RE: Open letter to a future Steemian
Maybe the best piece of wisdom I can provide for you is this: most people won't make much here ...
You describe very well how it is, however I wonder why/if user experience has to be like that?
Do potential users need STEEM or do we need more users? I think we need them, not reversed. So we should care more about that being successful here will be somewhat easier in future.
We should make the effort to seek more, read more, comment more (not only send bots) and upvote more manually!
Or aren't there just enough STEEM to make it possible for smaller accounts to earn some decent money? As long as the user with the highest reputation in the whole STEEM cosmos earns more than 20000 dollar per month by self-voting (and he is not the only one), and as long as there are no serious efforts to restrict that kind of behavior, I think we shouldn't tell newbies there were just not enough STEEM to reward them somewhat better ...
I think there is a similar discussion when it comes to the inability of new users to upvote and comment more than a few times per day. "They simply should understand that every transaction is eating resources."
Yes, maybe, but we should understand that new users simply don't need us. :)
If they are having problems to create a STEEM account, they will create one elsewhere. If they cannot comment here, they comment under their friends posts in facebook - simple like that.
And yes, we need new users (and retain them), not only new DApps, or where does the value of facebook come from?
Very good points jaki01 , regarding the last bit rc delegations should solve that challenge and that's in the works. But on your first observation...
I don't have a great answer there... I mean, I do my part, or more accurately said, we at @helpie do. But, no doubt we need more.
It could be that a specific app built on steem will make the ux so pleasant that monetary incentives will be just possibilities of icing on the cake, like it's the case with YouTube for example, but then again that would imply that what we do today, our focus, blogs, are on the way out... Maybe that's it...
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I could not agree more, that's the way the platform will grow.
Don't worry, I didn't blame you at all! :)
Great Read. Yes, anyone NEW here must realize, this is a social media platform like no other.
You wont get Rich quick. But if you focus on Quality Content, Building your Network & Socializing with others, in time you can do well.
The trick is; Treat it like a Business.