Hot Summer - 60 SP of Prizes

Instead of staring blankly at a screen and hoping for a WhatsApp message, a personal email, or a kind word, or binge-watching one Netflix show after another whilst wiping away a tear and feeling so lonely or burnt out, whilst half-listening to the radio spreading fake news along with the accompanying hatred towards humanity, you could, of course, log in to Steemit, do some reading, leave comments and build connections.

You can do this via the Steemit.com homepage. This is where all the posts appear. Unfortunately, this page is set to ‘trending’, so do make the effort to switch it to ‘new’. That way, everyone is visible. Before you know it, you’ll have built up a few lovely connections. Steemit is good for this, just as communities can be, at least if everyone does their bit and posts in accordance with the community’s rules, reads and comments a bit (not free, please) and no shortlist of what was written!).

It’s true that you’re free to write whatever you like, but you must respect the community that someone else has set up and paid for!

On the other hand, it’s also sensible, or even good to be picky, to be selective about your choices. Ask yourself which community you consider good enough to post in. If you’ve written something valuable, and you’re proud of your work, you shouldn’t have to settle for seeing your post buried amongst irrelevant epistels, reports, or rubbish generated by AI.

The POLL: Are Communities Outdated? gives a good overview of what lives among the users and owners of communities in Steemit.

@hive-107855

I like the idea of Communities. We at Dream Steem see ourselves as a friendly and open bunch, which, sadly... is dying out. We have a clear focus – fiction writing – yet day in, day out, non-fiction pieces are being published. One of the few rules is that the official language is English, but even long-serving Steemians with moderation experience themselves couldn’t care less about such trifles. I’ve had enough of this rubbish.

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@marcybetancourt

I set up a community, in Spanish, precisely so that we could meet and connect in the same language. It’s a community that has received few votes, but where we read every post carefully and make valuable comments. On many occasions, we’ve weathered the storms they’ve imposed, and that’s why they’ve punished us by withholding curators and their votes. I can say that for the past year we’ve felt that something has changed, for the better for those who post on Venezolanos Steem.

The so-called ‘community’ account was set up with the aim of voting for all users who post on Venezolanos Steem. Our vote is small, but we cast it.

My strategy was to invite users to run competitions from their own accounts. In other words, when the competition received votes, their individual account grew. In other communities, they used the strategy of running competitions from the community account; that is, whoever organised the competition had to do the work, and it was the community account that benefited.

We’ve seen it all!

I like the idea of communities if they were to function specifically for the purpose for which they were created. It makes no sense to have a photography community where people post recipes. It makes no sense to have an art community where the very least that’s posted is about art.

However, communities can connect us through our shared interests. Communities can be very functional if we set our minds to it.

Personally, I’d like to be able to categorise my posts as they’d be easier to find in the future. If I could set up tabs on my blog, for example: literature, photography, cinema, travel, digital art, opinion, others, I could quickly go to a tab to find something I’d posted in that category.

I think it’s a brilliant idea, but I’m not sure if this proposal could be implemented within Steemit itself.

In summary: I like the idea of communities, but I realise that I haven’t managed to implement a powerful strategy to ensure users receive more upvotes in the community I manage.

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@surinadewi

Hello everyone on Steemit, I’ve been away for a while, but this time I’d like to leave a comment…

First of all, hello @wakeupkitty – I’m finally back and will try to write comments based on my own thoughts.

From the moment I joined Steemit, I just wanted to write and give my best; you could say I’m a newcomer to the Steemit world. I was very active for a year until I managed to accumulate 1,000 SP, but due to certain circumstances I couldn’t focus and decided to take a break from Steemit.

A friend, @irawandedi, guided me on Steemit and suggested I join several communities on the platform, which I did.

After joining a few communities, I posted in several of them and noticed that some truly appreciated my writing, whilst others didn’t respond at all – even though I’d made an effort to write well without plagiarising or using AI.

Even so, in my view, “Yes, it’s beneficial for me” because, most importantly, I receive votes from the communities that appreciate my writing. I can also learn more by reading my friends’ posts in the communities to improve my writing even further. In a community, we can support and encourage one another, so that for those members who feel the community is important, we can benefit one another.

