RE: Do You Want An Upvote or A Comment? Why?
You are absolutely on the money. My sentiments, exactly. And that's why I ran away from other social networks. Still, in comparison to any other platform I've used, comments here are better in many ways. I'm almost at the point of asserting that steemians are a few IQ points above the users of other platforms and it is quite a joy to interact with the ones that bother to leave a comment.
For me, comments are an essential and integral part of the experience and you will always count on me to interact, but I know that is not the norm. Also, I don't think you can force people who can't even understand what they are reading to comment on other's posts, so, you'll have to conform to having both kinds of users around.
On another related note, I was about to unleash a couple of posts on my accounts on other social networks in a kind of private recruitment campaign, but I stopped myself just in time as I realised the only thing everybody would pay attention to would be the possibility of earning a few crowns, and I would probably be helping to ruin the atmosphere around here by attracting lots of undesirable people.
What I decided was to take the laborious road to personally contact the friends I know will bring freshness, intelligence and original contents, and do it one by one, not over the web but in personal texts or phone calls.
I decided I want more of the good people around here, so we notice the weaker ones less. I don't want any rewards, but I think one thing you could do is some kind of a bring a friend campaign that rewards the steemian that brings a friend, in a content based evaluation, for a month or two. (The least you can do. You don't want a pyramid scheme here).
Bring in good steemians, get prizes. That's what I would suggest.
Have a great day. Cheers,
Pedro
I was invited as a writer. Most of those you see today are invited to make an income. This means the average IQ is not high. It might look like that but it isn't and you know that as well since you say we cannot expect from someone who cannot read/understand a text to comment.
True? I doubt it. As a commenter you can also write: I tried to read your text and I have no idea what you are talking about! Can you explain it in simple language since I have to translate and like t to know what keeps you buys.
How about such a comment? It shows interest in you as a person and you also know why you do not receive comments, because it is hard to read you.
Options: you write in a different way to find more readers or you leave it that way and hope someone reads you, sooner or later, and you can have the type of chat you like more.
Should we (who is we?) give prizes to stimulate newcomers to write? Out of experience I can tell you that will not work on long term. Perhaps 1 out of 30 or 40 if not 80 will stay on Steemit and write/comment, is willing to learn and will ask. These are the people one could support. Of course there is support for newcomers. They receive 10 SP to make it possible to post once per day, to comment and to upvote. Next to that they can read and find explore Steemit. That is how I did it and no one gave me a hand. Can it be that those people are more motivated to invest in the platform (investing as in writing, commenting, upvoting, helping to keep Steemit strong?).
Like you I like to be surrounded by people I like or I have something in common with and next to that I have communities where I like to post and most. Comunities without all the fuss and stress and competitive behaviour. To me this platform is a hobby and I should like my hobby and not feel stressed because of others.
It's my believe there's room for everyone. Plenty of communities where one can post. There are also many contest one can join to grow SP see @ disconnect for the daily contests. If you join those close to the payout dat and where not many join you make the biggest chance to win. Count how many there are!
Btw, it's also possible to comment on photos, game reviews, film reviews, post music, or share art and there are several comment contests which are easy to join without all the fuss and these are great places to talk with the other participants. If you ask me a good way to meet likeminded.
If it comes to a friend champagne I like the idea but it depends on who those friends are. If it comes to a part of the communities these are all friend and family and there's a lot of "fraud" as well because they give most of the booming votes to themselves.
There isn't a perfect solution, I wish there was because we tried this for a very long time.
Within the freewriters we have a new moderator now and perhaps we find one more in time willing to comment, read the entries and point out what is liked or can be improved.
It would be good if we can show we are supportive.
A great day to you Pedro, thanks for the great comment and idea.
No worries. I'm also here to help. I like the spot and I want to keep the garden blooming, if you get my drift...
In my view, there's no point in being part of a community if you don't participate and share a bit of the load. Problem being, many folks tend to look at others more like usable items than people who volunteer their limited time towards an ideal. And time, is something you can never get back.
I made a post about our new moderator which I prefer to call a host of the community and a commenter. If you like to give a hand that would be great. Look around since you are still new and it's good to look around.
I'll give a hand, glady, problem being, I don't know if I know enough about Steemit yet to take such a shore. What would you need to be done? Keep in mind I'm very fresh around here, but, if you feel I can help with anything, I'm able to give you a couple of hours every day.