RE: Explainer: Value Flows on Steem with SMTs [VIDEO]
Hi @spiritualmatters. Thanks for your post.
Actually, the way I proposed is mutually beneficial for everyone.
I wrote that the way Steemit (and thus Steem) becomes big is to use those two super advantages of Steemit social network: quality content + high rewards for content.
Steemit is the greatest unique thing so far, not Steem. These two advantages of Steemit are huge, as there is no social network targeted on quality content so far, and there is no way content creators may earn (especially new users) mostly depending on quality (inside other social networks). Youtube? No - lower earnings, only big channels earn and your account may be suspended anytime.
If Steemit platform uses those 2 marketing techniques I proposed, they will attract millions of users (currently only 30K active users per day). Users will make Steemit owners lots of revenue due to build-in advertising platform (the way other social networks make their revenue) + additionally Steem cryptocurrency will go up in price, making money to all Steem holders, attracting new projects to SMTs and other projects of Steemit founders.
P.S. You were concerned about advertisers? Done. Give more than 30K active users per day - advertisers will come. I will advertise here myself, everyone will. Advertisers are seeking for quality traffic. By implementing the proposed marketing ideas Steemit will increase quality traffic dramatically.
2 people are going to read 30,000 articles a day? That should keep them busy.....and then only award 30 people out of 30,000 ? seems like the idea of "anybody can earn" goes out the window - you may as well take your chances on the whales ....
Good question @jorlauski. Let me give some further explanation on this one.
They don't need to read all the posts/comments to find the best ones. On the first step a simple bot filters off 99% of posts/comments (it is really not a difficult bot based on criteria: for example, it is clear that bot will need to filter short comments like "good post!" or posts having a couple of "f*ck" inside, or posts/comments with lots of misspellings, etc. - doubtfully look like a TOP-30 candidate).
Then humans manually read the remaining 1%. To be even more fair, human curators will also look through all the top posts/comments already chosen by the community (based on # of votes & comments).
Award 30 out of thousands? Yes, why not? Quality is the key. Share deep life-changing thoughts and ideas! If you really do your hard work every day, then one day you will get your $250 upvote, and after such an upvote you will get your Reputation boost, followers, money to "Promote" your further posts... Don't you think it is a good motivation to spend your time on quality content? In fact it is almost impossible to get even a $10 upvote from the wales today (until you are a whale too) - but this stops thousands of new users to dedicate their time to Steemit!
I already see new authors getting upvotes like that every day from curation guilds like @curie and contests like #openmic and it has created enough excitement for those new authors to keep them on the platform and contributing.
In my view, you're just talking about another curation guild. How is that any different than what we already have?
Although posting the top posts on the homepage would be a good idea.
Thanks for breaking things down for me, giving greater clarity to your proposal.
With over 4K views, I am certain that Ned, et al will consider your suggestion with great thought.
It's clear we all want Steemit to survive; and STEEM to thrive.
Again thanks so much for making this clearer!
Peace.
I don't think so. remove Steem and you don't have Steemit.
Steem is the thing where Steemit is built on top of. Remove Steem and what do you get?