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RE: Steemit: The Current Identity and the Lack of New Investment
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one reading and commenting anymore.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one reading and commenting anymore.
As a writer and reader primarily, sometimes I feel like i'm the only human reading posts. I manually curate everything while surrounded by bots.
Same here, never use a bot. Steemit is a blogging site to, not just a currency. If no one is reading blogs and participating it's gonna be hard to convince investors it has value.
and if a vote on a comment have a better payout than the post?
Yeah, it can certainly feel that way. User activity and prices are down and a lot of the voting is automated, so comments and upvoting comments has fallen off. It's not a good sign, but it can still be fixed with the right development, marketing, and incentives.
Agreed. I second your emphasis on the importance of knowing the roadmap for development by Steemit, Inc. and, not to sound like a dick, but I wouldn't mind hearing from Ned about how he is developing his skills as the public representative of the platform. A charismatic figurehead who understands the importance of theatricality and hype-building would certainly help and may be critical, and while Ned seems like a great guy who is doing a great job in many ways: charismatic he is not. Musk learned those skills and so can he.
me too
The silence towards the growing discontent should be concerning to the platform.
The discontent has been growing for months now with nothing to quell the many concerns brought to the forefront. I don't know about the rest of you but silence and inaction only enforces my own personal concerns.
So much that I actually cashed out my SBD today because I don't see any reason to invest it into SP.
We can all try to make this platform what it potentially can be, but it is not going to happen without support from the top down. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem the top has any interest. Cashing out and remaining silent should be a HUGE fucking red flag to anyone with functioning neurons.
What I find disheartening is most of the comments and community interaction right now is on posts like this one pointing out the flaws and ways to improve Steemit. But yet the payouts are shit, meanwhile in trending is another bullshit regurgitated "live your life" better crap post by a couple of the same shitty writers, or should I say "outsourced writers."
I also read, curate and comment. Currently I use my curation to try to encourage others rather than to make money. (I also want to see this work) My vote is worth nearly nothing, so a comment and letting someone know a human stopped by might keep someone in the game.
I am also very bothered by the silence of the "leaders", and discouraged by the lack of transparentcy. I am new to crypto, but I find I would have to change all of my criteria for investment in order to put much money into SteemIt.
WE ARE NOT DEAD YET. Keep pounding the drums.
I feel like that too at times. And what @ats-david said about bots is completely true. My most recent post had about 70 bots upvote it in the first ten minutes, creating a 1.50 payout. That's the second time it has happened to me in the last week. I feel as though they are using keywords to determine which posts they will vote for, because I don't have any particularly high payouts that they would be using as justification. The thing is, I spent a lot of time on the article and was trying to convey a message that I felt important, so I would have much preferred 1 upvote and 0.00 potential payout by someone that actually took the time to read the post and engaged me in conversation with a comment. Bots really are draining the life from this platform..
I'm still participating as I enjoy blogging and the reading the stuff others post. If even I can make a few bucks here then it has massive potential. We need to bring in some big names who can get the word out, but that can wait until Steemit is a more finished product