Responding to @midlet's survey for his new Think Tank community
How long have you been using Steem?
I joined July 1st, 2017 but only started using Steem on July 22nd.
Where are you in terms of SP? (Plankton(0-500SP), Minnow(500-5000SP), Dolphin(5k-50kSP), Whale(you're probably not a whale, if you are you know what a whale is))
Whale
Where are you in the world? (Just Country)
United States
What brought you to Steem?
I believe it was mentioned to me in an Ethereum mining discord, but I don't remember 100%.
What was your first impression?
Holy crap there is a lot of spam.
How do you feel about the current state of Steem?
I believe the last few hard forks helped a lot with the spam and abuse, but there is still a lot of it. Doing something about it has created endless drama and frustration.
I think we are at a critical point, do or die.
How often do you use Steem applications/websites/etc?
Many times a day.
What is your favorite Steem Application and why?
beta.steemit.com, as I spend a lot of time using the UI and I am excited about the release of Communities. Steempeak is my favorite UI though.
What’s your favorite thing about Steem?
The community reminds me of Cheers, where everyone knows your name.
What’s your least favorite thing about Steem?
The immaturity, entitlement, and lack of passion.
How difficult/easy would you say it is to use Steem?
I think it is far more difficult than it should be.
Would you recommend Steem to family/friends/coworkers? If no why not?
To some yes, and I have.
What do you wish you could do with Steem that you can’t currently?
Mention it to someone and have them understand it within 5 minutes.
What excites you most about Steem?
The future
What worries you most about Steem?
Lack of engagement and userbase.
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Thanks for taking the survey @themarkymark, I was hoping at least one whale would take it so we'd have a full spectrum of users.
A great, brief but succinct survey response. I have trouble with the explaining in 5 minutes thing too. Though, I’ve onboarded a handful of friends and family.
Holy crap there is a lot of spam.
😅
Do you feel it has improved much over the years @themarkymark?
Posted using Partiko Android
Rc reduced a lot of the “spam” but the farming remains although hf21 helped with a lot of that as well
Glad to hear @themarkymark. I personally do feel a lot has positively changed since 2017. Even though I was skeptical about hf21 at first, it does seem to have a positive impact.
The understand in less then 5 minutes seems possible.
Maybe we need to come up with a new concept on how to frame Steem.
I really feel the social network aspect should not be front and center. It’s not very sexy right now.
It makes me feel better to be able to have time to engage with friends here by participating to different activities here. And I encourage my fellowsteemians to keep on engaging with the other Steemians here. And since my stay here in Steemit.com is not that long, I hope to have some improvement as a Steemit blogger here. And you can do the same too, and I wish for you to have develop your work in Steemit blogsite as well.
Marky told me to comment here. Can we be friends?
I said an intelligent comment :)
But sure, we can be friends.
Wow, what an asshole reply. Nevermind, I can't be friends with a big meanie.
Nice show! I will try to stop by more often. Let's brainstorm ways to get engagement up. I am going to take your idea and work on it. I will try to read and engage on at least 5 posts a day from users who I haven't engaged with in the past week, including at least 2 user names that I can't recognize.
I suddenly have this strong desire to know as much of the core user base as I can and invite new people into that core. I will make my next post an attempt to spread this feeling. :-D see you around