RE: Getting a little Discouraged (Putting in a Lot of work and Getting Little to no results)
Please take this as constructive criticism and not slander but I personally didn't find your posts to be all that great.
I can tell you I had a similar feeling - put my heart and sole into my first few posts - I tried REALLY hard to make the awesome. Good content, good photos, I proof read them 15 times to make sure there no were mistakes and then I'd get $0.05. Couldn't understand what was going on.
So I did the typical new user thing and blamed the stupid website. Surely it couldn't be my content - that was not the issue. It probably has more to do with the bots, or keywords, or just getting on a whale's watch list - but how the hell do I do that?
No... it was the content. Dunning-Kruger effect is catching up to a lot of us here who think we are writing better content than we really are. Steemit.com provides the purest form of free market valuation. It's not a matter of time = money or effort = money but rather value = money. If you aren't receiving the $ amount you think your content is worth, you simply aren't providing enough value.
I only read your first post on the subject of "how sexy is your brain". Now again, please take this as constructive criticism and not me trying to put you down. I got about 1/3 of the way through the piece and really didn't understand where you were going with it. I was slightly confused and at about 1/2 of the way was like "meh, I've had enough" and just closed the page. And again, this same thing has been true with my content - so I've been there.
So I've really been working the last few days on figuring out how to ADD VALUE through my content because that is really what this website is all about. Perhaps this helps, maybe not. But just my $0.02 on the subject.
- Cheers!
I had the same general response to "How sexy is your brain." What keeps me reading is new information or new ideas, and I didn't really get either of those in that post. I'm also finding them a bit difficult to understand; the sentences just don't make sense. Take this sentence from "How to tell":
What does this mean? It's not grammatically correct. It's not immediately obvious what you're trying to say. I can figure it out, but that's work, and I find myself having to do that work on most sentences in your post.
Now maybe if I knew you personally, and I had some independent reason to value your thoughts and analyses, I'd be more willing to put that work in, but this is a social news site. There are plenty of other posts which are easier to parse, and I have no reason to assume yours is worth the added effort.
As with @dogguy, this isn't a put-down; I'm giving you my honest feedback.