yeah, when I was talking to the curie team they were well aware of who you guys were haha. We were more discussing the importance of different groups on the steem platform, but we were also discussing how groups can have a negative effect on the platform. Say a user joins one or two groups and then they limit their voting/posting/comments to only those group members or topics, I think it can have a negative effect.
By no means were we saying StemSteem was a bad idea or group, just that group mentality can sometimes be a dangerous thing for growth
The group is by far not closed. People within the steemSTEM community can also do things elsewhere. I am not sure to follow, to be honest :)
Just a bit of a misunderstanding. What I mean is that when people join groups they can become a little closed off, only interacting with those in their group. For example in the Steem community there are some groups where members usually comment/upvote/resteem and interact with people in their group. Just the tribe mentality can have a negative impact.
I'm not insinuating that all groups do this, just pointing out some of the negative aspects of tribal mentality. A good example would be American politics. You have the Democrats and the Republicans, and the members of both parties keep blind allegiances to their own party and this can have a detrimental overall effect to the nation at large.
Ah ok. Then I indeed totally misunderstood your comment. I agree with what you said. But this is also up to people to decide whether they want (or not ) check elsewhere. I am sure that you can find both in each group.
Totally agree, at the end of the day it is up to the individual how they act.