RE: 💬 Expanding the boundaries of community coordination and online discussion
In general we all have to think why we and other users are here. I agree with @bambuka many are hear for financial reasons. Just seeing how people advertise it outside, many say: Do a post and you will be rewarded, get Steem that will turned into cash. Having many communities from developing countries it is understandable that they are here for earning for living and that is a reason why many new communities created to get into Support Program and earn.
Commenting is a communication, sharing our thoughts, ideas and maybe supporting someone's blog because it is great.
I still think that there are many interesting people who perhaps not commenting much but still deserved to be supported.
I know it from me, there are some days I just have no time for commenting because of the nature of my work. Luckily me and my hubby we are two of us managing our accounts and even then he also often has no time too. But that does not mean that we are not interested we just have no time.
Some people if they decided to dedicate themselves to Steemit and blogging they will invest their time for both posting and commenting. But otherwise the rest, I do not know and I have really no clue how to help.
Many of our Visual Art community are professional Artists and they are busy and often do not comment much but without them our platform will lose a lot, as those people have their reputation well known to real Art communities and we should make sure that they are here and keep being around.
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I understand and agree with everything you say - there's certainly a balance to be had between keeping valuable contributors and promoting valuable engagement. (I also think that you could go for a day, week, month or more without commenting and your contribution and desire for Steemit to succeed would not be questioned (in a good way 🙂))
My fear as things currently stand though is that...
If Steemit is an art gallery and community moderators are volunteers working at the gallery...
We have a lot of artists coming in, hanging up their work and then leaving without so much as looking at (or noticing) the other art in the gallery...
Volunteers leave a note to compliment the artist (which may or may not be acknowledged). There might be an occasional visitor who comes in to look at and discuss the art but they don't stay for long because there's nobody to discuss it with. They might return at a later date and hang their own art up alongside everybody else's.
I appreciate this isn't an ideal analogy and paints a pretty bleak picture (pun intended).
As somebody who values the engagement, when I take the time to comment on somebody's post, and even go to effort of promoting one of their posts within one of my own and receive nothing in response (and I see that they've had the time to write 3 more long posts in the mean time), a lack of time certainly isn't a reason I accept. But I digress...
There's room for every type of user who comes to Steemit - my belief is that it's those who take the time to look at other artists work and then take the time to stay and discuss it that should be served the champagne and canopes.
Thank you for the nomination 👍