What is going on Steemit community!
I am here to announce to you that Steemit has arrived, and successfully landed in Area 51!
Yes, that Area 51. The one that is so secretive the US government has yet to declare its very existence. The one that is rumored to be testing Extraterrestrial spacecraft.
I firmly believe that Steemit has forever changed the way we use social media. It has added another layer to Bitcoin's peer to peer protocol. This has been done by adding a monetary value to someone's opinion and/or content creation abilities. What is truly special is that users can gain notoriety by creating content for others to enjoy/evaluate, but also by giving their opinion in the comments section (more on this below). It allows all of its users to have a voice, and the community collectively votes on how credible the individual user is. It is the free market at work, but with social media.
A great example of this peer to peer social structure is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah has the world's largest book review club.
Imagine she starts using Steemit one day. She initially has zero Steem Power behind her. She begins to release her book reviews on Steemit and users like the content she provides to them. In return they "Up Vote" Oprah's book review posts.
Oprah begins to accumulate thousands of "Up Votes" from Steemit users.
Eventually she reaches "whale status" among her peers. She is a whale because the community has approved/appreciates her content.
One day the unthinkable happens. A user posts a comment to one of Oprah's book reviews.
Oprah is completely flabbergasted by what she has just read. It ends up completely changing her view of the book.
Oprah "Up Votes" the comment.
Since she has "Up Voted" a user's comment, Oprah has given some of her credibility to this user. Remember, that Oprah's credibility is given to her by the community. So when she "Up Voted" the user, it is as if the community that approves of Oprah, has approved this.
Now the newly "Up Voted" user has an increase in Steem Power. It shows the community that his/her opinion is now worth more. It is probably in their best interest to begin reading this user's comments or content.
Steemit has implemented a free market, peer to peer platform that informs users how credible or good someone is at what they do. It would not surprise me to see similar systems like this implemented into Facebook, Reddit, comments sections, etc....
Below is an illustrated example of what I had in mind while writing this post.
I upvoted You
Wow! Steve McClair you are the man! Dude you have balls of steel to go to Area 51 and promote Steemit! Dude if a whale doesn't upvote this then I might just quit Steemit.
We can't have that
Can't have what? Can't have me quiting Steemit! @smooth the whale to the rescue to keep me on Steemit!
Hell yeah. You got my Up Vote.
The chalkboard. I like it.
steemit is certainly the most rewarding platform for any active blogger. And for people like Oprah, like in this axample, it should be a no-brainer.
XD
I love how that guy's hair is always messed up! hahaha
Came here for aliens. Got an amazing story about Oprah and Inspiring Young People.
I love that it switched to the chalkboard. Gotta teach the kids!
Wow, this is cool.
I knew that sooner or later someone would do 8]
I love it. I wanted to do something like that on the chalk board but couldn't figure out how to.
Not to sure how Oprah will take to the term Whale though. Steemit might have to create a special name like Mermaid or MerQueen category, to avoid any possible aversion to the name whale.
nah, whale is good for females, too.
Are you sure? I think "beluga" might be more feminine lol =P
It is indeed!
I guess Queens can rename themselves if they want to. Best to leave it to the queens to decide for themselves. Men renaming categories for the queens is problematic. Let the creatures swim freely without restrictions, boys.
lol @stellabelle I concede. I was just trying to make sure no one took the term wrong. Swim Swim, splash splash.
It`s cool story. Look at my article: https://steemit.com/photography/@kental/11-places-on-the-planet-where-it-is-forbidden-to-be-in-2016
Upvoted for Oprah Whalefrey.
You put a lot of thought and manpower into this one! Well done - and nice pictures too. My favorite is the last one. The little alien knows what's going on.
This is what this place was created for :) @steve-mcclair
Hey steve-mcclair,
thank you for you comment! This post is awesome! Going to feature it in my next post this evening.
Cheers
Cool, send me a link to the post where this is linked to it.
Found your link in your comment on my post. I'm glad I clicked it. I love how you explained your idea, by writing it on a blackboard! And yeah, you're right about Oprah eventually becoming a whale. Good post!
That's a creative way to spread the message. I guess we will get the aliens on board now.
I am an alien, and I approve this message. Zeep, blork!
Great post, Steve. I was considering up voting because of the tin foil hat alone. But the content of the post was great. I loved the example using Oprah. Thanks for coming home onto my feed and up voting. Means a lot. Cheers.
I gave your newest post an upvote.
your guts is out from the outer space. nice soft landing of a product that is about to change the life of area 51 community. upvote for you my men.
hello steve glad to know that you are joining steemit
UPVote, man!
Thank god you remembered to wear your tinfoil hat ;) Nice pics loved the format, thank you Steve.
I wonder if the guards realized right away I was making fun of conspiracy theorists.
great post! @steve-mcclair ! i allways liked the stories about the Area 51. It is great to see that you went there to promote Steemit! that´s awesome. What did the aliens thought? do they have steem in their planets :P ?
Hello Steve. Thanks for giving me the chance and the link to read your valuable post. That was great, but I am not getting the point about how doctors can revolutionize? By the way, ı am a big fan of yout posts as of now
:)) oprah transformation
good job
Haha lovely post, upvoted!
Incredible. Thanks for sharing your story. Makes me want to get on an alien spaceship....
My problem with this is that I see no granularity. I can't vote that the article is "funny", "sad", "dazzling", "political", "left wing nut job". The result of this is that the content creator might not get higher status in the "left wing nut job" community.
I really loved the simplicity of your post. I'm trying to understand how the whole system works and this really helped. Thanks!
Illegal aliens sure are. I'm going to do a video about why I don't believe in aliens.