STRATEGIES ON HOW TO REVAMP STEEM CAMEROON - RECREATING A WHATSAPP GROUP AND A CALL TO ALL STEEM CAMEROONAINS TO JOIN THE GROUP
As I mentioned in an earlier post today Talkin about my dairy game. I had a meeting with @chiabertrand and our meeting was mainly due to the falling of our community. Yes, a lot has increased and much has been done over the years that the community was formed.
However, if you are a true steemian by heart and you joined Steemit when it was really booming you will bear witness with me that things have not been moving as it ought to be. Yes the Crypto market is in a Dip and prices have fallen so much. The debt ratio is affecting the mining of SBD but I believe that this is the right time to fasten our belts and double the hustle.
I spoke with a steemian who has become inactive for months and she was like her problem is mainly due to the low price of Steem and lack of SBD. My question to her was this, if you run away because of low value of Steem, what then will you go to?
MAIN REASON FOR THE SLUGGISH PROGRESS OF THE STEEM CAMEROON COMMUNITY.
MIGRATION FROM WHATSAPP TO DISCORD.
Earlier this year, the Steem Cameroon team came up with an interesting idea to migrate from the WhatsApp Platform to Discord. Discord is the main platform used by the Steemit team and it is a very interesting platform. A group was created and the invite link shared and I believe most steemians joined the discord channel.
But I do believe that was the beginning of our downfall has the Interaction and engagement between steemians drastically reduced. Interaction and engagement has been the main drive now on the Steemit platform by the @steemitblog. We can all testify that most of the steemains in Cameroon are not used to discord. WhatsApp is still the major messaging app all around the world. I for one can testify that using Discord is a little difficult and I don't visit the app daily.
It is for this reason that the engagement in Steem Cameroon community has been low. You can go through all the post in the community and only the MODs of the community and Curator teams are commenting or voting post which is very bad for a community seeking to progress.
PROPOSED SOLUTION.
RECREATING A WHATSAPP GROUP
It is for this reason that after the meeting today with @chiabertrand, we thought it wise to recreate the STEEM CAMEROON group on WhatsApp. This group will mainly be to revamp the interactive spirit within us.
Please you can join the group through the link
https://chat.whatsapp.com/C9ZrI5MsKrl7kGUa6HLmK9
Other interesting programs and strategies were earmarked for group of this strategies. A detailed program and strategies will be presented in the days ahead after a meeting with other steemains like @breeze.com and others.
Let's make our community great again.
Hello @chant, after a brief discussion with you, I realized why you had to react like this with other admins.... It's true that we don't need to hold secret meetings on the behalf of @steem-cameroon without notifying any of the admins.. this will totally be bad for us..
After discussing with you, I realized that @ebuahsang1 made a mistake in writing the heading about revamping steem-cameroon because we didn't hold a secret meetings on the behalf of @steem-cameroon. If we wanted to have a meeting about Steem-cameroon, we would have notified you guys because you people are our bosses and the leaders of this community. We just had a normal meeting on how to revamp Cameroonian Steemians not about revamping @steem-cameroon just as I did in this post. So after having a chat with with @ebuahsang1, he realized that he didn't have to talk of revamping @steem-cameroon but instead revamping Cameroonian Steemians.
I didn't realize about @ebuahsang1's heading. It was after having a chat with you that I realized what you where saying is true because it will totally be wrong for both of us to be holding meetings about Steem-cameroon without contacting any of you Admins
We are very sorry 🙏🙏 for the inconvenient we may have caused and we hope to continue growing together just as before with one love 😘😘😘
I wish we can meet this coming days because we have a lot to discuss .. and I hope you will cook a nice dish to welcome me
Love steem Cameroon ❤️❤️❤️
I am happy you now see why we asked several questions and why I considered it bad energy. We all love Steem-Cameroon and I do not think there is anyone that does not like the community.
Apology accepted by @chant because I was talking as me and not an administrator. You are always welcome to come let’s discuss and yes, I will prepare a special meal✌️✌️
Many many thanks 😊 @chant 🙏🙏.. what I'm so much interested in now is the special thing you will prepare on that day💃💃💃💃
Do not be over curious 🤨 because curiosity kills 😂😂😂🤣.
I am always curious when it comes to special things most especially when food is involved
Beautiful initiative but I have a few questions:
If you want to create a new community, kindly proceed and create one. You're not an admin or MOD of the Steem-Cameroon community, and it is totally unacceptable to make such unfounded claims.
If you have plans of recruiting more newbies to join Steemit and the Steem Cameroon Community, kindly proceed and you will have Admin support.
