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Blogging on the Blockchain use to be fun and exciting, knowing that your skills and efforts would be appreciated a bit, unlike Facebook and other outlets where likes and follows are the only credits you get for a job well done in a post. Steemit made Blogging have a new sense of purpose, it compensates several hours, days, weeks, months and years of publishing articles for free. From different statistics, Registered users on steemit are way higher than active users, which really calls for attention.
PROBABLE FACTORS
- LACK OF DIVERSITY
What many users do not realize is that blogging could be much more than writing and publishing articles, Vlogging and Video documentaries could be done, Art is part of it, Gaming is another thing and so is Music making with Micro-Blogging are other features that could be considered. As soon as thousands of users realize this, they won't run out of ideas and bailing out off the Blockchain.
- ZERO MOTIVATION
Lack of motivation is another factor to be considered as to why Blockchain Blogging may be dead. For as many who have high hopes for their respective articles and blogs, their hopes could be shattered after spending days and hours on articles that never get much publicity or likes/upvotes. Expecting so much in reward is good but how would you handle such disappointments when you have none of the rewards? The motivation to Blog goes away, some might even go and never return back which is clearly indicated in the ratio of users to active users. Nobody wishes to spend hours writing or drawing or making pieces of music that never gets listened to or watched, or an article that never gets read.
- BOT RISING
The rise of BOTs, another major catalyst to the dying Blockchain Blogging. A huge fraction of accounts are BOTs and these BOTs do not read or engage with humans but spam them over and over again. Once an account is created on the Blockchain, it is profiled as a user whether active or not, sadly, a real user could own hundreds of this BOTs account which just grows the userbase of the platform but contribute little to nothing to the Ecosystem. Can a BOT account relate or give feedback on an Article that was created under hours or even days? The answer is mostly NO, the feedbacks and comments could be some form of motivation to some Bloggers.
- VOTE BUYING
Buying supports(upvotes/likes), another factor killing Blogging on the Blockchain. Since hundreds of users are now doing it, outright authors get discouraged and no one would actually want to spend days or hours on articles that will get no upvotes or visibility and any form of support. Vote buying is not a question of either good or Bad, but the impact on the platform is really overwhelming as undeserved posts/authors get more likes/upvotes provided they could afford to get votes from upvote services, users don't care about the quality of what they publish anymore, but what they get in reward after 7days matters most!
Assuming all the factors I have stated is absent, Blockchain Blogging would revive and be back to the old glory days. Thanks for reading!
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