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RE: The Value of Steem will be Measured in the Originality of Its Content
Hi Brian, I accidentally crossed into your blog through bleedpoet.
I'm going to add my 50 cents about this subject.
I think Steemit is changing: it started like a platform of writers and artists who wanted to support each other, however now people are getting tired of it.
It's tiring to post always original content. Not all of us are professional artists or have the time to engage in here. Not all of us are inspired all the time.
People started to post just about their daily life, few thoughts or few photos, just like a real social platform, like facebook. What's the need to be always intellectual? To always bring something original?
I myself used to write very interesting posts on a daily basis, but I just can't keep it up.
Steem is changing. It’s still in beta format and experiencing growing pains. But regardless, its core value is dependent on ‘posting original content, upvoting others’ original content, commenting on original content, building communities and earning. The strategy for most out there, is post and like- minded people will find you. That’s not pragmatic. There’s just so much traffic it’s hard to build a like-minded community. So, we need to source like-minded people and build our micro-community from scratch. Unfortunately, tags as they are now, are far too broad and are being used by people who are looking for rewards but not blogging content. Nonetheless, building your tightly focused community is important. Continue searching within but also on-board people who share the same interests. Often, we create problems for ourselves. We follow too many people, we upvote badly, we aren’t investing enough into Steem Power, we post too frequently, we deplete our voting power uselessly, to name some. But there’s also a misconception that original content needs to be intellectually based. It doesn’t. It just needs to be original - from you - and add to the conversation of the community following you and you them. There’s nothing wrong with posting content outside the interests of your community but it might be best not to tag it as a community blog. And there’s nothing wrong with up-voting people outside your community if the post warrants it. There are corrections coming to help with communities. But in the meantime, building a micro-community around a specific interest is something we all need to do - lay the ground work. That and correcting our bad habits will go a long way to helping the platform prosper.
Thank you for replying to me.
I just dilapidated my voting power to 20%, did I upvote badly? I don't think so! I want to share and give my love to my micro-community and it is never enough to me.
Did I easily find the people who have passions in common with me through hashtag? More or less, but it took me a lot of time to hanging around in steemit. Some of these people who have something in common with me (the micro-community you were mentioning) can't keep it up neither. They have periods when they are not very inspiring or just tired and/or busy. I still support them because I'm faithful to my community and I became friends with them. In this, you can see that the value of steem is NOT in the original content, but in the interaction/relationship built upon/among steemians.
Are we forgetting this is a social platform and the content we produce is null if we don't support each other?
It's a bit like that quote of Into the wild "happiness is real only when shared". With the HUGE difference that here, most of the time, quantity goes over quality because of the 7 days limit payout- a rule that should be changed.
I also post 100% original content and don't use bots, I go completely unnoticed most of the times. Who gives a fuck at this point? I don't. Steemit is worth peanuts, but I'm posting and upvoting and exchanging with you right now because I love to do it.
On a related note, Ned, one of the founders, just published a post looking for developers. I really hope he will also look for experts that make the interface more user-friendly for us (talking about better tags) and more mobile friendly!
Let's change those things, let's help curators and authors to be better friends and to find each other more easily and that would give way more value to steem.