Let's say there is enough daily "free" $1 upvote for all posters of Steemit, will it solve the issue of User retention? Will you stay and keep your daily posting?
> Let's say there is enough daily "free" $1 upvote for all posters of Steemit, will it solve the issue of User retention?
Yes. It will definitely solve the issue of user retention.
But that is not sustainable. There are more than 1 million Steem accounts. If even 40% of those accounts use this feature, 400k will be depleted from the reward pool. At the time of writing this post, the reward pool had 820,775 STEEM ≈ $338,975.
So, it wouldn't even last a day. What you are proposing is never going to be implemented.
> Do you think a regular upvote will improve the user retention and keep the motivation among all authors / posters of Steemit?
No, I don't think so. Giving free money doesn't create demand for Steem or steemit. Steem has to offer something that makes people want to use it. That something should be high quality content.
Imagine this, if Steem had high quality content like the ones you read in Medium blogs, wouldn't you be interested in reading them?
If the content quality of Steem becomes excellent, people will be automatically incentivized to read them. More and more people will find out about Steem by searching it on the internet.
That is how you create demand for a blogging social network. Steem's main problem is that quality content creators aren't rewarded systematically. That's why people aren't getting 1$ worth upvotes on their posts.
Also, when people make a high quality blog and see that a spam post received 10x reward than their own, they feel discriminated. And that's when people generally leave this platform.
It's been almost 10 months since I started using Steem. When I first started using it, I thought the same thing. Many contents is not high quality but people are making money. How is this happening? Later, For a long time, I was just writing on twitter about my thinking. Then I needed a place where I could write my thoughts more broadly. I chose to write here at Steem. Actually, I still don't have any more benefits than running a bot. I just enjoy writing. I also follow the people I like and i value their work.
Now I like writing on Steem. But my thoughts and feelings have evolved over time. That's why this platform needs a long time. Only we need the curators increase more and reach a wider audience makes things a little easier.
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