RE: What's Important to Steemit’s Longevity? - Inspiried by @anyx ‘Tragedy of The Commons’
Hey,
this article is spot on.
I think the dilemma about telling people is, that once you make money you want to shout it out the world.
My first post earning me 5000 $ was a big thing for me. i couldn't believe it, i did tell everybody how amazing steemit was. and yes around 30-50 friends joined steemit. Is there someone sucessful on steemit? yes, one is getting OK returns now, the others didn't have too much success.
these days, if i show my posts to others, i explain to them carefully that i am building a network of followers + i am spending most of my time helping others on steemit. (help grows your network faster than just trying to get people to follow you)
so i think the right thing to say is:
Do you know Steemit? Its a new Social Media Site, if you post there and people like your content you will receive votes. Depending on how many votes you receive you will be able to get paid for your work.
I have so far earned X, but i have put in Y of time. I think its the future of Social Media, why dont you have a look.
You Edited ;)
I agree.
I understand that (promotion of earnings), and I've certainly been guilty of that in the past. I think that once we've 'been around the block' a few times on Steemit, I believe we need to start being a little more realistic with our pitches.
As the user base increases, the odd's of hitting a $5,000 post diminish rapidly. Steemit has merits in it's own rights, but not too many people are talking about them...
While I don't have hard numbers to back this up, it certainly feels to me like rewards are being spread around more. Top posts now generally get around $2-3k, and there are a great number of posts with payouts in the $100-200 range. Of course that's partly due to the fall in price of Steem, but my impression at least is that it's evening out, which is a good thing.
On topic I think you have the right idea, in that promising high rewards is the wrong approach and only sets people up to be disappointed. The competition is heating up in terms of attracting attention and it will only get harder to catch that big payout, but as you say persistence is key as it is in so many things in life in general. If you're providing good content and not getting noticed, keep plugging at it and your day will come!
i agree. i although feel that some non-sense rewards are going away. the first makeup tutorial would only make 5000 instead of 25000 these days.
so in the long run, i am sure that it will be spread more equally, but the the best advertisement is people hitting it big.
so like in the real word, there will be people being constantly successful (similar to book authors) and one-hit wonders.
but both are important, as success draws people in. after that Steemit has to lock the people into the platform.
and most people forget: nothing in life is free, if it was, everybody would be rich !
so its just a thing about expectation. i think the normal person will be happy to earn 200$ per year to buy a nice dinner for their loved ones. i think thats the way we need to promote it