RE: My view on the future of Steemit and suggestions how we can improve as a community.
Many thanks to @riskdebonair for resteeming this so that I had a chance to see and follow. As an entrepreneur and business owner myself, I am often sitting here racking my brains at how to maximize the return from my Steemit business and improve the platform as well.
I spend zero time looking at the trending page like nova and (perhaps wrongfully) give it very little weight in determining the quality or success of the post.
I see a picture stolen from the internet in a post that took 30 seconds to write by someone with a (60+) beside their name or a 2 minute video that is not funny or particularly informative making hundreds of dollars......and the pandering of 100 people begging for an upvote with an eloquent "great post."
I feel this will always be the case, don't let it get me down on the platform, and continue to build relationships, add content I would like to think is of high-quality, and do not have the trending page on any list of goals.
Some of these innovations you mention, to me, are the future of this platform and that is what I spend my time wracking my brain to invent, develop and share. No idea what the future holds but I intend to come up with ways to influence its direction.
Keep rolling and sharing.
I'm greatfull for that resteem as well, it resulted in such a nice comment from you! Sometimes important posts or good posts do hit the trending page, but lately those numbers have dropped drastically. The examples you gave are posts that scare big companies or famous artists to join this platform. They don't want their content to be found between low quality content which is basically on the home page of steemit. I agree that we need to keep doing our thing and just hope that it will all end well, but for that, some action has to be taken. Thank you for your comment.
Haha I have taken the contrary approach. All of my years on this rock have linked me with some well known people who blog, perform, and are good producers of social media content. "check this shit out! This guy is not funny, is pulling this right out of his ass, and made $300 in the last 3 hours by posting a 1-minute video!"
It is inspiring to folks to an extent seeing how well they could do here with the content they so lovingly produce for free.