Dear Steemit, why do you undervalue your developers who make this platform big and usable? [REPOST for AWARENESS]
Since my first intro on Steemit, i've been paving my way up the ranks and reputation where each step brought me closer to the inner community of those who give actual use to Steemit: The developers.
From the top dogs, to the new underdog developers, we all share one thing: The passion for what we do.
During many talks with many people that i've started to know beyond their nicknames by sharing experiences, advice, ideas and concepts, one detail started to be obvious for most. We feel undervalued by this community. Now hold your horses! I'm not talking about the financial aspect to be clear. All we do and create is to help this community and to challenge and improve our own skills.
The thing here is simple; We don't get the recognition we deserve. We're spending countless hours staring at code for you're improvement or pleasure, for the community's sake and for the future of Steem. I'm having a hard time finding ANY new community where this amount of work and tools have been made and created by it's users, making Steemit and STEEM very usefull to anyone without knowledge on blockchain technology. This also includes the big dogs, like @dan and @ned. When do you guys ever thank them for the work, when will you ever leave a message about the work they've done? Yup. When you're looking to get an upvote most likely.
Well fellow Steemers, we feel undervalued when getting 200 upvotes in 12 hours for a work we've spend all our free time on, while some guy promoting drugs, or some other one-post-guy get's 500 votes and makes a 15k post in under 3 hours. Sometimes it feels like a slap in the face, and again, i'm not talking about the financial rewards here!
All i'm saying is, if you use a tool made by someone, send him your upvote, even if it's an older post. If you see a developer announce some usefull tool, upvote it, try it, use it, and leave some feedback.
All i'm saying is, don't be a sheep and blindly upvote random crap just because a whale upvoted it. Read the posts, judge yourself, look at how it could benefit the platform, support active writers/developers instead of one-post people, and please! Stop upvoting that #introduceyourself - The hype is over!
Small PS note
I never heard any developer literally complaining about this. I do feel most of us agreeing on this matter without the need to discuss it. It's just a 'Aah man, look! This random guy get's voted up for no reason and our hard work gets no votes' thing. Like said before, we all love what we do, and will continue to do it!
This is a REPOST to raise awareness - Not looking for your upvotes or the $$$, just for awareness!
#Steem on!
I want to thank all the developers that helped steemit , thank you all :)
Maybe you can do an article on all the developers on this plaform done or do a video or podcast of all the developers that have done for the platform? Could bring recognition.
we feel ya but developers really do want feedback on the projects they created so can iterate to make a better experience. Wonder if there will be a steemit hackathon soon?
@steve-walschot, I support the policy of your post, but I see from the other side and there was something odd in steemit. I am a new user and are always active to make posting and trying to make a good post, but where I pobud post no one responded to my post ..
But I see so many whales playing grub to give upvote to a friend, or grub they make at steemit ..
if this continues whether new users will get a chance it ??
Or a fee for posting that they make to always give their best to promote steemit steemit and in the future will come ..
If the whales just as it keeps the new user that wants to participate in steemit ?? may no longer on and off steemit step for the future ... !!
Thanks for your post.. :)
a BIG thank you to the entire 3rd party developer community that constantly makes Steemit better.
Sorry but can't help it...
I think it should be your
See, I'm new here. This is interesting to me. I think it's incredible that users can also be developers. What a resume builder. And money builder hopefully. But more importantly, how awesome. Thanks for your work!
Very Good :))
Not every people understands coding and how hard it can be sometimes as we haven't yet entered the era where coding is a base for everyone like learning the alphabet which would explain these undervalued posts
Well said and yes timing and luck play a big part in your chances of making any money here in my opinion. I really enjoy seeing how this is developing and reading the posts so thanks to everyone here on Steemit.