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RE: Ideas and Opinions on STEEM: The content creators dream platform
Write content that will add value to the network and you will get more votes. This community is striving to survive and grow, and we need to work together. Entertaining posts are funny, but not as useful as a dev who codes anonymous transactions into Steemit, or someone who gets their friend Dave Chapelle to join the community. Help add utility and you will get paid more because the whales around here care about infrastructure and user growth over cool content that only the 50 people that are here are going to see.
What kind of content adds value to the network? Could you help me to understand this?
Others may have more valuable answers than this one, but I'll share my understanding. Adding value to Steemit is a little like being a volunteer at a start up business. The few major players are too busy to hand hold so you have to figure out how you can best help and do that. In random order, here are some ways people try:
Writing articles of a quality that could be in a major publication, posting them on Steemit and promoting them around the internet adds value by telling the world that Steemit is a source of great articles.
Creating and circulating Steemit promotional items, graphics, placing ads on billboards etc. that increase name recognition.
Pitching Steemit to your friends and the influential people who might listen to you, getting them to join, invest, or simply to check it out and read articles here.
Creating apps that help all users, writing articles, making charts and reports that help new users navigate Steemit or all users understand information.
Being a community leader by getting to know a lot of people and helping organize collaborations, group efforts and reaching out to those who might be brand new, frustrated, or simply need help.
Writing articles that start conversations, contests and other cooperative community building posts or that feature and further circulate great posts.
By pioneering in a creative way that only you could think of.
Not everyone finds their niche immediately. I'm still experimenting with content and getting to know how it all works and meeting like minds, etc. You seem really engaged and that is wonderful. It may be I said nothing new, but I hope I answered your question. I'll be following and am curious what you'll choose to do next. :)
Did someone seriously get Dave Chapelle to join?