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I joined Steemit at the beginning of this year. I noticed that there were very different Steemit images in people's minds during the last 6 months. The meanings attributed to Steemit vary from person to person, geography to geography. In the Steemit community, there is no consensus on what kind of medium Steemit is and in which direction it should evolve. Based on my observations, I will try to define the different profiles in the Steemit community. I do not claim that the profiles I will mention cover the Steemit or describe the profiles in Steemit exactly. The generalizations I will make based on my observations will necessarily have exceptions and deficiencies.

I think there are four types of user profiles in the Steemit community. I will try to explain these profiles by referring to their relationship with me.

Profile 1: Unlawful

There are rules to follow when using Steemit. Although there is no complete agreement on what is right and wrong, those who use the platform extensively know these rules and try to implement them. I call those who do not follow the basic rules, such as committing theft of content, not to strive for quality of shared content, engage in unnecessary polemics with people, be beggars about voting or followers, as unlawful.

We have a nice document detailing the etiquette rules that should be followed at Steemit. I recommend reading the complete steemit etiquette guide created by @thecryptofienend. I learned a lot from this document for myself.

The group I call unlawful is mostly composed of university students and low-income people. They exhibit a variety of undesirable behavior, ranging from crimes such as plagiarism to misdemeanors such as begging for support with concern of income.

My general tendency is to approach these people with tolerance. So far, 4-5 different copies of my content have been tried to be presented as if they were their own work by different accounts. I've been warning them. The important thing in this platform is to gain people's trust over time, so none of the people who copied my content could make any significant income at the time I identified them. Another issue that draws my attention is that content copyers do not use sophisticated methods. They copy the content one-on-one, including the subject and the visuals.

Another problem with the unlawful is that they always ask me for votes or money. They think I earn a lot of money in Steemit looking at the high amounts that appear under my content. I didn't make a penny in total from Steemit because I initially invested heavily in Steem. I wouldn't have been able to answer that kind of demand positive, though, if I'd made a lot of profit. I think the best support for content producers is to guide the creation and marketing of content. Thus, people can begin to generate income in a sustainable manner rather than begging for help from others.

I found beggars wierd at first. Nowadays, I'm trying to get used to the situation. (I don't want to get used to it). I think that cultural codes and the urgency of financial needs that are changing from country to country is effective in this regard.

One thing is certain, this kind of behavior is very damaging to Steemit. So far, I've rejected all the demands in this direction. I will continue to exhibit the same attitude from this day forward.

Profile 2: Quiet Majority

By definition, I don't know much about this mass. I think they enter Steemit more infrequently than the content-producing audience. In my opinion, there is a group of people who take a look at the content and vote for what they like every once in a while.

Quiet Majority does not produce content and does not comment on the content. I can imagine that there are those who are loyal followers of some writers in this mass.

The user statistics of Steemit regularly published by @arcange and @penguinpablo is not enough to define this audience. Again, as a guess, I can say that this mass is mostly women and they are not very interested in the crypto money investment. But as I said, I'm not so sure.

As a consumer of the produced content, they provide a serious contribution to the traffic of Steemit and its affiliated projects. I think this group provides a significant benefit to the community with the traffic they create. I wish they were a little more involved.

Profile 3: Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries are focused on providing financial benefits from Steemit in a manner similar to unlawful. Unlike the unlawful, they are trying to reach these goals by following the rules. They have a longer-term perspective than unlawful.

I'm guessing this group is composed of people with moderate income levels. In hopes of making money, they pay close attention to crypto currencies, following the developments in this matter. They are loyal follower of the content I created for informational purposes. They do not hesitate to express their appreciation and this motivates me. I had never encountered problems with this group. When I share my experiences with marketing, for example, I get very positive feedback from this group.

This group expects the content they create to be appreciated by the community and knows how to settle with the results. They also try to promote their content using a variety of promotional methods.

They see Steemit as a world of opportunities and try to learn ways to take advantage of it. I hope they will get the income they expect in time, even if they don't have great benefits for now.

Profile 4: Idealists

With the highest income level among Steemit members, this group is the opinion leader of the group. There are a lot of perfectionist people in this group, including mostly developed country citizens, who are highly educated. They attach importance to innovation and try to create new projects.

Unlike the beneficiaries, Steemit is more than just making money for them. Of course, they are interested in making money, but they think that the principle should be given priority when it comes to controversial issues such as upvote bot usage. They don't like the idea of content marketing. Idealists pay more attention to ideals than to day to day earning concerns. Some of them believe Steemit should be formed by staying out of commercial concerns. They find the anarchist, liberating potential created by the crypto world valuable.

Inspiration is more important than information for idealists. They focus on long term.

The idealists' point of view may be too luxurious or too imaginative for other groups. Of course they don't mind it, and they're trying to make Steemit look like the ideal world in their minds. After all, they know Steemit is a place that someone once dreamed of.

Idealists care about taking risks, creating new perspectives, making things perfect. When these are done, they think that the monetary outcome will come automatically. They think that monetary issues are just one of the goals of human life, to have different experiences, to capture new perspectives, and to express themselves can be more important than monetary issues.

CONCLUSION

In this essay, I tried to illustrate how people from different cultures, education and income levels perceive Steemit and how they try to benefit from it. I would like to express again that my evaluations are very subjective as they are based on my own experience. Others can make different evaluations.

What group do I consider myself in? I'd say I'm somewhere between beneficiaries and idealists.

The biggest discussion of beneficiaries and idealists is about the use of upvote bots. This is like a fault line in Steemit that creates earthquakes. As a writer who uses upvite bots, the subject comes to my agenda too often.

I think some of the unlawful will be included in the beneficiaries after learning about the environment and gaining experience. Individuals who have recently been involved in the credit system in banking can initially do not make thier payments regularly, but in time they learn that complying with the rules is a much better strategy. In the beginning, being instructive, tolerant and enforcing sanctions against those who insist on disobeying to the rules can help alleviate the problem.