If you want to create a Whatsapp group for Steemians and keep them engaged, kindly proceed and do so but if you're thinking otherwise, then it's unfortunate.
Steem Cameroon remains one of the fastest-growing communities and has the most supportive Admins who support all her members on a daily basis.
Peace!
CC:
@majerius
@chant
@saxopedia
@fombae
@wase1234
Thank you for your comments and question. And I also welcome your suggestion of a me or us creating a new community. Most countries have two and I believe that cameroon is not exempted.
Well as to what rights I have, I believe the conception of a Blockchain platform is to Decentralized everything. I am not saying you and the admins are not supportive.
But if you honestly tell me that this community or Cameroonians on this platform is as interactive as it used to be then I I will strongly disagree.
It is not a requisition for members to join but I believe it will help. It is important to know ourselves out of steemit and I don't argue the facts of the growth of Steemit. But I am not satisfied with it. And this is my way of working towards that.
And I believe my claims are not unfounded. An there was no rule banning a group on WhatsApp by steemians. While you run your official business on Steemit on discord, we do our unofficial business on WhatsApp.
Thank you sir and look forward to seeing your support because we need it.
CC.
@chiabertrand
In conclusion, we all want the best for STEEM Cameroon because we all want to see steem Cameroon growing and growing everyday and I believe that this initiative will help alot in improving on the growth of steem Cameroon outlarge.
Again, majority of Cameroonian Steemians are more knowledgeable in using WhatsApp than Discord. So I think WhatsApp is the best medium by which we can use in connecting with one another and together, we can make steem Cameroon lively and encouraged more interactions and engagement amongs each other
As you said, Steemit is decentralized and a free platform. I've had lots of these funny discussions and they keep coming back over and over. Again, you made lots of unfounded claims and I will not quote you coz you will not still accept. My advice is, when next you want to do something, just do it without trying to rub others in mud.
Good luck!
I am sorry if that is what you think I was doing. It was never my intention and I won't do that not to people who had so much impact on my growth.
Waouh! "revamp" Steem Cameroon. The idea looks good but I'll abstain from saying it's best or even appropriate. I'm sorry to say this, but The avenue through which this is done is not appropriate!
So only 2 people will sit and decide to create a group, came out with a strategy and are planning to bring forth all Steem Cameroon community members into it.
Permit me to say this is trial and error, yes it is! You can't sit as individuals and just do things like that without the consent of the admins of the said community.
Firstly, there's a community which was created and now is nowhere to be found, I'd like to know what happened that it's not as active as it ought to be if it was a question of WhatsApp group stuff. The community is Steem Magazine. If there's a community to revamp it should be this one and not Steem Cameroon community. WhatsApp has never been the one to create and/or comment on posts.
What I'm saying is easy to understand right😁
CC:
@saxopedia
@chant
@fombae
@wase1234
@thegreens
@b-naj
I do love your point and it makes sense.
Because others tried and fail doesn't stop us from trying. And if thats what the administration and mod of this community proposed then I'm sorry I am going against that
Now, every happening on earth was thought by an individual and shared bfr others adopted. Isit that we don't have the rights to think if initiatives is what I can't completely comprehend.
All and I say only the admins are kicking so much against. Please are we forbidden from having a private Whatsapp group ?
Are we forbidden from engaging with each other. Is that what we are being reprimanded for ?
It not like we are passing a rule. We are simply giving people an option to belong. If they want to. And unless this community is a dictatorship, I see nothing wrong and rather solicit for your support
If the process of doing this is wrong, why not join to propose new ideas to do it. I'm yet to get a better suggestion on my complain and reason to why the group is necessary.
Isit that you think there cameroon community hasn't realised a fall in engagement since the disband of the WhatsApp group?
Good ideas you guys want to revamp Steem-Cameroon but I believe that communities do have rules and regulations and are meant to be respected by us all not robots.
Permit me say that the WhatsApp group was never banned. The WhatsApp group is still there and what admins said was that they will control the group and only open it for chats if deemed necessary because some members were abusing it.
Secondly, it was controlled due to security reasons because some recalcitrant members took phone numbers of some users to call and fake they were separatists generals demanding for money. The WhatsApp group breach the anonymous nature of blockchain.
Lastly, before the admins controlled the WhatsApp group, I do not think members were active as you guys claimed. Before then, there has never been an active members numbered above 80. But after that, we have had a number of active users above 100. If I am wrong, I stand to be corrected.
I believed that WhatsApp does not tell you or create content for one to be active on this platform.
