RE: Where People Gather an Economy Develops - It Is All About the Eyes
I guess I can speak to this from the point of view of a new person.
I can't even remember how I first found this site.
The wildness with a sort of rigorous, economic underpinning is exciting and interesting. The idea of compensation is exciting, no doubt, but, the sense that MY feedback has a tangible effect is also interesting.
Your scenario of a Coca-Cola Steemit account is a little scary. It speaks to a taming of that wild environment. Success here probably already means knowing how to game the system, BUT there is still that siren song of organic growth. That reality of being able to build a presence from nothing is very powerful and may very well be at an end when the environment is sorted out enough to attract a Coca-Cola.
I think I can breathe easy that that point probably won't come until all the reassuring formats and features of the standard social network are in place.
Hmmm... Maybe, taking so long to go beyond beta has a very specific purpose?
Thank you for the great comment. I agree we are likely a long way from that playing out.
The interesting part is I don't think we could stop it from happening in any other way, but to keep our user-base small.
I love the wild west as well and when we get "tamed", I will likely head to the newest wild west I can find, but it doesn't mean I do not cherish this time period.
Thanks for giving me a solid laugh... The next wild west...
I noticed Bitcoin at about 20 or so cents a coin, but I was too conservative to follow up on my curiosity. At some point, I said to myself, "Okay, I am following my gut a bit more." That is why I started posting on Steemit recently. I had the urge, so I went with it.
The good news about the modern world is that nerding out and going to the next wild west has a significant overlap!