Nice VW Bus!
I certainly hope that after a good weekend, you'll pick up Steemit again as before. Njoy :)
More in General about the Community
Why is it that whenever votes and rewards drops, users stop engagement with Steemit? Is it really about the rewards? I've seen a tremendous dips in posting and efforts when HF17/18 was rolled out with a reward pool that needed to build up again. I've seen high Rep holders not having any activities on Steemit while Steem was in a recession (Autumn and Winter and part of Spring) and came back to Steemit recently (while Steem is way up in value compared to Winter time) creating their (good) posts and pocketing 1.000+ $ rewards per post. This gives me a real feeling that those who earn good money only want to be active when earning good money. That in effect gives me bad feeling actually. I certainly hope the culture at Steemit will become less focussed on rewards, but more about creating sub-communities to which we like to belong to.
It is awesome!
Yes, it will be okay. ;-)
I'll answer more extensively later Ed Now on mobile...
NJOY your weekend :)
THX, U2! :-)
Community matters
Steem has been marketed quite extensively as payed blogging. But there is of course much more to Steem than only that, things like freedom of expression. It is so different in many ways, made me feel at home right away. Open minded people, different points of views, cultures from all over the world coming together. That really is something that is of great value, without a price tag put on it.
But because it got marketed a lot as: post and get payed, that will get people in that expect this to be great. And well, when that is not up to expectation, that will make active posting less interesting for them. Or even will lead to a lot of disappointment, because competition is also tough.
Part of the Steem culture of the community is already less focused on potential payout. Great friendships are being made. And I think we are indeed moving into the forming of sub-communities, like the Nedelands speaking one. To me it is very nice to see it develope.
Yes and there will be those who will be most active when there is Steem to be made. Part that is the game of Steem, it was build to be like that. Trending and hot tabs, it was marketed heavily that way and for a part still is.
Yet, there are also a lot that posted in lows and highs, because of the fun of being active on Steem. Payout as a bonus. Lost potential payouts with others after HF17/18. Still kept posting. Some do so, others do not. Can not really blame them because Steem was constructed to be like that.
But you and I, we have a choice to also post for fun. To meet people from other cultures, from all over the world, to make new friends, to start as sub-community based on common grounds. To exchange thoughts on matters of life. To have fun together. Freedom of expression, That to me is a part of Steem too, a very important part.
Hope you can see that too Ed and I can understand the bad feeling part also.
Steem on!
I DO see the parts you mentioned, other then rewards. That is the main reason I'm here. Looking at how many hours I put into Steemit and the rewards it brought me, I can better find something else to earn money :) When the reward pool was down, I started to spend even more time on Steemit. Not so many users vote for Music, but I increase my music posts because I like to develop an electronic music community, I even opened another account for that since we do not have community features. I also try to close my eyes for the reward hunters. And yes, Steemit is designed to earn money; However along the way a couple of things were done wrong. I dont understand for instance that high Rep hiders how left Steemit because there rewards went down, now being back and all those who were there form day one but didn't leave Steemit, start voting for these leavers and returners. It is that behaviour of the community that bugs me big time; It is if they agree to what they did! Or is it because these users can bring them more money in their own pocket again. Anyway, long story short, I try and look for all the positive things in the community and kinda close my eyes for anything else.
Thanks BTW for you extensive comment expressing your views. I appreciate that really much!
It is my pleasure Ed!
Think that is a great way to look at it. Focus on the positive things in the Steem community and move forward to the things we like to do.
With that nice thought I whish you a great weekend!
Until next time!