A true steemian will not complained of not posting or commenting because of low price of Steem, or because there is no WhatsApp group to inform her or him to comment and create content. This shows how lazy those giving such excuses are. Remember to inform them that “steemit is not a get rich quick platform”.
I will like to start with this point. Jesus says I did not come for the righteous but for sinners. We have 2000 and above subscriber in this community but 64 active.
Now is it more important to convince to domain steemian to work harder or concentrate on the active ones ? I guess the Contest in the Steemalive community that require that we write about convincing inactive Steemians answers this question better.
You might be right but then the level of Engagement is low. Is that what is required.
And I am yet to know the rule I am not respecting but creating a group. If there was any the please cite me.
First let me say communities are managed by a group of administrators and you did not meet them to discuss the ideas with them. You held an individual meeting to talk about issues concerning the community without the consent of administration.
I personally do not have an issue with you creating your WhatsApp group as a means to communicate with Cameroonian steemians. But I have a problem for you talking about “revamping” Steem-Cameroon community.
I don’t see how a WhatsApp group will make steemians to be active. And I will not pamper egos here , I see this action as negative energy.
Well maybe the problem is about the community.
It's not an ego move. I don't see an ego in creating a group because you miss how steemians used to interact.
If I am to go to a radio station to talk about Steemit do I need permission from the admins?
If I wish to recruit a steemian do I need permission from the admins?
If I want to interact with people do I need permission from the admins?
I guess the answer to the above is a No.
In my evaluation I believe interaction and engagement here is low and I seek to revamp this.
Now, the ego here I don't get. The number of steemians are increasing and the interaction level is low. This is a fact.
Before on the group we discussed about Steem prices. We could just share our difficulties and worries about Steemit and by sharing we get motivated.
That's all I seek. And I will say it again, I don't think Steemit is a centralized Platform. So why do we wanna treat it as one.
We are not in a “banana republic” where there is no order on how things should be done.
I have asked a question is the community managed by administrators or is a community where everyone does what they think and discussed without the consent of administrators?.
Steemit is a Decentralized platform, but communities are centralized. Communities are managed by administrators making sure they are following the steemit regulations. These communities at the same time have the right to implement and add whatever rules they want for the growth of the respective community.
Talk about Decentralized on your blog, not in a community that has rules and managed by administrators. I repeat, communities are centralized and that is why they have administrators to manage them.
As I said, I personally do not have a problem with you wanting to create your WhatsApp group to chat with steemians but I have an issue with “revamping” Steem-Cameroon community. This I considered as negative energy which is not good for the community growth.
This is how your meeting partner last time said the community is not active because admins were not hosting contests. Today how many contests are run on the community and how many Cameroonian steemians are participating??
Is it WhatsApp group that will create contests post for them??
Did I creat a group on this community? No. U created a group off this community where people in this community can interact. I only wrote a post inviting people who want to be part of the group to join, that's if they want to.
So I don't understand how that needed the consent of an administrator. What rule are we talking about?
Why does the word revamp cause such a wahala. Do you want to tell me honestly that the steemians of Cameroon are as interactive as before.
They so call my so call Meeting partner has had so much impact within this last 6 months than any other. Even bfr coming mod in numerous communities, this shows his hardwork and most of his points were adopted. Steem Cameroon is much more supportive so for you to quote him in a discussion between us is uncalled for.
I hope this doesn't concerns me because I was the meeting partner you may be referring to???. I haven't called any persons name here, so it will be good if we respect each other.. Last time I brought up so many issues killing this community and I was looked upon as a bad person but you guys still adhered to most of my suggestion.. So why then are you bringing in the name of ""contest"" here when none of this talks concerns ""Contest""?????. And to be frank and honest, people don't longer partake in contests in this community because of lost of interest.. it will be great if this community revamp itself
This is a social media platform and it encourages social interaction
So tell me, how often do people interact on discord?... Interacting with one another on Discord will further make this community doomed because this community isn't moving as before and you can also bare with me witness
Through social interactions, we get to know each others difficulties and help each other grow.. but this isn't happening in this community..
We ought to interact with each other on and off-chain and in this way, we all will grow together.. what I'm noticing in this community is that some people are growing while others are Left behind because we don't wanna help one another grow because of lack of social interactions. In this way, we need to revamp
Congratulations!
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Curated By - @mato445
Curation Team - CosmopolitanIt was great meeting with you because we discussed on alot of things in reviving steem Cameroon and hopefully we will ensure to work hard and make things move smoothly in our community