Adding value / Is Steem the place for a blog? / 're-up parroting'
Yoyoyo, there are so many things I wanted to talk about. I began typing and they all sort of mixed together. I had too many things on my mind to put into a little post.
What is adding value to Steem? I've been pondering on this question lately. There just doesn't seem to be a black and white answer. It involves perspective. Is adding value to be considered bringing new people onto the platform? Writing articles that get shared other places, or articles that get to the top of googles search algorithms for future page views? That is adding value surely. Hosting and taking part in competitions is adding value as well. However can't adding value be something that seems small? Encouraging dialogue, or writing something that has a profound affect on another user (Not saying that I have ever had this effect, others have on me though). Is a pretty picture adding value? is a Haejin TA adding value? How much value do these things add? How much are they worth? The lines are so blurry sometimes.
This place is a decentralized social media hub to me. Its going to have aspects of all other social media sites. Dmania is meme only, Zappl will be short form twitter style only, Steepshot is for pictures like Instagram. Apects of Quora, Reddit, Facebook, and Wordpress are all here. An Instagram photo might not have value to someone looking for answers on Quora, it still has value to someone. Nobody wants to see a Quora Q and A on their Instagram feed. When more 'Subsites' come out, people wont have to. As far as I heard though, Steemit will still aggregate them all. It will eventually be like the one social media account to rule them all. It could be prettttty sweet!
Is Steemit the place for a blog? I have a Steemit car magnet that says 'Blog, post, get paid' so it must be. Though I often talk myself out of posting because I get tripped up on what is adding value. I decide my words are probably not adding value. Then I just go upvote memes instead lol. You don't see a blog style post end up on the hot or trending pages very often. If I wanted to achieve that, I would turn this post into 3 or 4 posts.
One post titled 'What is considered adding value to Steemit - An open discussion' I would make another post titled 'Is Steemit a good place to be a blogger', yet another called 'Steemit is the hub and spoke blockchain for social media'.. I could go on. Then I just drag each one out, and individually they would have a better chance of ending up being of higher payouts. Nobody has time for these walls of text it seems.
I say yes. Blog here! this is the place to just write down your thoughts. Maybe we will have an aggregate blogging interface eventually that will separate posts like this, from memes, from photos. I enjoy getting it all from here though. I have had many a good discussion with people through posts like these. I have met many good people. I have learned, laughed, cried. To me it all has its value. Surely if Haejin's 10 TA's for the day are all worth 200$, then this post can be worth something. Your post can be worth something too!
I was on a website called the Dailypaul. It was dedicated to Ron Paul, real news, and ideas of liberty. I enjoyed my time there. I never made money. I just got to interact with people I respected. I was able to learn from them. To share ideas. When posting on there it was respectful to see if the news had already been posted by someone else, if it had. You wouldn't make a new post about it, you would just take part in the conversation that has already been started.
The other day I was up late. I found out that Steem was being listed on Binance. The announcement was 40 minutes old when I seen it. I though sweet I better make a post about that, BUT FIRST let me see if someone was first tot he news. @stackin posted about it 20 minutes before I thought about posting it. I cancelled my post and just left a comment in his post. "Good catch, thanks for being on top of the news" or something insignificant like that. The next day I came on here to see that 1/3 people had made a post about it. Of those, 50% were just congratulatory posts. Others had additional info and ETC in them. Stackin's post still covered the majority of posts about it. The trending page and hot page was full of posts about it. Other times I seen this happen were when the Falcon Heavy launched, and when Bitconnect died. All those events had hundreds of people making a post about them.
I just want to offer the suggestion that this is one of the things Resteeming is for. If you are constantly on the top of the hot or trending pages. Or if you are even just like me and you make 3$ or 10$ a post. When you find something you want to post about, take a second to see if someone else has posted about it. If they have give them props. Upvote and resteem them. Join the dialogue in their comments. If it inspires you and you want to post about it too, to add something or to question something.. then go for it. I am not completely innocent of this, it has happened to me.
I make a decent effort to scroll through my feed, through the tags I would use on the post, and to do a search in Steemit just to see if someone beat me to it and deserves an upvote. To see if they covered all the things I wanted to talk about. If they did then there is no reason for me to post. This was an unwritten law on The Daily Paul. It would be nice if it were exercised a little more here, to gives to props to the minnows and get them on the hot page instead of posting about it yourself and stealing their moment for glory lol!
Man, this went quick for me today, so its probably a wall of text that will drag on for those who try to read it. Sorry about that, hope it encourages even just couple people to think about some of this though. If you have something to add, I would appreciate the thoughts. If I were to make another post today which of these subjects should I go into further detail on? Or are these topics done and dead and I should find something better to post about?
Thanks for your time as always. Im going to take some pictures today. The weather is nice and a drive sounds like a good idea so I might as well find some nice things to capture and share.
Woot woot,
I just post stuff when it hits me. I therefore was guilty of adding to the flurry of posts regarding the Falcon Heavy launch. I've never actually searched to see if anyone posted stuff before I post.
I did note that my post on the intel chip vulnerabilities was a day earlier and a hundredth as rewarded as another post, but that's due to networking, which I don't do much of. I don't aim to cultivate relationships that can be useful to me financially, I aim to cultivate relationships with folks that are interesting to me.
