My girlfriend wrote a very personal story two months ago and she got rewarded for it with upvotes. I keep trying to encourage her to write more because I think she’s a good writer. I would have thought that the fact she got votes would help encourage her, but she doesn’t want to write for Steemit anymore. She still writes allot for other social media’s sites.
We drove to the supermarket yesterday and we had to go extra far because the market close to our house is closed on a Sunday. We were talking about Steemit in the car.
So, I asked her:
“If you could name the biggest reason you stopped writing for Steemit, what would that reason be?”
Her respond was very clear:
She said, “It feels like everybody on there is just voting on posts but never reading any of it. I put allot of work in my story and I got only one reply. What’s the point?”
I asked her would it help if your friends were on here?
She said, “No, that’s not what I want either!”
(At this point I was confused)
She said, “I like the anonymity Steemit provides. I want to write stories, personal stories, but I don’t want my friends to read them because I don’t want to talk about these stories when I meet them. But I would like to interact with my stories with similar minded people.”
I could see she had a point.
She kept going, “I like the platform, I like all the different subjects they have and the fact that you can find stories about anything, but if there is no interaction it doesn’t work for me”.
She has a completely different viewpoint about Steemit than me. I started writing because of the financial incentive Steemit provides, but she doesn’t care. She just wants to interact.
I kept thinking about what she said and decided that I, as somebody who enjoys Steemit very much, should take more care in replying to the stories of others. I’m going to try to give a thorough reply on two stories, that I enjoyed, per day and she if that works. Maybe it’s the little things that will make Steemit succeed.
Mark
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