RE: Stop Making Steemit All About the Money, It Won't Work - And Other Ranting About What Sucks About Steemit
I absolutely love this article, and as a new member, really needed to read it. Of course, as a singer-songwriter, after years and years of working really hard online and having so little to show for it, I am so grateful for something that could give me a chance to get a start. HOWEVER: it's not why I love it. The other ones weren't worth the work, because the algorithms ruin it and because they are so utterly based around falsity and stupidity.
Being here is incredible. Interestingly, I have to say that even the chance of being able to see a bit of a financial reward makes it possible for me to commit to spending time on it. It helps me justify the time it takes to get quality content up. I know it's not a guarantee, but it's game-changing for an artist. I guess youtube is the same, but I hate being a part of the advertisement culture, especially when they can advertise whatever the heck they want.
I am an artist, and all I want is to be able to find a way for me to share my best work with the world in such a way that I can afford to keep doing it. Steemit is amazing that way..
You have some good ideas about getting people on here.. and you're right money shouldn't be the first order of business. It got me on (have to be honest), but we do need to find other ways to make it attractive.
Anyway.. no answers but grateful to read this--especially because you declined the payout.
Gonna follow to keep tabs on you! Thanks again. Xx, Kay
PS: what is hardfork19?? Not a techie here..
kayclarity - I like what you said.
I also don't know that HF19 is & what DID happen that Friday. I forgot to ask him. LOL
Hope things are working out for you now.
I have thought about doing something for artists once or twice in the past, I just don't have the capital to start something.
No offense to you as I haven't seen your work, but so far whenever someone has said they were an artist, I haven't resonated with their work.
There was a site I was on once where you can vote on singers & I found some REALLY good singers on there, but I can't remember what it's called, & I don't know if it helped them in any way.
Plus really there needs to be someone to help singers/actors b/c they tend to get EATEN alive either by their parents or the "NEW" manager who's ONLY it in for the money : (
Hardfork is a change to the software, so to say. And next Tuesday will be the 19th hardfork. The change is to the reward structure; the reward curve will be flat, instead of exponential, as it's been up to this point. It means new users such as yourself will have more "power", and established users will have less. It's good for new users, bad for older users. It's either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your perspective, and whether you're a new user, or an older user.
Thanks! I had that same question as @kayclarity. I totally agree with you on this one. Steemit could be SO MUCH BETTER! There's no text editor even!! Even I can build a website with a text editor and I'm just a visual web designer! WTF??? Having said that, I must say I like it; flaws and all. Just got so tired of FB and its b.s. censoring and spying shit. I'm really not here for the money. Honestly, I didn't think I'd make any...or maybe a dollar or two. I really like the social interaction, the exchange of ideas, experiences...and FB is just a meme vending machine with little or no intellectual value. Kudos for the truth telling.
I hope you don't mind, but I was reading your article in Robert Downey Jr's voice. Lol
This comment gets an upvote! I feel exactly the same, and smiled at the Robert Downey Jr comment.
He must have taken out the comment about Downey Jr. b/c it's not there now.
It has been 7 months since the article was written :)
Ditto on the text editor & the bloody emoji code doesn't work for me : (
getemoji.com works! :). And.. the Robert Downey Jr. was in response to the one right above. You'll get the hang of it all soon here, I promise! It's overwhelming at first but then it all becomes second nature. Worth the fight - promise!
Gotcha. Thanks.
Still hopeful that Steem will stay and become good good good. It's just such a great and refreshing thing..
Hey Kay, do you write songs, too? Hardfork would be a good title.. ha ha. When will you upload a video? I believe there's some shit code for uploading videos here. Hmm...not sure.
lol. Put it on the ideas list! haha
I have a few up! Go take a look :). I just upload them to youtube and then copy the link here. That'll work for now at least! Xx, Kay
Would you believe I can't find them? I'm pissed. Please paste a link here for us Steemit-challenged folks. Thanks.
lol! Sorry! I don't like to post the links too much because it can seem kinda spammy.
https://steemit.com/music/@kayclarity/for-all-of-the-90s-fans-savage-garden-cover-to-the-moon-and-back
https://steemit.com/cover/@kayclarity/incredible-song
https://steemit.com/openmic/@kayclarity/open-mic-week-37-original-soothing-song-downloadable
There you go! Really hope you like! xx
OH WOW!!! THANK YOU!!! YOU'RE AWESOME!!! Girl, you've got the looks and the voice!! You're going places! I'll resteemit and post on my FB, etc. Just remember who followed you first when you're rich and famouse, though.. ;-)
Thank you so much for your support! I am sooooo grateful for my first followers here--really & truly! xx
😁 👍 👍
Look what I found! EMOJIS!!! https://steemit.com/emojis/@blueorgy/steemit-emojis-master-list
Lol! So awesome!
lol - just stumbled on this comment again and it made me smile BIG! Hope you're doing well here all these months down?!
lol! HF19 stands for "hard fork 19" which is basically Steemit geek lingo for "significant change in the way the website is run" which is done through witnesses voting and some developers making the changes happen. They do them periodically.. I'm not sure which one we are on? But 19 was the one where they shifted voting power a little bit so that minnows had a bit more influence (you'll notice that people with full wallets have a LOT of power in their votes--one "whale" could single-handedly keep you doing really well on the platform.
I tend to dislike a lot of artists, too! Especially poets.. ah.. In general, though, you'll find that Steemit's quality is waaaaaaay above what you see elsewhere. I was expecting the same thing, and of course you have to sift a little bit, but there is much more great quality than I expected.
..except for the poetry. Most of it is painfully sentimental dross with no poetic effort beyond predictable rhymes and teen-girl journal free verse.. harsh, I know. But a bit true. Talking about it here just made me grumpy so I don't look at it anymore or talk about it much. lol!
But most everything else has been a very pleasant surprise. Lots of disenfranchised but intelligent and talented artists have come here like moths to a flame. You'll enjoy it, I think!
lol! HF19 stands for "hard fork 19" which is basically Steemit geek lingo for "significant change in the way the website is run" which is done through witnesses voting and some developers making the changes happen. They do them periodically.. I'm not sure which one we are on? But 19 was the one where they shifted voting power a little bit so that minnows had a bit more influence (you'll notice that people with full wallets have a LOT of power in their votes--one "whale" could single-handedly keep you doing really well on the platform.
I tend to dislike a lot of artists, too! Especially poets.. ah.. I'm extremely picky, although I also try to see potential in attempts as well, and not be too elitist about it either. In general, though, you'll find that Steemit's quality is waaaaaaay above what you see elsewhere. I was expecting the same thing as you, and of course you have to sift a little bit, but there is much more great quality than I expected. Not as much wincing as you'd think.
..except for the poetry. Most of it is painfully sentimental dross with no poetic effort beyond predictable rhymes and teen-girl journal free verse.. harsh, I know. But a bit true, and it doesn't bother me to say as they get a TON of upvotes, so whatever. Talking about it here just made me grumpy so I don't look at the tag anymore or talk about it much. haha
But most everything else has been a very pleasant surprise. Lots of disenfranchised but intelligent and talented artists have come here like moths to a flame. You'll enjoy it, I think!