The community also helps us to interact more frequently with fellow members and stay connected by leaving comments or simply casting a few votes. If possible, the community should continue to monitor its members, as this could be one of the reasons Steemit improves.

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@ladyaryastark

I must clarify that given the format of the Blockchain-based social networks, I believe, have communities as a way to "classify" posts.

Or at least that was the intention. Now I see that a community title can have themes different from what one would expect to find.

That's why I believe that now, or perhaps always, communities have been a kind of tacit alliance, where votes are exchanged for votes cast. Perhaps I'm wrong.

I personally write in communities where there is freedom and support, not only in votes, but also in advice, and where there are topics that interest me.

When I created my Steem account, I sought support from the Latin American community because of the language barrier. I received penalties when I wasn't ignored.

That's why I believe community moderators hold the key to a community's success or failure. Some lack maturity and misuse their role, which alienates members.

Although communities have their flaws, personal blogs would have a bigger flaw: only truly interesting authors would get voluntary visits, the rest would get lost in a sea of posts.

Finally, I believe that the corruption you mention has caused serious people to view Steem, Hive, or Blurt with skepticism, because there is no fair retribution.

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@quotes-haven

I think communities are a good idea. One can post accordingly, and get their posts read by like minded people who are more likely to give some support. Unfortunately, it seems that is not how it works.

I have no idea what is involved in setting up a community, or what prompted people to set up communities. But from what you mentioned, it seems people behind the communities cared more for the returns than the community - present company excepted. And if that were so, it is no wonder that most of the communities failed.

I have tried posting in a few communities. It was like posting into the void. There was not the slightest recognition for my efforts. In the end, I just stuck with the community that acknowledged my posts with a small vote.

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@shohana1

Straight to the point

Are Communities Overrated?

No, Not really!

Can't remember if any community or individual forced me for delegation or beneficiaries, I did it by my personal choice and for benefit ofcourse. It was like give and take type of deal to me. Definitely we are free on blockchain based social media platforms but community contributed on our growth so I think publishing content in a particular community is fine and no communities aren’t overrated to me. I find them helpful and appreciated my blogs with upvote using community account without asking anything in return.

I liked this discussion topic and would like to thank you my friend, Kitty

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@callmeraph

Looking at communities in general, I feel most are just overated. Since they all know them selves, we know how their post get higher votes from others.

As a new user you are left on your own to figure out how things work in some communities you pick interest. And there no a support or reward to motivate the new comers to keep writing. That's why you see after two or three days. If a new comer does see reward on his or her post they tend to be discouraged and which they finally back out.

I was actually happy when I saw a particular community willing to organize a weekly competition for writers in which it will encourage writers to write consistently daily and also comment on other people's writing but as you can tell it didn't happen.

I was going through a particular community and I saw a task I could participate, as a new comer I joined, I did my best in making sure what I did was the best, but as you can tell the old members as usual got the higher price while I got it low even when I felt my write was much more better than Few other... I was kind of discouraged though.

For me I feel new comers and also every other persons should be carried along in a community not only the old members doing their thing like as if the new comers are suppose to be here in the first place.

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I read the comments at least three times and what struck me most was the comment left by @hive-107855.
Users killing a community, unable to read, to understand what fiction (a story or poem) is. Moderators who...
It has a lot in common with what @ladyaryastark wrote about communities with a theme to classify posts and @marcybetancourt commented why she started a community.

And yes, there is more from being shut out to be lifted, if it comes to it, it all depends on the community and most of all the admin/mods if they can offer what the publisher needs whilst strictly enforcing their own community guidelines in any case.

The 20 SP goes to @ladyaryastark +
I set another 5 each for:
@hive-107855
@marcybetancourt
@quotes-haven
@solperez
@blessedlife
@surinadewi
@callmeraph and
@shohana1

_{Prizes: You all are powered up - 11:52
Prompts: Netflix - hot summer - listen to the radio
28-8-2026}