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RE: Seems Quiet: Here Is My Offering to the Silence
I agree. The branching out hopefully gives people who are here now the understanding of what is actually required. from what I hear, there is a mass of abuse over at sportstalk - seems people haven't learned.
I can't afford to lose more customers. I don't think anyone can.
I haven't paid much attention to sportstalk lately. Any time I go, I'm just stumbling into those posts about tribes. I don't go to Palnet to read about the existence of Palnet. I don't go to Steem Leo to read about the existence of Steem Leo. I understand those posts are a given during a tribe's first few days but weeks later? And it's always that same damn post mentioning the existence of each tribe, using all the tags. It baffles me why anyone even votes for that drivel.
I wrote about how this tag spam would happen, before it happened, because it was easy to see coming. I recently wrote about how pointless it is to advertise about ourselves internally, to ourselves.
I'm trying to help but I know some folks won't listen or see my point, plus most won't even see the posts. Always outspoken, I'll still at least try. A good scolding is better than a good flagging.
Each time one of these new tribes popped up I was interested in, I jumped aboard, and instead of writing the "OMG we have a new tribe" post, I delivered actual content. So then there's my post on the trending page mixed in with all of the announcement posts and tribe whale posts.
Actual content is so damn important. Why people have to take the low road and reach for that easy money baffles me.
Sorry about the rant/rambling. What's happening over at sportstalk, that I already know I most likely won't want to see because it'll make my left eyelid twitch?
I have no idea what is happening on sports talk, my info is second hand through Ash.
I write a post last night about the tribes and how they are going to have to learn how to keep their homes clean. It isn't so easy it seems for s community to be self aware enough to adjust behaviour.
Indeed, losing viewing customers is never great for a showman but hopefully, those that stay are good customers. Up until now perhaps there was too much for reward viewing rather than out of interest viewing.
Time will play it's cards eventually
There most likely was some for reward viewers, but there are a ton of good people who I got to know and like, and I rarely see them now.
What I meant was not hte reward you give them, but what they get from the viewing. I think in time, there will be more tailored audiences to some degree.
While I think some will prefer to look through the filters of tribes, I like seeing the steemit unfiltered view of the people I follow.
I've always enjoyed the variety. Was browsing the new feed on Steemit earlier. Way too much spam. I think I'll enjoy this CCC stuff. I hope it does well. Man, I really hope people don't try to become overnight artists just to chase a token and spam the tag. I also hope more of these creative types actually come visit me as well. For nearly three years I've been kind of the outcast, yet I do okay. There's a competitiveness thing that sometimes puts up walls. My door is always open though.
I am sure (if there is value) there will be overnight artists created. What I am hoping is that someone like me might pick up a pencil again and get back into "lost talents". I like that I can write with an interface in mind like for LEO and perhaps there will be people who can find what they actually enjoy to earn on instead of what earns right now.
Spam and shit is inevitable.
I like having the options and a place to go. It feels good to take a more professional approach and hit up LEO, then take the suit and tie off and do something relaxed like I normally would. I'm not too excited about a comedy only tribe though. That would turn into a disaster. I'd probably do well, but far too many would spam what they think is funny rather than taking a stab at trying to be funny themselves. The comedy stuff stresses me out the most when I do it. I've made a lot of folks laugh but I've also bombed pretty hard or language barriers cause confusion. Then I just feel like shit... LOL
There needs to be a balance where there is adherence to the theme of a site, but with the freedom to add some jazz hands.
Firm or sloppy?
I see the all the posts on STEEM about STEEM and it conjures up an image in my mind of a snake eating it's own tail (would love to see your artistic interpretation of this!).
At some level if that is your primary contribution, you aren't really a contributor, but an acolyte. That is not a sustainable content engine.
There are two types of those posts. I call one the internal memo. I feel those are important. They usually consist of straight talk, knowledge, ideas. They come from people who actually know what they're talking about. I've written a few. Then there are the hype and gripes. Pointless cheerleading, preaching to the choir; and those whiny types who usually don't know what the hell they're talking about, or they have some big idea that would make their life easier but wouldn't solve a problem, probably just end up creating more. Those hype and gripes we don't need. Some folks will talk about their experiences here and celebrate milestones. That's more about life though. This thing becomes a part of your life once you dive in. As long as those are honest and genuine, I don't mind reading them.
There needs to be far more actual content taking center stage though. I see a music performance right now in the featured section. That is awesome to see. I hope there's more featured posts from actual content producers.
Very cool. I joined the dogpile on that one!