RE: Adding "Value:" How Your Actions and Contributions Today... Represent the Steemit of Tomorrow
One of the things I love about getting thoughtful comments on my posts is that it reminds me to go and look at someone's blog. It can get overwhelming now that I've been here for eight months, to remember to visit everyone I've met and liked along the way. Of course I can go to my home feed and randomly catch them, which I do, but still. When someone takes the time to leave a comment to me it makes them much larger and fresher in my mind.
Sorry, that was a bit off track. Incidentally I couldn't agree with everything you said in this article more. I am most definitely in it for the long term. Of course I enjoy making money on my creative effort, but for a long time I made little and I was still happy to be here. To meet like-minded individuals, to be apart of the first real global community where there truly is no borders.
And I am very conscious of what I post. I even think about my great grandchildren and beyond, imagine them checking out my blog to learn who I was. I would love it if I had the same option, that to me would be fascinating.
I have no doubt about what I'd want as an investor. And a sea of shit posts is not it.
Love what you have to say :)
Thanks @dreemit for your thoughtful reply!
I get it, about "visiting everyone." Even though we both follow far fewer people than follow us... it's at times a daunting endeavor. I'm "in process" of setting up a series of bookmark folders that hopefully will enable me to keep up more readily... that said, publishing my own posts AND writing meaningful comments on 200+ posts a day sounds more like a full-time job than a "pastime" to me.
I finally... after about five months or so (been here about 6 1/2 months in total) came to define the rewards as "a nice fringe benefit" for publishing blog posts. I've published thousands of blog posts in the course of 25-odd years online, most of them without a penny... some earning me a glorious 25 cents in Google Adsense revenue; a tiny handful earning "real" money; my point here being that having any EXPECTATIONS of rewards leads to disappointment... and, frankly, means "I'm doing it wrong."
Sorry, that was my sideways ramble.
Bottom line is that I really like the Steemit community, and I like the quality of content and the level of engagement and intelligence I encounter here. To which end I find myself invested not in earning rewards so much as in the process of helping to ensure there will still be a thriving community here for us, next year, and in 2020, and in 2025. Absolutely, I enjoy being compensated for writing... but that's a consequence of contributing, not a front-loaded expectation.
And that, right there, sums up why I approach Steemit the way I do. How do I make this venue attractive to MYSELF, as an investor.
Pretty simple. And really... quite selfish, too. In a way...