Well I can say the first part of the experiment is working for sure. You’ve found me just at the time where the initial excitement has started to wear off and I was starting to question why I was putting so many hours into writing (when I have other writing in ‘the real world’ I should really be doing instead!). But your post is exactly what I love about this platform, everyone is invested in everyone else doing well here. And after a nice little success yesterday, I’m fully back onboard!
The steem basic income is an excellent initiative that I took advantage of a couple of weeks ago. If anyone here isn’t involved in it already I highly recommend it! It’s really easy to get started (even for me, someone that’s not overly familiar with how the platform works) and while the payout is not huge it will keep paying out for as long as you keep using the platform, so it should more than pay for itself in time. The other advantages of it are more psychological/communial, for you there’s nothing worse than seeing a post you worked on get no votes, this won’t happen anymore (as long as you’re not posting more than some number of posts a week, not sure how many). For others that see your posts, the ball has already started rolling so they will probably be more likely to upvote, and also if they check your votes they can see that you’re part of the scheme so are obviously invested in the platform doing well. Also you’re helping other that have signed up too. Everyone wins!
Not come across the leagues of excellence but will check them out.
Thank you @paulag, this is excellent work you are doing here!
awesome - thank you so much for coming over. Thank you for sharing your experience with @steembasicinome. it does seem to be a win win, and like steemit, its an experiment.
Glad your also going to take a look at the leagues, haha hope @abh12345 is able to take the pressure with all the accounts I am going to be sending him.
You mentioned the psychological/communial element and that is exactly what this post and experiment aims to home in on. But here on steemit via an actual post. Steemit is not just about posting, but interacting and meeting new people. Niche content is good, but people are finding it hard to get an audience - but it also does not just have to be niche content - this post proves how well people welcome engagement. lol the next step will be getting all of you to engage with each other.
In the past month the query has gotten slower and slower, lets see!