@penguinpablo. I always read your daily and weekly statistics which are extremely useful. I don’t vote them all (I voted this one), but your work is always very appreciated.
It seems a little disheartening that the number of active daily users seems to have stalled at close to 60’000 (Facebook claims 1.3 billion, or 23’000 times as many).
The Alexa ranking also seems to be falling.
My guess is that the numbers will turn around at some point.
My view is that many were milking the reward pool when the prices of steem and SBD were higher, and at these lower prices some of those low quality posters have gone away. Probably that means the average quality of blogs is improving at the moment.
There is definitely a correlation between number of posts and STEEM price. As the reward goes down the incentive to create content also drops. Basic human biology- Less reward= less effort given.
I do think that your assumption is correct. When the Steem price drops, activity drops, they will all come back when the Steem price increases.
Now it is time for the new content creators to increase their activity, because it is less hard to get noticed!
yeah, i think she's right.....what if steem never goes back up? Look around at the top 100 whales, then look at their posts, then go down to comments and see if they upvote the people that support them. What you will find is scary, very few whales upvote, and they are the ones that make a difference with just one vote to keep people optimistic. I been on 4 months now, and my biggest vote was 2.50 and that was from tech support people looking into my account errors and dropped a vote on me, most of the votes i get are worth .002 It does seem like a bank roll for the whales. i'm guessing 80% of all the money is going to just 100 users. Thats is not very good for growth.
This is wrong. @taskmaster4450 has clearly shown that whale power is decreasing. To stand out you either have to do original dtube videos, write 300-500 word comments (Take 10-15mins) or write 3000-5000 word articles.
Well they are being rewarded for being early adopters. I agree that the voting power is completely skewed but that is just the nature of the beast. As time goes on new users are going to have to try increasingly harder to get their posts noticed and to get rewards. Time is money and the flood of posts makes it nearly impossible to sort through the muck.
It's not skewed. This is how life always have worked. It's easy to stand out. Create amazing content and people will pay attention. Aim higher. Aim to give 100X more in value.
good call, but i still need to see more whales upvoting their followers comments, I have done a lot of looking lately, and many of the whales, have a self upvoting of 30% or more. On the same token, if they put that out to the people then it should come back to them in volume and allows for much better growth.
Stop looking at what other people are doing and focus on creating amazing content instead. Stop the comparison game. It's a waste of time and just distraction.
I agree with you for the most part. But without good suggestions, the site would not progress well, Yes good content is job one. But lets not forget this site is for both content makers and viewers. Keeping the other half interested is just as important. I would never do anything dicky, like flag people. I just want to see the platform grow. As i look at the numbers, steemit is near facebook like numbers in the first few years, I really want to see that happen. I think if small items are fixed, it could hit 5 million by the end of year, and to me, thats the breakout point. Self upvoting when your big, is not better for growth. The real potential is in volume, so more people (little guys) doing well comes back on the whales anyway. Looking at introduceyourself postings, i see so many well done posts, that get less then .02 and i dont think that makes people get the right impression off the bat.
Personally, the only reason i want steem, is to upvote my followers. when i do get them :) i would love for my customers, readers.....etc etc.....to get .25 Steem everytime they comment or reply. Thats perfect for me, it may be a small goal, but i think it's perfect and honest.
I also made a pledge, that once my delegated steem is gone, i will not be upvoting myself anymore. https://steemit.com/steem/@oopgamesandhobby/the-steem-power-pledge and not a single person even read it i think, LOL
Please have some perspective. It's not stalled this is regular growth. It hasn't been 60k stable for 3 months even and you already start to complain and compare with Facebook. This is delusional. Things like this take years to develop. You can see that it's currently at an all time high even when the price of STEEM is low.
@phoneinf. I think you are going to be proven right. Steemit is only 2 years old and there are 800k users of which 60k post daily and a bigger number weekly. I wonder how many users facebook had after 2 years? Time will tell if steemit is the next big thing in blogging. If yes, then there is lot’s of potential for the price of steem.
By the way, @phoneinf the comparison with facebook was meant to be to show the potential, not to complain.