RE: SteemSTEM Distilled #58
Just a personal observation regarding steemit in general, I think people have been discouraged by the fall in the prices. We should not be here just for the bucks, remember we are here to interact and have fun with each other.
Well said, @ruth-girl! I think the low price is demotivating people from posting as well, but it might not be the only reason why there are less authors around. So let me propose an alternative hypothesis (this is SteemSTEM after all). I think summer might play a big part in the reduction of authors who post. I know that this is very true for me. When it's cold and dark outside I really enjoyed spending my evenings with papers and text editors to make posts.
However, now it is summer, and I much rather spend my time outside, and by the time I'm back inside I'm too tired to write. I remember that the same thing happened to me last years as well, and my average posts per week is generally a lot lower during the summer months.
I don't think this is the only reason for the decline, but I do believe that it has at least some effect on the amount of authors.
You know what, @valth? You have a point! Summer is taking our minds away. Especially in Greece that summer came a bit early, it is hard to focus and write with 32 C and the beach only a few kilometers from home ;)
It feels like we need something to "revive" the tag though, things are pretty still... how about some SUMMER SCIENCE?? :P
Summer came early to pretty much all of Europe from what I understood, so it's definitely not only you Greeks who got a nice June ;) We have actually been having 30+ C here in Norway as well, which is very rare for early June!
It would absolutely be cool to have something like a "Summer Science" event. I have actually been secretly hoping for events before, where everyone wrote about roughly the same topic, or at least have their own spin on a topic. I remember @suesa hosting this type of event in the form of a contest a while back, and it was a lot of fun.
I can totally see how a "Summer Science" topic could bring in some more activity, and a lot of fun posts!
My next contest is already planned :P
Oh, that's exciting! I'm looking forward to reading about it, and hopefully participating.
I am also expecting a decrease due to the summer break. But we are a little bit early for that, IMO.
Yeah, it's probably a bit early for most people to have vacation, so it might get worse. I'm mostly basing my assumption on the fact that a lot of European countries have had an amazing summer from the last week of May, which certainly shifted some of my summer plans a month early. I'm thinking it might be the same for a lot of other people as well.
But as I said in the original comment, I do believe that the low price for Steem is also a big part of the reason, and the summer inactivity being an added effect.
I am sadly agreeing with you :(