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RE: 1 MINUTE TO EXPLAIN STEEM - How can we improve education for new users?
Steemit allows you to do the things you're already doing on other social media sites but you get a financial incentive to put out good content.
Instead of getting meaningless "likes", upvotes have an actual monetary value that you can cash out once your post is 7 days old.
Now for the confusing part:
- Steem
- Steem is the main currency of the steem blockchain. It is traded on exchanges so its value fluctuates constantly. You can cash this out at any time.
- SBD
- SBD (Steem Based Dollars) is a secondary currency, it's usually worth around 1$ of Steem.
- Steem Power
- Steem Power is essentially Steem that you lock up to power up your upvotes and increase their value. You can "power down" at any time and wait 30 days to get it back into Steem.
- Voting Power
- This is your energy bar. The lower it goes, the less your upvotes are worth. This is true even if you have a lot of Steem Power. Every time you upvote a post or a comment your voting power goes down a bit. This refills at the same rate for everyone.
- Steemit
- Steemit.com is one of the front end for browsing content on the steem blockchain. (It is similar to reddit in design.)
I hope that helped someone!
Much love <3
@Chiren
Yeah I still wonder how early to drop all that on them. haha
Also i wonder how we can use the interface to make it more intuitive.
STEEM POWER? (they don't get this)
... do we really need to call it that? We could change it to say something different:
SBD
Yeah we should stop telling new users SBD is worth around $1USD
We can tell them they get two currencies when they get rewarded for posting... YAY! ( they may find that interesting there's 2 and not 1 but it's still inuitive.
VOTING POWER
Yeah this isn't inutitve enough in my opinion it needs to have a name that educates the user.
Thoughts?
STEEMIT
Well for my big influencer friends the only reason for me to mention steemit to them is so they don't get confused if someone links to a steemit.com URL. I'll let them know there's a couple places to view the content of STEEM because otherwise they could get real confused some day.
And honestly we can do that tomorrow if there's a really good solution.
I think a good fit for STEEM POWER would be INFLUENCE. That is a word everyone would understand. I think both in STEEM POWER and VOTING POWER the 'problem' relies on the 'POWER' word. That's a gaming word, IMO.
I still don't know what would be a good replacement for VOTING POWER though.