It's All About Our Noble Steemians With @trevonjb. Episode 17

Welcome to it's all about our noble steemains with @dhavey It's an honor to be conversing with @trevonjb

Thanks for considering me as a person of interest to interview!

Can you tell our readers how you first hear about Steemit and what motivated you to join?

I discovered Steem watching YouTube videos. When I first joined there hadn’t even been any payouts yet. June of 2016. I was motivated by the thought of earning crypto for doing what I was doing in mass on the Internet already which was creating content, and discovering and curating content that I enjoyed. An obvious no brainer for anyone that uses any type of social media or blogging sites.

As a steemain what is the biggest challenge you have ever faced since you joined Steemit?

If I sat and thought about this question for awhile I may have come up with something else, but the first thing that comes to mind is the flagging. I learned to take them on the chin and keep posting. Showing that I’m here no matter if I receive them or not. I love this blockchain for what it does.

If you ask some Steemains they will tell you that they are not posting for rewards and all that they need is just relationship with other Steemains; now if rewards are removed from steem, would you still blog on Steem?

I think for some this is true indeed. A lot of people may actually be using steem because it’s a smaller platform and they feel they have a better chance of being heard here. For me, would I still be here if wasn’t for the rewards? To be honest my first answer is no. If it weren’t for the rewards in STEEM I wouldn’t be here. That’s what makes it different from anything else. It runs on a blockchain and that’s what I’m into. I don’t want this to get twisted from what I’m saying. If steem or steemit was just a site that I went to to read blogs I would just use medium. Same for dtube and YouTube. The incentive for me is the steem coin and steem power. That’s what makes Steem fun for me.

But if the rewards were forked out of the code, I would probably stick around because of the familiar faces.

Yeah, making friends and building relationships is good on this platform, can you tell us those Steemains that have contributed and impacted your blogging experience since you joined Steemit?

Yes I’ve managed to build a few cool relationships on Steem. To name drop a few I’d start with @therealwolf and @fyrstikken. Both played a big part in welcoming me with open arms to Steem. @scipio I’ve learned a lot from with his @steem-UA algo. @meno has been a great help. All of my commenters on who always leave something valuable like @moemanmoesly @diogosantos and @craignow

What were you told before you joined Steemit?

Can’t remember haha. That was over 2 years ago. I don’t remember signing up or even my first blog post. But I do remember diving in and finally taking my posts serious. And when I did that, the wheels really started turning.

Can you tell the community one thing that people will remember you for even if you quit Steemit today?

....beatcooo-

If you could give advice to newbies on how to be successful on this platform, what would it be?

Control your own destiny and buy steem power. Post daily for 6 months while sincerely engaging the community around you. I didn’t do this in the beginning and looking back, if I would have, my following would be double and my rep score would probably be approaching 80.

Now that some steemians are no longer posting on like before and it like steemit is almost a ghost town, what is your advice to those steemians?

Well this is expected in a bear market. Also steemit is a ghost town but @partiko is alive and well. Most people who are not die-hard steemians have forgotten about crypto for the most part and will come back when prices get fun again. My advice for them is fomo back in during the bull run because that’s what quitters do.

What is your take on using bots to support one's post?

It’s possible so it can be done. I have no problem with it.

What is your take on all these airdrops happening around?

I like how the Steem airdrops work. I like they incentivize people to power up steem and delegate to things they support to get tokens.

What do you think is the future of cryptocurrency?

I think the future of crypto is full decentralization and transparency of everything.

If you were privileged to talk to @ned on one thing, what would it be?

His true long term plan for steem.

As a Steemian, do you think finding a niche is better rather than posting some random stuff?

Good question and something I’ve never thought about. I’d say long term niche may be a better route because that’s what does best on most social media platforms. But for right now, I don’t think steem is diverse enough for specific niches. If you are from Spain and you love talking about trees you may not get a lot of people interested in that right now because steem is a small place. In the future this will change.

If there was one thing you could do or suggest to make Steem more interesting and attractive to users, what would that be?

A block button. One that makes a user invisible to you and impossible to interact with no matter the Steem app.

If there was a worldwide Internet and cellular blackout for a week, what would you do for those 7 days?

I would spend a lot of time outdoors

Let say there is nothing like Steemit, what other thing would you be doing?

I’d just be using Instagram and YouTube and studying other cryptos

If you are privileged to talk to someone yet to join Steemit, what can you tell the person that will motivate such person to join?

I want them to first understand what a blockchain is and does. Then I want them to see Steem as an opportunity to get ahead of where the future of social media is heading. Ignore the rewards and put your head down and create for 6 months to a year.

It's an great honor conversing with you @trevonjb Thanks for coming for the show. Have a wonderful day!

Thank you again for considering me!

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