I couldn't agree more. It is tough to figure out what this community is interested in. Worse, if you have knowledge in a niche area you have zero chance of being found by even those that share the interest. Using the tag was masterful. Next job is finding out how to resteem something. Steem On!
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Turned out that resteeming wasn't so complicated after all. Now i know what that curly square arrow is for at the bottom of a post :)
lol right toook me like 2 weeks to figure out what the heck it was and finally was like oh man that was easy its that little button that looks sorta like a retweet button. do you know how long after a pots is made you can resteem it? i went to go resteem someone's post from like 9 days ago and it wasn't an option to resteem it
Sorry. It would be the blind leading the blind.
I dont follow?
I dont know the answer. I do notice that upvoting old content doesn't seem to make a difference, but I dont know the expirey date on re-steeming. For older posts people seem to include the URL in their own posts which i think is actually more valuable because they can give context to why they are re-steeming it. Kind of like the difference between that friend you have who always forwards you crap vs those who write you an email with a link and why they think its interesting.
I've noticed that after a post is a few days old to maybe a week old I no longer have the button to resteem it. I'm not sure exactly but seems after a few days old you can't resteem.
You actually brought up an interesting point, I wish they had an option to restemm with comment similar to how you can retweet with comment. Typically when we resteem something it's because we learned something or we feel there's a message worth resharing, it would be nice to be able to add our own commentary or the reason why we're resteeming it.
agreed
hey whites totally agree with you dude. every platform seems to have its own identity, its own culture, its own interests, etc. i joined vidme a while back and one frustrating thing was the lack of diversity of content. 95% of the content is about gaming or animation two topics that just dont really interest me and the other 5% of the content was pretty much posts about vidme the platform itself. i really like self improvement, entrepreneurship type stuff documentaries. basically the site just lacks the type of content i like to consume which has led me to not spending much time on there.
i do find steemit has a wider range of interests and topics but i would also say the topic of steemit itself understandably is a popular one.
one thing i would say is if your in a particular niche and feel like not that many people on here are interested in it dont let it discourage you. this site is growing and will continue to grow so in some ways its actually better to be the first pioneer in wahtever your topic area is.
that was kind of my thinking with getting on vidme. while that site may never turn into anything, if it does turn into something big and the grant cardones and tai lopez's start making their way over there ill have a huge head start and advantage over them as i was kind of the first entrepreneur/business channel on there.
also whateer your into try to bring your audience from youtube or instagram or your blog or whatever it is over here to steemit and you can actually be one of the people helping to create the community you want
Thanks @rulesforrebels. I like the way you think :) I don't really have another community to bring here, this is it. But I stopped posting much and switched to commenting and curating to learn what people found interesting. I like the fact that steemit ties money and content together since it attracts people with an interest in both. I have to build my followers up from people who find me through comments. That way when I eventually post more stuff I may catch a larger pool of interest. I look forward to being the go-to guy on steemit for my niche! :) Cheers
@whitesj40 I think you're on the right track. Something I'm beginnning to realize is that I think commenting is where its at. It's human nature for people to be interested in themselves. On Twitter for example I notice to me it feels like everyone is talking at each other more so than actual conversations going on.
I think on Steemit, like any other platform people are the most interested in their own stuff so if you engage on their posts they'll engage back with you where as when you create your own content until you've really bulit up a following your kind of just getting lost in the new section.
One other thing I really like if you havn't checked out Chainbb check it out, it basically turns steemit into more of a forum and the most recently commented on stuff rises to the top so it turns it into much more of a conversation and imho makes it much more interactive
I will take a look thanks!. Updated I took a look...well I tried. Seems I cant get to it from where I am at in China at the moment. It will have to wait till I get home.