A New Beast For Building Online Communities

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Well that's the hype-ish title of the post that I just put up over on Feverbee's forum here: https://experts.feverbee.com/t/a-new-beast-for-building-online-communities/5513

It's a follow up to Building & Evaluating The Value of Blockchain Communities, so let's see what'll unfold. I would highly recommend large STEEM holders to consider this angle and approach a community of community-experts, even though it's arguable that nobody's an expert on social blockchains. In any case, this platform is great for developing symbiotic relationships with other communities.

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Hey Kevin,
Good to hear from you.

I've never heard of Steemit before – I just checked it out. Interesting concept.

What is the challenge that you're currently trying to solve? How can we help?

Thoughts?

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I don't know Kevin...

Steemit is still in beta and working out all the kinks and HF's. I believe after beta is finished and as long as the price of STEEM is attractive enough, that will seal the deal for anyone who does not know about Steemit yet.

Yeah, you're right about there not being any real problems. Hmm.. I guess it doesn't hurt to have more minds coming onto this platform, early-adopter and exploratory types will do that.. ;)

TBH...

Why would you not began to learn how to secure your private keys (password) which is already built in with a crypto currency wallet on Steemit

(((mind blowing)))

Especially with no fee or cost!!!

(SOLD YET?)

But will it scale-up? STEEM vs others. I think there's a lot of merit to this point alone if it can be answered comprehensively.

ROFL :D

(spits grass out!)

Time Kevin, I believe in time...

Put the power to affect the community/platform in the hands of the people, not concentrated centralized power of people who have the most $(SP). That's how to make Steemit great.

Looks like some brave Steemians is going to Make Steemit Great Again! (MSGA)

So if the status-quo is that of concentrated centralized power of the people who have the most $(SP).. are they currently incapable of directing the platform's future? I think being stake-based influence is somewhat a rational way to work it out. Plus - by definition, the power to affect the community/platform is already in the hands of the people.

No, concentrated power of people, thinking about $ first, aren't best suited to lead a community. Let the actual people who are in the community lead it and drive it. Right now it's not that way or who gets rewarded, and who gets witness upvoted. The SP $ has the say. Having some whales not upvote, while others do, and some whales flag posts that have no whale votes, isn't a solution.

Who is Best Suited to Manage a Community and Make Decisions?

Do You Want a Corporate Governing Culture, or a Socially Self-Governing Community?

Early miners doesn't necessarily mean they're good curators for the platform's long-term health, which is why guild and SP delegation is important. Or else there really isn't any other way to go about it..

Honestly it's starting to look like the content creators need to be separated from the "centralized power of people"
Too much complaining about power on both sides.. two different sides with completely different forms of power.. one being money and the other creatively

Hey Kevin,

Well I recently made a comparison of Steemit and Medium and I concluded that we need to:

...combine Medium's look and feel and their marketing reach with our shared revenue model

I believe that is one of steemit biggest challenges today.

Good point, it depends which STEEM-app is going to use it that way.. is Steemit the one?

Way to represent homie..

Np. Join in the fun on that forum too ;)

Beasts are good - i like that, especially dancing beasts :-). I am unfortunately not a large Steem stakeholder but checking this @kevinwong

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