RE: Here's how to make Steemit MATTER in 2017.
You bring up great points and the article you linked to was a good read. The trouble with most nerds (I know because I was a huge one...still am) is they don't embrace their nerdiness. Instead so many of them make it their ultimate goal to try to prove to the world how cool they are. I suspect this is what we could be seeing here. The truth is, we're coming into an age where nerds will rule the world so it'd be really smart for people to embrace it. As we attract more and more of the mainstream here I understand we need to embrace popular culture here but I hope there's still room for some things of more substance. When I started here in July I would refer to Steemit as the "thinking person's Facebook". It would be nice to continue to be able to say this. What I'd like to see is the ability to follow/subscribe to tags/catagories like we do people. This way we could totally filter from our feeds the things we aren't interested in. If we change our minds we could "tune in" to other "channels".
Thank you for this great answer. I appreciate your effort but I still think that "tuneing out" means nothing in this environment BECAUSE the money pool is limited and if some channels we don't even see are draining the most money...then what is left for substance and cool?
I don't even thing we need "mainstream" or "to embrace popular culture"...that's all baloney, because we don't know how to manipualte what's gonna be viral [ some can, we, here, can't ]. that's why I think we should focus on quality and nurturing great content.
If a guy from romania can't see the profitability of steemit, then who can? 100$ for the last 2 months of posts is nothing. Sure, it's morethan i'd get on..anything really :) but the idea here is that i see ozcharts making this much on a stupid TA and steemsports and etc etc. This is demotivating to me. Like me, there are others.
Honestly, the only reason i'm here still is for a few people i do like to interact with..and ironically i do it more off-steemit than here. so yeah.