I just snapped this photo from my a phone a couple minutes ago. The weather in Nashville is great right now and so I'm working from the hammock this morning. I love being part of a distributed team so I can work from anywhere.
I've posted pictures like this before on my other social media sites because they are fun, and I enjoy sharing the "work for yourself from home" lifestyle as encouragement to those who are working towards the same goal. As I was about to post it here, I thought, "Will I get downvoted for having too many successful posts lately?" There are no rulers on Steemit and so the community creates their own rules. I've talked about flagging/downvoting before, and I'm thinking about it again today as I lie here in the hammock before starting work.
On other social platforms, I post whenever I feel like it. If I'm inspired by something, I share it. On Steemit, for a while, there was a posting rate limit, which I think has been removed. So in theory, nothing prevents someone like me who has built a large following over the past 10 months or so to just post constantly and take a nice portion of the rewards pool for myself.
Is that wrong? Is that "abuse"? Is that a justified reward for 10 months of consistently providing valuable content and building a following who expects my posts to be worth their time?
I recognize many of the upvotes I receive are automated by those seeking curation rewards. They don't actually read my posts. I'm okay with that, on some level, because they are free to use their Steem Power as they see fit, just as I am. But what does the community think? Was it unfair when I first started with no followers and low rewards while others were making thousands of dollars per post in the early days? Or is that simply how things are, and we all have to work to build our own following of voters over time? Should I post less and/or decline payout once in a while or is that just silly?
I'm curious to know what you think.
