For nearly three years, I've noticed we have a severe lack of link sharing content consumers. That's a free form of advertising most other content production platforms enjoy. Everything from National Geographic's website to Youtube, all of it. They all have link sharing content consumers. Those links get scattered all over social media. That's why I never view social media as competition to a platform like this.

We don't even need to be writing promotions and advertisements. Entertainment being passed around, regardless of content, has a tendency or luring eyes to this site, then everything else the blockchain has to offer.

There was a time I'd use the now defunct Stumbleupn as a way to market my work and this platform. I'd see hundreds and sometimes thousands of views on my old posts, back when he had a view counter. And we all know that's not us looking at old posts because this platform is known for it's short day-to-day post-to-post attention span.

Things would have been better, once those outside eyes arrived, if that little message about paying authors said something different. Something like, "Rather than donating, invest in this content producer. A one time fee and you can support them for life." That's one easy way to gather up those link sharing content consumers. Incentives. Curation rewards.

I wrote about some of that in this week old post. Drawing those consumers in is one easy way to offset the cost of every vote; create the needed surplus of money flowing in.