Steemit Q&A Series
I would love to take part in a Q&A out here on Steem aka Steemit to see who's who and to also be able to discover a bit more info. The way I located this website and social network was quite the experience and so asking questions for me stems from many good and bad experiences online.
Here's my top 10 questions below for anyone far more experienced:
- Who's the founder of Steem? I learned it's open source, but don't know who founded it and who owns it.
- What's your favorite topic of interest on Steem and why?
This question can help me and others to write for certain audiences - How long has Steem been around? please provide the accurate date if possible will help me create future articles.
- Have you earned anything out on Steem and what was your top payout if any?
- Do you use Steem as a content curator, content creator or both?
Note: Content creator refers to original and permitted content creations, not copy paste, nor copyright infringement, or fraudulent spam acts. - What is your goal out here on Steem and target audience?
- Do you find networking on Steem to be a fulfilling experience thus far and worth the time invested?
- How does the editing of text and images work for posting blogs on Steem if there's no editor option available?
- Have you ever used Markdown style syntax to create blog posts and on Steem?
- How long have you been using Steem, what would you rate your user experience as from 1-10 thus far?
Thanks for caring to give my first ever Steem Q&A a good go. I'm obviously not that experienced here since it is my first day. I signed up last night, but only chose to post something at random after checking out a few articles. It always helps to get a good feel for the network you join by doing so.
I recommend for anyone else just getting started out here to at least try to read other people's articles. I researched a little and heard that we get paid to curate others content by way of up voting, and if we leave sincere relevant comments you also will get to earn much more once that particular Steem blog/article takes off. Well... if such a blog is actually something others find to be truly relevant and of interest to them over time it will.
Check out the most recent post by @ned
Hey, Cloud Explorer! After watching all the TSU folks on Facebook trying to find new places to go, I was stuck with indecision. None of the other platforms made any sense to me - their quality of engagement and sense of community just wasn't like on TSU. I had even stopped taking photos. But it was your post - [https://steemit.com/social/@fpcvirtual/the-little-tsu-that-was] - that got me enthused again. So thanks a lot for that!
But this Steemit is a lot more complicated, that's for sure! After seeing your post, I spent the next week reading a lot of Steemit posts before deciding to sign up. I think this system is a lot more sustainable over the long-term because there are so many paths for funds to come in, payouts are not instant, and there are incentives for decentralized development of the underlying software and tools.
I've only made one post so far, but good comments are worth something here, and that's what builds community over the long run. One nice thing here is that we get dinged if we make more than 4 blog posts a day, so there's more incentive to engage than just keep posting, posting, posting, like people used to do on TSU! : )
Anyway, I'm looking forward to more TSU folks coming over here, but the whole system might be too complicated for some of them right now. It will be interesting to see. As a community, TSU was great and we could all do some great things here together. -- Haphazard Homestead, formerly of TSU