RE: TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM AND TAG A MATE CONTEST 10 SBD GIVEAWAY, ROUND 8!!
I did read through this whole convo and it seems that you all resolved things quite well. I do want to add that when I first came to this comment from @craigcryptoking 's tag I didn't read it as a friendly question but more of an attack of sorts.
I do think that many friendships develop from the bantering on this post and minnows who get basically nothing from their posting and are ready to leave again might just stay because of a win.
Also, from what I understand, the Alexa rating of Steemit is quite high and the rating does get positively influenced by lots of interaction on posts. The high Alexa rating is what attracts many bloggers to this site.
I am not a tech person at all - but if the platform has a bandwidth problem and cannot support the traffic it gets, why is there a push to get more people to come onboard? That doesn't make sense to me.
Finally, I agree that Craig is giving away a bit too much. It is not sustainable to give away more than you earn.
Thank you for your thoughtful follow up comments.
Thanks for commenting. I can be a bit to direct at times, but when I first loaded this page, all I saw were numbers and names with no interactions. I was tagged, and it looked like a wall of spam with people greedy to win a contest. I'm very happy to find many actual conversations going on around this and real relationships being built. That's fantastic.
Alexa likes interaction, yes, spam, no. If this was just a wall of numbers and names (as it was when I first saw the thread), in the long run, if replicated, could become a systemic risk. Many people are already convinced Steemit is a money-grabbing scam. It takes people asking tough questions to find what's real and what's helping that negative perception grow. Some people just flag away without asking questions first. I prefer to ask first and be pleasantly surprised if my first impression is wrong. Though, to be fair, I still think contests like this, if replicated, can be very unhealthy for the long-term health of the system. I remember when the flood of "vote up my post and I'll share rewards with you" stuff happened more than a year ago. It was almost an epidemic. It took many whales flagging all of them down before people realized that wasn't worth doing and writing quality content was a better approach.
As for a push to get more people to come onboard, you may notice Steemit, inc isn't really doing any marketing. Their Twitter and Facebook are essentially idle. They are working on hard fork 20 to improve onboarding and (hopefully) help with the bandwidth issues. It may not be as extreme of an issue as I outlined it (I haven't checked the last couple of days as I've been on vacation), but it is something to consider when dealing with spam (again, that was my first impression of the interactions here, one I'm glad to see was incorrect).I w
Thank you for your response. And your point about spam is well taken.
I do have a strong feeling that this kind of contest is not going to grow on Steemit for two reasons. Craig spends an enormous amount of time monitoring the sequence of replies and replying to all who are coming to his post.
And, as we already discussed, he spends way more than he takes in. I think very few people are willing to do that.
And thank you for fighting spam on this platform - I think we are all on the same page in this effort.
Hey at @mariannewest many thanks for this I really do appreciate you comment and support are you well my Friend?
Of course!! You spend so much of your time, money and energy to make this a fun place to be!!
I am well, thank you. But to tell you the truth, the freewriting adventure I started has grown so big that it is hard for me to keep up! But I always try to visit you and a few other of my dear friends ever so often.
Are you in danger of running out of water?
Awww I hear you .. this has got soooo big too .. sadly only the contestants appreciate it.. No we are good I am in the North of South Africa .. Pretoria Plenty here Rain sunshine its all good.. Cape Town not sooo much .. But its a government thing.. I made a video about it all .. but its short sweet to the point contraversial as f#ck and probably get me behind bars so as much as I want to share and post it. Probably should'nt ... But trust me I want to ... People need a bit of a wake up call, 'government' and i put that in inverted commas because they don't govern they control and steal.....lets leave this here, I like my freedom ... x
I know what you are saying - many of these kind of problems are....