Hey everyone,
So for this post I want to cover the two areas that steemit is a part of and ask people to try to see this site from both sides. It is easy to see this site as a social media site and then not be happy when it is not as social as it should be or for people to see it a blog/content site where they post their work and try to get views. Both are right and if people decide to gravitate to one or the other, please respect them.
Social Media Site:
Social media sites are, well, social. That means commenting and getting involved with a community. Now, in my opinion, this site is lacking in this department as there are more features needed before it is a social media site (it is still early, updates will come). But there is a community here and you can comment and follow people. This leads to more of a network, where people are getting to know each other and communicating as friends. But this can also lead to smaller posts that are less content oriented. I can write a quick hey, I'm seeing Spider-Man this weekend, who has seen it? And that is a post. I should respond to the comments, but beyond that, that should qualify.
Blogging/Content Site:
This is a different story. If I write a quick hey post, people will not be happy. Why is this guy getting paid for a one word post? And as a content creator people may not take me seriously. I will have to do substantial posts of quality. But, on the other side of things, you are less obligated to be 'social'. You should always be nice, regardless, but if you are working hard to bring content to the site, you are going to miss on certain things.
This site is a mix of the two and some people will lean towards one side and some to the other. This is okay, I am just asking you try to see things from both sides if you feel they do not utilize their page in a way you would. And, as always, you should be friendly and post quality content, regardless of what type of site it is.
What do you think?
*my upvotes/rep disclaimer: https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/my-steemit-account-where-i-stand-on-bots-self-votes-and-multiple-account
I would like to think that it is somewhere in between those. In my opinion the one thing that is holding this site back is how much power some people have in their vote. When you combine that with selfishness (where regardless of what it is they only vote on their own content) there is TONS of content that never makes it even to the hot tab let alone trending. Much of the content in the trending tab isn't actually all that great either but there were a couple big voters that threw in behind them.
I saw a new guy post yesterday that he was getting sometimes only a SINGLE view on his posts. I looked through them and sure enough, they were decent and interesting posts but nobody was viewing them let alone voting on them. That can be extremely discouraging. There really isn't any incentive to vote for the little guys so few (aside from some bots) do.
There are a lot of things that we have to overcome and work through as a community if we actually want to become a community. There are some things that might have to be addressed to allow new content posters to get their feet wet.
Interesting post though lol got me thinking on all of this. Thanks!
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I agree, I was 100% on board with the hardfork 19 spreading of power and think we will need to further spread it out if we are to make this site work for the masses.
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I haven't even been around long enough to know what it was like before then. I'm likely gonna do a write-up in a week or so with my observations of Steemit from a noobs perspective. But ultimately this platform has a ton of untapped potential and I'd much rather see a system that allows new people to have a chance of having their content at the very least viewed. I almost think that post votes should be seperated from votes on comments. Perhaps even to the point of making the comments simply down/upvote with optional monetary tip. There has to be something to allow the free flow of communication but right now all I really see in comment sections are people saying "Nice post." and then upvoting themselves to the top.
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Yeah it was worse before the hardfork, power was more concentrated. More changes need to be made to help new members, that is the way to grow a site.
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Exactly. Give the little guys enough power that they CAN make a meaningful impact on posts and they at the very least have a shot at getting highly voted posts. It will be interesting to see what they do next for certain.
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I think the next step is communities, after they fix the onboarding problem.
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In my opinion, and maybe I'm wrong, cause I don't have a very long history here, Steemit is lacking on both sides. First, there is no difference between posting an elaborated post, with a good substance, with an idea inside, and simply posting a picture or a web clip. Anybody can check my posts to see that I have tryed both.
So, what's the incentive to write a long post, with original content, with good ideas inside? No wonder that Steemit is full of youtube videos, reposted again and again by a big number of users. And between that, there is somewhere a good post, which deserve to be read, if, and is a biiiig IF, you can find it.
On the social media side, there is too a lack of organization and tools to be such a thing.
Sorry for my critical view, but this is it.
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No it is important we deal with it honestly, I get where you are coming from, and this is because we need better filtration of our posts. Right now all people see is a title and a pic, it makes it really clickbaity. And since only so many of your posts get seen, I see why people want to post smaller ones.
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This is a great conversation whatageek your are awesome! watching you every time.
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I do agree with you. Your view is critical but I think it is honest and valid. A post on Steemit is counted as a post regardless of length and/or quality.
You can't fight what the (Steemit) market likes and their voting habits but you could try to change the rewards and incentives system (maybe).
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In my opinion, it doesn't matter what you can call or wherever side you might be for me it does the same functionality once you signed up and make an account here on steemit and you start posting whatever you published you are part of the algorithm, remember this is a social network platform build in cryptocurrency blockchain, so therefore all of us here is a process of a subjective mining a human contribution as per the CEO Ned Scott, me I don't see fair or unfair situation its all about you, how you drive your account, powering up steem, better understanding of this platform, no frustration just enjoy what you are doing and that will pay the prize.
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Nice nice very nice post and useful post to all steemians... @whatageek thank you so much sharing your valuble knowledge and experience with other steemians..read this post I can get more diffrent ideas about steem. I you are one of better steemian in this platform...keep it up post...GOD BLESS YOU
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Steemit all the way.
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glad you brought up 'content creators' - i think a lot of people coming to the platform who are not 'bloggers' don't actually understand what the platform is, that's a problem in some ways, i really don't like the fact i can't filter things, i'd love to be able to click the rep score and get a view of all people that rep and higher for instance for that viewing sessions (bigger rep, been around so understand what makes a blog post on the majority) but yes, i think it comes down to education that it's not a messaging tool, these one word, or one post youtube embed posts drive me nuts! :) - that being said aside from earning a bit on a post i do love having potentially a free blog host, that's huge, no messing with wordpress plugins and the seo is great here too because the site is so popular with content. who would not want to mess with a blog powered by a blockchain! :) - as for content creation, we need to inform and guide people how to be bloggers, they don't just natively know how to do it! - that's why i do little #steemcasts to try and help and inform! :) - great post to highlight this topic! have a great day!
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