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RE: AskSteem: If you were to receive a massive delegation to aid the growth of Steem, what would you do?

in #asksteem6 years ago

I'd prioritize time to curate more again. I've been online a lot less the past month, and probably the next month as well. I would take advantage of the opportunity to make a big impact on the platform during that specific time period.

Then I would curate more but also try to get a training program going where I teach people a series of lessons on how to succeed on the platform. As part of that, each week someone participated in the training then applied what they learned, I'd give them an additional delegation of my own SP, say another 50 SP delegation for every week of lesson completion. I have enough SP to mentor numerous newbies like that if I don't need my SP for my manual curation for a period of time, due to someone else having delegated to me.

It may seem odd, but human nature is that you have to reward people for effort even to get them to do things that are in their best interest a lot of the time. That's because adults don't learn like children do. Children want to know just to know. Adults have so many responsibilities that they are always looking for what is a better investment of their time. So you hold their focus consistently only by making it pay immediately, until it becomes a habit and they can see how they can control their destiny themselves with their good habits. So I want to train them into those good habits in an effective way for teaching adults.