5 Types of Posts You Will Find in the Beginning Stages of Steemit

Only time will tell what the future of Steemit has in store, but over the first little bit of its life, you can expect to see these 5 types of posts.

5.) Re-posts

It's true. It's low-hanging fruit. With years worth of history (and voting data) from other social networks to pull from, be prepared to see a lot of content that you may have seen in the past. Some of these re-posts are popular images, others embedded YouTube videos, but no matter what it's already been proven on the battle-field of the world-wide-web.

4.) Raffles

In one of the first spin-offs from the original intent of the platform, there has been a rise of raffle posts. Indicating that the OP will share the proceeds of upvotes with the commenters. While it's definitely an interesting use of the platform, it could lead to quite a bit of noise over time that will likely become self-defeating.

3.) Meta Posts / Karma Trains

The last few weeks have made quite a few whales, and those whales are still both humble and gleeful. You will find quite a few posts talking about the digital wealth that has been created over a relatively short period of time. They might even share some of that wealth with upvotes for all.

2.) Crowd-funding / Begging

Another interesting spin-off use case for the platform is crowd-funding. This is one that -- if sites like Kickstarter are any indication -- might not be as noisy as raffles. We might be able to watch the first stages of ventures that rise to become household names through magical internet points. What a strange world this has become indeed!

That said, this could easily devolve into simple begging. :-/

1.) Actual original content

Finally the thing that the platform is really geared towards is original content. Whether that takes the form of educational articles, or books self-published a chapter at a time (with instant monetization), or simple posts describing ones life or home, there is good original content being created, and it's great to see it all evolve and take shape.