I like reddit but I don't trust most communities that over censor. Blocking troll or anyone who whines about downvotes or frequently edits posts is fine. However, these companies trying to polish their image on the net are just asking for trouble. 
When I worked for a company where the reddit community was bigger than our offical web forums, we just 'ignored' and let reddit manage themselves, they would share our official blogs and everyone knew our email.
It allowed for a great resource for us to get unbiased opinions because people weren't afraid to speak out at risk of getting banned. Sure the community would self police complete stupidity, but apart from outrageous lies that had no merit, it was all good.
I wish toeken communitues could adopt that approach, just post a sticky of official medium blog and telegram....or use steemit.

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Does Medium really censor articles?? I would wonder... but I see your point and it would be good, when more and more projects come to Steemit too!

Thanks for the post @acidyo. While I share your feelings, thinking that communities will really improve how steem will grow (like the subs communities spread in Reddit), I also think that the upvoting mechanism is really lacking in the terms of supporting real users.
Circle voting or proxy-voting or just getting in the whales' favors are "almost" the only way to get a consistent growth with a solid project.

I think the issue is visibillity and/or the creation of communities. Id love to see crypto projects start doing announcements on Steem instead of bitcointtalk, but the few projects I see active on the site garner very little support. 

It would be nice if new crypto projects made an announcement on the platform to attract attention there would be some way to highlight that announcement outside of paying for upvotes. 

I definitely share in the frustration as I see the potential for building your following, communities, and projects on this platform and cant wait to see the day some of this is even partially realized.

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> ... it's much better for announcements of new projects and their team and communities to exist on Steem instead of Medium/Reddit/Telegram/etc.

As long as they’re careful not to self-aggrandize, right?

Here's another example of what we should encourage:

https://steemit.com/dash/@dashpay/dash-to-become-immune-to-51-attacks

The @dashpay account is operated by [dash.org](https://www.dash.org/2017/09/14/steemit.html).

I can understand your point and this platform could really win with some more big project if some companies took it more seriously, like on other social media.

> In my opinion, the real problem is not a matter of bringing them all, but make steemit part of their initial choice when they share.

It is even desirable that companies can continue to share in reddit, medium and others. It should not be a matter of 'fighting' to see which platform is the best, since they have totally different readers and audiences. The goal should always focus on providing and adding value to the project in order to spread the message as best it can to grow and thrive independently of the chosen medium.

I think that with time and the growth of the steemit platform that will happen sooner or later. However, as with all successful networks and social media, the platform must first focus on attracting the masses and when they are consolidated, only then companies start looking at these media as serious ways of capitalizing on and sharing large projects.

Well... You make a good point as to why they should build their communities here. The problem is that there is a tendency in the crypto sphere of people calling other projects shitcoins and trash. 
You could build the best social media site on top of STEEM and Vergians, Bitcoin maximalists, Eth lovers still wouldnt use it... They would actually hate STEEM even more for it. 

So really, projects building communities here is a stretch and wont happen any time soon. 
Especially in a bear market when the competition is even bigger. 
I hate to say it but hype is what will get folks here, not much else..

>Of course trolling and being an ass for the sake of being an ass should get flagged and I'm sure the majority of stakeholders will agree on that, but no criticism that has any substance will be unfairly flagged and remain that way here.

funny you should say that ! 
I got flagged for a @comedyopenmic piece about alexandria cortex not being very bright...

AND

A piece,  asking the question about marketing campaigns involving steemit to gab, and not twitter????

![bloomy.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZmENvJJjfzxPhjXAFwm4wbmHS9DUK6taDXfsXHaoeSWa/bloomy.jpg)

Seem a bit bizarre to be to flagged (total flag value 32 cents), for laughing , and asking people about ways to expand steemit through marketing campaigns.

And this helps steemit grow in size,  how?  ffss.
What is going on??!!!

Well that's a good reason for end users and steemians but not for companies..
Most of them want to censor - if not, they wouldnt do it.. (?)

Anyways. I think it will take some time to educate the mass. Most people dont even know what they really want.
Or why do ads work that good?
Or why are people electing people, who dont do what they say?

And therefore also take some time until steem can unfold its full potential.

Good article :)

The opportunity is definitely within Steem to take this to another level as I think the community has proven to create value by having robust conversations no matter how bad or good they relate to the projects.  Sure, there will always be trolls but it seems to have its limits given the resource credit economy we now have.

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