Thanks for the insightful post! Now that you've been on the platform for over a year it's interesting to hear what your thoughts are on what exactly is working well and what isn't.
You've raised some really good points on things that I've started hearing already about what's not working and I hope that moving forward the Steemit team can work on remedying those issues so that we can continue to grow in a way the best supports and represents what the community of Steemians really want.
I'm going to have to look into PulpRev more as I have no idea what that is... but it sounds like a community of writers creating awesome fiction? I'll have to do some research once I click 'post' on this comment!
Steemit's greatest strength is the way it incentivises its users to keep contributing to the platform. Between easy community engagement and the potential for a high crypto payout, attracting and retaining talented users is far easier here than elsewhere. But its potential for payout is also its greatest weakness: there are plenty of users, especially early adopters, who will do everything in their power to game the system to capture a greater share of the reward pool. They buy or sell upvotes, operate sock puppet accounts, or get by on churning out a steady stream of low-effort content instead of contributing value to the platform.
At this stage I'm not sure how the latter can be satisfactorily addressed without altering how Steemit fundamentally works. But I think building up communities of users who are dedicated to producing quality content in their respective fields will go a long way towards improving the platform for everyone.
PulpRev is a community of fiction writers that draws lessons from the pulp grandmasters of the early 20th century and applies them to modern fiction. Mindset, characteriation, worldbuilding, dialogue, action, setting, genre-mashing, and most of all, PULP SPEED! You can find the official PulpRev blog at www.pulprev.com -- but it should not be considered the One True Voice of PulpRev -- and if you search the #steempulp and #pulprev tags here you can find a taste of what we do. Hope you enjoy our stories!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I can't imagine creating a platform like this and thinking out exactly how to make it function the best would be easy. There are so many layers that add different complexities to incentivizing content creation you really have to have a mind for that kind of thing!
Let's see how it all unfolds though, I think we're on a pretty good path so far!
And I'll definitely check out PulpRev.com