[NEW COMMUNITY] Steem Help Community comes to Life!
In my early days on Steem I read some pretty amazing tutorials. Some of them I tried to find months later and couldn't. Hive communities are a way to better segment content and improve content discovery. And I believe they will have a big impact.
What are currently the options if you want to know something specific about how Steem works?
- ask a friend
- make a post about it (good luck with that, if you don't have Steem savvy followers who like to engage)
- join one of the few onboarding initiatives and hope their materials are up to date or otherwise that you will find someone to explain it to you one-on-one
- ask in the larger communities on Discord for help
Someone will answer, because we do have great communities here on Steem, but it's unlikely the helpful answers you receive will be seen by someone else who will have the same question in the future.
That's why a community focused on Q&A about Steem will help.
On the other side, if you create a guide or a tutorial for Steem and anything related, Steem Help is an excellent community where to post it, because you will find the audience which needs such content and should be eager to consume it.
After I searched the existing communities, I surprisingly discovered no one created such a community yet. I mean there is "Education" community by @steemiteducation, but it seems to be focused on all fields of education, and haven't seen any post about Steem there.
I'm not the only one who remarked the need for a Steem Help community (i.e. @brianoflondon, @ roadscape, @ddrfr33k).
So here it is:
https://beta.steemit.com/trending/hive-111390
I hope we'll make it a very useful community for steemians of all levels of knowledge, not only beginners.
Do you have a question about Steem? Go ahead and ask! Write a post in the community above with your question. Make it as clear as you can so people can help you.
Do you have an answer? Go ahead and comment to a question-post with your answer.
If you guys or gals start a conversation, even better.
Do you see many recurring questions? Write a guide / tutorial. If it's a great one it will likely be pinned at least for a while. Great questions with, but especially without answers can get pinned too.
See ya' here ==> https://beta.steemit.com/trending/hive-111390
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In all seriousness, though, this is what we need. Let's see if we can't get this community trending so new people can see it. I'll try and make some guides when I have time, details that can help people navigate these waters.
Awesome! They will be greatly appreciated. :)
That is a great initiative @gadrian, and will be of great help to a lot of people, by the way do you know if you will be able to attach a domain name (example.com) to these communities once it has been launched?
Thanks @flaxz!
Yes, I saw that in the Communities design! They have quite a few other surprises I became aware of. :)
Thanks a lot for your answer, this is a really great addition, having a domain on the community makes it so much more visible outside of Steem, and thereby a lot more useful to many more people and projects, and I even have some ideas for that myself, stay awesome.
Great idea! I'm literally daily answering to STEEM related question through either comments, or Discord...
And you know that I had that small School of STEEM series out and it was helpful...
Yep, I liked that School of Steem series you wrote. Easy to understand by someone who isn't tech savvy. Perhaps it's time for new episodes and to add them to Steem Help as well? :)
I'm seriously considering that... I've put a lot of things on my shoulders lately... Don't know where is my head...
There is the User Help community maybe both can help each other out.
Sure, I didn't see your community. I am not exactly sure which are the criteria on which communities are listed on Explore communities or not. And there isn't yet a search feature.
Tweeted it.