Over the past few years I feel like that guy. The guy we all love to hate. The omnipotent curator of all crypto knowledge. I’ll be reading an article during a break at work (okay so it’s more likely that I’ll be doing it while I should be working) and l’ll get excited about the next shitcoin and why it’s so amazing. I’ll catch myself psycho-babbling to a co-worker how it’s so revolutionary, so progressive, and how if we just get in now, we could change the world, or more importantly we could all buy gold plated shark tanks. The bubbly feeling dissipates as I realize that the guy I’m speaking with doesn’t share my excitement.
Hey guy, did you not hear what I just said?
I automatically make the only logical assumption from my cloud of judgement. Aww, this poor peasant, he doesn’t understand crypto. So I go through my quick and horribly inaccurate history of crypto currency for this pleb. I start with Bitcoin, because duh, and string together a loose explanation of what makes this shitcoin different, and why it will succeed where other crapcoins had failed. After I pour my heart and soul into this three minute quasi-TED Talk, this poor sinner is still just looking at me, blinking with his stupid little smile.
Forgive him lord Nakamoto, for he does not understand.
I love crypto (almost as much as I love Steemit). I own various different coins and trade on the exchanges. I would say that I’m at an above average competency compared to the general public, and compared to some of the brilliant minds here I still don’t know jack about the subject. So props to all of you for that.
But I think you all are missing the point of this platform…
If everything stays on the current track it’s on, Steemit is doomed for inevitable failure. (Okay, maybe that’s a little strong, but at a minimum we are limiting Steemit’s success.)
“What are you talking about, fuck boi?”, you ask.
Spoiler alert: You can’t be whatever you want when you grow up. What I mean by this is that everyone looks at this platform as a means to make money. (Whether you want to admit that or not is up to you). Everyone wants to be the next top notch content creator and that’s fine, but whenever the masses start pouring in this is going to be very discouraging. If everyone comes in with the main goal of making money for their content, they are going to be disappointed when they realize that it is going to be much harder than they originally thought. Most will consider their posts a failure and no one likes to fail. I am going to go ahead and guess that those kind of people will give up and go back to the sea of click bait on Facebook and similar sites.
“Well, douche bag, that’s what the curator rewards are for! We already know that not everyone is going to be able to be a successful content creator.”
Not so fast, my friend. This is the driving point of my message. After most users come to terms with their main duties being the curation of content, they will be left with reading articles.
Now stop.
Take a deep breath.
You might want to sit down for this.
Guess what the general public wants to read?
I’ll give you a hint, not crypto articles!
I don’t care if you bombard them with worthy data-sets, or hit them in the fucking face with pie charts, they aren’t going to care. I know that your technical analysis of that hot new shitcoin, (the one that you spent hours writing) is worthy of a view and I’ll probably be reading it but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Lately there has been so many of them in my feed I’ve given up on the topic altogether.
This is no bueno for any party involved. The readership will lose interest in the topic, and you won’t feel rewarded for the coffee driven hours you spent writing the article.
There is a place for crypto articles here. Early adopters are probably all crypto-enthusiasts. We need to think about the future though, and I think the plethora of articles on the subject are not only making the platform more dull, but bringing it down all around. Let’s slow down on quantity and boost up the quality of these articles. When the users of this platform grow, we all grow.
Or just don’t heed my humble warning. I’ll still be here, blinking and smiling with my stupid little smile, not reading your articles, with a lot of others.
Feel free to flame me in the comment section.
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