Steemit is I think doing a social experiment (I dont believe its a stable business yet) adding monetary rewards to the content generated by the people. This itself will drive a lot of people to create content with monetary expectation. This same psychological aspect will be the issue for user retention as well,people leave since they feel they failed, if they are not able to earn meaningful rewards.
This is the problem to solve and is not an easy one.
Steemit is essentially a blogger platform and not a network like Facebook. As a blogger platform it should create quality content and where users come back for consuming more.
Steemit could add better user interface ,groups ,closed groups and evolve more like Facebook but still the core issue remains
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Steemit is definitely not made for everybody, and that's also why I don't understand that people say things like:
For what? These masses will end up as thousands of dead accounts, inflating the network artificially and generating unnecessary costs.
It seems that we all know what the core problem is: expectation management. Yet, there is no welcoming of new users, no education, no help center, no support. I wonder what's the plan to ever fix these substantial problems that start being problems in the moment the user enters the platform.
You can tell people that one can earn money on Steemit by posting things, and when they come to give it a try, you don't help them to understand the complexity of the system, leave them alone with their doings, and the only thing they'll quickly understand by themselves is that by buying votes they can grab some attention. Congratulations!
Nobody is actually surprised about the current situation on Steem, because it's a logical consequence of the very same mistakes that have been repeatedly done over months.