Greetings Steemian's,
If you haven't noticed by now, @steemonboarding has introduced a new contest that is currently up and running until the closing time of Wednesday, June the 12th at 23:59 PST.
Operation Mass Adoption
In the minds of many Steemian's here, it's mostly irrefutable that the Steem blockchain needs a boost in the adoption of new users. I'm a major proponent of onboarding new users, as an expanding ecosystem of Steem users will inevitably increase the demand for Steem, thus driving the intrinsic value and health of the Steem economy. I'm not an economist, but this seems like a pretty basic concept that we should be aware of, and doing more than just talking about.
Well thanks to Steemonboarding we have an added incentive for this effort! That's right, if you've been thinking about inviting your sister, mother, brother, friend, or acquaintance, but have said to yourself "What's the use, if they are lucky to get a vote they might stay, but then I have to teach them, and get them to keep posting, ect."..
All the bases are covered here! So I'll explain it a bit, but before I do so, I would like to say thank you to @anomadsoul and @coruscate for your combined efforts with @steemonboarding, and all of the amazing contests you two have been coming up with! Big thank you to @blocktrades for sponsoring all for sponsoring these amazing contests!
Operation Mass Adoption Contest Prizes
- 11,000 SP delegation (90 days) for the community that produces the best results. (10k from @yabapmatt!, and 1000 from @ocd!)
- 100% upvote from @oracle-d to the top three contestants!
- @actifit is contributing 100 Steem for the 1st place and 50 Steem each for the 2nd and 3rd place contestants!
- 100% upvote from @cervantes for the top three contestants!
- 1,000 liquid Steem prize pool from @theycallmedan for the individual contestants!
1st place - 300 Steem
2nd place - 250 Steem
3rd place - 200 Steem
4th place - 150 Steem
5th place - 100 Steem
1200 Liquid Rewards, and 11,000 SP Delegation!
These are some serious prizes, and a huge incentive to get more users to Steem. There will also be benefits for the new users you onboard as well. Like curation from @ocd on their introduction post, and potentially becoming part of the OSD project. This project is specifically for new users, and grants delegation to help with growth and resource credit restrictions.
Operation Mass Adoption Contest Rules
- New user must have account created, as well as introduction post before the close of this contest. The service used to create the account does not matter.
- The new user must mention who invited them to Steem in the introduction post, as well as an elaboration of what they intend to do here on Steem. (A description of their interests and hobbies is not listed as a rule, but certainly is a good idea in a community driven space like Steem!)
- The introduction post must utilize the tag newonsteem. (This is essential! @ocd will be curating this tag!) This is also how the entries will be found, so please pay special care to this vital rule.
- Contestants in the onboarding competition will also need to create a post listing the Steemian's they successfully onboarded with introduction posts. This is to verify the authenticity of both the competitor and the new join.
This sums up the Operation Mass Adoption Contest. You can visit the links above for more explanation.
This is a great opportunity for communities, this part of the contest should not be overlooked, so tell your friends, and ensure you're using community tags! I would really like to see the #esteem community and #helpie community get involved in onboarding of your friends and families, get them into our beloved communities, and let's grow this Steem blockchain into the number 1 social environment on the internet. I believe we can do it! All communities are welcome to participate, and it's encouraged that we get as many communities as possible involved, so spread the word!
I see posts everyday about what "needs to happen here", well Steemian's, this is our opportunity to make it happen! Let's not forget the importance of taking action when it's necessary. Let's make Operation Mass Adoption the hardest push to date for onboarding new users, and let's welcome them with open arms when they arrive!
Huge thank you to all of the amazing supporters in this contest, and of course, huge thank you @steemonboarding for organizing contest Operation Mass Adoption!
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I think its a great opportunity for everyone.
I am already trying to invite more and more people.
Thank you for writing it simple and easy to understand.
Have a Great day.
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Hey @coolguy222! Thank you for stopping by friend, and thank you for actively taking part in this. It's an amazing opportunity for all of us. I'm happy my writing is easy to understand :)
Have a great day as well!
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I only post on facebook via partiko it's harmless and effectively gets the blockchain some exposure.. I get that most people here are too cool for FB but billions of other people aren't so that's worth considering...
