On steemit, its an untapped niche compared to others, yes the difficulty is getting non-science people to get interested, for my perevrevious STEM articles, I try to use as much as possible simple terms, diagrams/photos (they help alot) and I have seen writes on here write STEM articles suited for elementary schools and they are really easy to understand and really go a long way in making non-science people grasp concepts and get the message across.
My take is for non-science people, use simple clear language, keep the article short (one can do a series of muliple articles on a topic) and use images, people love images.
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Any thoughts on how to bring in new users? What would attract people not yet on steemit?
If we could sort by votes regardless of vote weight. A lot of it doesn't have to do with content, but the way the site is constructed (it's bad on purpose to encourage use of steem, imo) and the poor distribution of steem have scared away many otherwise intelligent participants. So, in a way the inability to find content of worth, or the platform's inability to retain niche content creators who could start their own communities has a lot to do with how content is displayed and how SP or SBD is a necessity to foster content discovery, which isn't a problem that other social media has to deal with. Of course some groups on other sites reverse engineer how people vote, or use voting farms or other tactics, but those problems are everywhere.
Steemit would have to be... not steemit for it to attract the types of users we're hoping to bring in, if that makes any sense. Good content will help, but it's kind of like a persistent bandage over a deeper problem.