Firstly, awesome post. I've been away from Steemit (perhaps technology as a whole), and it's nice to be welcomed by an article that at least gives me the first steps towards understanding ONO.
Now I noticed you defined a few terms in this post, but there's one I always see around Steemit, and sometimes your articles, that seems really vague.
"Community builder"
It's an idea that fills me with equal parts wonder and confusion. Whenever I see it I imagine a squad of coders hacking away at lit up keyboards in dark rooms, doing things I won't begin to understand at 45 if I started right now.
On some level, I know that's not it. At least, this article has helped right that logic to some degree with the definition of community. But that raises a whole new problem for me and I presume some others;
"What Communities Can WE build?"
You spoke of a guy writing about pigs as an example, but suppose a guy like that existed? How would he help build the community? As I write this I have a 700 word article on my laptop (unedited and unposted) that stemmed from me wondering why I found it so easy to kill a roach in front of my girlfriend.
That's what I'M good at. That's MY niche. And I like to think it's stuff that people would like to read, and in some sense it is. It could gather a following.
But if you were looking to build a community, would you gaze upon my roach related musings and say, "I want THAT guy?"
And in the off chance that you would, what could I do to help?
Thanks.
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