For Those with Money to Spend
Please don’t post a few paragraphs and spend all your available SBD/SP on promoting them. That’s not good for steemit and ultimately not good for you. Remember, your posts must drive new users to the platform or at least be engaging or entertaining.
This will not stop, untill the elites of steemit themselves think about making steemit legit, instead of only and solely making money.
There are better versions of steemit coming for sure, as no new members other then the already rich and famous are intrested in this platform. There are 10+ posts about steemit on trending page including this one, 10+ on blockchain and 10+ shit posts on trending page. Do you think the world is only about blockchain and programming? there are many other topics in the world, which we rarely see trending. These days most of the posts are about complaints, and we see similar posts everyday trending.
For the Whales
Theoretically, whales will curate the best posts. They have the most to gain or lose if steemit succeeds or not. But if you have a couple million SP in your account, curating content must be the last thing on your mind.
Delegating to bots is okay. Just choose the ones that really try to make steemit better. Minnowbooster is the best as far as I’m concerned.
It also wouldn’t hurt if you whales upvote good content now and then. Some of you already do and I commend you for doing that.
Honestly, I don’t expect any of you to listen. That’s okay. I’ll just continue doing my business and do what I do the best that I can.
Do you know there are whales that rarely make any posts or upvotes? all they have done is bought high SP and delegated it. Iv seen some whales removing personal grudge on some minnows/dolphins to remove personal grudge by just coming and flagging for fun.
As a new user I've got to agree with you.
I see @Digitaldreamer's point in looking at this as an acceptable investment. Write something decent, buy a bot, hopefully, make a bit of a return on your investment. It's better than FB advertising and simpler than a funnel.
Personally, though, it's not very enticing for new blood who is looking to write due to passion.
The community seems to have limited interests.
The demographics looks to be horribly lopsided, which reduces the sort of following you can gather and limits other potential successes like cultivating clients or book deals.
(Unless of course your target demographic are white dudes interested in cryptocurrency and gaming.)
I haven't seen enough to really get my barrings yet but it seems like it's all the marketers of FB with none of the non invested audience. This shifts the focus from a person experiencing good content to them simply trying to make content that pays and interact enough with others to get paid more.
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Steemit is unlike anything I've seen before. You can't compare it with existing platforms because it works differently.
With Facebook, you (the user) are the product. Advertisers buy your attention.
In Steemit, the money comes from mining but instead of being owned entirely by the miners (witnesses), a bigger portion of the mined steem is distributed to contributors.
You may be right about the demography of users. You're also right that the posts here are targeted mainly at existing users. Why would you go to steemit to look for health tips? Steemit users are those who are already interested in cryptocurrency. Understandably, the majority of posts will be about crypto.
Still, the platform has tremendous potential and it's up to us to realize them.
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Well its up to the elites, not us. Its just become like a "Central Banking System, controlled by elites". I know this sounds pessimistic and negative, but trust me when time comes, these pricks will realize their mistakes, coz im sure something similar and better is coming soon.
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And I just figured out how to check my replies haha.
I hear you @digitaldreamer on it being unlike FB or other platforms. The question I have then is if the nature of the beast it is any good? How far can a system go if it is established to create "great content" but the only drive to create that content is in sharing content about that content or botting just running bots?
If as @veerall points out the elites acted differently, perhaps cultivating the space more as patrons rather than the aristocracy or kids raised on the SNL of the 90s it could diversify a lot more.
Honestly, I'm still going to give it a shot. I'm just not sure what the motivation is to contribute here solely if you're more about reaching people rather than talking cryptocurrency?
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Problem is, steemit was made by a genius who left it in the middle to the hands of greedy morons.
These morons are like "Teenage kids with unlimited alcohol driving a Ferrari."
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I've seen a lot of Cartmans running around bragging about trolling eachother.
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