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Let's face it, none of us like Facebook that much.
Okay, were off to the next questions I had in my Mana - What Has Changed? post. Thank you for your answers @bluerobo, @magnus.harboe, @trincowski, @hafiz34 and @eccles. My answers are the last ones in every list.
Can you post and comment as much as you want to?
- I definitely can't post/comment as often as I want. Definitely no voting (too much RC, no value)
- I haven’t had any trouble posting, but I have only posted 2 posts so far.
- Yes, but I was already at 500 SP before the fork. 2000 SP, including a Delegation.
- I thought I the RC wouldn't create a problem but as I am concentrating on getting a slot on @partiko leaderboard or win the weekly contest in @dlike, I feel that my RC is not just enough.
- I'm mostly managing my resources pretty well -- when I run out it's a sign that I should probably log off and do something else :)
- Yes. But I had almost 200 SP right after HF20.
Have you (had to invest) invested in Steemit?
- I didn't invest
- I haven’t invested yet, but I might do it this weekend.
- No, I wanted to invest. And I am still not done. At these prices, I will be buying a bit of STEEM every month or so.
- Yep, it's a meagre investment, but around half of my current Steem was bought directly.
- I didn't have to, but wanted to. Few months ago I changed almost all my crypto currencies to Steem Power. That wasn't much. About 100-200€. Black, Red, Doge and Bitcoins. Some of my Litecoin and ETH also.
Is it easy to get new people to join Steemit?
- I never tried. I'm here to learn, not to ponzi ;)
- I haven’t invested yet, but I might do it this weekend.
- No, it's extremely difficult as people think it is a scam. 😂
- Yeah... A bit. But then my personal circle isn't that wide. I've managed to direct a few sympathetic strangers towards the platform a while back, but I don't know how they fared.
- I managed to persuade one person to join Steemit. Don't really want to talk about Steemit to other people I know, because I know their general attitude towards crypto coins and things if they are asked to read more than few lines of rules. But I do occasionally post my Steemit writings to other social media sites. To promote Steemit. Does that count as trying to get new people to join Steemit? :D
If your friends have joined Steemit, are they still active? If not, is it because of Steemit or partly because of Steemit?
- A friend of mine, @obq, just joined a couple of days ago. She is active and is still learning the platform.
- Only my brother remains active. All my other friends logged in once or twice and never posted anything.
- No. That one person never was that active, upvoted few times but never posted anything. Never resteemed and found only few people to follow. Now after couple of months doesn't use Steemit at all. I think it's a mixture of several things: not that into certain kind of social media sites anyway, although is into Redit, not a blog post writer. I used to talk about Steemit, try to help the adaptation of the platform and give a soft landing but not that much after one sentence: "Sounds challenging." I knew that that's exactly what Steemit is at the beginning: tedious, difficult, troublesome, challenging and tricky.
Before we go any further, read what @arseniclullaby has to say about Steemit.
https://steemit.com/steemfest/@arseniclullaby/to-those-of-you-going-to-steemfest-this-is-important
Now I know my pole, that got only few answers, does not tell how things really are in Steemit. But I did get something to write about! So here I go ranting and chanting and all that weird stuff about Steemit.
I get it. Pay to play. Gotta invest to use. I do get it. But that doesn't mean that I agree with it. First of all (I've said this before and I'll say it again) it's the number one marketing rule, that you have to give people enough to go on if it's something new you are trying to get them to use or like. You have to get them hooked.
Second of all not everyone have the money to buy the right to speak up. The right to comment. For most of us investing to social platform is just a hobby. But not everyone get to have a hobby because hobbies cost money. Some just can't afford it. Do we want to send that kind of message? You don't get to say what you think if you don't pay? Regardless of someones financial situation, I think if Steemit is about change, doing things differently, people coming together and decentralization, poor people should have as much chances to say what they want as rich people.
What happened to the idea that with enough enthusiasm and quality content, you can get your voice heard here and perhaps, if you are really lucky, get by little bit better because of Steemit? Because you can post here as much as you want and show everyone your talent? What happened to that?
If you haven't seen this before, go and check the comments I made with @worksinsane's account. (The account had about 14 SP at that time.) That was 25 days ago. Have the amounts of RC needed to post something changed since then?
And I completely agree more or less with all of the things that @arseniclullaby stated. Especially about the tags and the thing that Steemit is hard to grasp. Hard to just jump in for everyone who is not a crypto enthusiastic. We need normal every day tags also! Not just crypto currency tags and rants about Steemit. (I do realize the irony of this as I do want to use the correct tags for this post.)
Some of the things wrong in Steemit and mentioned in this post are not all because of hard fork 20, but it surely didn't help.
What I would like to change here in Steemit and what could happen?
Take a look at @ijmmai's post How Steemy is Whaleshares - A Guide for Steemians. Steemit might want to take few of the good things that Whaleshares has and use those in Steemit.
- Payout after 14 days or even 20 days.
- After the post payout has past, you are no longer able to reward a post.
If the payout time is increased, would that bring quality to the posts? Would it make people write less posts but use more time and effort to that one post every other day or every week instead of 4 short posts a day?
If you are not able to reward a post after the payout, other Steemians never ever have to explain one single newbie what happens to the upvote given after payout. Think of the newbie upvotes saved! Would it bring more engagement to older posts? Comments instead of just vanished upvotes?
One of the things that did change and I'm not so sure about...
- Being able to edit an old post.
I get the idea. Correct grammar or old links. I have edited few of my old posts if I have seen wodrs. Wrong words. Correct words written wrong. I just can't leave those be.
But I don't go through my old posts to see if they have old links. I don't have time to search those texts. It is easier to just write a new post. And if I would want to update the links on my old post, what's wrong with commenting my own post and updating the links to a comment? That way I can get upvotes to that comment if someone wants to upvote an old post. Kill two birds with one stone, as they say. (Horrible, poor little birds. In Finland we kill flies, not birds.)
But the second, more disturbing thing is: what happens to resteems when an old post is edited?
So what I also would like to change in Steemit is...
- The option of deleting resteems or hiding those in some way if the resteem is a mistake or the original author changes the post. Or for the resteems to be hidden automatically if the post is edited.
Here was my rant about Steemit and my suggestions to make it a wee bit better. What do you think?
As my part of paying it forward project, don't forget to go and check what these authors have been up to. :)
New:
@obq
Greetings, my name is Olivia and I love to learn. My goal for this page is to create conversations where we can all benefit from new perspectives. Enjoy!
@eccles, @juliamulcahy, @kanttiadvanture, @michaias, @northwestnomad, @pehteem, @schanzerx.
I've left those authors out who have not posted in the last 7 days or more.