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RE: Ways to support Curie - Hardfork 18 Edition
It is nice to see projects like this happening on steemit. These sorts of things really help to attract professional bloggers, publications (like ours), and quality content generators. We know it takes time to build a following on any platform, but seeing more direct payouts quickly for generating content really helps when the one generating the content has rapid incentives to build quality content for the platform. Your dedication to helping the platform grow is sincerely appreciated.
I think what turns new authors off more than no payouts are basically no comments or views. Granted, Curie can't help directly with that, but by giving it some votes, it gives it more visibility on the Trending and Hot pages. Often, other whales find it and vote for it. So it definitely helps in discovering and giving new authors some exposure.
We definitely agree. Up voting things without reading them does create a problem when you are trying to gain a foothold or build an audience. When an author worked really hard to generate good content and nobody reads it can really sour a good contributor's feeling towards the platform. Providing exposure does really help though since it begs the question: "Why is this content trending?". We have heard some folks talking about how authors do not have a long term incentive to contribute because after a month there are no more payouts and the content basically expires. With no ability to slap ads on there to continue to generate money and comments being closed it effectively cuts off the discussion when people find good content later. Would you agree with that assessment?
Steemit is not designed to be a platform for long term revenue generation. Here, content cycles every day or two and payouts are now every 7 days. That said, maybe there'll be a solution for long term content in the future - who knows? For now, you can get advertising deals yourself - there's nothing stopping you from adding ads to your own post.
Very true, it just seems like the short term focus is limiting to bloggers and content contributors who are in it for the long haul and longer term revenue generation. Do you feel like that limits the effectiveness of the platform to a broad audience of good content generators? It also seems like hosting a blog here can be an ineffective strategy since after a month since there is no incentive to share good content. Do you feel like that negates the viral nature of social media in respect to this platform?
I don't think it limits reaching a broad audience. It's pretty clear that long form, long term blogging is a niche activity today, while much of the internet has moved to micro-blogging, sharing etc. I'm not sure what you mean about not hosting a blog after a month. You can keep creating... Some of the earliest bloggers have been around for nearly a year now.
Just trying to get a better understanding of the platform and how other users felt about social media strategy here. We really appreciate your insight and thoughts on the platform.