As an early adopter of Steemit, I just stopped asking some pointless questions. I see many older and newer users still bothering with the ratio of the quality and the rewards. We use to see so much over-rewarded bad content, mostly created by the same people and when you think that you wrote a decent post worthy of respect, usually you don't get what you hoped for. I already became immune to the fact that one of my shitposts will get the same rewards as some of my great posts.
Well, I mentioned shitposts... It is kinda meaningless to try to define them because it is an expression on the network that exists longer than Steemit.
But funny, people on Steemit act like they invented that expression so you can find so much different definitions of what shitposts are. But since I saw many great shitposts that really made me laugh, I won't write about them today because this platform is full of two kinds of posts:
- Shitposts
- Posts against shitposts
Shitposts are not necessarily bad content, so let's just stick to the subject:
Your good post doesn't get more attention than your bad post!
There are three facts that I want to list here:
- Steemit users post more than 50 000 posts every day (no comments included) and that is more than 350 000 every week.
- On the weekly trending page, you won't find more than 150 posts rewarded with more than 100$.
- The minority of users hold the majority of Steem Power.
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This explains why are so many posts lost in the sea of content on Steemit.
If you are able to give big rewards to someone with your upvote, that means that you don't have time to scroll down through the network whole day looking for something good. So it is understandable that you'll have to work hard to get them to notice you.
It is really sad when we get a new, prospective user with the great ideas who immediately starts with super-quality content but nobody sees him. Luckily, there are some awesome organizations on the platform that work hard to find that content and reward it, stimulating the user to keep on with great posting. @curie is doing a great job finding new users, they have great hard-working curators and they helped to a lot of new users from my country which made me proud.
But still, so many great posts just sink down to the bottom of this sea and remain forgotten.
So if you came on Steemit full of self-confidence and strong will, you just might be disappointed. You wrote a 2000-word post and now it is ruined...
Now I'm going to list some facts again:
- The number of words doesn't say anything about the quality of the post.
- You can't just come here and expect that Steemit was waiting just for you all the time.
- You ain't shit without your followers.
2pac ft Outlawz - U aint shit without your homeboyz
There are many newer users who made great posts when they started, they weren't successful so they turned to the shitposting. But there are also users who can take a photo of a dog taking a crap and they will earn that much that they will never think about making a proper post.
It's not just about who you are and what are you capable for, it's about who do you know on the network, who brought you here, and who will support you no matter what. But in case that you came here without a strong supporter, all you can do to make some success are...
BABY STEPS!
Instead of reward hunting, focus on building a strong fortress of your followers.
Many of you will say now that the number of the followers is not so important. I can be an example, I have almost 3000 followers but I rarely get more than 100 upvotes. So what's the point of having many followers? It is about the visibility of your content and someone's feed is much more powerful than some post-promotion room in some Discord server. Your content has to be intended for your followers and not for some large whale you're trying to catch. You, your followers, and people you follow grow together, slowly but secure. At first, you will get 0.06$ per post, after some time it will be 0.30$ per post and then 1.56$ per post. And when you grow enough to know that your next post will be rewarded, then you need to think about...
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CONTENT!
That's right! One day you will start getting upvotes from the same people every day but they probably didn't even open the post! They already know that you deserved it, they will upvote you same as every day before, and some of them will generously reward you every day through some of the auto-voting services. Does it mean that you succeeded and now you can post anything you want and you will earn the same as every day?
NO!
It is true that many of us get the same rewards every day, but I don't think that we should reduce the quality now! The game is not over and the struggle continues! If you know that you will get those 4$ anyway, does it mean that you are allowed to start posting one photo and few words per post, after you got your followers by posting something great??? If you know that you will get some $ for your post no matter what you write, you have to justify your earnings by having your standards. Only that way, the number of your followers will be increasing more rapidly, as the chances that you will win the GRAND PRIZE!
Thank you!!!
