I have been spending almost all my time recently working on Steeve. We have published 3 project updates already. I am pretty excited about the project and I am constantly trying to improve the web interface and add handy features.
When you are working on a project like that, investing time and energy, basically the only thing that can make up for your personal energy investment (besides your own motivation to do a good thing for the community) is that other people start using what you have created and give you a feedback. Any feedback is great, because at that point you know that someone is interested and your work is not in vein.
But, how to attract users to your project, or in general to your good quality articles? This seems to be harder on Steem than I have expected, even though I firmly believe that Steeve has something to offer and there are many many great articles out there.
At the same time, people keep complaining about not being able to reach good content, or making zero money on articles they have spent quite some time perfecting.
Well, sorry to be a Captain Obvious here, potentially, but upvoting is most probably not going to spread any article further. Getting to Trending is about buying votes unless you are super well-known in the community.
So, how to tell others about good content? Yes, there is only one other way, and that is resteeming and sharing. Strangely enough, sharing anything is not nearly as popular as upvoting, I have observed. Why is that so?
I guess that upvoting is just about rewarding the author, liking the article. Yeah, I enjoyed reading it, see you later. But to resteem something, you internally have to agree with the whole thing, with what the article is saying. In case there is something you don't like, you are not going to share it, because others mostly take it as you agreeing with everything in the article. In other words, you probably don't resteem things your would not write and publish yourself.
I think that it is good to get behind this point. I like sharing what is of good quality, interesting and it is making some kind of a point. That is how you can tell others in your social bubble something new. Sharing what we all agree with will just reassure us about our own opinions and take us nowhere. And that is what is happening on Facebook and other social media. People having opposite opinions rarely exchange ideas in general and it works on the Internet even more. We all filter content to suit our ideas.
I think that it is better to keep challenging your ideas all the time and grow. So please, help spread good content. When you read an article, think a bit more about resteeming it. You might not make any money on it, but it helps everybody, especially new users to take off.
And obviously I am not telling people to resteem everything, but I am myself learning to loosen up a bit. And it feels good. So I was thinking that it would be worth sharing...
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