I find that more rewarding in currency I value most: the truth.
And that's how I found this post =)
Thanks!
Ya, so many repeat posts around here! It gets kind of annoying to see the same topic in hot or trending more than twice...
Anyways, one thing I think was an awesome point was how steemit could be the one social media account to rule them all. I really need to get active on the other sites like zappl and the others.
Nice post
Ya if we could have our favorite YouTubers YouTube channel, and our favorite twitter feeds in the same feed with other things like our favorite Instagram people or our favorite comedy sites/ meme creators.. The one website that combs through them all to give you a full spectrum social media experience. I need to participate in all the 'spokes' like zappl, steepshot, dmania, and etc more too.
This brings me to another thing I ponder that I've been debating making a post about if I could find a good way to approach it.. what is the difference between an SMT and something like zappl or dmania? I don't see the boundaries. Steemit has delegated sp to zappl, and to dmania. Why are they not SMT's though? And how would they work as SMT's instead of whatever they are now..? I like that they aren't SMT's personally. I just wonder if Steemit will want them to convert to SMT's eventually and take their delegated SP back or what the game plan for this grand experiment is. Sidetracked lol
No worries on sidetracking, I've been really curious about SMT's as well. It almost seems like everything could be done with steem. Maybe when other companies come in they will want their own tokens and maybe they can perform different functions.
I'd love to see a more configurable layout as well. Like even separating resteems and user blog posts on a persons blog page would be really nice. Or muting resteems from certain users. Having a tab for different content like zappl etc. All that would make this platform incredible. I'm sure doing that would be a challenge for devs, but worthwhile imo.
there are surely many ways to add value to steem as you mentioned, but beyond all others the best way, in my opinion, to add value to your steem account is to find the best way to accumulate SP as it is going to get harder and harder to accumulate as the price of steem and SBD continue to rise... and the exchange rate set to turn out of our favor... for me this has been to take whatever I earn, from post payouts and COMMENTS (the hidden gold of steemit) and convert to SP. Surely, there are many tactics to take, but not all tactics are of highest priority to all users.
ENjoyed this post, much respect from @conradsuperb
I spend sbd on other coins I want to get into but I have never powered down sp. I just accumulate all I can. I am glad that is the way you have chosen to do it. I think investing into the platform goes a long ways. Not everyone can monetarily invest though, I get it. It really is all about getting as much as you can now before this place grows in to what it is going to though.
Also I agree that comments are indeed the hidden gold of Steemit. Thanks for your thoughts yo!
Yes, I would do the same but i hardly make any in SBD from posts tbh, so I usually convert what I get to steem and then power up, or I will occasionally put in small bids for voting bots to try to help boost some of my posts. Monetarily investing along the way is what I plan to do since your wallet is essentially a 'vest fund' I plan to throw small sums of money in here and there as I would my Roth IRA. Thanks for getting back, regards from @conradsuperb
Stay cool @drpuffnstuff
You raise a lot of good points. Everything we post should have value, but very little of it actually does. I try and resteem posts that I think are interesting, but now I'm at the point where I start running out of bandwidth unless I dial it back. There's just so many awesome people out here!
One thing I've learned very quickly is to build a network of people you think are cool, and just stick to that feed. Don't waste your time with created, it's not that great. Build meaninful relationships with the people you follow, and your overall enjoyment of the site will follow accordingly.
I do believe Steemit is trying to figure itself out, though. There's a lot of things going on, all at once, and it can be difficult to figure out which ones are where and what's worth pursuing. Should Steemit figure this out, we should see a very interesting scenario where we have a google-like umbrella that is run by a whole group of awesome people.
That's a good lesson to have learned quickly. Not to make Steemit an echo chamber but to find people with challenging ideas, that encourage you to think, participate, and to grow.
And to make things engaging, no? You'd rather see the new posts from the people you follow rather than a bunch of spam from randos.
I once had this same thoughts too, i dont know what is considered as adding value to steemit, but even with that, i just feel steemit is a mind blowing platform with no discrimation. Am happy you wrote about this topic, atleast alot of persons will have what to ponder upon.
With regards to this;
I wish to get on the hot page someday!
I catch myself thinking that very same thing all the time. "Is this good enough", "should I make it one post instead of two", "is this interesting to other people", etc. I have to make a deliberate effort to silence the inner critic, otherwise I won't publish anything.
P.S.
That's an instafollow in my book. Hello, fellow sane person!
Same as the parrots who keep repeating how great this Plattform and the community is and how much better than anywhere else. Like as we are the chosen ones.
If you read it again and again, day by day, finally you will believe it too.
Parrots and Donkeys... the big Steemit Zoo
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Doing posts about the same subjects is inevitable, there are notminfinity subjects, but there are almost infinite ways of expressing opinions and thoughts.
Anyone can add value to this blockchain by sharing their ideas with the community, or in the case of developers, by sharing their code and tools created.
Every person has their own unique way of thinking, by sharing it, your are contributing value to the community, even if the subject was already discussed by another user.
That’s my opinion! Cheers!