Understanding What's In Front Of You: Blurt Is A Tool

This post is made as I try shedding the sleep from my mind. So please forgive if there are more mistakes than usual. I've found that often my best thoughts float in my mind while I'm still not fully awake, the presentation maybe not so much.

I Don't Think Many Here Understand Blurt Is A Tool And As Such Fail To Grasp How It's Used, As Well As Its Possibilities.

For those who both follow me and actually read what I write, know I talk often about the need for interaction if Blurt is ever to achieve true success. There are many reasons that such interaction is almost non existent, and I usually focus on the authors for posting what I consider to be low effort work that doesn't inspire an actual comment to be made.

That however is only part of the problem. There are also many who vote simply to get that return as quick as possible. No comment, just a quick click of a mouse on to "better" things.

I scroll through the so called Hot list, and you know what's common about the posts?

Mostly no comments, or one if the post is lucky. Doesn't really seem like a very hot post if you ask me. Especially when that one comment that may appear is from one of the curation projects.

It seems most just don't want to get that Blurt is a tool, or maybe they do and just prefer to misuse it.

The use of the tool is in the name itself. SOCIAL blockchain.

Meaning the function of this particular tool is for people to be social.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that one CAN use a hammer to force a screw into the wood, however one won't sell many hammers if that's what folks contemplating the need for a hammer see it being used for.

When I look around through the many posts being made, the lack of comments on them I see what outsiders would see. A hammer forcing that screw in.

Social blockchain isn't something that should be forced. For it to be successful, the users need understand Blurt isn't that hammer, it's a screwdriver. A precision tool that produces a precision result when used right.

One could even say a computer is a tool.

Imagine someone owning a computer so they could solely use the calculator on it. What a waste of material and space. A waste of potential.

If I came along wondering about the uses of a computer, and someone showed me the calculator on theirs and that was it, do you think I would buy one? Would you?

Seriously, This Isn't Difficult To Fix.

It all starts with understanding what Blurt is. Then understanding unlike many things in life, you can't wait thinking everyone else will fix it so you can reap mad profits off the effort of others.

It doesn't matter here the size of your wallet, contrary to what so many seem to believe. While that certainly allows for much more reward (OR LOSS), the size of our interaction is the real use of this tool. If only so many here could see that unlike the other blockchains, this isn't some crappy vaporware with no real life use case for the common person.

The use case is here, and it's you here right now reading these words. It's you right here in a few more moments when you're done reading if you decide to comment, even if just to say you don't care and this post is stupid. That is what this tool is designed to do. And if it's used as intended, just like all of the other successful tools called social media, we can be richly rewarded for doing what no one gets paid for on those other sites.

Now you might be saying to yourself

But Mr. Practicalthought, I'm throwing away my Blurt to comment because of fees.

I would then reply with look at my comments. Yes, many of them have no reward. What almost all of them do have are replies, sometimes a string of them that outnumber what many of the posts here at Blurt get.

I would then reply to look at the rewards on the comments that do get voted on, and you will notice that in a weeks worth of comments I probably get more vote value than many bloggers get, and for sure if you took out the curation accounts votes.

Speaking of curation accounts, the sheer level of folks who never once upvote these projects who leave their "I was here and voted" comments is pathetic. At least show some thanks for what might be one of the few actions of a positive nature towards what you post. To be blunt, if I was one of the projects such as Mr. Cornell runs, many of you would have been cut off long ago. Not even being able to be bothered giving an upvote back to say thank you makes me shake my head in disgust actually.

Commenting and interacting with comments with both replies and votes is how this tool is properly used.

Think Outside The Box.

I mentioned earlier how Blurt as a tool is not used correctly. In my estimation this is not only a bottom issue. Even from the top, there are many things that could be done that would enhance Blurt.

One of the things that always amazed me from my beginnings at Steemit was how everyone is urged to go to other social sites to do this or that. The ludicrous nature of such is mind boggling. One doesn't direct others to go to another site because the one being promoted falls short. That screams failure.

The ideal is to get others on those sites to wish to COME HERE from those other sites, because we do something they fail at.

Here is one example of what I mean.

The foundation, Megadrive in particular, has started a bid to compete with Instagram. Not a move I'm a fan of personally, as one can tell by the growing amount of accounts I'm muting who participate in that.

However, just because it's not something I'm a fan of doesn't mean I don't see how so many are addicted to some of the shallower narcissistic behaviors social media promotes.

Here is one simple tweak of the hammer that could turn Megadrives into something unique for the blockchain, using it in a way that could potentially make others even outside the Blurt sphere wish to participate.

I notice when we go to the home page, there is some stock photo of a woman none of us know holding her hand over her mouth. The whole thing screams generic really. Doesn't really add to Blurt being unique at all.

Why not hold contests in the Insta tag. Perhaps weekly or monthly one of the actual users here could be picked to have their awesome picture (that is suitable for work) placed there with maybe even a link to their blog attached under the picture. This would allow discoverability to whomever is the winner, both to those of us here and others drawn from outside who may contemplate participating.

While I abhor using other forms of media, so many here use other media, probably more than they use here based on the levels of activity I've been ranting about for the last 100 words or so. Let them spread the word, come get acknowledged for your base shallowness at Blurt. At Instagram they don't put your picture for all to see at login so they can appreciate you solely based on your looks. But at Blurt, you can fill that incessant need for simp worship by actually being on the home pages.

While I can't stop my views on this whole selfie culture seep through, don't discount what I've just mentioned. I'm completely serious about using that space where the picture of someone none of us know is and rewarding that space to someone we could POTENTIALLY know. One that outsiders could potentially come to know.

At the end of the day, Blurt is a tool with an actual use other than hoping to accumulate low and hand off your bags when it gets high to an unwitting fool like most other block chains.

Lets start using this tool as it's meant. We don't have to limit ourselves the way the other chains do. Using stock photos, viewing this as merely an extraction faucet.

Those of us here who are using this tool correctly need more of you who aren't to understand and begin using it with us. Something most of you are probably doing for free at other social sites daily.

All of us can be that little girl in the old shake and bake commercial.

It's Blurt, the most successful social block chain because I helped.