10 Thought Provoking Steemit Questions by @Transisto and My Detailed Answers to Them. Are We Contributing?

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Contribution is one word that I have been stressing upon since my first week here. In fact, in my first week I created a Steemit tutorial on my personal blog to bring more people to Steemit. It reminded people of just one word.

Contribute!

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Designed by me via Textgram app (useful tool)

This post is inspired by a post by @transisto in which he explained why his version of Steemit was based on contribution, rather than being based on content. He included some thought provoking questions in his post; genuinely good questions and ones which should be answered.

My Answers to The Genuinely Good Questions!

I answered all the questions in a comment but the detail and length deserved to be converted into a post. This post contains questions asked by @transisto and the answers given by me. I invite you to read mine and then post your own as well.

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Screenshot of the tutorial that I created in June, 2017 (my first week on Steemit)

Here are the questions and their answers.

1. How many people have read your content?

My latest 10 posts have 404 comments, averaging 40 comments per post. I reply to most comment so you can say that 100-150 comments may be my replies to these comments. Number of views are more than number of comments.

2. How many were new users visiting from outside of Steemit?

I am on Google results first page (and on first result) for many Steemit related queries. Many people read my posts even before joining the platform.

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From adding profile picture...

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To cashing out from Steemit...

I have put in a lot of effort to make Steemit knowledge easily accessible to anyone outside the system.

3. What efforts have you done to promote your content outside of Steemit?

The screenshot I shared is of Steemit tutorial written on my personal blog (ilyastarar.com). The tutorial has since been shared mkre than 350 times on social media, bringing more than a thousand people on Steemit. I personally have brought hundreds of people to Steemit and they are bringing more people.

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The last blog post on my personal blog

I have made a Facebook group as well where initially I used to educate people about Steemit and now it works as a promotion group. I have also been sharing my content on my Facebook, fb page, Google+, Twitter, Linkedin etc.

4. How many people have created accounts to engage in the comment section?

Engagement in comment section is something I have preached and rewarded with great focus. For example, just see the comment section of this post designed to create healthy interaction and educate people on how to do it.

5. What kind of contribution the people you've on-boarded likely to make?

Among the hundreds of people I brought to the platform, I can proudly quote @jbn and @ghulammujtaba as wonderful additions to the platform. I have also convinced some known bloggers to join and they are going to teach good things I hope.

6. How effective is your content at helping people understand how Steem work?

My comment section always suggests that I have done a fair bit of service to Steemit by making things easy for the newbies and make yhe platform understandable. I documented all my guides in one super Steemit guide more than a week ago. You can see in the comments how much people have thanked me. I am humbled.

7. How many investors did it convince to invest in Steem?

Unfortunately, I am not in a network with big investors. All I have done is to encourage people to have faith in Steem and many have bought some on my recommendation.

8. What problem does your contribution solve?

It makes Steemit easily understandable and ensures better user retention. It serves as educational material for good on boarding and overall behavior on Steemit. My blogs on life encourage positivism, empathy, compassion and hard work.

9. How would producing such content not be possible without the reward earned?

I was a blogger for more than a year before joining Steemit. I earned nothing there but learned a lot. Quite oppositely, Steemit rewarded me for learning and blogging and teaching and I focused my attention on Steemit. The last thing I posted on my personal blog is the Steemit tutorial that I tagged earlier. Without rewards, the continued persistence would have been difficult.

10. How does your content benefit from being on a censorship resistant immutable blockchain?

Nobody can delete what I have to say. You remember perhaps about the incident I had with a whale. Once written, it is up to me to remove or alter anything. The blockchain doesn't censor anything. Which means that my opinion and concerns flow freely in the ecosystem. I know I will be supported if I stand against abuse and that my content can be downvoted but never deleted unless I want to do it.

What Are Your Answers?

I have tried to answer the questions to the best of my knowledge. It was opportunity to reflect and record my reflections on the blockchain forever. I am wondering what your answers are. If you write them, do let me know in comments.

If you have been interacting with me for sometime now, I request you to give your feedback on my answers and verfiy if I am being honest. Resteems and upvotes are always a great support.

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Thanks for this post @ilyastarar.

  1. The reads on my last 4 posts were 130, 154, 183, 317. I dont know how that fares compared to other posts but that is what my posts attracted.

  2. I have no idea...never checked my google ranking although I am sure, since I am only here 4 months, it isnt great.

  3. I tell everyone I come in contact with about it. Everyone at my work is aware of steemit along with all my friends. A handful signed up but not many. Of course, I gave them other info about cryptos in general and that went nowhere.

  4. I have no idea...I can say that according to the report generated for @fulltimegeek's delegation program, in the last two weeks I posted 125K and 135K worth of words in the comment sections.

  5. Still rather new but getting involved.

  6. Most of my posts over the last 2 months are exclusively about the steem blockchain and the potential here. I got tired of the negativity about the price of STEEM so I started to post about what is really taking place exclusive of pricing action. I think most of my readers have an understanding of SMTs, for example, which they did not have before.

