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RE: Why New Steemers Will Not Be Early Adopters
It seems there is quite a few members getting discouraged, including myself. Some of us work for hours writing good content and only getting a few to even see it. It also seems only a few are reaping the rewards. If something does not change it will not grow to the levels of reddit or facebook. You have to keep people involved to keep them on the site. The rewards need to be spread out more. Ive seen plain simple posts with a thousand steem dollars on them. Ive seen others that just copy and past that have 5000.While others spend hours to write a good article and may only get 2 votes.
If enough get discouraged then this will steam out quick.
Yes, I joined about a month ago and was posting regularly, but not a lot. I felt like I was getting a slowly building trend for votes and earnings, but then all of a sudden in the past week and half, it all went away. It is frustrating, but I'm trying to stay with it. This article is encouraging because I feel better knowing that it is still so early and there is still so much potential...I just wish I could get my votes back1
I think the bigger problem is the payment itself ... there's a reason why people use facebook without getting paid for it ... they are in fact doing it, just for the fun of it
I agree, and actually just wrote a post about a potential problem which steemit might have... rewarding people with small amounts of money actually reduces their intrinsic desire to do what you are rewarding.
Hi llawen, I've written a blog post about the problem of small external rewards affecting people's intrinsic motivation negatively, which I think you might be interested to read.
All the best @freewill