Community engagement is the rope that ties us together on Steemit, but what is community engagement actually and how do we make a community on Steemit?

We Are Family

Steemit itself is an online community and it comprises of many other community inside the site. For someone new to the platform endeavoring to discover a group like-minded individuals can appear somewhow overwhelming. This post aims to enable new clients to discover their place here and get results from engaging with the community.

One approach to discover communities on Steemit that offer an indistinguishable interests from you is to take a look at tags you are interested in.

For instance, in the event that you are interested in photography or music you can tap on the tags photography or music and read the posts of individuals who have utilized those tags for their posts.

You will begin to see that some users post in that class regularly and this would be a sign they are interested in that topic and exceptionally dynamic in that community.

You could make a comment on their post and present yourself so you can become acquainted with them.

They say initial introductions are essential so I profoundly recommend when you contact somebody on Steemit without precedent for a comment to not ask them for something. Try not to request that they tail you or upvote you as this isn't great manners on the platform.

Try not to add a link to your post or ask for a follow. To do so is just shooting yourself in the foot and it doesn't go over exceptionally well. Instead, just add to the discussion of the post they made or make inquiries to assist the discussion.

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In the event that they wrote something you know about, offer what you know. Embellish on the point the post is about and simply have a discussion with them. Disclose to them what you like about their post or your perspective with respect to the point.

After doing this a couple of times on some of their posts they will recall you as somebody that adds to the subject being examined. This establishes a far superior impression than asking for follow and upvotes.

Including a comment somebody's blog for the first time that just says: "Greetings, great post. Please follow me and I will follow back.", is just irritating but it is the online equivalent to a door to door telemarketer pestering you at supper time.

Nobody loves that and you will get overlooked, downvoted at worst. It stuns me to perceive what number of new users there are with a minus - 7 reputation from spamming individuals with these sort of comments despite everything they don't get it and keep on spamming.

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Along these lines, it's imperative to include a comment that demonstrates genuine interest and/or knowledge of the topic being discussed about. Individuals will start to follow you normally when you do this.

When you have done that a couple of times start to post on your blog about the subjects you know about.

This is what new users don't understand. The number of followers you have isn't as imperative as the nature of those adherents. That is the reason requesting individuals to follow you is an exercise in futility and won't bring about more upvotes to your content by any stretch of the imagination.

It doesn't make a difference what number of individuals follow you, what makes a difference is that the people who do follow you are truly intrigued by what you post about.

What Communities Are Active On Steemit?

There are numerous communities inside Steemit and some are more dynamic than others since a few topics are more comprehensive than others.

For instance, music, the all inclusive dialect, is a well known subject worldwide rather than knitting which might be a more specialty point contrasted with music.

Finding a more broad point may enable you to discover a larger number of users to draw in with than a less prevalent topic. You shouldn't pick a point exclusively on the grounds that it is well known however. It's smarter to pick a point you truly are occupied with.

All things considered, there are a few subjects that accumulate more enthusiasm than others. Music, photography, travel, workmanship, crypto, food, wellbeing, history, adore, life, money, nature, news, and story are for the most part extremely prominent topics on Steemit.

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Any of these categories are exceptionally prevalent yet there is additionally a drawback to posting in such mainstream points.

Here is a screen capture of an exceptionally well known topic on Steemit, the tag Steemit. A new user seeing this feels if that they publish a post with the tag "Steemit" they will get a considerable measure of perspectives and upvotes.

This could be valid but since there are such a large number of individuals making posts with that tag your post will get covered in the feed before anybody gets an opportunity to see it. Add to this fact that another user doesn't generally know anything about Steemit yet or have any followers and chances are great nobody will tap on your post before it gets buried.

After a short time the new users asks why their posts are not doing great and they wind up surrendering before they extremely even started.

A vastly improved approach is to discover a subject you will dependably discover fascinating and discover the people who are consistent contributors of that topic and start a discussion with them on their posts.

This takes time and will not happen overnight. In the event that you were feeling that you could simply come to Steemit and spam 100 comment a day requesting follow so you will one day get rich you are mixed up. That is not how it functions here.

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Building a community or getting included with a current one is a work of adoration which is the reason it's so imperative to pick subjects you truly have an enthusiasm for and to reliably add to the discussion.

There is no faking truthfulness so in case you're simply faking enthusiasm to get followers individuals will see directly through that and nobody needs to follow fake individuals. Ask yourself, what number of telemarketers telephone numbers do you need to call in the event that you ever require somebody to converse with? The response for the majority of us is none.

In this way, don't be that irritating individual that spams people's comment and rather find and draw in with a community that offers your interests and you'll do fine on Steemit.

