Thanks @bit.curious for running this contest. A bunch of people have already commented on bots and selfvotes, so I'll leave those two alone.
Overall I'm having a very positive experience on Steemit. In terms of suggestions, mine is easy: you have to make the platform easy for grandma.
Steemworld.org is a great site, but why should I have to leave the Steemit platform to learn what's going on in the Steemit platform?
Similarly, Discord is great! By why is it necessary for Steemians to leave the platform to connect with one another? Why drive traffic away from Steemit.com?
Until we're able to do things like see when we're mentioned and connect with others on Steemit itself, we won't see the platform really take off.
Bottom line - devs, please make it easy: REMEMBER GRANDMA!
Remember grandma is a good saying, though at the same time are most Steemians elderly, or are they still in their 20's to 50's? I'm not really sure of the primary age groups that actually use Steemit yet. With that said, I do feel that communication should be slightly easier, as not everyone always wants to post a comment or leave a message by donating SBD.
I assume many turn to Discord as Steemit lacks the ability to converse privately.
But sincerely, I think it would make far greater sense if the steemit developers can create channels to serve all these useful purposes right here on steemit.com. Some of us here do not even know about steemworld.org and so many other channels with useful services.
Exactly! To get more people to join Steemit, all services should happen here!
@bit.curious - by Remember Grandma I don't necessarily mean actual grandparents :)
I mean for Steemit to grow, it needs to be more simple, so that anyone (including grandma) can use it with ease.
No hours/days/weeks of study and as great as sites like Steemworld are, the average user isn't going to want to mess with one site to check their voting power, another site to send a private message, another for notifications, etc.
These services are going to have to be integrated into the platform before we can expect Steemit to really expand their user base.
So as the devs work on the platform my advice would be to always REMEMBER GRANDMA when building the site :)
That makes more sense now, I guess I was looking at it from a different perspective. :D
Yup yup, just keep remembering grandma and KSS (keep it simple, steemit!) :)