i want to join the great community ..
thank's for sharing@aggroed 

@upvoted and followed

Beautiful! community building has  been your thing, so really this one is a another one coming through your ranks kudos sir.

Go Steem ;-)

I was thinking about this as I found myself on reddit again just a few minutes ago. Although I'm very active on steemit, I still often find myself spending a lot of time scouring reddit. I think part of that is that the reddit mobile app makes it hella easy - and although I used Esteem for a long time, it really was pretty clunky when it came to just looking for content. 

Another part of why reddit appeals more still is the overall higher level of interesting, quality stuff - which is a measure of reddit's audience size and - to some degree - ~~lack of auto voting and stuff~~ <-- **This is the stupidest thing anyone has ever said** - but arguably the number of real users overcomes the bot problem - but maybe not even. Still, it is generally true that if you post something on one of reddit's big subreddits - **even if you're gallowboob** - that shit better not suck or it isn't gonna upvoted. 

Finally I think reddit succeeds because of its niche building capacity. I have a series of subreddits I enjoy and they are consistently producing quality content within that niche. 

Now reddit has so many niches that I find myself just scouring at random now and again and finding lots of - well - if not "good" stuff, at least interesting stuff.

I feel like I, personally, will know that steemit has progressed to a more mature platform when I find myself intuitively deciding to  peruse it on my phone. What I mean by "intuitively" is this:

Right now, I set aside time to parse my feed, and then a little outside my feed, to sit down, read things, upvote, and respond. *But reddit still just happens*. Reddit happens when I'm doing other things. It happened today when I was watching The Sopranos. Steemit is not there yet - and might be a ways away. It will require that magic mix of UI, niches or communities, and sheer numbers.

For now, things like steemstem - or the other growing niches given support by curie - are the seeds of the future niche-a-fication of steemit. Until then, I'll do my part in niche creation by resolutely refusing to write about anything other than mushrooms for the foreseeable future.

Edit: It's worth noting though that outside of more quality controlled subreddits, reddit has also moved towards a lowest common denominator style of content creation. Most of the most popular subs are just memes, comics and single photos - or crazy ass gifs. I guess the other way I'll know steemit has apexed as a platform is when I think about steemit today and think "those were the days." By then we'll be able to create a "truesteemit" community to fill the emotional gap.

Community is everything, as I discovered when I first joined MSP. The feeling you get by helping, supporting and pushing other Steemians to do great things gives such a great deal of satisfaction.

I took what I learned at MSP and used it at The Writers' Block. We concentrate on creating good content, but are also trying to bring in new fiction fans through our social media efforts.

Why do I love steemit? It's the people! And yes I did do a blog about it! This place rocks and kicks all the other sites in the dirt!

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I was about to #moon you back, but then realized that might not be what you were thinking.

im just impresed!

i agree Steemit needs to welcome artists and musicians as they have the content so valuable to the wider community. i  found very little support for my music and painting here, and i know of many other musicians who are not buskers but are producing original music who can't get support here. Wonderful the insight to support the Korean developement. I do think however, that the focus on writing long blogs (often with very little actual content) is harming the platform. I hope the SMT idea will allow wider use of Steemit, and give artists a way to gain support. The current rewards structure with 90% going to 200 people is very frustrating, it is very hard to get support if your not part of the clique here.

I watch the kr posts and notice less bots and more commenting than English language posts. They do seem to have a better community going. 

For my part, I  try to use good seo on my posts and use lots of linking to internal and external related posts. I also promote my posts and those I upvote on my other social media. 

Right now, my goal is to use the fantastic Alexa ranking for all it is worth - something many are missing or ignoring as far as I see.

I have a website at www.creationcarvings.com I just started a steemit account and I was wondering if there was a way to promote and sell product through here? 

I think that more traffic will be generated over time as people can start selling things like on a traditional website through here as well. I am new so perhaps this already takes place. If it does, would someone tell me how it is possible?

we should work like them..please stay with us and increase our earn...thanks

Nicely Communuty Building...Want to be with u...

Dear @aggroed,

Community building is the most important thing on Steem. 
Bringing more people on Steem is a thing, but.... Keeping them here is another big thing. 

According to the Steem BI Team, [only 10 % of users remain after 90 days](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@miniature-tiger/user-numbers-and-user-retention-analysis-the-story-of-2017). 

I want to share my experience as the french community leader.
As you know, I was on Steem to blog about my stuff (as I am already a blogger and youtuber) but as a french speaking person I couldn't share my posts in french. So I started to build from scratch an [entire community](https://steemit.com/fr/@roxane/analyse-de-la-communaute-fr) (they were nobody, so it was easy to onboard the new one). 

