RE: A Question Of Growth
First off thank you for stopping by and giving such an in depth comment. That is very much appreciated. I have actually delayed a bit my reply, in order to give it the full attention deserved.
I am in complete agreement with everything you have said here. Hopefully this has not come across as otherwise.
Picture what @pifc could accomplish with a delegation of say 50k SP. With that we could take newbies and get them enough SP to remove them from the delegated SP tit pretty quickly returning this to the pool.
I would like to add to that. The @pifc strives to find the highest quality work produced by new users. I myself have learned some discernment through my participation. Anyone wishing to support new users would do well to show that support through support to the @pifc project.
I can only imagine how discouraging it is to invest time and resources into helping a new account grow, only to see them vanish in the end.
The #payitforward criteria for quality content means each feature is someone who is already working at making a long term home on the platform. Some of those featured blogs have a great deal of thought and effort put in to them.
It would benefit us all if @pifc could adopt one of those for a more long term support.
This community growth is critical for long term success IMO.
Not only for the individual but for the platform as well. What I am understanding is that an endless supply of new accounts are continuously cycled through while a very small percentage stay and grow. The top levels for the most part collect their earnings growing fatter by the day while remaining oblivious to what is happening at the levels below. Meanwhile the mid level accounts are becoming more stagnant. This does not seem sustainable. The whales seem to not care they can simply swim off to the next investment opportunity. Being new here I am still figuring things out. I hope to be mistaken and will look for further insight.
Assuming the above to be true. It could very well be that the best workable strategy for mid level would be heavy emphasis on community. Using the power of numbers to push and pull one another up, creating a more healthy balance of larger accounts.
100 accounts at 100sp is the same as 1 supporter with 10,000sp. It's far more likely that the 1 person misses a day vs all of the 100.
Not to mention the dangers involved with catering to the whim of one fickle whale 😏
They keep growing stronger because the smallest members are so busy trying to get that elusive whale vote that will never come they waste 10-30% of their voting power...sometimes much more...on people that don't even kind of care about you.
This says it all. Some will use the revolving door of new accounts to milk as much as possible. Their actions show already they have no concern for the healthy growth of the platform.
Time effort and collective stake are a huge asset to those who hope for long term gains. Some serious brainstorming and discussion on where best to use those assets. I am learning much from these discussions as I make decisions for the future of my own account. I very much hope to see discussion continue, more solutions found, and Steemit to grow and thrive. I am very fortunate to be a part of it.
Thank you again I am overwhelmed by such a well thought out and insightful reply to my little musings.
I think that by hunting for great content week after week you not only find some great bloggers to follow, but you learn a lot about what makes a blog great. This helps you grow as a blogger and helps you spot true quality faster in the future. I'm amazed at how well people are getting at removing all the plagiarized content before entering now. It was almost 3-4 a week that I had to ask to change their entry in the past, now many weeks have none.
There is a long term plan towards this. Right now I'm focused on getting @pifc up and running. Once that is fully funded if you will, I will start asking for support towards a new account. The next account will offer 1 upvote per day to those who enter the contest. The whole put your oxygen mask on first thing.
This will help grow the accounts of those who are out there helping others. All I will ask is that everyone adds that account to an autovote program like steemdunk at 100% for it's weekly update post. This will allow the account to keep growing and will likely use the SBD earned each week to lease more SP to increase the vote all participants are getting.
Then the next account I'd like to open is to support those who have been featured with daily upvotes. And same idea as the above with support from those getting votes.
This is only the beginning of something I'd like to turn into a major support system for redfish and minnows alike. I really think we can start to shape a real middle class on steemit. But it will take all involved understanding that each of us growing means we all grow and remembering that sometimes you will give more then the next person, but that is ok as someone else may be giving more then you. It's hard for many to view things with a viewpoint of abundance, but this truly is how you need to view things on steemit. There is more then enough to go around for all of us to have a brighter future.
Glad to have had the platform to share my thoughts. Think we see things much the same about where things are and what is needed to move forward. There are some great whales and dolphins out there, but they like all of us have the people they follow and support. When one happens to stop by and give a nice vote you take it happily, but don't expect it to come again as you just never know.
Hi @thedarkhorse I must say you are right about the benefits of finding good features. I think my own posts have improved a great deal just from being out there seeing so many different posting styles. (still considering that second account for my dog )😄
That sounds like something that would benefit everyone especially over the long term. I am pretty sure everyone involved is already doing a vote to @pifc at least once a week. So that one is win/win. Surly the prosperity of the participants will translate into prosperity for the entire project. I really love your forward thinking approach.
The beauty of Steemit is the ability to give something and still keep it. Think about it every vote given regenerates we lose nothing. Even with delegations vote power is given but ownership is kept. Where else can you hand out money and still not lose it? Talk about having your cake and eating it too.
It is great to have a little peek into the long term vision for @pifc I agree this could really be the start of something huge.
Thanks again for sharing with us here. Sounds like some exciting but busy times ahead. We have all grown so much just in the short time I have been involved.Those first few contests seem a lifetime ago already for me.
So now here you are slaving away to get a huge project off the ground involving multiple accounts. Meanwhile I am thinking up dog parody. Yeah sounds about right😏