RE: Do You Actually INTERACT With the Steemit Posts You Look At?
That is why I wish we had more filtering or options to control our feeds better.
Some people seem to think they need to resteem everything they read. Even worse when they do and then don’t leave a comment or any hint of why they would have in the first place. @denmarkguy seems to understand and uses it in a way I can respect. A resteem from him means something as he offers value in making it a limited occurrence and he also comments on that blog as well.
I do hope you make a blog out of it and further your reasoning behind it. I think it’s an important conversation that needs to happen more often. I have come across once in a while people wondering what is considered posting or resteeming to many times a day. Even if its wonderful content reader fatigue sets in where you want to read from another author.
I hope you just have a couple of troublemakers in your feed that can be easily resolved in making it more reasonable. I’ve got a couple I enjoy talking with a lot here but it’s starting to be an issue when once feed is just all them.
Yes, I agree entirely on the filtering issue.
It's one of the few areas in which I will unreservedly say that "Facebook has it right." You can sort your friends (what would be "people you follow" here) into any number of your own custom categories, and then view the feed for just that category. Want to just view updates from your friends who write about politics? Click on that group, and you get a limited feed. Want to just see updates from family members? Get a feed.
That's something we could really use here on Steemit, especially as the platform keeps growing.
@onceuponatime @enjar - Totally agree with both of you - but I think the real problem is Steemit's UX, that we only have that one feed - and can't categorize, prioritize, or internally bookmark.
I'm sure many people are posting a lot just to make money, but many are also doing it because they may have more time that day - and more to say. I'm sure their intentions aren't to drive you nuts (though I hear you on the fatigue - I get it too, but also have been guilty of the overshare too).
On resteeming - it can be totally innocent too. I often resteem pieces so I can easily find them later (my steemit bookmark folder in chrome is so large, it's getting useless at this point). I never even thought of how it looked to followers until someone pointed it out.
One thing to remember is that there are still many new Steemians - or some of us who may have been here a while but aren't regular posters - and what's common sense to 'regulars' isn't to us.
Again, because of the ridiculous content farm-esque interface here - (and useless search feature) - stuff that could be considered common knowledge isn't easily accessible - I mean type 'steemit guides' into the search bar - and the top results are from a year ago! This is very much a community where you learn the 'rules and etiquette' by doing, almost like a language. So for those who are on here and interacting daily , it may not seem like it took any effort to gain the knowledge you have...for us wannabe ;-) Steemians - learning the 'basics' means actively seeking those often unwritten rules out (and getting confused when opinions vary so much on what is proper steemiquette).
Just a slightly different perspective from someone who loves Steemit - but isn't in a position to always be more active :-)
Some of the smarter ways of using resteem are you either have found something outstanding you want others to know about or you found something that is ok and you have not blogged in a couple days so you just wanted to share it with the people following you.
If I have something I am expecting to put 20 hours into before I’m getting another blog out and it could be a few days I’ll resteem content I like. I like to leave my followers with something so if they are checking in on me they notice I’m still active and I hope they think “he must be working on something at this time”. Most importantly I’ll leave a comment so when someone sees “enjar resteemed blab la” they can have some insight into why. This last part is very important. If I have no clue why someone felt it was important enough to share it with their following and they are not being active in creating blogs or comments I start to question my choice in following them.
Now a very large portion of Steemit follows the way too many people. They not only will miss out on you resteem of something but blogs you put out as well. So for this group of people, you have very little danger of them having an issue with it. They don’t even know it’s going on.
I’m what is considered a hard to get follow. I don’t follow many and I curtail my feed. While my upvote is not worth a lot I do what I can in adding value in both an upvote, comments, and maybe even rare resteem. I’ll even answer questions or offer assistance if I notice it is needed.
Some people can get away with resteem a lot of things. I even have a couple of people I have in my feed just for that. They go out and find me most of the time content I love to read, I’ll upvote, I’ll comment. I have no need of spending hours looking when I have people who do that for me. It’s beneficial for both parties.
So while it might not be 100% for all cases to unfollow someone if they resteem a bunch of times a day if they don’t fill a curation role and they have earned a “hard to get follow” they run the risk of that person unfollowing them. Some of those hard to get follows are very powerful and can make a life-changing impact on your blog.
See what I mean - your comment provides so much insight from the perspective of a blogger aware of his/her audience. Would make an excellent post on its own. And due to the crappy Steemit interface - I'm seeing the importance of paring down who I follow - so I can trust my feed for quality content.
Also good points on following some people who basically just curate - as we all know how difficult it is to find good content.
I have a rather funny one called “steemitlice” it’s linked in My Year of 2017. Out of respect I won’t link it here. It kind of goes over some things it a bit dated as well.
I’m more interesting in finding out other people’s perspective on this topic to see if I’m far off base or not. I have way to many blogs atm to get out.
I'll look through your posts and find it. Or maybe the search function will work for it.