Questions for SteemIt Inc.
To Whom It May Concern at SteemIt Inc.,
As an investor I would like some information so I can decide how to manage my investment. (See how I formatted my question?) lol
For the past year we've been talking about SMTs and end-user sign ups and it seems you are getting close to these goals. With HardFork 20 looming and many witnesses already installing the code, it seems much of the groundwork has been completed and we are getting close to some goals we have all been excited about.
Velocity is scheduled to drop in a couple of weeks and if I understand the schedule we are on the last stretch of SMTs, Hivemind and the test net are in place and I hear there is much improvement with documentation and tools for developers who want to build out dApps. Congratulations on that work and establishing better communication and timelines!
I've been here for over two years and I am still unclear on how to view the role of SteemIt Inc. I don't know what responsibilities the company will handle and what responsibilities are left to the community. I would really appreciate some clarification on how SteemIt, Inc sees it's role. Will you be focused only on developing the Blockchain or do you expect to put together a business team to promote STEEM. Wouldn't that be a good thing to share with investors?
It is my opinion that outside of the Steem Community very few know what we are doing and where we are heading, so my question is, Will there be a Branding and Marketing effort created by SteemIt Inc?
There was a discussion yesterday of building a business minded team of people to start to define and package the strengths of the Steem Blockchain. This group would begin to define: What are our strengths, how do we stack up against the other Blockchains? Do we have a sweet spot? Establish our target market, and what types of dApps we should attempt to attract. Once defined the group would begin to actually promote and market STEEM.
Clarification on what efforts SteemIt Inc has in place might make both teams more effective, make sure there is a cohesive message and cut down on duplicate efforts.
Looking forward to hearing about the business side of future initiatives.
PS. Hey, @ned sorry about that hair thing, but it was really fun and I hope harmless. :)
We’re working on it. Truly. The team has been steadily growing the past couple months and been focusing a lot on strategic developments. We want to include all of you in those plans and will be writing a marketing blog post here in the coming weeks.
@kittyninja you wouldn't happen to be a sociopath would you ...just askin' ??
No @robertandrew, as she explained below she works in the marketing team and they report to the Head of Communications & Advocacy, who reports directly to Ned.
She manages the twitter account, the rest of Steemit social accounts and the Steemit account too.
She said she’ll do an #introducemyself post very soon. =]
Flagged for multiple account spam, comment spam and tag spam.
the accounts of the spammer:
main account:
https://steemit.com/@gaottantacinque
spam accounts:
https://steemit.com/@gasaeightyfive
https://steemit.com/@marcocasario
https://steemit.com/@cribbio
automated comment spam:
https://steemit.com/@marcocasario/comments
our tags he is spamming:
#resteembot, #bestofresteembot, #winwithresteembot, #resteembotvip
@resteem.bot
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(and off-topic discussions) on this post. STOP YOUR ABUSE.
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Who this troll is
@marcocasario this guy ripped off my friend or rather refuse to return 20 sbds or so to my friend. I even messaged yabba about it. Now you notice he isnt listed on steembot tracker? Talk to @superbot how he has been harrased by this guy. He really thinks he owns the term 'resteem' dont let this guy bully you.
@dynamicgreentk I've been harassed by him for about 3 months now but he found someone more stubborn than himself.
Look at his blog and comments. Now he's scamming with his service way fewer people. You can notice it also if you look at his stats. =]
I researched about him some time ago and he has A LOT of enemies. I wrote about it here too when my rep got nuked. (eventually I found out that he pretended it was from him but he actually had no affiliation with it, it was for a bug that I expoloited at my advantage in my "war" against him instead of reporting it -as I usually do-, and that pissed off someone higher up)
He is a cancer on this platform.
PS. I found what you are talking about, he is sooo pathetic.
Trust me i know. It was 10 sbds not 20 he wouldnt refund back to my friend. I gave him those sbd's. He felt so bad that he accidentally sent 10 to that guy but then that guy would not refund it so he left steemit never came back. You should have fun reading this
https://steemkr.com/resteem/@superbot/superbot-weekly-resteem-contest-22nd-jan-2018
the comments on this one is pretty fun and yeah he never returned those sbds. Sbds were worth like 8 or 10 bucks then too. He straight up took a poor veterans money
@dynamicgreentk
Your friend never contacted us about the money he sent us unsolicited, so we saw the money as a donation.
