Welcome to the world of #hashtags!
In the year 2018 population of Steemit has heavily increased. Humans and bots started bloody war all over the network and Steemit became a large battlefield. Humans started regrouping in self-supporting fractions building their fortresses and castles well guarded by heavily armed soldiers. And they had to "wear" the hashtag of the fraction they belonged to...
This is not that story, Terminator is a little bit old school and it is already 2018, so there is no need to go further into science fiction but there is a lot of truth in my little intro.
An average Steemer can't make it here alone.
OK, I'm wrong, there are guys that really did it. I don't talk about those those who have uncle witness or some other nepotistic connection. A year ago it was easier to make it by yourself but now... you have to be a member of some sub-community. That resulted with a numerous fractions, groups, trails, guilds and they all are about nationalities, languages and rarely about the topics of the posts.
So if you are member of some of those groups, you will probably get their upvote - but only if you use their hashtag!
They say that it would be easier to find your post if you use the damn hashtag!
So, an ambitious Steemer has to be a part of at least 3 of those sub-communities. Then you write down those 3 hashtags as a proof that you support those groups. I love to use #whalepower tag that belongs to my friend @bullionstackers but more to support his program than to get something from them. So I'll always use that tag no matter what, #whalepower is here for a long time and they keep up to very good job. I often use #busy tag, I have a lot of followers so that adds some extra sugar to my reward. And I have my own #whysoserious tag because I prefer (how to say...?!) relaxed posting! ;)
So when I write down all those tags, I don't have any place left to write those tags that actually say what is my post about. My post is about (#) life, (#) music, it's a little bit (#) funny, there are few things about (#) Steemit or my (#) hometown. But of all these tags, I have room maybe for one or two.
So, you want find a good read to start the day and you would like to read about... and you find 7 posts under that tag in the last 5 hours. But you are sure that there is a lot more of those posts somewhere around. But they were suffocated by the wrong #hashtags.
Almost all of your Discord groups will ask you to use their #hashtags so they can easier find your post and give you their upvotes.
But there are much simpler ways to do that, without suffocating #hashtags.
Steemsearch is a great tool (but at the moment "Offline for maintenance") for searching Steemit posts by words in the title, rewards, length... Maybe instead of forcing users to use their #hashtags, the leaders of these groups should ask their members to use some code in the title or similar. With Steemsearch (when it works) you have a lot of options.
Or devs should give us more room for tags to us so we can describe what our posts are about!
Thank you!
