd October. He could have visited 'New', 'Hot', or 'Trending' to create his opinion, but in any case, this shouldn't matter.

Perhaps we can forgive our 'new' Steemians (I assume here that there are more posts from new users in 'New', than in 'Hot' or 'Trending' tabs) a short, visually unappealing first post or two - the Steemit world is vast, and there is much to learn.

However, there are few excuses for Posts that appear in 'Hot' or 'Trending', to not be of a certain quality. The only people to blame here are ourselves - not the CEO, not Steemit.inc, only ourselves.

Now is the time to bring your best

So what could you do to help make us awesomely appealing to say, a Company looking in at our 'proof of brain', proof it's working community?

• Support new users. Tell them what could be better, post links on "how-to's", provide guidance, and solutions, be polite, raise their awareness of what is accepted and otherwise.

• Flag the bad (racism, pedophilia). Hide the negative away from immediate on-lookers and try not to highlight it unless it's for the good of the community

• Produce awesome content. View each post as something which could be seen by a market researcher, a publisher, the CEO of the New York Times.

• Reward awesome content and awesome users. Lets see well written, well presented, up-lifting, and empowering articles in 'Hot' and 'Trending'. Someone looking in will no doubt go here first.

In a recent post by the awesome @surfermarly here, I'd like to share this paragraph with you:

You want to be part of a positive, contributive, supportive and wealthy community? Well then be positive, contributive and supportive in order to accumulate wealth.

It doesn't matter what number is next to your username, we are all responsible here and together we can ensure that when the likes of Brady Dale take a look inside our community, they see a prosperous and flourishing network and think, 'I want some of that'.

Thanks for reading today

Asher

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