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RE: Through The Eyes Of An Investor...
I've seen a bunch of cool things going on lately, but I am still skeptical. Especially due to the sort of "mixed feelings" there seems to be about bringing in the masses or not. Everyone wants to profit, nothing wrong with that, but you can't eat the whole cake and expect the cake to magically just appear again.
People have to sacrifice something at some point.
I want to see far more people benefiting from Steem and not just a few who probably do okay anyway. For those in places like Venezuela or India a few extra dollars can make a real difference. For now it is a bit of a closed club. There are issues with usability and abuse, but things have improved a lot in the last year or so with far more options in how you can access Steem. For me the money is a bonus as I like being part of a community.
Exactly. How cool would it be to actually give a large portion of Steem there. Instead, we often see pretty much the opposite happening. Downvotes and flags for "disagreement of rewards" or whatever... It's weird.
This is and could potentially be a real game changer, but money is the first and most important reason for people to come here.
Steem has always been advertised like a place where you will earn a bunch of money for sharing whatever content you want. It has been advertised like a "clone" of Facebook, but decentralized, and with the money-factor. With each "like" you get, you earn money...
It's difficult for people to stay when they don't earn money, like they expected to do. If you have been promised hundreds of dollars per month extra or whatever, and you get only a small fraction of that, you're on to the next "big thing" out there instead. Many of the people don't get involved in any communities and they don't make friends or anything, because they only see $. When the money doesn't come their way, they leave before they've even started to engage.