RE: I thought, therefore I was? - Thoughts on Fixing Curation, and WolfPacks
Minnows should comment, Dolphins should Create, Whales should Curate.
Although I do not like this it does seem to follow what I have seen in my first month. Not that minnows can't create content. Is just that generally regardless of quality it's very hard to get found. What's more interesting is that even if you are one of the lucky ones that does get curated by one of the minnow support programs, which is awesome I'm am not complaining but it generally doesn't translate into engagement and future follows/upvotes.
Commenting as a Minnow seems to get more interaction and with consistency follows and with some luck a wolf pack of your own. Would it be easier to bring your own pack. Hell yes but unfortunately not all humans are open to the platform and you have to know a pack willing to join with you.
This brings me too another thought, maybe we already have a pack of known friends on the platform but don't know they are on here, it's not like you can search Joe Bloggs and find him as he could be called @xyznobility for all I know. We do talk about Steem to everyone we come into contact with but since joining steemit that has been less than normal. Haha why go out when you can #steemit.
I will work on my wolf pack as I want to continue to create great content. Lucky for me I have been a blogger for the last year and am used to hard work for very little return. So the only way is up. To POWER UP of course. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
You get a good upvote for that great comment... I mirror your thoughts on the possibility of not knowing that @billybobbuddy might be a great high school friend and no one would be the wiser, that being said I think we are partly to blame.. but just a little bit..
What do I mean by that? Well a lot of Steemians act outside of Steemit like secret agents, they don't tell people about the website, some do, but most don't. Why? I had a friend (who I invited) tell me... well, if it gets too popular then It will be to late for me, I gotta grow my holdings first... In his case, I felt almost obligated to have one of those come to jesus conversations, and I think he got it... I think.
But honestly, if we believe in the potential of this platform, why not share? why not invite a good friend, or two, or three? It's work... but I think bringing your own wolf pack puts you leaps ahead of the game.
Why thank you. You can have my not so big but just as awesome upvote too 😁 I think you are correct that it is like a bit of a secret society. The more we reduce that the better our communities can grow and we can help each other.