RE: Some Man Tears a Few Beers and Three Years: I Did It My Way
What's unusual about this platform is the fact content consumers can get paid to be entertained.
Content consumer, content that is why I came to steemit, my wife said there was a lot of different stuff on steemit. When I first joined steemit, I did a lot of book reading, I even made some TOC (table of contents) for a few of the stories, because it was hard to navigate some of the early works. Easier now with the edit content available.
I made some post over the last two years, I still struggle with more than about 3 a week, but I do post, and have earned some rewards from posting. I mostly consume though - 13,570 comments - I have found a lot to view read and comment on.
I am glad that some things are changing on Steem, more of the advertising wanna be's need to look close at what you said, cherry pick the part about payed to consume, and highlight that.
There's a nice variety here and now with tribes and future developments, it's getting easier to find and enjoy. Content producers will be able to manage and do well with any set of tools, it's the consumers who need it easy. Majority of my comments are responses to those consuming my work and taking the time to talk to me. You have high numbers there and I know for a fact the producers here appreciate dedicated consumers.
Hopefully those advertisers get their own space some day and stop pushing the content creators away. With every ad they post, they annoy another consumer and that could potentially decrease the size of the market. That already happened when majority of the folks around here refused to look at the trending page because of ads and shit posts. It'll take awhile to get the consumer's trust back. I think the new developments will change how content is presented though so maybe that problem will go away.