Imagine the excitement that Facebook users will feel when they find out they could potentially get paid for ranting about dog poo, bad drivers, what shopkeeper said what and why you shouldn't go to a particular restaurant. And other people in their own locality might upvote, add to or collaborate on their stories and make them some money (or help raise money for their local community).
I must admit I'm not a huge fan of participating in these type of groups as an 'innocent' comment can be hacked to pieces and pulled apart by judgemental people with nothing better to do before the moderators step in to delete or diffuse the situation. Steemit can be like that too if you get sucked into the drama.
I'm one of these morbid people who will only take a look if there is a lot of fire engines about, or if an area is cordoned off as I have to find out why and the answer is inevitably on these groups.
What does this have to do with Steemit?
Well, thanks to @pennsif for her latest post, as I found out about Steemit's plans for communities, where:
Two types of communities will exist:
communities into which anyone in the world can post (where community founders (or their delegated moderators) can decide, post-hoc, which posts to hide from view) or;
communities in which only community founders’ (or their delegated authors’) posts will appear.
And this is rumored to happen later this year.
(1) Communities into which anyone in the world can post (where community founders (or their delegated moderators) can decide, post-hoc, which posts to hide from view)
This is essentially how the local Facebook groups are run now. I know the moderator of one the local ones quite well (well actually we have two groups the non-offensive one and the one where Peter (name changed to protect real identity) can put all his sexist jokes, without offending the more sensitive souls.
Although I could see some interesting use of flagging and downvoting potentially being an issue, should this type of group venture onto Steemit, but if there was a common goal, like a town event to support - it could work okay on this front.
(2) Communities in which only community founders’ (or their delegated authors’) posts will appear.
It would mean great things for local charities as fundraising would be a matter if regular posting and creating popular posts would mean that town events could be partially or even funded using Steemit (and with whole local communities on Steemit, this could really be the case, as an upvote is even better than a donations, as it doesn't come out of the proverbial pocket.
I can see this working well for Bexhill and Hastings Wildlife Rescue, as they post about the animals they save. They do have rather strong views on fox hunting and cruelty to seagulls, but they would have a really entertaining channel.
Hmm, I don't have time to do this for them, but I must let them know about Steemit, as one of their 'fans' would surely manage a Steemit account for them. Their group page also got hacked last summer, something that wouldn't happen on Steemit, if they were careful with their master code.
And for fundraising for actual specific events...
For example this year in my town the Roaring 20s event is not going ahead due to lack of funding (and last year Bexhill broke the world record of largest number of people doing the Charleston dance at this event) and they are always asking for donations to make sure the Fireworks night goes off with a bang and Christmas lights too (not go off with a bang in that case, but to switch on time would be a good start).
You could have whole communities based on these fundraising requirements, as more and more people will start to see the potential of Steemit and ensure its growth.
Conclusion
And Facebook meant the end of @pennsif's social media community project (Will this take Steem to the moon?)
So let's make sure Steemit stamps on Facebook.
Because Steemit can and it has so much more potential, no other reason...
Roll on Steemit Communities...
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