Oh I'm so glad you told me you had a similar experience. Luckily my commenter had clearly read my post, that must have been so discouraging that the commenter didn't even read it... I'd really like to know how something like that is possible because it really degrades the point of steem. Please let me know if you find anything out about it and I'll try to do likewise! Of course, this is all a process and I think you're doing the right thing taking the wait and see approach. Lots of trial and error on here, we'll have to work through it. Thanks for commenting, I hope to hear more from you:)
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Same to you! Interesting development: That comment's monetary value plummeted for reasons unknown to me. I did notice that at least a few people downvoted it (Not me. I thought it best not to whine, being a newbie). I didn't know that downvoting would affect the value of the comment, though in hindsight, I don't see why it shouldn't. An example of the community working to fix itself? I don't know. My experience has been quite variable in terms of voting success. I love the idea of Steemit & crypto-markets, and so my goal is to keep at it. Having said that, when you're a one-woman show running her own business, as I am, everything that you spend time doing business-wise has to be profitable or somehow contribute to the growth of one's business. This is the conundrum that I'm currently in with contributing content to Steemit. The content adds to the robustness of Steemit, but doesn't do much for my own website. Steemit is way bigger than my site, so even if I duplicate content across both, Steemit would win over my tiny website on any search engine. And theoretically, that's okay. I've made the switch to only bring original content to Steemit. The catch is that if you spend time writing some content exclusively for Steemit, it has to pay off or demonstrably grow my business in some way. I haven't seen that yet. It's still early days though, so, as we both kind of indicated, keeping at it and learning seems like the way to go for now. Long post! Sorry!
I love long posts! Thanks for updating me, that's interesting about the comment value. I think that the ability to downvote/flag/etc is hard on some people, but it is a great way to give the community ways to fix it self like you said.
I just checked out your website (and followed you!) and I applaud you for bringing your business to steemit. Hopefully being here will be a long-term investment for you and will pay off once the platform becomes more mainstream. A lot of people are talking about marketing and growth of steem (steemit-growth tag) and part of that topic is spreading Steemit to other social media sites and getting the word out. I think, in many ways, that would end up helping your business (which is totally awesome by the way! Lots of people out there need a personal, holistic service like that). I really hope it all pays off, I don't really have any long-term goals for myself on here, but I'll definitely enjoy helping you reach yours :).
Sweet! I'll go check out that tag. Thanks for that and your encouraging words!