They’re Killing SteemIt! We Need To Act!

There’s a lot I don’t understand about SteemIt (yet), but there this one thing in particular that really bothers me...

A Lot Of Work, Small Rewards

Although I’ve been active on SteemIt for 4 months now, there’s still a whole lot that don’t understand.

I know you can earn by posting, upvoting and commenting. I also know that when you get more Steem Power your influence grows and you get more comments and upvotes so you will earn more. I’ve learned that social interaction really pays off, and that you should be careful when delegating SP if you also want to vote manually.

I’ve just transferred to a new account, so I’m going to need all those things I’ve learned to get this account up to the level of my previous account - @mike314-0005 - in the shortest time possible.

So I’ve been working my ass off trying to write good posts - which is not as easy as you should think, since:
A) there’s nothing in particular I’m good at.
B) I only know little of many things. There’s nothing I’m an expert in.
C) English isn’t my native language.

I’m not the greatest writer, nor the smartest person, but I give it my best to try to deliver posts that meet up to some standards.

What’s Bothering Me

One one side I see people with a reputation of +65 create posts that contain no more than 5 lines (regularly about a crypto that has gone up or down). Or they post only a video (created by themselves or someone else) - without even adding an intro. Or how about those that simply take a screenshot of the Coinmarketcap website and call it a ‘high quality article’? Nevertheless, they are generating 40-80SBD for every single one of those posts.

On the other side I see posts made by people in a kind of English that is almost impossible to understand, let alone that one can figure out about the content quality. It’s pretty demotivating to see those post generate 5 times the amount my posts generate.

Am I Too Soft And Naive?

I’m absolutely aware of my limits and I have accepted the fact that’ll never become a really big player here on SteemIt. I simply don’t have the knowledge, nor the writing skills to become a big whale. But that won’t stop me in my quest to reach a point at which I can turn my posts into real pofits.

I realize my articles aren’t top notch, but I really hope that in the long run, my posts will become of more value than those of copycats and people who bring little quality but get high rewards, simply because they have a community around them that upvotes their post no matter what, either because of politics or popularity.

But then again... maybe I’m being too soft and naive. Maybe I should simply play along and don’t bother about ethics. Everyone knows it’s not to good guys that win the game...

There Is Still Hope

I see more and more people trying to raise awareness, and I’m very thankful for that. Mainly because it’s becoming more obvious every day: if we don’t manage to turn this around,

we’re going to KILL SteemIt!!!

I truely hope it’s not too late already, but if we want to save SteemIt, we need to take action.

So this goes out to all the people that care about SteemIt and are willing to step up in order to reset the balance between quality and earnings, and to discourage spam posting and commenting: speak up, try to increase awareness by any means possible. Write articles, create banners (like for example the one I add to the end of my posts. Feel free to use it if you want to), run contests, set up a challenge, ... Try to come up with something, it doesn’t matter what, but make sure that you’ll be able to say that you have tried.

Below, I’ve listed some initiatives I came across these last 2 weeks. Check them out to get some inspiration and to get your creative juices flowing. Then, get to it, because there’s a lot of work that needs to be done and we’re running out of time...

Initiatives:

Steem Aware Contest by @itwithsm

Steemit Comment Challenge by @danielsaori

Social Experiment: Mining Brain Power with Comment Farming via Rewards! by @anthonyadavidsii