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The facebook topic has less to do with being cool, and more to do with some pretty in depth politics that aren't relevant to this post I think, but there are plenty of articles floating around on Steem about those politics.
I see no harm in promoting blockchain on mainstream social media like facebook, twitter, and the likes. That is where the masses are, so it is a great environment to spread the word indeed!
I'm thinking about doing the twitter and reddit thing to spread awareness, facebook is out of the question for me however.
I appreciate your thoughts , thank you for stopping by :)
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Yea I'm aware of the politics concerning fb and despite this still feel it's not to be overlooked. Being that I've never tweeted it seems unlikely I'll gain any traction whatsoever on that platform.
I'm also being hit with the reality that after a decade on FB I only have 1000 followers and most all of them I've known or at least had some communication with them in the past.
This is quite sobering when contrasted with the few dozen people that show any interest in my steem posts on this blockchain. As social media becomes more of a utility rather than a luxury or mere source of entertainment and information it's becoming increasingly difficult to expect people to jump ship for whatever reason.
For me the major appeal of steem has nothing to do with crypto or the economic incentives, and has everything to do with being censorship resistant. I'm not sure how many of the masses are really concerned about this or the selling of their data to provide what they mistakenly see as a free app.
By abandoning such a user base steem is definitely not going to get the message out to those that may eventually won't some security and sovereignty. I'm not a here's my lunch or trying to topple the capitalistic world as we know it account, I'm somewhere in the middle. All I know is out of the 1000 fb friends I have I don't know of any that would have the desire to figure this ecosystem out.
We need to define what successfully steeming is, if it's profitability we have about 50 witnesses and a handful of content creators and/or curators having success here. For ease of math let's say 1000 out of a million so one in a thousand. That's one of my followers if everyone on boarded today which only thins out the reward pool that's being gamed already.
Not one of the potential 1000 steemians earning here aren't gaming the system. That's fine the chain allows it, but having witnesses that run bid bots and self vote and circle jerk are not going to appeal to new users..
Sorry for the length, I'm just not at all convinced this ecosystem can handle mass adoption. The track record of dead accounts and steem being held by a small percentage of accounts kind of reeks of bloated rotting fish spread among the finest caviar. Where's the spicy tuna rolls for the masses?
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Where have I said anything about overlooking mainstream social media,lol this isn't even the post topic here. Some individuals here prefer not to use certain platforms, which is their right and their choice, and I don't have the right more so than anyone else to dictate how another feels regarding the politics surrounding any social media platforms.
I'm not going to address much of what you've said here, because you've summed it all up to lovely metaphor of bloated rotting fish.
We won't know if we don't try.
If you want to bash Steem, please.. do it somewhere else.
Good day to you.
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Did you just good day to you sir me ? Without the sir? No problem I will keep from commenting on people’s comments sections that can’t handle any sort of resistance. What’s the point? Just stick with all the cheerleaders eh ?hoorah steem !
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Resistance from what, unwarranted bashing of cyrpto I'm passionate about? I don't have anything bad to say about Steem, is it resistance because I am not jumping on your bandwagon to cheer you on when you came to my post to spread negative connotations towards it?
No, that is not very gentleman like or rational, so I see no warrant for giving such a title of sir when confronted with immature condescending behavior. Whatever you have to say from here goes ignored.
I don't want commenters like you, so I won't take it as a loss.
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You got a 28.72% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @futuremind! :)
@ocdb is a non-profit bidbot for whitelisted Steemians, current max bid is 30 SBD and the equivalent amount in STEEM.
Check our website https://thegoodwhales.io/ for the whitelist, queue and delegation info. Join our Discord channel for more information.
If you like what @ocd does, consider voting for ocd-witness through SteemConnect or on the Steemit Witnesses page. :)
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Thank you for the support ocdb.
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Yes indeed @futuremind! These looks like some serious prizes and a huge incentive to get more users to Steem.
However, I can't help but wonder what the infallible strategy must be to thoroughly convince and ultimately recruit new users happy to participate in a current Pay to Play platform. };)
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Well, there are certainly free options for joining, like utilizing Steemit sign up, even though this has been known to take a while, and if you read some of the posts regarding this initiative, you'll also see some users giving away free accounts. I saw one offering hundreds of free accounts, asking nothing in return for the accounts.
