Hello!
We here at Intrepreneur would like to thank every person who has participated and been a part of our project and it's activities.
Without those of you who have been around and given your opinions, we wouldn't have much to go off of, so we owe you our sincerest gratitude.
However, with the lack of participation over the last few months, we have decided to stop making these weekly quests, until further notice. That is, unless we get more than 10 entries!
If there are 10 or more entries for this quest, we will keep doing weekly quests until the end of December.
If there are less entries, we will only have one more quest this month and two more in December.
Quest
- Explain in detail what you think the Intrepreneur team could be doing better, and if possible, give your opinion on how to go about it. (We promise not to get our feelings hurt, tell it like it is!)
Reward 25 INT
We can't wait to hear from you!
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I have the feeling that it is not quite clear what content int stands for.
Maybe it's just me, I'm sure you've already written it somewhere else but you can't get by everywhere.
Further on a lot of success and if the success is missing just continue with fun.
Good things need their time.
I agree with you in that we definitely need to find a better way to reflect our intention of supporting specifically the entrepreneurial bloggers niche with our platform. While it has been stated in many various ways across numerous posts, having a centralized place where it is all explained and easily accessible is an excellent idea.
Thank you very much for you input! :)
First, thank you for being open to honest, constructive feedback. Regarding what the INT team could be doing better, please consider the following:
I think niching down to entrepreneurship is excellent, but it looks like INT has been a default catch-all tribe. Just some thought from someone who is staking INT.
I would say that it's probably due to the lack of follow-through by team-members to report, warn and downvote offenders (I too am guilty of this).
I do not think it is entirely intentional though, as for me, there is often so much that needs to be done, that finding the time to do manual curation in addition to everything else has proven to be quite challenging, (and I get the feeling I'm not the only one.)
There were talks of a appreciation & downvote bot that was intended to deal with this, however since HF21, we ended up returning to the initial directive of manual curation (ie. through utilizing our post promotion channels in discord, or participating in our quests and submitting posts to be appreciated based on the community guidelines tier appreciation system.)
Furthermore, while the community guidelines were created in hopes of helping to alleviate the issue of tag abuse, existing team-members have expressed hesitance with downvoting spammers, due to the fear of retaliation on their personal accounts (which some have experienced upon downvoting offenders in the past).
However, perhaps there needs to be a team member who's job is specifically related to rectifying this, namely appreciating good posts and providing warnings/downvotes to spammers, (will have to consider/flesh out this option further.)
Some of the utility that has yet to be implemented includes -
Prize pooled community run contests that encourage entrepreneurial blogging with the chance to win nfts (across various crypto-games), tokens, and sponsored novelty items from showcased businesses.
We are also due to create another website where our services are listed and where we hope to make advertising available to interested crypto-based businesses.
Both of the above options have additional facets to them that I'd prefer to leave undisclosed until they've been discussed and finalized by the team,
but truly I'd have to say our biggest challenge has been learning to grow into the shoes of managing such a large project, with little to no experience prior to this.
Our team members also happen to be spread out across numerous other projects on the blockchain, which in addition to the differences in time-zones, has made for some particularly 'challenged' team meet-ups.
Still, despite the project's shortcomings at this time, I believe our obstacles are surmountable and genuinely look forward to improving on the quality of service that Intrepreneur provides, as we continue to learn and grow alongside our community.
I'd also like to thank you for your consideration and input in this matter, as it is greatly appreciated. :)
Thank you for such a comprehensive and thoughtful reply. I greatly appreciate that you have read my thoughts and responded with care and kindness.
I agree that you are not facing insurmountable obstacles. I hope you and your team can find time to gather together to dream and strive for a better future. I look forward to seeing some of the new changes in the future.
I just read the two other comments. I agree with the bit that there is probably lack of clarity in terms of what the tribe is all about. I think a lot of content on steemit is entrepreneurial. May be if people knew that, they'd be using the tag more often. And that would also clean the feed. I myself got clarity about the tag only because i participated in previous quests, post which i started using the tag.
Have a dedicated curation team? My posts could qualify as type 2 posts, but there is no curation. I know realityhubs does that and it's beneficial.
Tie up with other tribes? Contest entries are entrepreneurial. May be curate contest winners or specific tribes, such as steemleo where content is relevant to int as well. Posts posted from steemleo will automatically flow to Intrepreneur.life? If not that then may be a different version of that. Will get the Intrepreneur tribe to be more visible.
Those are 3 suggestions from my side.
I agree with you there! I've even seen persons post links in our post promotion channels and don't even have the INT tag on them, despite there being a notice at the top of the channel specifying the need to do so in order to qualify for rewards. :/
Perhaps advertising is needed among more established groups on the STEEM blockchain, for as your suggestion,
Can prove to be beneficial to the STEEM community at large, via more entrepreneurial bloggers getting recognized and appreciated though jointly run tribe initiatives like contests, giveaways etc.
Yes, I think this may be something that we definitely need to consider. All of our existing team members carry out tasks that are more in line with their individual passions/natural inclinations, and none were hired as 'curators' since it was initially intended to be a group run effort.
However I think it may be time to reconsider this approach and bring on some members who will be tasked with cleaning up the INT tag, specifically appreciating good posts in accordance with the community guidelines, and warning/downvoting repeat spam offenders.
Thank you for the continued support & helpful insights, as always your participation in our weekly quests is greatly appreciated. :)
The successful tribes seem to be the ones that are quite strict about the topics.
Sportstalk, steemleo and ctp come to mind.
Less is more seems to be the way to stand out.
Also, if you're not limiting, then effectively you are competing with palnet and neoxian. You will not easily gain more traction than they do.
Effectively you would need to empower the users of this tribe to downvote those who abuse the int tag.
It could beneficial to set up a @nointforyou account for this purpose
Loving these ideas! Having a @nointforyou account for downvoting purposes could serve well to protect our team members' personal accounts, whilst still enabling individual members to go about cleaning up of the tag where necessary.
Additionally,
Excellent point made here, I had not considered it from that pov before (because I am admittedly not SUPER active/familiar with all the big tribes on STEEM), but this is definitely something we will need to make note of and keep in mind going forward.
Thank you so much for your feedback @elbrava! Cheers! :D
You're welcome 😀