Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by nv-vn on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:58AM
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Pretty cool, but in practice Steemit's content is pretty mediocre. There are some high quality articles, but the front page is largely clickbait and articles talking about how successful Steemit is. I tried to write some programming articles (one of which got a lot of traction, actually) but I just got bored of doing that after a little while of getting barely any views. I think Steemit has potential if people begin to use it like Medium, but a lot of people are there as basically a business, running their personal BuzzFeed.
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Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by ryanb23 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:01AM
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Also, Steemit is just a terrible name.
Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by lost_name on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:59PM
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I agree and was curious why they picked it. I guess their reasoning is as good as any.
> Steem is a form of esteem, which means to prize or value. Steem is also a homophone for steam, which is frequently associated with power, and a step further, steam powered trains gave influence to English idioms, such as ‘this conversation is picking up steam.’ The associations with prizing, language and empowerment only felt right.
Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by markbnj on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:36PM
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But there is already a very popular service called Steam, so I think I would have kept searching for another name, personally. No reason to risk confusion.
Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by kakarot on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:54PM
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Still, Steem is an infinitely better name than Steemit.
Re:A Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
by QML on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:56PM
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Copycat of Reddit (lol).