RE: Making Steemit Communities Work
Dear @costanza
Interesting choice of topic.
I've heard number of times term "Hivemind Communities", however I never could understand what actually is going to change for regular user on Steemit.
The trend of making extra tokens (PAL | LEO | SPORTS |...) pretty much adds to this as they use the same mechanism and most of them don't have anything to back up their value.
I fully agree with that and I'm wondering if there are any ways to bring real value to those tokens. Right now there isn't much value in having them.
Anyone who wants to have a real blog about a subject they genuinely love by default will have a quite hard time to get anything going.
I agre with you ... to some degree. I'm an example that regular people can build reach and solid follower base. However it is surely very difficult to achieve anything and get any traffic and most people will fail.
Getting members to support each other and interact growing as a group was one of the hardest parts
Amazing goal. Honestly I would love to help if I ever had a chance.
Yours,
Piotr
The value from the tokens right now the way I look at it come directly from the steem upvotes that can be gotten in return for the tokens. Unfortunately, this is such a small part of the coin valuations that it's quite ridiculous. Steemmonsters / DEC are probably the best example of having tokens that actually have some value. It does all remain linked to the popularity of the game. I guess it will go up and all the way down again one day but that's fine. A game like hearthstone also has that right now.
Right now it's fairly easy as Steemit allows you to empower yourself by buying some SP, being part of upvote groups, and using bid bots that actually give a return. 5%-15%. This makes posts at least look like they earn something decent. All those options will get a lot harder with the reward curve/ 50-50 curation & Downvote pool. I fear someone really needs to get lucky now to be inside the club of people that actually get curated. Also, I fear many SP holders will leave. Bid bots and the ones that lease SP for some passive returns will have a harder time since people will downvote the ones that use them while having more SP yourself won't matter as much.
Thanks right now it's a matter playing the waiting game to see what happens with the SMT's and HF21.
Wow. Thanks for being so responsive @costanza