RE: What makes one an influencer on steemit?
Well, I'm gonna turn my thoughts around a little bit here:
A) One of the main things that make influential the users in Steem, is to be part of communities, it sounds absurd but it is, getting curator roles put you above the rest of the users, obviously being a curator is not the only role you can do inside a project, you could layout the post, create content for the project, translations, discord moderation, but it has to be something active that allows you to socialize with those who are in the same position or more.
B) I personally think that steemit is not so horizontal in terms of equality of users, and basically because everything depends on steem power, so there is like that classism, between whales, projects that they run, users that are owners of the project, then those that are members of the project, Witness, developers, and those that socialize because they went to steem fest, that's the difference between common users and those that take steem to another level.
C) I believe that using the influence of others for your benefit, is not the same as telling the most voted users, and those named above, and have them share your publication, that will allow you to gain followers with voting power and relevance, steem is more proof of fame, than proof of brain.
Well I really like this term:
This more or less hits the nail on the head. It this makes it also extreme hard to attract new users.
I am positive that the communities can create some real influencers, influencers also known outside of steem. With an influencer I don't mean somebody who can direct others, but one which writes great posts, which are also read by people outside steem.
Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Peter
At least there are other platforms that are easier to use, medium and its subscription system, and if you are a content creator, hubpages would work perfectly, because it is so difficult to accept new users, and well this only happens to steem as a blog, to know so many terms, for example the bandwidth, steem power, delegation, because they give flag, communities, the hardforks, and the incentive to publish can be low or almost nil for the vast majority of users, now steem as a platform for videos, at least there dtube, vymm, give there some votes, and good helps quite to retain users, steem in the games splinterlands although there are many users who are quite hesitant to invest.
‘Fame’ can come from use of brain though? :)
Happy holidays Peter!