While it's nice to be in the top 1% (thanks for pointing that out!) and while I am optimistic about the future of steem and concur with pretty much with everything you say (and also with what @goldendawne says below about a decent interaction strategy on here) ... Is it accurate to base that 1% figure on total users... shouldn't it be active users (minus bots)?
Otherwise it's like deriving the top 1% from the real world by taking everyone that's ever lived in the last 40K years as the base point?
While including dead accounts in the calculation is more motivational it also just seems innacurate. I'm all for motivation, but accuracy first IMO - especially if we're investing our hard earned SBDs!
Based on active users, with a 1000SP I'd say I'm firmly middle class, but not elite! Which is still something to cheer about...
Yes, I had forgotten about the active bots. It would be interesting to see a chart showing how many UPvotes, etc are in connection to auto (or manual) bots.
That could be quite interesting to see...
I just crested the (lower) middle class myself.. but some day (fingers crossed) to breakthrough into the land of elites.
The first is one for someone with database skills (not me ATM, maybe by the end of the year!) I still think it's relatively easy for someone in the west to make it to 5000 SP.
One thing that does interest me is what the structural constraints of the platform are in terms of SP distribution....it is a zero sum game after all.
Yeah good point!
How many of those "dead" accounts become active?
There is no way to tell who won't log on tomorrow and realize what he or she is missing.
I encountered a number of people on here who stated they did nothing for months only to come to understand what they are missing.
With that, there is a good chance some of those people who are presently inactive come back....
one thing about the dead accounts. those accounts dont close. they stay on the blockchain. they can and probably will come back. fb killed myspace, steemit will kill fb. such is the evolution of online social networks.
Funny, I was wondering about 'closing account's on steemit, I had assumed you couldn't! Thanks for confirming, and you may be right of course.
They could burn up their passwords in a ritual of disgust but I don't think accounts can actually be closed per say. That's my understanding. Might be wrong
Well I guess locking yourself out of your own account is closing it down! But as you say, that's fairly unlikely.
I am not sure Steemit will kill FB....it is more geared towards blasting Reddit.
you are probably right. my gut feeling is steemit will overshadow fb, though. People will want more substance I believe. deeper connections.
people can keep in touch with each other on fb, but they are drifting farther apart. the more realization people get oh how unfulfilled they are over there, the more they will want to go somewhere else. hopefully here.
i cant speak on reddit. i dont know anything about it. myspace is still active. it has totally revamped itself which wiped out my old account with that transition.
I'm one of them - started in August/ Sept - then stopped and got back to it late Sept - in fairness though, as a teacher, there was this little thing called a 'new term' that sort of got in the way during Autumn!
'THEY'LL BE BACK' - I'm sure.