In my view Steem is really the only Blockchhain where people can enter the ecosystem without investing anything. Lets take Ethereum, Neo, Iota, Mythril or Socialwallet whatever they all require to have at least some amount of Coin/Token to be able to transact. On Steem users don't have to invest anything and they still can be part of the ecosystem. Yes, I understand in social media realms it is very odd to tell someone he can only comment 4 times or give 4 votes but Instagram, Reddit or Facebook are not Blockchain and you are giving away your privacy without earning anything.
I think Steem just needs to sell its positon right to new users. Just be transparent about our systems and the positive and negatives that we enjoy here. If the expectations are communicated right than there should be no negative first-user impression. And what I found positive if we could build communities around new users to help them to get the starting here right and therefore if they found themself worthy than we can delegate some SP to them ( I see the minnow project here as a good starting point) If the "old" users understand that the new users need their help we could make this a very pleasant platform where everybody is happy to help each other...
But lets see how things will play out!!!
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That's well said.
in a perfect society, that would work. alas, most of the older accounts already 'have their mates' and rarely vote anything else, because, 'dont have time'
the most engaging people on here, are the ones with no money. and this update has actually made that near on impossible for them to do
Do you have any proof of that "older' accounts are just cyrcle voting? Or are you just bringing up cliche? I know a lot of old accounts who do care much about minnows but they expect some level of good content.
I just checked your blog and sorry but your one shot pictures are no way close of being good content. So what do you expect to get from Steem if you don't put in any effort? You want free money falling from the sky when you are posting a photo of a brick? Thats not gonna happen. And there are to many newbies who just wanna get quick rich something and I don't agree with that if Steem wants to be a successful platform it needs users who put in first effort and good content. Than you will get paid not the other way around!!! If a minnow is serious about blogging and earning money he should invest something in his new business thats just common sense and the same in every other business. Or how do you want to motivate people to invest in Steem?
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how far back did u look? did u see the 500+ word stories that made a dollar?
did u look what my average posts word count is? or the average pay it gets?
what about this series, where I put myself out there for people to see the real me?
this one for example? - https://steemit.com/life/@dunstuff/exposing-my-vulnerabilities-5
or the 4 before it?
and the end of the day, it's hard for a user to continue writing good content when shit like this makes $16,000
with no investment. - https://steemit.com/@halo - but aint noone gonna flag it, cos, tits, and, although the content isnt very interesting, its orriginal, not plag.
shrug
but hey, I guess I'm just a whiny minnow right? maybe it's just that I've seen my investment plummet.
don't worry, I'll be gone soon enough. I was kinda hoping this place would be different, where proof of brain was how u got rewarded. but that's not it at all. its a popularity contest.
and no, I didn't say ALL users are in circlejerk mode. I'm saying that a lot of new content doesn't get noticed because people already have loyalties to other users.
just looked up your stats. your 'donut' is good. many sprinkles on it.
Plenty of older accounts are involved in projects which directly benefit new and old users alike. It's not all just curcular nepotistic voting.