Are groups as a feature planned for steemit ? Maximizing post exposure to desired audiences
Steemit platform is picking up steam, no pun intended, and I'm seeing lots of posts that should receive more exposure get burried under the faster and faster scrolling "new" tab: the more people post, the faster their post gets lost in the blockchain with no to zero chance of reaching their desired audience.
My personal upvote does little to no difference, and nobody should make a habbit of scanning the "new" for every new submitted post.
The promoted thing doesn't do much either, me and my friends rarely check it anymore.
Point is, the community is growing and various stuff gets mangled together. This is where groups and pages of certain interests come into play. I see no such feature yet. All i see are tags.
Tag based grouping ain't really a thing since I can't follow tags. Even if i could, say "life" for instance, there's just too many posts for any one individual to keep up with.
Let's say I am personally interested in IT/tech (which I am, but that's besides the point). It'd be nice to have certain groups like "Tech guides/howtos, ZeroDayNewz etc" that I could follow and have on my homepage.
I'm not saying : "Copy Facebook!"
I'm saying: It's too damn chaotic and some people including myself actually put passion and work into writing something of value only to see it lost in the sweeping wind of new submissions. Having public or private groups where to post and engage with the community is the real deal.
By the way, I don't really know what's up with that, but the only post that got me some revenue was the first one I posted after introducing myself. Upvoted 165 times and commented 0 times. ZERO COMMS. WHAT ? And paid 45$. Seems fishy to me.
Anyway, can I get a discussion ? Can I get engagement ? OR do i really speak to the wall ? Are bots the only ones that interact with my posts ?
As a sidenote: I have nothing against you posting shots of your morning face, breakfast and walk in the park and getting hundreds of dollars of sbds for it. I do have a problem when articles written on specific technical or social issues that took years to research and/or perfect with hands-on experience are treated with indifference and even you, the one taking pics on your morning walk, stand to benefit from having compartmentalized interest-driven subject categories.
Here is kawaii neko potato :
I've experienced something similar with some of my more detailed posts seeming to not get noticed. Using the #growth-ideas tag might allow you to get the developers' attention but I'm not 100% sure how that works. This post can explain it better: https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/crowdsourced-marketing-protocol-ideas-proposals-projects
Thanks, reading now.
Finished it and the video. Yeah i understand it's layered 3step approach but would've preferred a more streamlined (automated) approach but i'll take what I have.
I will submit a new thread there linking to this one and see where that goes.
I hope it helps. I've seen some similar concepts but yours might be the one that makes it.
Definitely. I made a short post about this a little while ago, the tagging system just isn't that good for finding content. When I first went onto steemit I was kind of lost looking for what I wanted to see, there was just so much other stuff mixed in. I hope they will implement something so it's easier to find stuff, because this is one area steemit falls.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to this mate, In this regard, is there any way to let devs know about my post ? or is it just the random chance of any one of them seeing it if they happen to browse the steemit tag ?
Also, any way of contacting one directly ? Send a message to them ?
Sorry I have no clue. I'm not super familiar with the site
btw, link me your article and I will resteem. If you wish you can resteem mine, maybe it'll get more exposure and a dev will notice.
It's only a small post. But, someone in the comments said that there will be a "steemit community" in future, although I don't know where he got that info from.
anyway heres the link, and I resteemed your post
https://steemit.com/steemit/@shamic/subreddits-for-steem
Hello I just started here today. I have to say I agree with you. People want to follow their interests, I guess you follow people and therefore their blogs show up on your feed but it is hard to sift through material to find what you like. I have faith that steemit will evolve and hopefully come up with a unique engagement flow that addresses this issue.
The thing is this is getting more chaotic than 9gag. They're hunting upvotes there, here they're hunting cash. And good luck trying to get a post to 9gag hot page :))
Basically what I'm saying is that it's a shame for steemit to turn into a damn lottery.
By the way, if you wish you can try resteeming this in the hope that a dev will notice it.