When the price goes down the community gets grumpy and conflict tends to break out. That is fine, it will work it's way out.
* terrible art that is in bad taste for so many reasons... (a cut and paste mess, created by me.)
In the meantime, I just wanted to take a minute and remind those who see this, while yes we do have a lot of issues, we also have some pretty important strengths.
WE ARE AHEAD - BUT NOBODY KNOWS IT.
Steem is already setup to be more usable, user friendly and convenient than other successful tokens.
We spend a lot of time fighting over a couple of Applications on the Steem Blockchain and forget our strengths... As a currency Steem functions better than many other coins.
(What makes us different and better?)
- User Concept is working (I didn't say perfectly)
- One of the busiest Blockchains in the Market
- You don't need to know how to mine to earn Steem.
- There are many ways to earn Steem, blogging, vlogging, singing, writing, programming, investing, developing, hunting cheaters, selling or renting your investment, there will many more we haven't thought of yet.
- We have usernames we can remember
- We have free transactions and they are fast!
- We have a platform to support our message and an easy way to distribute it.
- We have started to build a middle class
- The economy has already broadened past the original vision.
The value of Steem is multi-faceted and Steemit is just one of the tools that can increase the value. New platforms are already being developed and there are many in the pipeline as well.
The business case now is about adding projects not perfecting SteemIt
How do we talk about the blockchain and it's technology in a manner that is digestible to the average person?
There are many brainstorming activities out there used by Corporations, to assist with gathering this information.
If I were doing it I would start by interviewing our end-users, (noobs through experts) looking for simple, clear explanations, I would look for consistent words that many people use, and then I would try to talk to others using those terms and reinforce others who adopt it as well. After all we are a community built on new users who are learning anyway, no harm in standardizing our language some. (This effort requires those with influence to adopt it)
SteemIt is a proof of concept. As well as an education tool for "the masses". Let's use it!
Get out there and fight and earn, but don't forget this is only Prologue to the future of the Steem Blockchain.
* I reused some pieces of this post originally published on SteemIt and flagged by Bernie. (lol, I don't remember what I did, but I am sure I egged him on) It's an old post, but worth a read. :) (if I do say so myself)
https://steemit.com/marketing/@whatsup/i-am-amanda-johnson-so-are-you
