RE: A Growing Trend I've Noticed On Steemit
I am a new active user myself and understand exactly the emotion you are attempting to convey. I too am all about conversations and creating an active community. Many of my comments contain more volume and substance than many posts others make decent money on. There are multiple sides to this. First off, most are here to make money. For this reason it's essentially a job. This is multiplied by the community requirement to create quality content. So, like any income creating talent, you must put the effort in and take the lumps, which come along with creating your brand. You shouldn't judge by using other's experiences, because you cannot be sure how they have connected with their audience. They could have a large group of friends, which simply upvote each other to game the system for the benefit of the few. Don't let this get you down, because this will always happen and...nothing is perfect. We need to concentrate on and spread our ideals, while keeping our honor. When you meet someone who's real, strengthen that relationship. For the fakes, let them go. We need people like you here to keep the balance and fight against selfishness and greed. I notice you are an Agorist. SteemIt is as close to a decentralized platform as we will find that can be empirical proof that full freedom can work and government is not needed for the good to prevail. You, I and the rest need to show communal pressure's are enough to govern, instead of laws and physical force as guiders and deterrents. SteemIt is essentially Anarchist and we must tolerate the bad to get along. Stick to NAP and don't let human nature deter you from your goals. Anyway, I am one person you have found with similar Ideals. Nice to meet you. Let's stick together and find some more to create the community needed to better our circumstances and species. I wish you the best my friend.
Thanks so much for the encouraging words and I agree we shouldn't base our experiences on those of others. Personally, I don't have a large following who upvotes my content, however I have tried my best to get friends from other social media networks to join the site so that they could be rewarded for their works instead of having to pay for promotion.
I think you're right on how we should stick together and I mentioned the same in my blog. I want a strong community of like minded individuals who appreciate agorism, voluntaryism and understand the meaning of NAP!
I really appreciate you taking the time to reach out and share your ideas with me on this post! Wishing you all the best.
I believe there's a large Anarchist communty and all it's branches here already. In time we'll find them and hopefully convert a few ourselves. Baby steps seems to be the pace our species evolves at, so patience is key and slow and steady wins the race.
Oh and in defense of the more popular channels; some of them get so many notifications, they would never be able to blog if they answered every good comment.
I see what you're saying but it never hurts to put a little added effort into responses, especially if you want to keep your followers, which I do. I may be new but there's just something that seems a bit more genuine when you decide to make the effort to reply back to these comments in the early stages. I haven't reached that level to think I'm too big to answer back all the notifications I received.
I 100% agree. I am actually quite disappointed in the lack of engagement on meaningful posts and the overwhelming engagement on Bitcoin related posts as an example, myself. I am not disillusioned though, as this simply reflects the same level of shallow thought, which society operates on IRL. My goal is to change that. It's nice to find other real-people, such as yourself. My message will never change, just my methods used in an attempt to get through. I will simply continue to be myself and hope others resonate with my message. I know, because of the mass shallowness of society, it will take longer to find those people and for those people to find me than the shallow posts. Shallow will gravitate towards the shallow and depth will gravitate towards depth. It's just the way it is. By the way, I believe it's a bad idea to bring the masses here. There are enough fakes here as it is. Since the majority are fake, the more you promote this platform on other platforms, which endorse shallow thought, like Facebook, you are just promoting the pollution of SteemIt further. The real will find their way here on their own.
I want to be one of the spots where people can come and know that their thoughts and concerns are truly listened to and that I make an effort to help the individual find sound solutions, even if it takes us a while to come up with something, those who visit my account and posts know that there is a real person behind the computer's monitor and not some one else posting for me because I am too busy to truly engage meaningfully with others.
That's why I make the effort and will continue to make the effort as long as I feasibly can.
As far as promoting to other content curators, I have never found that to be counter productive because they, too are looking for a place more meaningful so I don't agree with your sentiments on not promoting Steemit elsewhere. I'm talking about writers, artists, broadcasters and that ilk, people who would gain from the site, as I have.
I agree if you are targeting specific individuals, but if you are promoting with posts calling anyone here, that's just going to hurt this platform.
Nope, I don't think just anyone would gain from the platform, as most people don't know the basics of formatting posts, what Steem is, or much of anything about cryptocurrencies, yet those who are prolific writers, have spent time in forums, know a little about HTML, why yes, it would be beneficial to have them onboard!