Sometimes I Laugh
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When I see people on Steemit complaining because there is no engagement with their posts I have to throw my head back and chuckle. I have to think that there is more engagement here than on any other blockchain social media site.
Probably.
How the fuck would I know, really? I am on Whaleshares mostly and I try to pop in here every day or so but I can say that I see way more engagement and money here, compared to Whaleshares. I know a lot of the monies are autovotes but still, it all counts in people's pockets and that's what most people are looking for. I can't really blame them for it though.
So really, what is it that you want?
Do you want more comments or is it more votes? If it's more comments, what do you think other people are doing all day? Do you figure that with the maybe three hours they have to sit down and read that they are obliged to read your post and flesh out a meaningful comment? What about the other hundred posts in their feed? Should those people be ignored so that your post can get rewarded and have copious amounts of comments?
I'm just curious.
My wife and I have a mental health pod on Whaleshares and we are so excited to get two comments that it makes me laugh when I see people getting five or ten comments on all their posts and then they tell me that engagement is dead on Steemit
It's definitely not dead. It may be a little slower but there are still a lot of folks out there commenting and interacting. They just can't be everywhere. Use the time to create stronger relationships with the people that are there.
Beggars and choosers and poor Debbie abusers
Engagement is just where it is. Some people are more popular(richer) than others and they attract the bigger crowd. Its really that simple.
Also, some people don't even bother engaging other people's post but expect theirs to be responded to. Its a give and take situation, like 69.
Depends on who you are 69ing. Sometimes you just want to take.
It is holding in there because this platform has the most liquidity of any of the other blockchain social media offerings but when people have 5000 or 10000 followers and there is maybe 20 or 30 upvotes and a few comments that is getting pretty thin. And as always most of the engagement is from people who are also content creators. There is almost no pure viewers just on here to consume content. It has always been like that. Everyone is a content creator here and unfortunately the platform doesn't really pay for true engagement like YouTube's algorithm provides. Obvious advantages and disadvantages but there isn't one person on the entire platform that can actually earn a living off creating content here without injecting like $50,000 - $100,000. That just isn't good for a site that has an SEO funnel this large. The mechanism as a whole has a lot of potential but for 3+ years it has always been a miss for the most part.
Yeah, I think with dapps like Steemmonsters and nextcolony they should really be upping the price but I don't know how much they inject back into the ecosystem. I just spent $20 in cash on 10 packs of their cards but I doubt they are using that to buy more Steem.
On Whaleshares I just started to put up my affiliate link for Amazon and have pledged to buy WLS with 75% of what I make and reward that back to people who use the link to buy their shit. There has only been 2 ebooks sold so far but the woman who bought them got 269 WLS for doing it.
I did a post here about it because I know there are some people on here that have Whaleshares accounts and why not get some free tokens if you are shopping anyhow?
It is a good idea. Yeah with SteemMonsters they sort of got burned raising money in STEEM previously and then holding it and the price just imploding so now they probably just take the money.
I think there are some big whales trying to make some power plays right now with some of the price bumps we have seen with STEEM but I have done the math. STEEM would actually have to get to $0.01 and then I would inject $10,000 into it to feel like I had an real influence here. Otherwise I would have to inject too much money without enough influence on the reward pool. The inflation situation here will be a big problem for a long time so it is hard to counter act that.
I agree, it is really hard to have the time to comment and their is still lots of people active on here, we all have our offline lives to live too.
That statement really says it all xxxx
Yeah, people focus too much on quantity over quality.
I'm here! Laugh away! :P
Hardeeharhar!
you should absolutely read and savour all my work. Cause I'm entitled you know.
Good to see you come across my screen. Glad to know you are still alive and kicking
Hahaha, I unfollowed hundreds of people when I left but ran out of RC and then quit coming back. I have refollowed you and will absolutely savour all of your work. Every last drop. I have to find your sister and Snook again too.
Gerri and I are going to start live streaming on youtube and are going to make a Steemit account for our videos and associated posts.
Guess I better get busy and put up some content eh :)
have you looked at dtube? and there is another video platform called 3Speak
I did look at them but they aren't supported on Whaleshares so it isn't going to work for us. You can put the link in but it just takes you to the site instead of embedding it into the post, which Twitch apparently will.
After all I did for your nipple, you still unfollwed me?
*walks away 😢
I don't think I actually made it to you. You were one of the first people I followed so you were at the bottom of the list.
Sparse consolation but I'll take it.
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