Sharing Steem posts on Reddit
As you know I am the moderator of the subreddit r/steemit, I'm in the process of receiving full permissions on it if the Reddit admins will allow it which means I am going to be able to invite more people to help me moderate it and turn it into something else than the #postpromotion and #help channels on steem.chat. Of course those posts will be allowed as well but we want it to be a nice onboarding place where people can easier find the information they are looking for with some daily sticky posts about discussion, etc.
I want to create a new incentive for sharing your Steem posts on Reddit. Over time a lot more posts are being shared, most of them on the popular cryptocurrency subreddit r/cryptocurrency. They are bringing some traffic to Steemit but it is not a lot and people don't share their posts often. We are missing the viewcounter on posts at the moment but I am hoping it will be back soon and improved.
The incentive will be to reward these posts with votes that get a lot of visibility on various subreddits.
This does not mean that you should cheat your way and use bots, etc. If found cheating and going against Reddit's rules you will be disqualified from future participation. It is just an incentive to share your posts more. Users will be invited to a discord server where they can submit how their Reddit shares are doing and users will reward them accordingly.
These are the traffic stats from alexa.com that we want to improve.
Through this link you can easier check all posts that have been shared on various subreddits linking to Steemit.com:
https://www.reddit.com/domain/steemit.com/
We will also accept posts that go to busy.org and various other Steem front-ends.
If you are interested in participating, send me a message on Discord at Acidyo#8038.
Users that are interested to help moderate the subreddit can join the discord server as well, I believe there were some that have been in the past and thank you to those that have remained active on the sub and helped newcomers.
Thank you for your interest.
If you have any further questions about this feel free to ask them here in the comments.
Woooo, sounds like a great idea! I'm on reddit every day, but I hadn't ever thought of sharing Steemit posts there, lol. I understand that every time a #postpromotion channel is created on Discord, a thousand minnows start sharing their stuff every second, lol, and it's really hard to say what's good or bad from that.
There's normally no input, no participation, no quality checks, everything in chronological order, just adding to what is usually called the "spam channel". But reddit has proven that thousands of users can share one place and provide a lot of content and if they are nice contributions that fill the hivemind with a nice feeling, those posts can get a nice share of votes.
I'm all for this and I'd frequent the subreddit. I'd even propose to moderate it if I knew the implications, but I guess I can talk that over on Discord, right? I'm excited about this new project. <3
Since cryptocurrency is big right now, I thought it might be worth having a chat here about Steemit. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised it's not being discussed more in startup communities.
About 5 weeks ago, a buddy of mine, who's been deep-diving into crypto over the last year or so, told me that I need to check out Steemit. He knows I love Reddit, and post in this sub a lot, and he was like "Why don't you post somewhere where you get paid everytime someone upvotes your content?"
I kinda called BS at first, or didn't have time, or whatever, but I eventually started checking it out and realised a few things:
There are people making serious bank on this platform. Particularly with the way crypto-currencies are going right now.
It's still in its infancy, which means it's a really good time to establish a presence
Over the last few weeks they've started to see exponential growth (something like 12k+ new accounts this week), which means huge future potential.
I'm still not completely sold on the platform, and there's a ton of crypto-stuff under the hood that I will probably never bother to understand, but I do kind of like the model. Roughly, upvotes (either on posts or comments) earn you Steem, and the amount you earn depends on how much Steem the voter has. Similarly, if you upvote stuff early that makes it big, then you earn Steem for curation.
Other major differences from Reddit include embeddable images, and more of an emphasis on who follows you - eg, my default "front page" is full of posts from people I follow.
Yes although a lot of the things you say are correct it wasn't much related to this post, gave you an upvote for your time anyway.
Welcome to Steem.
Thank you soo much my dear @acidyo
So I've been sharing my blog posts on steemit subreddit. But that really help bring in more traffic to steemit, now would it? So should I share my posts on other subreddits instead?
P.S. You should maybe hold off pouring acid over reddit for the time being
Yes posts shared on r/steemit won't count, the point is to share them where you can bring a lot more visibility to users that haven't heard about Steem yet. Your posts should be posted in the appropriate subreddits depending on the content of it.
:D
I don't have a ton of input here, just wanted to chime in and say that I am pretty into crypto and this the site could really do well.
As you said, as userbase grows, content will shift from crypto only discussions. The average user who hears about it won't even know/care that it is on the "blockchain", they will just be interested in internet points that can actually translate to real value.
I think a platform like this has the capability to promote discussions with more substance.
Congrats. That’s been a long fight to get that level of access but you always wanted to promote Steem more on reddit.
Here’s hoping you get the keys ASAP because long overdue considering how much you’ve always wanted to do this. 👊
I haven't thought about... sharing the post somewhere else.
When I think about it, people are becoming the real creators here after getting experience in posting and interacting with their followers.
Actually, it's not a bad idea.
Have heard so much about reddit but don't really know how it works. This presents me an opportunity to do a little research about reddit and hopefully join in this your scheme.
Thanks for informing us.
@eurogee of @euronation community
Greetings!
Not sure I am interested in being a moderator but would love to contribute to more content on reddit as it is obviously good for he Steem platform and as we know I love and am dedicated to its progress.
Lets be in touch. We haven't talked in a long while and I am sure there is much of common purpose we could co create.
∞§∞Full Steem Ahead∞§∞
I recently started to share my post in reddit after reading this post from @transisto, so I just sent you a message on discord because I want to participate :D
Woohoo! It's about time!
I've not been as active there as before but I stumble in occasionally to see if there is anything to respond to.
I wish we could get finer grained stats on Alexa based on specific sub pages of steemit (per blog redirect stats for example). I wonder if that exists? Maybe we need a link shortener to track clicks into the shared page hmm....