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RE: Steemit: The Current Identity and the Lack of New Investment
I read the entire post! ;-) I have to agree that from a newbies standpoint there definitely needs to be some changes for better engagement. I for one read most of the posts I vote for and do try to leave comments to inspire the authors. Thank you for the great article. I for one am here for the long haul and look forward to the positive future of Steemit!
I know it's hard for many new users to get noticed and to gain followers on Steemit. But this is really true for practically any blogging or social media site. We all need to build our "brand" and to gain our loyal followers if we want engagement on the site.
My criticism of that isn't so much about new users, but more about the fact that too many people are content with turning over all of their curation to bots and automated trails, then also not engaging with the community via comments. Some people do both. My recent involvement with @steemtrail includes a small degree of curation via automated voting, but I also manually curate and comment on posts throughout the day.
I understand that people are busy and that there has recently been a lack of monetary incentive to curate and comment, but it can't always be about the money if we want a thriving, interactive community of creators. There needs to be other means of feedback and support.
I hope to do the same and would love nothing more than to see Steemit and many of its users be successful.