Steemit FAQ - A Few Remaining Questions for Technical Pros & Steemit Dev Team
I've been working on the Official Steemit FAQ. Just a few questions remain unanswered, and @ned advised me to seek help from Steem's technical pros and Steemit developers. If you can answer any of these questions, I'd be very grateful.
I will delete questions as they are answered.
Remaining Questions
If I invest x Steem Power and do not curate or post content, how much will I have at the end of the distribution phase, compared to a similar timeframe after the dispersal period? - Partially addressed by @arhag
How secure is Steemit?
Who are the Steemit developers? How big is the team? What is their background? Who is doing what? Will be published by the Steemit team at a later time.
What does Steemit's development roadmap look like? Will be published by the Steemit team at a later time.
Right now Steemit is useful for transient content. What about the authors who would like to publish more permanent writing and be rewarded for it long term, rather than just 30 days? Will Steemit be able to offer a solution for them?
Thank you for any help you're able to provide!
Thanks @shenanigator! Here are my two, and we'll have a few technicians come in for the remainder. Some of these questions regarding team and roadmap we'll save for a time when we publish about them specifically :)
Am I allowed to use the Steemit logo?
Currently the Steem and Steemit logos overlap. "Steemit" will have its own logo created in the next few months so that it can be distinguished from STEEM. The steemit logo will be proprietary while STEEM and its three squiggles will remain open public use.
What does Steemit's development roadmap look like?
More on this to come. It includes social features to no end.
Thank you. Regarding the roadmap and questions about the Steemit team - Should I remove them from the FAQ altogether? Or leave them in the FAQ and make a note such as "Look for additional information from the Steemit team in the coming weeks. Follow @ned, @dantheman, and @steemitblog to ensure you see updates on this subject."?
Woops, gotta change the logo used in my promo materials (in the music event biz) then! Makes good sense to use Steem instead.
Hi, I hope you don't mind I made a bunch of suggestions in the Google Docs.
Obviously you can reject any or all of them.
But I wanted to comment on one thing as a suggestion to the developers as I know they are calling this a "social network".
Personally I think calling steemit a "social network" is selling it short. This is not like Facebook. And although we are bringing in a lot of features many social networks have, I still think steemit needs to be differentiated as it is something completely different.
Personally I don't even like calling Facebook a social network. Because it isn't one. It's just a shopping window where a friend might walk by once in a while.
Steemit is a Support Network.
Or at least, that is a better description in my opinion. Sure we make friends here and we socialise, but steemit is so much more than that, and that's what I think we should be selling to the wider community, not the whole BLOG FOR MONEY context that leads new users and non-bloggers to disappointment.
Steemit is a place where users (get paid to) support each other. We are a network of bloggers and curators who have better online etiquette than anywhere in the world-wide-web because this is a networking space users have come to respect. There is trolling, yes. But none to the extent of the rest of the online world, and people here are collaborating and defending each other and helping each other up in order to make this place valuable to those already here and those who are yet to come.
We don't just socialise here. We support eachother!
Of course I understand the developers are going with calling it a "social network" so reject the suggestion by all means, but I just thought I would voice my opinion on that label as I think "support network" is much more fitting and is a great way to differentiate ourselves from the Facebook we've grown to hate because of their lack of support to the user.
If there are any suggestions you wish to discuss with me I am available on steemit.chat @beanz. :)
I'll take a look at your suggestions, thanks!
If you write a blog post about Steemit being a support network, be sure to send it to me. I'm @shenanigator in chat.
Thanks much for all the sweat and time in this @shenanigator .. as mentioned yesterday, I now have the doc linked from ibringawareness.com and will feature it more prominently on my next update of that page. Hope you get all of your questions answered here today as well.
Best, Guy