For me, Steemit provides inspiration and community, along with material gains. It allows challenges, creative outlets, and model for giving and not just taking. I, personally am on Steemit for many reasons. One of the reasons I spend so much time on here is beacause of the monetary benifits, but I would still spend time on here because of the community if I did not make so much money. However, the aspect of Steem that I love, is that it allows everyone to give to each other and share quality ideas, and THAT is what is truely valuable about this platform.
Totally agree that on site translators would be helpful. Plus, it should be made easier for ordinary people to share! I think that Steemit has a long way to go, but the community here is pretty rad, at least that I have seen, and that is valuable.
I agree that there being so many possible forms of incentives for content creation and viewing is nice, and that contests etc. can have transparent outcomes that are kept track of, as well as easily weeding out any bad players in the ecosystem and identifying those taking advantage of it readily. And it should definitely be easier for users to get on at least the hot page in an organic way, otherwise I don't see how most won't get discouraged about sharing what really interests them.
I think as more communities and niches develop it will be easier for people to gget recognition for their interests and posts. I hope to start a good history and mythology loving community going as I grow!
That's true, specialized communities can't really be formed when user numbers are this thin, it'll be refreshing to see topics like that find an audience in the future! I feel like now it's just the same five or so topics hitting the frontpage over and over again.
Yeah seems to be, the subgroups wont have a community if we dont build it though!