Later we noticed that he wrote messages to strangers somewhere in Steemit, which could never reach us.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@markaustin/original-improvisational-composition-entitled-live-jam-5#@wfwlasvegas/re-markaustin-original-improvisational-composition-entitled-live-jam-5-20180202t151353715z
We don't want to be on Steembot Tracker because there are too many spammers listed and we don't want more users, we prefer quality.
We do not claim the "resteem" term.
The problem is that spammers/scammers use our name "Resteem Bot" to make profit out of our popularity.
@resteem.bot
can you guys get a room elsewhere?
Each time you lie, it makes you look horrible. Please have a english speaking friend Read the comments and pictures in the link provided above. You can play dumb all you want but the blockchain dont lie. You are clearly the spammer bud. Sorry. Stop ripping people off. Do something about that memory, maybe you truly forgot or resteem.bot is co owned by a child who does things behind the owners back? Maybe google translate cant translate pictures? You had multiple chances to refund that money but you chose not to and play dumb and then continued to harass people afterwards. Who came first the term resteem or @resteembot or @resteem.bot? Since you're the only one harassing people you're definitely the first one to do that around the term #resteem.
Wow, just read the link and its comments thoroughly. Provided above. He contacted you so did I. You do not own the name resteem. Calm down, read and stop harassing people. Thank you.
I agree, apologies again @whatsup.
resteem.bot likes to invade other people's post with his little wars.
He also paid 5 SBD to bid-bots to have his spam comment on top of your post (and triggered all the bid-bots spam on multiple comments as you can see..) 😌
"we don't want more users, we prefer quality."
That's why he resteems posts with only 1 image and 20 tags and many scams (some even flagged by Steemcleaners: eg. 1, 2).
He only wants to make money, read his emails.
dynamicgreentk, I'm not surprised that he stole from you since he's famous for having repeatedly tried to steal Byteball referrals.
PS.
@dynamicgreentk
I verified myself what you claim. The veteran that left the platform after being scammed by flauschi/resteem.bot, cross checked the transfer on steemdb.com, the price of SBD in February.
CONFIRMED. He STOLE 100$ from your friend.
Added this new info to his tail.
Negative
lol
Marketing is very important for the future of Steemit.
And the last person to say anything about it is one of those spammers who destroy Steemit more and more every day.
The @gaottantacinque = @gasaeightyfive = @marcocasario = @cribbio spammer was flagged by the Steemit community, not just by us.
But he just keeps spamming.
Now he's seriously trying to suck up to Steemit marketing.
We hope that with the new hardfork there will be more possibilities to stop spammers and scammers.
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He said.. after invading a trending article, spamming the whole post and triggering tons of bid-bots spam comments.
@resteem.bot = @flauschi = @sweety170 = downvote-only-accounts, you are a cancer on this platform.
All you do is spread your hate and start wars with competitors to protect your pathetic manual slow resteems ( threatened by my FREE automated fast resteems ).
Many honest people left the platform because harassed by you.
You need medical attention, your drug abuse in clubs is leading to delirious depression: only 3 accounts (including you) downvoted me since I joined. I can't even count yours.
I'm not sucking up loser, I'm heavily invested in the platform (Vs you = leech) and I am bringing people into it so it's in my interest that it grows well. Go back playing videogames and let the adults talk. And no pocket money from mommy this week.
-- Stop invading other people's posts, pathetic bully. --
SEE HERE for a SUMMARY of who the THIEF/scammer/spammer is.
Voting on this due to the person you're replying to is buying votes for his comment to possibly make it look like users are agreeing with him.
Thanks anyway @acidyo. Luckily someone cleaned this mess! =]
tnx for upvote
@whatsup,
I don't know what STEEMIT.INC do! But I feel they do better than FaceBook.INC!
Cheers~
I agree that it would be nice to know. From the outside, Steemit often seems like a rudderless ship just sort of drifting aimlessly around the block chain - although recently a sense of direction may have started to emerge. Even massive ninja-mines don't last forever, so I have often wondered about their plan for generating income. But I am an investor in Steem, not Steemit. Aside from things that have a direct impact on the blockchain, I'm not sure if Steemit really owes us any answers about their business plans.
So, I sort-of think that anyone who wants to launch an initiative on the Steem block chain should more or less ignore Steemit's vision for itself. My advice to a would-be collaboration would be: Create your own vision and follow it. Cooperate with Steemit where the opportunities arise and compete with them where needed. Don't put your own destiny in someone else's hands.
