AskSteemit: Newcomers on Steemit, what are your thoughts of the platform so far?

in #asksteemit7 years ago


For some of us older members who have spent countless of hours and days on the platform already it can easy be forgotten what it felt like the first few days and weeks when you got here. Although a lot of things were very different at the time and the platform has become a lot more easy to navigate through it can still be a challenge for newcomers, especially those who are brand new to the cryptocurrency and block-chain scene.

I wanted to make this post for the recent newcomers, feel free to ask anything you are wondering about and express how the platform looks for you right now.

I hope you've taken the time to read through the FAQ's and learned the basics cause that's really important but other than that it will only take a lot of practice and trial by error to get a good foot on the block-chain. :)

How has your first experience on Steemit been?


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Well, actually I got into steemit on the 2nd of December 2017. I may not consider myself as new becasue I have spent a Lil time round here but still don't really know the very little details about the community yet. Despite that fact, I have recruited a lot of people into steemit and putting them through with the little knowledge and idea I have about steemit.

My major confusion lies with the fact that, getting a whale to see you post is quite difficult. How do we know the tags these whales visit? How do we get them to see our quality contents? How do we get to make them pick interest in us and make us their friends?
Steemit is like a wide ocean and a lot of people come in confused and lost. I think knowing that answers to these few questions would help.

Thanks alot for being thoughtful enough to do this.

Unbehalf of other minnows like me we say THANK YOU

There are only 37 whales so it is not worth your effort to pursue them unless you have thrilling content beyond compare or are a primo butt-kisser who can do this skill without annoying people.

It is much better to reach out to people more near your level. Develop your presence here, enter contests, interact. Then you will have a reason for whales to look at you maybe.

Owk what really qualifies anyone to be a whale coz in my own point of view I would say you are a whale looking at the fact that your reputation is 61. But on the contrary, you just said there are 37 of them and I know I have seen lots of people with reputation above 60 so what really qualifies or tell that someone is a whale?

Whales are users with a lot of voting power. I'm not sure what the threshold is exactly. Reputation doesn't factor into it.

I find my interests are very tag-based, but we can't follow tags. I see the value in following great content creators, but beyond that what are the other ways to find my way around here?

I've manually saved a list of interesting tags that I browse manually, but I feel like there's gotta be a better way to navigate here.

I love how Steemit seems pretty dense with intelligent people and a real sense of community. The rest of the internet has far too many divisive fools.

Tag follows will come soon with communities. :)

That is one aspect of reddit I liked and wish steem had. Obviously on steem they would be open communities which would be great.

Awesome! Yet another example of Steemit's continual evolution.

I also really enjoy reddit, but take in mind reddit has had a great time to mature and improve. I think steemit will change and improve over time and possibly even overtake reddit. When you are talking about communities are you referring to the equivalent of subreddits?

That's what I imagine communities would be.

I've spent a lot of time with Wordpress and with other writing sites (Ezine Articles, Hubpages, et al) and to be honest I found Steemit to be quite easy to pick up, even with the markdown. That's from the writing/posting standpoint.

I'm still working on the social aspect. There's only so much time in a day, and I find that between writing my own posts, commenting on others posts, and replying to comments on my posts I rarely have time to participate in any of the groups I've become part of on Discord.

Then there are the more complex areas such as reputation, curation, and the question of whether to power up or not. I think I got a pretty good handle on these, but it did take a few weeks worth of reading, searching, digging, and reading some more.

Overall I like Steemit, and not only for the payment aspect. The community is very welcoming here, and focused more on creativity and adding value, which is a breath of fresh air when compared with other communities I've been involved with where there's money at stake.

I do believe I'll stay for a while longer, and I hope I can bring some friends over as well.

Well i really enjoy using steemit, i learned a lot about cryptos and blockchain technology using steemit and my english writing skills are also improving and it's true for new comer's it's difficult to understand steemit from day 1 and i think it would be great if steemit team add some basic learning material in shape of tutorials and video tutorials in steemit.com.

It's great of you to post something like this @acidyo. I signed up over the summer, was on here for a month, had difficulty and quit until late December. My second time around has gone a lot better. I'm investing more time into the community as opposed to just trying to make money. I've been reading more, commenting more, following more people... and it's been a much more positive time the second time around. I hope I keep growing here!

not sure, confusing ?
Buy SP and steem will be yours

My first few days felt slippery. You have to be told or read about everything here to understand how this place works. I still haven't mastered the platform yet. I will, with time. But so far, it has been challenging.

Thanks for asking.

Best of luck! :)

You know, I still haven't read through the FAQ after being on here for over a year now. #SteemitRebelBoiiiiiii

lol, well at this point you probably know most there is to know... I hope. :P

Yeah, don't worry. I'm gonna be posting a bunch of tidepod challenge videos that don't belong to me with some stolen artwork I found on Tumblr. That's all good to go, right ;)?

(Sarcasm, for anyone who can't tell. Which sadly seems to be a lot of people these days ಠ_ಠ)

I have been on the platform for about 6 months now, but I didn't have any previous experience with crypto before. I found that it took a lot of googling and people gently telling me about certain things like voting power, before I really felt like I got a decent handle on it. There is certainly a learning curve to it, but if you have the will to get over the initial hump, it starts making sense. Eventually.

Surely. I'm still trying to get over the "initial hump" fully.😂

Hello,

From my (French speaker) point of view, we have a great chance to have @Roxane !
She built a global Steemit training with a lot of videos and training support.

Therefore my first days on Steemit was great and I immediately enjoyed the fact they were a real community here.

Steemit is a place where we can build, create and design our own and new way to impact people. It's so incredible I can't describe this feeling !

Sometimes all those currencies and rewards seems to me too impactful but I stick to my first goal : write as much as possible about self development in order to help people, to help them to develop themself and if I succeed I don't care about tokens and so, it would be totally amazing to reach this goal thanks to Steemit.

That was my point of view.

Have a nice day,
Laurent