Community Come First. Rewards Come Later

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When you have discovered a community of like-minded individuals include your unique information and bits of knowledge to the discussion around that topic.

Begin by reading others' posts on your topic and embellish what they are discussing in their comments.

Suppose, for instance, that you like food and somebody has made a post of a phenomenal recipe you extremely like but the recipe has dairy in it and you're susceptible to dairy products. You could include a comment that list an alternative ingredient to the recipe that would substitute the dairy with something different that is non-dairy.

Or then again you could make the recipe they posted and take a few photos of the dish to add to their comment while saying thanks to them for the recipe and disclosing to them how delicious it is.

This would be useful to the topic being examined and is no chance spamming the creator. They may thank you for the comment and be appreciative for the insight, absolutely more grateful than if you spammed them with a link and they will remember you for all the right reasons.

After reading different authors posting about food, you may find that you know something about food that nobody else is posting about and it inspires you to make your own post.

The primary point is to truly get associated with dialogs inside the category you hold an enthusiasm for and to do as such frequently, reliably, and genuinely.

There are no alternate routes to drawing in with an online community. You either connect with or you don't. These are simply tips to community engagement that get positive outcomes.

The takeaway here is to be certifiable. There is no secret to it truly. Just be genuine and truly convey inside the community. Simple, right?

com·mu·ni·ty

kəˈmyo͞onədē

• a gathering of individuals living in a similar place or having a specific characteristics in common.

• a feeling of partnership with others, as a result of sharing regular mentalities, interests, and objectives. credit.

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Contests, Challenges And Chat Rooms

Getting associated with the numerous challenges and contest on Steemit is another awesome method to become more acquainted with individuals on the platform who share normal interests with you.

In case you're a picture taker you can enter ColorChallenge or for artists, there are design challenges you can enter.

For those into sports look at SteemSports and in the event that you like food go meet @gringalicious at the present time.

There are group of individuals encompassing such a large number of various topic to be found on Steemit and in each group it soon ends up clear who contributes frequently to that subject.

They will be the ones who post about that specific topic all the time and reliably react to comments. Different authors may even specify them or link to them in their own particular posts.

These are individuals you need to assemble a relationship inside your specialty and become more acquainted with them, first by drawing in comments on their posts, then in posts of your own, and after that in chat rooms.

What are chat room?

chat rooms like SteemitChat and Discord are the place all the activity is in the background on Steemit. Consider it backstage where you can blend with individuals utilizing Steemit.

This is were you can truly have a fuller discussion with someone than is conceivable in a comment box. At the end of the day, this is the place the genuine commitment is occurring and where you can start to create associations with different clients.

Where first contacting somebody in a chat room though, utilize the same rules of etiquette as mentioned earlier. Don't just send them a link to your post and ask for an upvote or take after. Try not to act like a telemarketer as it establishes an awful first impression.

Be a genuine person and make a few companions there. Comment on one of their current posts. Maybe where you had begun a discussion on before connecting with them in chat to proceed with the discussion in more depth.

Create frendships one individual at any given moment and without rushing too much. For instance, maybe discover some more fascinating fact about a post they had made and send them a link to it so they can read it as well. Not a link to your post, mind you, but rather to another person's or even something off Steemit that relates with their post somehow.

NOTE: If you're not by any means inspired by the topic someone is writing on, don't do this. This is just for points you and the individual you are talking with are extremely keen on.

When To Be A Fly On The Wall

There are times on Steemit when it is best to be a fly on the divider. To just tune in, watch, and be quiet.

One illustration is the point at which you are new to the platform and you sumbled upon a post on a subject you are new to and it is clear by the comment on that post that the people taking part in those comment are much more knowledgeable than you are about the topic.

The last thing you need to do is include a comment that features your ignorance or, even most exceedingly terrible, beg for a follow. Adding a link to your irrelevant post requesting an upvote will get you a reaction similar to a hanging up the telephone on a telemarketer.

Instead, be a fly on the wall and read each comment to perceive how prepared geniuses draw in on this platform and learn something. This will be a far better better utilization of your opportunity.

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I've done this for quite a long time previously, engrossing the data these posts were giving and considering what I have realized before considering reacting and it has motivated numerous great posts of my own.

Weeks later, when that person composed another post on the point and I at last felt like I had a reaction that could add to the discussion, I made a comment and referenced their earlier post and in addition the present one. This normally gets a good reaction.

The possibility that somebody really set aside the opportunity to read more than one of an authors posts before reacting insightfully tends to establish a decent link on authors and help you emerge in a crown of powerless reactions.

You'll be essential to that author only to take an opportunity to be genuine.

I hope a portion of this thoughts help you in your trip on Steemit.

What do you do to fortify commitment inside your community on Steemit?