Yesterday night I joined the "community round-table discussion" by @Steemittalk podcast. It was an interesting experience for me, because I have heard the voices behind the nicknames and listen/read the experiences and the thoughts from other users.
As you know, I'm not a native English, so It's hard for me to follow the conversation and read/write in the chat at the same time. Usually I prefer listen and take some time to think about it.
During the round-table, everyone talks/writes about their own Agenda on "Steemit World", some inputs to improve the platform, some sensations about the vote (%, up and down), etc.
There were many interesting speeches, but in this post I want to focus my attention on some words that @merej99 wrote on the chat: "investment in time, knowledge and humanity."
Premise: I totally understand the importance of the investment in money, trust me! My poor old bones usually think in "systematical terms" and I always remain in more doubtful when someone talks to me about "An unusual way to build a new wonderful world."
I don't trust in a Utopia world, but I perfectly know the importance of who invests time/knowledge/humanity in a young community as Steemit. At the moment, Steemit is still a niche (larger than the first months, but still a niche) and without people that invests their time, energy, themselves creating contents and interacting each others, the community would be less than a niche.
I'm not just thinking of the own contents or quick votes/comments, I think of who helps the newbies to introduce themselves on Steemit, who collaborates with other users for contests, projects, new apps or art journals, who reads the posts and starts a conversation, who "lives" the community in different ways using his time, his knowledge, his humanity.
We can't monetize all the sources that some active users invest here, but I want to represent them as a house:
the investments in money are the frame of the house (foundations, roof, structures, etc) , the other investments are all the things that make the house habitable and cozy. Without the frame, the house crashes and, vice versa, without the habitability the house stay empty and will crash in few time.
Using the same methaphor, we need good engineers, accountants, carpenters, etc... but we also need good gardners, home designers and cooks. ;)
We need to be clear about this, it's the only way to build a healty community.
I can testify that the community of Steemit is full of "hard worker" and great investors in time/knowledge/humanity and I think they are the perfect machine to share the spirit of this community and make it larger than now! ^_^
See ya all!
You have illustrated that concept beautifully!
Thanks, @opheliafu ! I thought that the analogy with the house was perfect to describe the community :)
Yes, a lovely idea.
Agree! Lets build a healthy community on Steemit ^. ^
I love merej99's house analogy, thank you for sharing it.
merej99's words inspired my house analogy ^^ Thanks so much, @benjojo ^^
my appologies! I love your house analogy... and the words that inspired them :)
no problem, my English is poor and I thought I'd wrote something wrong :D
Well definitely don't worry about that. I'm ashamed to say I can only speak English, let alone read and write in another language. Keep at it!!
Very interesting the post lady @ silviabeneforti the work magnifies as always. Congratulations
thanks so much, @jlufer ^_^
Inspiring words; thank you for that!
Thanks to you, @edje ^_^