I don't see Steem as a pay to play environment. You have the potential to earn here, and there are still things that need improvement, I cannot disagree with this at all, but in my mind Steem suffers more by having less users.
I've seen plenty of people come here and grow quite large because they were talented, and others with stake like their content. I just don't see this logic, and it all boils down to the individual experience I would say. I've heard some who are very happy with organically making around a dollar a post, others who've made more than this and complained that it wasn't enough.
I see the potential in Steem long term, and there will always be conflicting opinions when it comes to the economics. I'm not an economist though, so I don't really know what else to say, have a good day, thank you for stopping by.
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Well, that's also certainly the first big obstacle to overcome for an easy, fluid & successful onboard process my friend.
And as for those users giving away free accounts... I suspect the guts of the steem blockchain, its internal dynamics and own interaction intricacies, already are sufficiently hard to grasp for average Joes, that we should be irrationally optimistic in thinking that they will be willing to deal with these options first in order to finally obtain an approved account.
Yep! once upon a time when a bit of that was kinda common over here. Not currently anymore.
And last but not least...
New user must have account created, as well as introduction post before the close of this contest. The service used to create the account does not matter.
The new user must mention who invited them to Steem in the introduction post, as well as an elaboration of what they intend to do here on Steem. (A description of their interests and hobbies is not listed as a rule, but certainly is a good idea in a community driven space like Steem!)
The introduction post must utilize the tag newonsteem. (This is essential! @ocd will be curating this tag!) This is also how the entries will be found, so please pay special care to this vital rule.
Contestants in the onboarding competition will also need to create a post listing the Steemian's they successfully onboarded with introduction posts. This is to verify the authenticity of both the competitor and the new join.
Yeah, just throw a couple more of rules like these above and we will be before an impossible mission to be actually capable to enthuse and excite an average Joe to try. };)
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You raise some valid points, but I'm not someone who is capable of exacting change in the areas you are addressing, nor is it even an interest of mine. I desire to help where I am most fit to help.
I didn't make the rules for the competition, but it's pretty clear why stringent guidelines are set in place.
I'm sorry if you don't like the contest, but I'm not really sure what you want me to say in reference to these points you're bringing up. I believe in Steem, and I'm someone who enjoys my time here. I don't feel like Steem has taken a shit on me, and I've had mostly pleasant experiences overall. I choose to focus on positive things man, and I'm not a developer, or anyone who really has any great answers to the points you bring up. These are concerns that should maybe be brought up to Steemit Inc, witnesses, developers, ect.
Thank you and have a nice day.
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Yeah @futuremind, don't worry mate. I'm well aware you didn't make the rules for this competition. And I thoroughly get the suitable rationality behind & the whys of so stringent guidelines which are set in place for this 'onboarding' contest. :)
If you already know me well enough by now. You should be aware that here, I am just an old diehard preacher of consciousness since long time ago. One who likes put everyone's feet on the solid lands of the tough and crude reality.
Yep! you bet it. I've never been a willy-nilly optimist about anything in my life. I've always said that I am basically a very attentive defensive pessimist who kinda enjoy spread my heretic way of thinking in a humble effort to make people think farther & deeper on the things they blindly believe and happily support with unjustified sudden enthusiasm and so much eagerness without questioning first those same things from every possible perspective.
And well, that's just me my friend. Listen my neurons, yours and everybody else neurons loudly squeaking once in a while thinking, is always a great pleasure that I reckon everyone should enjoy too. };)
Cheers!!
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I think pretty deeply on many of these topics, but politics stress me out, and I have my reasons why I don't engage much with politics. I'm all about people having a right to speak their mind without fear of recourse or unfair moderation from a central source, so I'm not at offended, and didn't take it as an attack, as you've been civil and respectful in your approach. That is a testament to your character I would say.
I consider myself to be open minded and enjoy thinking about things philosophically, so surely you've jump started one or two of my neurons, and surely my UA score has increased a point or two since making this post :)
Cheers mate!
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Superb!! I can hear your neurons squeaking right now. LoL
Yeah, I suppose so. I think respect is an old ailment of mine. }:)
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But I'm a piece of shit and not welcome LMFAO
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I never called you a piece of shit. People who are rude, obnoxious, condescending, and negative are not welcome, but I can't stop you from commenting if you choose to do so.
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