By the need to create quality to make this site an actually reputable blog! Even if a payout doesn't come from valuable content, it will add legitimacy to this platform, and hopefully attract more users to it. Meaning a larger pool of people potentially upvoting and paying out.
What is the true value of Steemit? There are so many better sites out there. If you want to discuss stuff for free, there's Reddit and Facebook. And message boards of specific content.
I view the value of social media platforms via relationships, interaction, and "social" activity (see the "real currency" post I linked to in the OP for more on that). That means a social media platform is only as good as the people you follow, the people who follow you, and the interactions you have that turn into relationships. This post, as an example, currently has 71 comments and many of those comments are from people I've really enjoyed getting to know and interact with over the last 9 months.
For me, no other platform has that right now. When you make blanket statements like "All are better than Steemit," please recognize that's a very subjective statement. For you, all others may be better. For me, they are not.
If you want to talk about UX/UI or network effect or time on site or some other concrete, objective metric, then you are 100% right. The other sites blow Steemit out of the water right now. It's only been a year though, so I have high hopes.
By the need to create quality to make this site an actually reputable blog! Even if a payout doesn't come from valuable content, it will add legitimacy to this platform, and hopefully attract more users to it. Meaning a larger pool of people potentially upvoting and paying out.
By the true value of Steemit as mentioned in my original post.
What is the true value of Steemit? There are so many better sites out there. If you want to discuss stuff for free, there's Reddit and Facebook. And message boards of specific content.
All are better than Steemit.
I view the value of social media platforms via relationships, interaction, and "social" activity (see the "real currency" post I linked to in the OP for more on that). That means a social media platform is only as good as the people you follow, the people who follow you, and the interactions you have that turn into relationships. This post, as an example, currently has 71 comments and many of those comments are from people I've really enjoyed getting to know and interact with over the last 9 months.
For me, no other platform has that right now. When you make blanket statements like "All are better than Steemit," please recognize that's a very subjective statement. For you, all others may be better. For me, they are not.
If you want to talk about UX/UI or network effect or time on site or some other concrete, objective metric, then you are 100% right. The other sites blow Steemit out of the water right now. It's only been a year though, so I have high hopes.