  7. I dont know but I tell people they are never making a mistake in powering up. A few mentioned to me they did. From the outside, most I mentioned crypto to look at my funny.

  8. Thus far it has solved the negativity surrounding the price of STEEM and giving people an optimistic view of this blockchain. Plus, I have repeatedly written about how our success is based upon helping others achieve success.

  9. Rewards are an incentive obviously...for myself and others. This is how we can make a difference...there is a lot of money distributed each day on here and it is growing (in dollar terms). Overall, as I achieve more SP, the rewards are less important other than what that additional SP can do to those I upvote. At this point, I have not taken on STEEM or SBD out of this...all was used to power up.

  10. None at this point...but it is great that it is there.

Yes, it’s all about contributing to the pool called steemit, no one will that he or she is not contributing.

We should remember that all fingers are not equal, nevertheless, we all have something good in us to give to others through this platform, and those things we must continue to do.

I am a humble friend @maxdevalue

Thanks, you have done an excellent job of contributing by bringing people in and by helping them get started. I also posted to my website and also to the associated FB and Twitter accounts. Besides that, I have personally contacted people I know on other forums and brought a few in. I haven't done as much as you and many others, but you are motivating me to push again in the new year.

In case anybody is interested, here is a post about what I did for my modest contribution on Steemit: https://steemit.com/steemit/@theinsideout/promoting-steemit-on-frugalpig-com

Thanks. Your contribution and sincere effort will always be rewarded. Just like the link you have shared. Good job!

You have been an awesome person and a great helper when it comes to steemit. I remember I used to ask some silly questions that you answered without any hesitation. Thanks for mentioning me in your post with some nice words.
Good to see you growing like a champ!Stay blessed and happy new year!

BTW, I saw an account today who copied and pasted this post, I reported to Steem Cleaners immediately. Do you want the account name?

Thank you so much and I am proud of only a few people I brought here. Know that you are one of them. You know the mentality. I wanted to change that but now my Facebook account is disabled. I like people who work hard.

Sure, let me know the account or the link.

@rayhan97

And thanks again for your words :)

I am really impressed by your contribution. I followed you because your posts are really clear and expand my knowledge, but I thought that you are undervalued as your posts don't get to hundreds of dollars in votes. Now that I see the amount of impact you state you made, I feel a bit better about it, though I really think you should be rewarded more handsomely for your posts, especially when I compare them to other posts making much more money with contest of dubious quality.

I share the same feeling. But let his wallet hit 10,000 SP mark, you will see 100$ on his every post then :p

Steemit functions on slow and steady rule..

First of all, thank you! Secondly, I cannot agree more with the slow and steady rule. Exactly what I have seen in 6 months here and in life.

Thank you so much. I have found Steemit to be overall fair. Some posts may be ignored but overall, you can see great rewards on my recent as well as olf posts. I have stopped considering rewards too much but I won't suggest that I am not concerned.

I just want to express my gratitude here because my account value is more than $4000 and crypto portfolio of about $1300; all due to Steemit. Reputation and rewards increase slowly. Being consistent will always ensure good rewards. I have tested that.

Thank you very much for your higher evaluation of me. It means a lot. I wish you all the success.

Thats wonderful.. @transisto has a clear vision about steemit and it is a rather wonderful one.. contriubition is definitely the key here.. your contribution to the platform is way more important than the content itself..

You did a marvellous job answering all his questions in a befitting manner..

The platform is alive because of people who are trying to keep it afloat. At one time, when Steem went $0.07, Steemit was in danger. People held on and now have seen the $4 again.

Contributions matter.

Thank you thank you thank you!! I love this post, but I especially love the link to your tutorial and the super steemit guide! I am new to steemit as of December and have been trying to get a comprehensive snapshot of the whole thing. You did it!! I cant express my gratitude enough😄

So very much pleased to know that! Keep being awesome and you will go places! Welcome to Steemit and have a wonderful stay!

Congratulations @ilyastarar, this post is the third most rewarded post (based on pending payouts) in the last 12 hours written by a Superuser account holder (accounts that hold between 1 and 10 Mega Vests). The total number of posts by Superuser account holders during this period was 1368 and the total pending payments to posts in this category was $9705.40. To see the full list of highest paid posts across all accounts categories, click here.

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I read everything, and I'm happy with what I found out ...
I've had a chance with you, but I like what you do, so I'll keep track of you and what you do ..
I congratulate you on the coming New Year, I wish you development and honest work ... that you would continue to do what you are doing, knowing to you and your family

Did you even read the post?

Yes, you asked 10 questions, do you think I'm a spammer?

I don't think you are a spammer. The comment seemed to be generic in nature that is why I asked.

well done @ilyastarar you are doing a great job for newbies and this amazing community. keep sharing:)

Thank you so much.