RE: BEWARE the Trending Page -- Could Be Hazardous to Your Wellbeing
I'm still just testing the waters here and determining whether I want to set up shop here on Steemit as a result of feeling inspired to write more and return to "social blogging" in 2017... which also involves considering whether this seems like a cool platform to use, before I tell a bunch of people *"this is a great site, you should come write here!"
Whereas it seems part and parcel of ALL user-generated-content sites that there will be some internal political wrangling and scuffles. I've had some authentic support from various groups, and that has felt very welcoming and has been encouraging. I just hope that the overall intent of "helping the community thrive" will take precedence over petty disputes over whose approach to accomplishing that is "more right."
Personally, I'm not that interested in the politics, but I am interested in supporting efforts to highlight unique, original high quality content.
My suggestion would be, focus on the positive aspects. Try to avoid the politics. Bring more positive people to the platform and let's build one hell of a site.
Pretty much my plan. Giving myself about two weeks to figure out the lay of the land... well enough to not only make a good case for bringing people here based on actual experience, but also to learn enough about the good, bad, positive and negative to answer "who ARE these people and why are they DOING that?" questions from anyone I bring onboard. Maybe that's overly cautious... but that's my approach...
Nothing wrong with caution.. I took some time before I decided to get into actually getting involved