I'm okay with either answer. If we are going with the "Build it and they will come" approach I would rather invest in a chain that is taking action or build a team in the community. This is becoming a highly competitive market.
I'm not trying to control what they will do, I just want to know. If they don't want to brand and market and find ways to pitch the chain, that is A-okay. If they do want to promote, I think the community should get on board with their messaging.
Yes, this is critical. Because right now the landing page for someone new to the site says “your voice is worth something! Get paid for good content.” And it should really be changed to say “your social networking skills are worth something! Get paid for your connections.”
We’re working on it!
Absolutely no one thinks you play any role with SteemIt Inc.
Edited to say... ah, I was wrong. lol sorry.
That’s fine :)
Welcome @kittyninja!
Now guys do your magic, make STEEM fly! =]
Thanks!
You should introduce yourself if you actually do. We get a lot of trolls around here.
I'm not really talking about a social media blast, I'm talking about branding, packaging, Marketing, vs. Advertising
Who do you report to?
I understand. That’s actually been a huge undertaking since I started in this role. I report to our Head of Communications & Advocacy, who reports to Ned. I’ll do an introduce myself post very soon.
She had me fooled.
It's still open for debate ,but who knows lol
She manages this twitter account.
Oh dear. Love that 10 rep tho.
I also manage our Steemit account and the rest of our social accounts :)
I agree with that. (Assuming that the messaging makes sense.) And of course I'd like as much information from Steemit as they're willing to give. But I don't think anyone needs to wait for permission or instruction from Steemit before beginning to act. If d-app development is any indication, even if they don't drive it, Steemit might be willing to help fund a well thought out recruitment strategy from elsewhere in the community.
Good points.
I reached out with an email yesterday and even though i cannot disclose what they wrote it seems their focus is mostly on developing. Im not of the opinion they have a mature marketing team. Maybe its in the idea phase, maybe its in the starting phase but what @kittyninja says they seem to be starting it up which is of tremendous importance.
I provided them with an idea i think would augment the promotion aspect to a large degree but thats only one level. What we need is old school shillers ready to reach out to everyone and anyone in media. Just writing a few blogs and twitter posts will not cut it.
I can not agree less with your opinion. Just go ahead and do what u want to do
I am fine with you disagreeing. I didn't really state an opinion, I asked a question about how something was going to be managed because that information might be helping in making decisions on how to manage my investment and my time.
Let's say a group of people want from the community want to decide how to market it, but our marketing message conflicts....
There is no expectation of what answer they give, just a request for Transparency in what their plans are.
I am doing what I wanted to do, which is to ask for info. :) lol
this is beautifully written with many points we are all wondering about. off to read all the comments ...
Have you joined the MSP talks with @andrarchy? Some of these things have sort of been mentioned.
I agree there should be clarity on whether they want to focus their efforts on marketing steem, once the updates are here. There is a decentralized marketing community effort @steem-ambassador right now (of which I am part), but I really would like to know whether they want to dedicate time and resource to promotion.
I would classify you as a major investor.
It's sad how in the dark you are.
I think the main think with Steemit is it is investor supported.
I think in the short run the price is heading down but do expect it to win in the end.
Steem = Investor Supported - Steem vs Facebook - Steemit Costs increasing? - Witness fla*s Steemit Employee? - 252
I like your way of thinking / asking :-)
Resteemed since I want to read some answers, too.
Is there any way to make the structure of Steemit organization public and get a real exposure @kittyninja?
I fully agree with @whatsup, most of the people do not look at STEEM as an investment opportunity or even know it.
My biggest concern is the direct association of STEEM tokens to STEEMIT, that leads to fewer buyers to jump the market given the social aspect of the platform, even if, for expert users, STEEMIT is just one of the way to use the token.
A more direct separation of STEEM to STEEMIT may lead to further popularity. Greetings from Rome, I did always power up and hope you will contribute in a strong marketing!
I my self would like to see a goals and progression chart of some sort. At least we would have an idea of the direction steemit is going. I know they are all working double time but still, it's important to us.
Marketing communications 101.
Imagine having to try that with other cryptos than Steem.
It is not crypto problem; It is a problem that all good ideas face.
People won't buy something they can't understand the benefits of.... it's the problem that marketing attemps to overcome....
Just need a parallax. Solved.