"unrealistic expectations of what a newbie should expect to earn"
I hear this time and time again and have different opinions on it. Trending does not help, but personally I don't understand why people think if they come here they should expect to earn big buck straight away. Having come to steemit as an established blogger, I know what it takes and had no expectations. lol in fact I thought maybe I could find followers here for my non steemit blog.
I would be happy to work with @thedarkhorse on creating a 'league' that works for pay it forward.
Thank you for coming over, there is a lot of work to do to improve retention and I believe posts that create engagement (just like this one) are part of the puzzel
engagement as you say is key. when someone walks around with nobody to talk to they feel unwanted and go back to comfortable places they already know like facebook.
when people see trash posts making hundreds of dollars because of bid bots but they don't understand what a bid bot is and they can't earn even a couple pennies when they write their heart out they get discouraged. trending and hot are complete garbage and should be done away with. these pages make people wonder why they dont stack up.
guessing that if you can figure out how to make newbies see some level of profits in the first 30 days the rate of dropping out is way lower.
would also be very interested in knowing what percentage of the accounts that leave are bots, scammers, or plagiarizers who get flagged and just open a new account.
I have never been a bid bot fan. In fact our witness principle are based on manual curation and engagement ( you might consider us for one of your witness votes, our witness server is @steemcommunity and my witness partner is @abh12345)
At the moment it is impossible to establish what % of accounts are bots in the first place, let alone what % of these leave. its also rather hard to establish who opens new accounts with out human verification
did this a while ago.
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@paulag I had a post a few days ago asking for help for ideas on how to improve the contest and one of the things that came up was how can we improve the engagement level with people on the posts that are featured. Not 100% sure how you could track things like commenting on the entries and voting on them, but if there is a way I'd be very interested in figuring out how to implement this into the contest and add an extra bonus for those who engage with the featured bloggers.
I'm discord same name #6765. Might be easier to chat there.
will ping you tomorrow, its getting late here now :-)
Perfect. I'm gone for much of the day tomorrow so if you can do it earlier your time then maybe I can reply before I leave for the day.