Have Your Say - The State of Steemit this Christmas (best comment wins 10 SD worth of SP)
Introduction
As we are coming up to Christmas and the end of the year I thought it might be useful to get some community reflection and feedback on Steemit and Steem.
We are only about 7 months or so into the project and still in beta but I think it is still useful to consider what we have achieved so far and the direction which we are taking now and in the future.
I would like this post to serve as a community discussion and informal poll about Steemit and Steem in general.
Since people seem quite fond of prizes and competitions I will award my favourite comment $10 in Steem Power (with a provisional deadline of Friday 23rd December midnight GMT).
How to Structure Your Feedback
This is entirely up to you but here are some things you may wish to think about:
What do you think works best about Steemit?
What doesn't work?
What improvements could be made and how? What is missing?
If you had to prioritise one single issue that you would like to be fixed what is it?
What do you see as the main issue that is holding up wider Steemit adoption?
If you could give Dan, Ned and the Steemit team one piece of advice what would it be?
Would you recommend Steemit to a friend or family member? If yes, how would you do it? If not why not?
What content do you think is absent on Steemit?
What bloggers or content creators would you like to see on Steemit? What have you done to try to get them on board?
What do you see for the year ahead and what would you like to see?
What (if anything) have you done to promote Steemit yourself? Is there anything that would encourage you to promote Steemit more?
As a fun exercise - how would you sum up Steemit in one sentence?
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There is no doubt that Steemit has revolutionized the way people see social media. Nonetheless, the blockchain background, being based heavily on short term investment, scams and gambling, are disabling the potential for wider acceptance.
The UI is on hold because Steemit is still growing and taking shape from free market events that are unknown-unknown. From an investing point of view this is the best way to go as far as founders and early investors are concerned. From a wide-acceptance point of view this is debilitating since people seek security, clarity and simplicity as to its nature.
Good points. Thank you for sharing:)
The sense of community has trumped it all...
Merry Christmas @thecryptofiend :))
Merry Christmas to you too:)
Merry christmas.
Thanks. Merry Christmas to you too!
Good comments all around. To add one observation, I think there's a significant recency bias in the rewards system. The most significant payouts only come in the first 24 hours (and to a lesser extent in the 30 days after), so "old" but "good" content gets forgotten. There is very little incentive to promote/upvote content older than 30 days even if it's way better than all of the recent material. I think this is a serious impediment to upping the quality of the content on the platform. When I'm reading regular blogs, I often don't stumble upon the best material until it's been posted for months or even years. But it's still gold.
Not quite sure how to deal with or think about this problem. If you know of any past articles/posts that have addressed this issue, I'd love to read them.
Great point. A lot of people have brought this up but I can't remember any proposed solutions.
RS and UV for you!
Great stuff, keep up the good work. I am going to have to come back to this later for sure.
I will say have a good night since you are about 5 hrs ahead of me
Thanks. Look forward to it!
Steemit's integration of a functional and efficient payments system with a social media platform works the best. But the way that this strength is highlighted in the platform's marketing does not seem to be working. One way to solve this would be to develop a set of advertising/marketing language standards to make the STEEM economy feel more accessible to people when they are first exposed to the concept.
I think this issue should be prioritized, and suspect it to be the single biggest barrier to growing the platform's user base in demographics that are currently under-served by traditional businesses/governments in the formal economy. As this category encompasses over 20% of people in the US and more than half the world's population, this may currently be our biggest barrier to growth in terms of the new user adoption.
I suspect the biggest barrier to growth in terms of attracting new users of SBD/STEEM at present is the public perception of uncertainty about the platform's long-term stability.
My main suggestion to Dan, Ned, and the Steemit team would be:
Keep up the good work, but please make sure your actions in the next year do not give potential new users/investors the impression that the site's basic functions or currency mechanics are subject to abrupt change.
I would, have, and will continue to recommend Steemit to friends and family.
As things stand, I will not know what is missing from this platform until I see that it is no longer missing because some clever person has added it.
I'd love to see some big names in journalism on Steemit, but don't think the platform is quite ready for them. Most of the successful people I know in media already have their own thing going on, and will not likely jump on board until Steemit can be easily integrated into whatever their thing is.
Niche-subject bloggers like John Robb and ALWAYS MORE ARTISTS would be great to see in the near future.
I see strong (and probably bumpy) growth in the year ahead. I would like to see the development of a respectful and diverse community here continue throughout this time.
From mentioning the platform to >14k subscribers of a nonprofit newsletter I edit to hosting a local meetup, I've done a bunch of stuff to promote Steemit. Because ...
After trying Steemit, everything else is pretty much bullshit.
Thank you so much for a brilliant response:)