RE: Addressing Steemit's Social Confusion
Steemit is a blogging site right now. This has it's pluses as well as it's minuses.
The only way Steemit can become a 'social media' site is when financial incentives are incidental to social engagement. For this to happen the site needs to find more ways to keep users engaged & shift the focus away from monetary rewards.
As long as 'rewards for blogging/ commenting/ curating' are front and centre of people's minds when they come to this site, it will not be a social media site.
My view is that Steemit should remain a blogging site and be refined to ensure that it becomes the 'home of quality content.' What would be beneficial is if there was another platform, powered by Steem, that was socially orientated.
Steemchat and Steemspeak show there is an appetite for social interaction among the Steem community. What would be great is if a 'Steemsocial' existed where people can earn micro-rewards for their engagement. More along the lines of slack or a chat site, where people can converse and get a slice of the Steem daily payouts for doing so.
A platform that is light and fun, with a small element of rewards, would be the perfect foil for the weigher content on Steemit.
It would also open people's eyes to the world of Steem and all it's possibilities. And free people from the notion that Steem is solely about Steemit.
Thank you Nanzo, I like this balanced approach, in the last couple of days I have heard some really good suggestions about where we should go and how we should view ourselves.
I like the idea of a Steem social, whereby people got a kind of interaction reward, as you say, this would make us more inclusive. Content producers would still get the highest rewards, however the users who provide the much needed attention, also get some candy :-)
Ned made a very good point in one of the Tattiana shows, and that is that Reddit started off as a porn aggregate, and morphed into what it is today. Therefore Steemit is coming from a really good early starting position. So I'm all for letting it be a blogging platform and the social side develops later, I'd just like to see a consistent message being shown to the outside world.
*Cg8
Nice post @cryptogree, I agree with @nanzo-scoop here -
steemit is a blogging site and should remain that, unique kinds of collaborations and posts occur here that I've never witnessed within any other sites social media or otherwise.
Also, "steemsocial" is a great idea and agree that there is plenty of evidence that steemians would be interested, I know I'm completely interested.