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RE: Random Take Away's About STEEM From The "bitcoin is_" Conference
The challenge for Steem is the visibility of the community within the community. Sounds terrible I know... but what I mean is that no matter the person, everyone has a voice here of some sort and just like on social medias, the loudest voices are not the ones that are working toward improvement, they are the ones searching for attention by any means possible and the path of least resistance is drama.
No matter how revolutionary this blockchain is, what drives people away is not the price or talk of Steem topics, not the quality or lack thereof of content or the complication - it is the incessant undermining of the community by members of the community itself. WE are our own worst enemies.
Exactly. I think I have checked one or two people who have realised that moaning wont get us anywhere..doing will. Not instantly, but eventually. People seem to be more willing to dismiss the positive potential than jump on the bandwagon of unhappiness.
I was reading the other day about a guy who fought big oil in Norway. He was literally having a nervous breakdown every 6 months because of the pressures of it but he didn't stop and eventually his efforts bore fruit. What got me was that he said to himself when I'm 80 and I looked back and our fishing industry is destroyed can I live with myself if I didn't do anything. It really got me. The difference between people seems to be those who sit down and moan and those who actually do something positive even if it is a small thing. Human psychology. But we want a gradual shift towards more positive action.
I tend to either ignore negative voices these days or gently and kindly nudge them to other possibilities.
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I agree completely... and I don’t know how to fix it.
I see it from the standpoint of maturation where currently we are toddlers and all that comes with that, including the whining and inability to feed ourselves adequately. The improvement comes through the demonstration of behaviors where those who add value get benefits and attention while those who do not get reprimanded. Because value is subjective, having a large community of active "parents" helps mature the system and community into a well-adjusted and active adult.
We spend far too much time, energy and resources on the negatives rather than supporting what we want more of. This is not content based, it is behavioral and comes through experience, something that many seem to lack despite their proclamations to the contrary.