For 6 month now, I 've published a video (and more recently article) explaining Steem (and all it's secrets: internals, tools, ecosystem, ... in french).

I am proud now, to see that after 6 months full time on Steem explaining how does it works and building the community behind the scene (French Discord Channel), a lot of people are staying and contributing to the community ! Because they understand how this plateforme works (having bits of information in your language every day makes it very easy to learn and assimilate the concepts).... And they take care of this platform they know and love ! If a spam is arriving the whoooole community is explaining to the person that this is spamming. I can tell you how many succes stories we have about spammers who became pilar of the community after so many long hours of training. But alright, we are still small. 

Today, the french community get even rewards for their posts (because I did everything I could to find for theses "rewards"... with OCD curation for example).

So… **Building community is a thing, but, who cares about the Community Builders ?**

I've looked for support. Chatted a lot, explained my project (Teaching Steem and improve french minnows onboarding, [coaching them](https://steemit.com/fr/@roxane/comprendre-steem-lance-du-coaching-pour-les-minnows-fr)), explained what I needed and what I did… I even [build a website that gathers all the values informations for Steem onboarding process](https://steemit.com/fr/@roxane/comprendre-steem-fr-un-index-francophone-pour-mieux-s-y-retrouver-sur-steem), all this content could be translated and made available to other communities. And I got no support at all from the persons well known as  *Community Builders* ... 

So, by the way, I have set up a special [Discord channel for Community Builders](https://discord.gg/PsAzMBp) if anyone is interrested to share it's experience. Together we are stronger.  

So, I think we should also onboard the community leaders. Help them. Because I would have left Steem if I had not the confidence that French is the 5th language in the world and that french could find it's place on Steem.

So, yes, we need to spread the word about Steem, we have to bring people here, we have  to educate them (because, believe me, the Marketing of Steem is not helping to keep the people here)... Who would like to stay in a place where it's clearly written *Your voice is worth something* and you give the best of you everyday and you don't get this something... even if you do the *High quality content* ?

I would also have left if I didn't truly believe in Blockchain technology and how it can change the world… Not every new minnow has the same believes and expectations.

So community builders have the task to explained to the newcomers how hard it is to make money here but why it's better to be here than another social media.

And by the way, if you find that *Steemit looks ugly*, that's why we have [*Busy.org*](https://busy.org/) ! :D Believe, me, all the people (non tech people) I have shown Steemit.com went far far away.... But they all falled in love with Busy :-) 

After 6 months, I am still posting everyday high quality content, taking care of newcomers (Minnow coaching in french for example). By the way, **I am still looking for support** ;-) Feel free to contact me if you can help. 

Roxane
[www.comprendre-steem.fr](http://www.comprendre-steem.fr/)

i think part of the issue is the lack of support for new people in steem. they get in, theyre psyched, then comes the reality of the learning curve. I feel many people we recruit are put off by having to learn a system that can be somewhat complicated, so they just never bother.


I know for most games they have a new user intro. this is what button to push to make a jump, this is the command to kill the evil wizard. that kinda thing. it just seems to me that steemit should come with mandatory intro before you get anywhere. reinforcing shit like writing down your key,  how curation works, how rewards work. basics. 

the other issue. language. half our users dont speak english. i know mods spend a good deal of time explaining really simple things to people who say they speak english but are kinda clueless. a huge emphasis should be getting up steem mirrors that work in different languages. i'm sure someone is working on this.

i think we need to set up a mentoring channel or service, where people can volunteer to assist with specific situations that arent simple, like how to use various apps, coaching on posts if they struggle with writing. this would be for people who have a lot of specific questions centered around how things work.  just a thought

So , useful post I like it !

More has to be done to onboard new Steemians and sustain their interest with the platform. It is a hard grind. There is just too much 'junk' to trawl through every day.

The well-known customer retention mantra applies here: it is easier/less costlier to retain an existing Steemian than to acquire a new one

Steem on!

Great post.  This is the spirit we need. i suggest everyone to try to lift the network in its own way. One day we will be succeeded.

I agree I'd hate if such a unique and robust platform died out

oh yes i'm very interested nice bro

There is certainly a lot of great content here and community is the answer to make sure the Best of it doesn't get left behind.  It's what I've been about since day one as well.

I like to see new tribes based around common interests, ideas or lifestyles forming and those with heavier upvotes that encourage this kind of behavior.  

Rather than continuously  complaining about something you don't like, make a community based around something you do, right?  That's the main lesson I learned in my first few months here.

Nice post.