Daily Dose of Sultnpapper Special Edition: Why is now the best time to join steemit? I see a couple reasons…

The time we are in...

This time we are in right now here on steemit is very trying for those of that have been for a while. We had the pleasure to see the run upward on the value of steem to the $4.00 mark, those were good times indeed. While I didn’t have a lot of steem (still don’t) I was able to see the good things it was doing for people in less fortunate places around the world that were depending on steem for their livelihoods.

The fall that endured...

The fall that endured all through 2018 was a sad thing to watch for a couple reasons. Number one was that those people who were depending on it were losing their means to actually survive. Those are the real losers in this decline of steem for two reasons. The money they had that was used to keep them connected to the internet and steemit had to be used for feeding themselves and their families. Reason number two was losing a bunch of people who had voting power that is no longer being used makes it harder to earn for those that could stay connected and on here to earn.

But with that...

But with that decline and all the misery it brought for some folks it has created a new opportunity as well. That opportunity is for those people who haven’t made it here yet. The reason I bring this up is because we who are here know the problem with the retention rates of people who join and several groups are working with folks as soon as they hit the platform to make them aware of what it takes to survive and make it here on steemit.

Those groups didn’t exist in September of 2017 when I came here and if I weren’t such a stubborn old man I would have probably left long ago but I had my reasons to stay.

One reason...

One reason to join now is it a lot easier to get noticed and with all the groups in place to help with newcomers it makes this an excellent time to join.

The other reason...

The other reason I say this is the best time is because people can cut a lot of time off of earning a respectable REP number. I just looked at the #introduceyourself tag under ‘new’ and went through there looking at REP’s. The REP numbers are quite impressive, in fact it almost angers me that I had to work seven months on here to earn a REP score that is about the average of what newcomers are earning here in a week with just their introduction post.

It is real common to find new folks with REP’s in the high 30’s and low 40’s. Some people have cracked into the 50’s and I also saw one at 63; hell I haven’t even made it to 63 yet and I have been on here damn near everyday for 15 months hopefully adding some value to this place.

Another thing I...

Another thing I noticed, because I actually spent a good amount of time looking there, has me just a bit curious on what is going on. When looking at the “new” posts I went down the list quite a ways and at the 7 day old mark the was a big gap in the age of the posts and it picked up at 24 days and then the next one said last month. I just can’t imagine that not one person made an introduction post in more than two weeks but I guess that was the case since stuff supposedly can’t be deleted from the blockchain.

If that is the case...

If that is the case this place is really in bigger trouble than I thought. I haven’t paid attention to the Steem Stat reports for quite some time but the lack of new intro posts is a testament to just how bad things are. Before the problem was always retention of newcomers; now it appears that getting people here is the most important issue. You can’t retain something you don’t have. That retention problem will go away if there is nobody joining so that will fix that problem; it will also more than likely be the nail in the coffin for steemit.

I just recently...

I just recently was invited to join a discord group called State of Steem and there are some heavy hitters in there when it comes to steemit and steem and I can’t wait to see just what the talk is in that channel about to overcome this situation we find ourselves in.

Normally I don't...

Normally I don’t do more than one post a day but I really felt the need to share this as we close out 2018 today. We all need to be talking this place up among our friends and family that aren’t on here and encourage them to join.

Like I said, there isn’t a better time than now.

Until next time,
@sultnpapper

Note: Thanks for reading the Daily Dose. Be sure to check out this post by @ananke , a newcomer that I found in my research for this post. Here is her introduction; https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@ananke/let-the-fun-begin-first-post-on-steem#@sultnpapper/re-ananke-let-the-fun-begin-first-post-on-steem-20181231t165744211z

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