RE: Steemhunt has a great initiative
"Steem was what drew us all in and now it is the opposite happening. @steemhunt is a perfect site for this as it is fairly simple and straightforward for any new person to understand and get going."
@steemhunt isn't a perfect site for that. Maybe there's a steemhunt website that is, but what you linked to was this:
https://steemit.com/@steemhunt
Where, as someone who still had no idea what steemhunt was after reading your post, I saw it's a profile that hunts (something, somehow, apparently products) and has something to do with rewarding (hunters maybe? something to do with products)...
As an account, @steemhunt has over 6000 followers, and from the tagline on the account I can see that it claims to be: Daily Ranking for Effortlessly Cool Products That Rewards Hunters
Those words mean stuff to you people?
What's a dAPP anyway? A decentralized App? What's a decentralized App? An app you can't buy on a centralized App store?
I dunno - everyone seems to like new people, but somewhere along the way you've learned all the jargon and seem to have forgotten what a foreign language it is to "normies".
What does the confused new user that hears steemhunt is something cool when they google it, and click through the first result?
"perfect site for this as it is fairly simple and straightforward for any new person to understand and get going."
or
"a mysterious list of products with up arrows and dollar amounts"...
Does seem to be popular with you guys though - I'm guessing because those product people consider it advertisement, and consider your engagement on the products proof that their products are being shown to people... but that's just a hunch, as despite the reading and the clicking through.
Though - making a new account and not being able to interact WAS very offputting a couple of months ago when I first got on here . Anyway, there's some feedback from someone clearly "not in the know"
- GG
If you are "not in the know" you need to look around you and see the opportunities. When I started I struggled for the first 3 months, there were no other sites with earning opportunities. Steem takes time to get momentum and to build an account. A site like Steemhunt will give you a leg up and you will grow quicker. It doesn't take long to understand and just get involved. Musing was slightly easier to understand, but they have stopped for the time being.
I am glad you are still around, just bear with it as it does take time.
The point I was trying to make was that while enough Steem Power to participate when you make a new account is a great initiative, but it's like because it's crypto everything has to be in code. It's like everything is so cryptic that even a site designed to make life easier for new people doesn't explain itself on it's profile or it's actual website.
For example (and this is a guess as I still really don't know what you guys/it does...): Welcome to Steemhunt! Here, we hunt for products together (on steem?) for fun, community and profit. Click for our new user guide to take you through account creation and get you started!
I understand what you are saying and agree somewhat as well. Nothing seems to be easy on here. I am the most clueless tech guy around so this has been so out of my comfort zone. If I can learn and do it then anyone can. Unfortunately there is no clear instruction manual here to take you through a step by step process.