RE: Weekend Reflection: On Posting and Commenting "Well" and Personal Values
Comments are always a great way to meet new people and engage with different communities here on steemit. I think it is always smart to try and put your best foot forward when interacting with someone new here.
Case in point I left some decently sized comments the other day on someone’s blog and then on another blog that was show casting it along with a few others about how much I enjoyed reading it. Like many of us, the author was dealing with spam commenters and really if that is what you get it’s just nice to have a real comment happen once in a while on content you pour your heart and soul into.
There are also things like the Engagement League which is taking this week off. I’ve started to notice communities are starting to form around wanting to promote certain types of behaviors on steemit. Each week it gets far more completive than the last week. I’m just happy every week when I’m in the top 20%. When you are competing with people for fun that can leave 600-800 comments in a single week it can be quite interesting using the quality over the quality method that I go within my longer comments.
Either way far too many people sit in their own bubble and become frustrated that there work never gets people leaving amazing comments or no one notices there work. So as such, I’ve always been a big behavior in leaving a comment and spending a little too much time on them.
There will always be those that want take the short cuts and do just the minimum. Those people do not tend to last over the long run. They somehow get this mindset there stuff should be valued 100x higher than others and they only care about the financial rewards. I like to think in 5- 10 years I’ll still be leaving comments on steemit. It will be such a different platform by than one can only wonder what the future holds!
I really do like Asher's "Engagement Leagues" and I'm working towards becoming a more active participant in some of the more "organized" groups.
I'm very grateful for the level of interaction on my posts... and grateful for the fact that I (touch wood!) seem to attract relatively few "shallow" commenters, compared to most people. I never perceived that Steemit would be a serious "income stream" and never took the attitude of many that I was here to earn. I see this more as a very intelligent Facebook substitute... I just hope Steemit lives long and thrives, although I am sure competitors will spring up along the way.
For now it seems people just want use and be active on multiple platforms. With Ono coming up only time will tell as that is only one that so far looks like only relative competitor. There coins will be used to buy advertisement that authors than can choose to run or not on their blogs. They are going be extremely aggressive and want reach 8 million users by Q1 of 2019. They plan to migrate off ETH and onto EOS when that is an option for them. Many plan to at least be using it while trying to still be active here.
I intend for now to be here since I enjoy comments and steemit ecosystem is more set up for that kind of thing.