SEC S17-W6 || User Engagement and Retention on Steem

Hello everyone how are you doing I am good, today I am going to participate in another exciting challenge and the topic is really interesting to SEC S17-W6 || User Engagement and Retention on Steem.

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What are the demographics of Steem’s most active users, and how do these demographics influence user engagement strategies?

Demography is a study of the group of people on the basis of statistics either their characteristics or anything else, the study of data through statistics are the most probable and accurate.

If we study demographic of most active user it means that how much number of people are actively participating at Steemit platform. Either they are sharing diary game, participating in contest or in emgagement challenges.

I have in working on the steemit platgorm from the past 3 years according to my observations I have come to know the most users are from the country which are less developed such as Venezuela, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan there are more number of users from these countries.

Perhaps demographic influence users engagement too, I have working as moderator so its clearly visible now people are more concern about the engagement or interaction with other users in order to become more visible and getting better chance of support too.

What specific strategies have been most effective in driving user engagement on the Steem platform, and how have these strategies evolved over time?

Well because I am also old user on Steemit platform and I would be very honest in my answer on the basis of my own experience.

The users about 95% have joined Steemit platform for the purpose of the earning and though they may got booming support once in any community by working consistent, but now who has joined steemit its understood to them they need to be more visible on platform not in sense of sharing quality contents but also engagement with other users post.

I have to come to know the importance of the engagement is evolved passively with time and now its very clear to everyone they have to interact with others posts.

What are the main challenges Steem faces in maintaining and growing its user base, particularly in comparison to other blockchain-based social platforms?

In my point of view Steemit is best place to work if anyone has passion and hardworking. But I have seen people wanted rapid earning and wanted to rich in short time span with less work.

I have come to know Hive and other such blockchain based media perhaps become the obstacle to attract the more users because the steem price is often down and people thought if they are working why not choose such media from where they can earn more reward.

Moreover Steemit had high scalability and more good quality of content is required there is no as such short cut to touch the height of the success.

How effective are the reward mechanisms and economic incentives on Steem in encouraging long-term engagement and retention among users?

To be very honest reward mechanism is a highly effective on steemit platform in encouraging long term engagement and retention among the users because I am also user and of course I would like to put my own example here.

Although I am working from the past 3 years and in start definitely I have less knowledge of the of engagement and write proper blogging what passively I have come to know.

I am very clear if I have to interact with other users more effectively and also have to share more high quality contents perhaps I can get better rewards and it would give me more energy for better work.

Hence everyone is not consistence nor he wanted to do hard work without getting rewards if we wanted to see more users with consistency of course it's only possible if they are getting rewards on the basis of content also higher engagement for long term.

What new technologies or tools could Steem integrate to enhance user engagement and retention on the platform? And what potential improvements can be made to increase active participation on Steem, particularly from new or inactive users?

Although many people are working on Steemit with passion and they have brighter hope but still needed to introduce few changes.

°As everyone is interaction with friends post and they wanted to get reward as new changes introduced in engagement challenges where winners are selected on the basis of purely engagement its good initiative by communities.

° These changes perhaps would become example for other and users retention would definitely be improved.

°The introduction of simple interface should be implemented so that user may face less issues in registration and intro post.

°With the Implementation of decentralised finance (DeFi) perhaps a good initiative for users whom wanted to stake their steem. Hence the introduction of Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would make it clear and users would be attracted.

Its all about my today's post.

I would like to invite my friends @m-fdo, @Jannt12 and @suboohi to take part in the challenge.