Has Steemit Always Been This Way?
I'm just starting to get into Steemit. When I first started familiarizing myself with the website I was really excited. Reading about @sweetsssj swimming with pigs. Following @papa-pepper through whatever he was doing. Even watching @jerrybanfield do whatever he can to make Steemit a better place. Everything I was reading was original content. Then I started sorting by new. I wanted to start reading and giving some attention to the new people (like me) on Steemit so they don't get discouraged. But it seemed every blog I looked it was just a picture of a cat with a title "Cat so cute" or a link to someone else's video.
Honestly it was just keeping me away. Every once and a while I'd find some original content with more than two lines of text. It's even OK with me if someone links a video that's not their own, but at least offer an opinion on it. Every time I make a post it's typed, proofread, and edited by me. I've deleted posts dozens of time because I didn't feel like the content was worthy enough of a full post.
I want to write more. I want to make quality, thought out content that is unique and grammatically correct (as long as Windows catches my spelling errors). I don't want everything I post to get passed up by people like me who get sick of the "upvote me, I want to be rich" and "im broke af fam i need the pussy" posts.
Now I feel selfish because I typed "I" so many times. Maybe it's just me. I just bought a bunch of Steem so I can give some new creators a little @randowhale love. I will still search through the crap to help people who put just a little bit of time into their content.
Thanks for reading. Sometimes bitching about stuff helps.
As I like to say - It's a dog-eat-dog world ruled by cats...
This cattery everywhere is a plague, even posts about economy for example sometimes ends with a cat. BS!
Though I must admit your cat picture deserves its own post. Incredible!
"As I like to say - It's a dog-eat-dog world ruled by cats" 😂😂 This is the best comment I've seen in awhile. Had to follow you for the comment alone.
That is double best comment hehe
I think like with most things, people tend to stick with the more widely popular stuff because good reputations are hard to build and those who have built them must have done so with decent enough work ethic and contributions of content. But then it would also be unfair to limit steemit to the long form kind of format and just the people who are established. This is why I try to support as many of the unknowns as possible, especially through their recommendations in my comments sections in my posts.
Anyway, i hope you will stick at it, and i think in the next update to steemit, there will be finer delineation of content which will help you with sorting through things you wish to see, and things you do not :)!
agreed, but what bothers me even more is the fake spam comments. They are so obvious and not helpful. I get excited to see a comment on a post I put some time into or at least care about and it ends up being spam.. hopefully the community corrects this.
I try and do exactly what you have said, go to the new section to make sure people don't miss out and I see exactly what you are saying. The ones that are just videos like you say with zero text with them, I don't get it.
I also make sure I read a good amount of the peoples posts I follow and who follow me because I think that builds up a good sense of community.
I actually went to your page because I seen you had upvoted one of my posts so I thought I would see what you had recently posted and repay the favour and I found this, which I totally agree with :)
You are kind and very optimistic , I always love people of you kind. I am going to follow and up vote you. Please help me to earn as well as i am new here. I have posted two posts only, please up vote if these are worth voting. Thanks please.
I am with you. I also see Steemit as a platform with very confined possibilities, for a place where they want "everyone" to join. So far, it´s for investors and authors. People are conditioned, not trained to be creativ on there own. Society isn´t meant to think for there self. Compassion helps.
Hang in there. Every social network goes through their initial growing pains. Facebook was a trashy spammy site when it first started....Well...they still are a trashy spammy site. Bad example.
Anyway, Steemit will work itself out over time. It's designed such that good content will eventually rise to the top. It's up to the community to downvote the spam, and to teach those who post only pictures of cats that they won't rise very quickly that way.
People come here because they want to make money. That's actually a good thing. Markets create opportunities. Opportunities bring competition. Competition brings innovation. Just like any market where money flows, that will always attract the beggars and panhandlers.
Those beggars and panhandlers aren't inherently bad people. They just need to learn how to work. They simply need to be taught that in order to succeed at this, they'll have advance from beggars and become street performers. They need to learn how to find their gifts and hone their skills on those gifts. From there, they can land their gigs, and eventually become a star.
It's up to us to teach that.
Those who want to make it here and are sincere in their efforts will keep producing good content, and they'll stay. Those who are lazy and just want a quick buck will keep falling by the wayside. Eventually the good content will surpass the junk in the new posts feed.
Here's an idea. Instead of going directly to the new posts feed at the top, try narrowing down to individual tags that interest you and check the new posts there. That's usually the best place to find new and undervalued posts.
Thanks @preppers. Glad to have more info in the #prepping tag!
I'm still a mild prepper but have been for a while so I'm good for 6 months of anything!