Steem and Steemit
Not much to say about the Steem price this week. It's floating around 28c with no real trends either way. At least it's not falling much further for now. What is falling is the Steemit Alexa rank. New accounts are being added every day, but it's not creating enough traffic to turn this around.
Today I read about user @ben in the Daily Steem Stats Report by @penguinpablo. @ben joined Steem when it started and has had a couple of million Steem without doing much apart from withdrawing fairly large amounts. I am not sure where his original investment came from, but he has now powered up 2 million. I hope he will use this to support good content and not just for personal profit. I am not against people earning, but too much Steem is not being used as it was originally intended.
Steem in the media
I've seen a couple of stories that are mainly about the Hyperspace platform, but also mention Steem. I left a comment on the second piece, but it has not appeared yet. As usual they actually talk about Steemit without acknowledging that the platform is much more than that. Does any other platform have the variety of dapps that Steem has with such an emphasis on social?
Selected Steemians
I became aware of some sporting accounts on Steem in the last week or so. I will include some others I think need more support. I ask you to give them your votes rather than voting on this post as they need them more than I do.
- @christinelook and @lasitha are professional badminton players who found each other through the sport and got married. They are being sponsored by @actifit, so I would hope that some more people in that world will get into Steem.
- @agfacademy is a soccer academy set up by British professional Andre Gray. He has got a site with coaching videos and encourages kids to post their videos of them practicing via Steem. He is working with @oracle-d on this project.
- @arseniclullaby has done a post with a load of new people who are into #comics. We need to give new users some support and encouragement to get going as it can be hard to build an audience.
- I just found a great Bjork cover by @kuyakris who just joined Steem. He is also a game developer.
- @dickturpin does not fit into any of the above categories and he has been here a while, but he is always worth a read. He has just been posting about his experiences at the FOSDEM conference in Belgium. Do any other Steem people get to that?
Witness of the week
I want to feature @luzcypher this week. He has run the Open Mic contest every week for well over two years on Steem. This has helped to build the community of musicians here and brought about many collaborations. He recently became a witness. He is working with @prc of @dsound (another witness) to create an Open Mic app and is also trying to build a community portal to help people find those who share their interests on Steem. He deserves more votes. I will say that I do not always agree with his more political posts, but Steem is a platform for all opinions.
Make sure you use your witness votes.
The doghouse
I do not really want to attack anyone, but I am going to use @wizzdom as an example of someone who could be seen as abusing Steem. Here is someone who has been on Steem for over a year, so he should have some idea of how it works, but he expresses surprise that anyone would flag his posts with $50 of paid votes for a single picture and says why should he not when 'bit bots' are part of Steemit. He has not bought votes for every post, but he has done it a lot with some making $200 whilst only getting a few comments. Steem may be seen as a 'magic money mine' if you play the bots, but this is where the 'crab bucket' analogy is supposed to come into play. Note that I took issue with that post. Feeding the vote sellers makes them ever more powerful so they can take even more rewards away from those who choose not to use them. If we all paid for votes then that would become unprofitable, but the sellers would still win. One of the issues is that the first page most users see is Trending where every post has paid votes and so they may think that is what you have to do. This guy has at least engaged in some discussion on this with me. He says he will write longer posts, as he has before, but if he keeps on buying votes that can still be seen as abuse and attract flags. I can see few cases where buying votes is really justified, so I will continue to attempt to make it non-profitable in cases where I think there is a chance to persuade the user to change their habits. Trying to take on some of the big abusers can just earn you big flags in return. I fight the winnable battles. As for this guy I suggest you talk to him to show him what the community thinks, but whether you flag is entirely up to you. I know some people do not like to do it. If you do want to help fight abuse then check out @SteemFlagRewards.
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It is definitely going to be a long hard battle to cut down on the abuse that is taking place. It is especially hard when the people doing it don't see the issue. Some of them are just trying to make a living I am guessing. It is definitely a perspective thing, but also something that needs to be cleaned up!
If Steem can grow them there will be lots of opportunities to make money, but a lot of these people are taking a pretty big share of what's available whilst adding no value. At least we have a few good people taking action.
I agree. I think it is definitely a detriment to the ecosystem.
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Lots of worries for alexa ranking, price is not that much need to worry.
We are still small, so we need to keep attracting new people and get them to stick around with good content. All the new dapps may help with this.
But I think most dApps are busy in creating buzz on steemit itself then attracting other social media users.
Steem Monsters is signing lots of new users up to Steem, but some never blog. Partiko is also adding accounts and so are others.
But the hype over other social media networks like facebook, twitter and youtube also must be created to help the steem community. Mostly Youtube creators and facebook creators must be added to steem.
Plenty of people are posting about Steem on those platforms. We need to make others aware of it.
I tried to comvience my friends but they are still happy with silly things.
The more i try telling people at times about steemit, the more they heard about the cryptocurrency world, they tend to easily turn down it
We need to sell it as a fun experience. If they come expecting to make lots of money they will be disappointed. Get the gamers into Steem Monsters.
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