So I have been on this community for about a week now and I am starting to form an opinion of this place. My feelings are very mixed so I thought I would write a bit about the aspects that I love and the other aspects that I do not. I would love to hear others opinion on the topic or if some of my thoughts are just me. I'm going to frame this as a complement sandwich: Nice bread, bad meat, nice bread.
What I Love:
- I love the people that comment. Everyone is so supportive and kind. Every post have had has been that they like or love what I have put up. It makes you feel so warm inside to see. I have never really posted on other forms as I never wanted to open myself up to be hated on. I guess that this might change if you had thousands of follows though but for now I am feeling the love.
- The rewards system. Realizing that you have in my case a very small coin to throw into someone else's hat makes me feel like I am donating to the worthy causes. It also means that I only give them out sparingly. I usually like to give it to the other small fish in the sea because I know how they feel.
What I Dislike:
Now I know I said loathe in the title but that is a too strong of a word for this post. So here is what I dislike
- The 'follow for a follow' and the 'like for a like' posts. This is unproductive and annoying. Here I was excited that someone left a comment and then its just this.
- Realizing how hard it is to grow from a small fish in a big ocean. For the first few posts I though that this can't be that hard. I have some cool photos and surely there are some people who would like to hear what I have to say. I soon realized that most of the time it is either luck, boobs or targeted posts that do well. Since I refuse to use boobs to take the fast track it looks like the slow climb for me.
- I though that people were using this place to post original things: photos you took, or pictures you drew or things that you did. Turns out there is a lot of copy paste ningas on here. I guess you can't get away from people looking for a quick ride to the top.
- The image tag formatting. I am just not use to it yet but I guess I am getting better.
- Lastly for the bad that feeling you get when you spend effort on something and no one even looks at it. I know it is the same no matter which platform you post on but on here it is so quickly at the bottom of the pile that no one will ever look at it again.
Again for the Good
- How you post. I love the Markdown style of typing posts and the preview that is available. You can really put effort into making your posts look pretty.
- Talking to people from different walks of life. People I have never and will never meet coming together to share a similar interests and give positive advise. This truly is a unique platform.
- I wanted to make the number of good equal the number of bad but I am struggling to get to 5 unique positives. So instead I will say this, despite the downfalls I think I will keep trying. Even if I stop posting and instead comment/up-vote, I will be keeping the positive atmosphere going and that is what steemit is about.
So that was my thoughts, what are yours?
