ATTN New Users: Give me your feedback on your Steemit experience! (payout for best comment)
If you are a NEW Steemit.com user (< 1-4 months on the platform) I'd like to hear about your experience? Don't hold back, tell us all the pros and cons about the platform!
BONUS REWARD - I will pay out all of the SBD earned on this post to the author who's comment receives the most upvotes
Here are a few questions to get you going...
Is it easy or difficult to use? How does it compare to other such sites (BitcoinTalk, Reddit, etc)?
What do you think about the interface? Is it intuitive?
Have you been able to make your first $10?
What do you like the most/least about the platform?
What would you improve? Where does Steemit.com come up short?
What works really well? Where does Steemit.com excel?
What ideas do you have to grow the community?
I want to start a dialogue with new users about their experience. This is how we build a better product and a better, more engaged community!
Disclaimer: I am NOT part of the Steem or Steemit.com team. I am just an avid user and someone who wants to see this platform take off and be used by a BILLION users!
Oh yeah...let's start using the #FEEDBACK tag on our posts and get it trending. Is this community run or not? ;)
In Liberty,
Ashe
Okay, where do I start. To be honest, the interface when you're trying to post something is not that user-friendly, what with all the HTML and Markdown formatting. If you just type and post, all you end up with are a wall of text. Don't know if this is workable or not, but it would really help if the Steemit draft page has those Formatting buttons like in word editor, you know, Center, Insert Pictures, etc
Second, I'm not a hypocrite, I join Steemit partly to make money. But it's not easy. Oh, there's the FAQs and other articles, but in practice? I haven't even been able to make my first $1, let alone $10. Not Steemit fault, of course. But it's not made clear in the beginning. I thought you just write some quality article and wait for the votes rolling in. Then you realize that the article that you wrote with blood, sweat and tears got 0 votes after 2 days while a steemian who posted a knock-knock jokes got 90 votes and $40 in 30 minutes.
And third, almost all of the comments now are populated by who I like to call "'votes' and 'resteem' beggars". You know the time, instead of commenting or giving insight about the article in question, they simply write "Upvoted! Please follow and upvote me back! And while you're at it, can you give me money and rub my feet?". With Steemit being the way it is now, there's no way to stop these guys, but how I wish we could kickban those users whose comment doesn't at least reference something in the original article.
I think I'm gonna stop now. You'd realize by now that once I start, I have difficulty of slowing down. That's the curse of an amateur writer, I guess. We can continue with point 4, 5, and 6 if you like but I had a feeling this is already too much for now.
#FEEDBACK
awesome feedback, thank you. Agreed that the markdown editor is a huge speedbump for new users to understand. Especially when they are used to more wysiwyg editors.
I came to use steemit because my friend recommended I started using steemit on September 25, 2017. I think steemit is not as difficult to use as it is to use Facebook. Just make a post for people interested in it and change it. It's up vote. My first post made $ 7, because I got support from @curie, and my Thai friends got upvote from @curie. I like it a lot because it makes me money and makes me meet new friends too. But once I was by @cheetah I was shocked and very anxious. I want to improve steemit. Because sometimes I use it and then my post disappears. Now there are more and more people using steemit. And everyone was wrong like me. I will not go to sleep. What I want it to happen in steemit most is having a language that belongs to each country group. Will make people who are not good at English. Works better. No errors. My personal, I want to make steemit available in Thai.
#FEEDBACK
I'm currently living in Chiang Mai! I've been using the #Thailand tag on some of my posts. Did you see this one? https://steemit.com/travel/@ashe-oro/thailand-lantern-festival-2017-yee-peng-and-loy-krathong-chiang-mai
I see that post. It is a tradition of floating lanterns Yee Peng , and it seems to be done with the Loy Krathong tradition. Your post is very good, I understand the Thai culture well. Good job. 🎇🎆🎉
i have no money :(
Here ya go
what goes around, comes around :)
Steemit has been a great platform to socialize with new people, learn from inspiring super awesome post from great bloggers, then the great distinguishing aspect is that you get paid for blogging here.
I have actually improved my writing skills from steemit plus I have earned as well.
I remembered joining steemit this year, My first 10 post yielded less than $1 but I never gave up.
I kept pushing until I earned my first $21 ($7, $5, 9) from 3 posts.
I felt like I won a jackpot.
congrats on making your first $21! That's great.
hi @ashe-oro i hope my comment find you fine and happy!
so let's talk about my experience i'm @rezzouk.elabiad from MOROCCO
i found this platform by coincidence when i was watching videos in youtube then i join it it's easy to use it just used youtube videos this is my first month i have till now 75 followers i'm really actif i have 150 posts and i don't care about wining some dollars because it's difficult and i swear untill now i dont know how to get my little steem dollars cash so the majority of my posts win 0.02/0.04....it's nothing but what i appreciate in steemit is that i can feel free to speak about everythings and share and comment the good posts and welcome the newbies really i feel like a journalist till now i don't know how to use minnowbooster i'm missing a lot of things
i'm sure that money will come after i'm in the biginning i have to learn and i give time to my self to discover more about this platform if you like my words just give me some answers;advices or strategics to grow up i don't need votes or to follow me.
thanks in advance and have a good day.
img credz: pixabay.com
Nice, you got a 12.0% @minnowbooster upgoat, thanks to @ashe-oro
Want a boost? Minnowbooster's got your back!
The @OriginalWorks bot has determined this post by @ashe-oro to be original material and upvoted(1.5%) it!
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!
alright, i just ponied up a decent amount to be paid out to the winner. I rly hope someone takes advantage of this opportunity! At least ~$15 to the winner so far.
Resteem your post to 2000+ followers for only 0.5 SBD or Steem)
Just send 0.5 SBD or steem to @steemvote (URL as memo)
New Followers get 0.001 SBD$ and an upvote for free!!
Just follow @steemvote and...
This post has received a 40.22 % upvote from @upgoater thanks to: @ashe-oro.