I utterly agree with you @o1eh.
Very interesting thread.
On the hand, following your reasoning about quality and quantity, I have always wondered why Steemit puts quantity before quality. There is a clear example, entries with one (only) excellent photo receive miserable rewards and others with a lot of identical photos bordering on aesthetic horror get substantial rewards.
I don't quite understand why all the communities insist on promoting quantity. Quantity of photos and quantity of text, when many, many times we can see entries rewarded with huge amounts, which publish many practically identical photographs of dubious quality. The same happens in the field of text, I have seen entries with hundreds of words, with many spelling mistakes, syntactic errors and the worst, that said nothing.
As a professional photographer I would like both moderators and curators to be aware of how much it costs to make a good photo. On the other hand, it is frustrating to see how in photo contests, photos of very low quality are awarded and others that can certainly be considered good, are ignored. I have judged many photography contests, both analogue and digital, and I know that the job is not easy, but there are communities, even in photography, where it is clear that the jury or curators have little or no idea how to evaluate a photographic work, and this is clearly unfair.
Sorry for the length of the post, but because of your importance in the platform, it was an opportunity that I could not miss.
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