I Will Be Upvoting Short and Sweet Posts That Don't Ramble On - Let Me Know if You Want to Join
I am not a big whale, my vote doesn't make a huge difference.
But be that as it may, I am now taking a stance and officially announcing that I will be preferring shorter content over longer content.
No, being short doesn't automatically make a post good, and being long doesn't mean that it's automatically, a waste of time, but long form blogging is a niche, and has very little mainstream appeal. The fact that blog posts on Steemit make money tends to give room to the "labour theory of value" idea, where we instinctively are less inclined to reward content that takes "too little effort". That's the content that rules on social media, though.
So, I will now try to actively prefer shorter content over longer, and will try to encourage people to be concise; don't add unnecessary padding just to make a post longer than necessary.
I was thinking of this while playing Metal Gear Solid last night.
Metal Gear Solid is a PlayStation 1 game that came out in 1998, and it includes this nerve wreckingly annoying portion right at the end, where you need to backtrack and revisit old areas and then run back and forth the areas multiple times. It adds no value to the game, and was only added in to artificially lengthen the game, so that it would seem "better" in the eyes of reviewers.
Don't be like Metal Gear Solid.
No, we shouldn't frown at longer content if there's a reason for it. But what I see a lot on Steemit are posts that just ramble and even get downright boring half way through.
I don't think that it's content that will draw users into the platform. People may even get discouraged if they see the 10,000 word essays getting the big rewards. Let's try to diversify a little bit.
So, I'm doing this for now, but if you're interested to join, leave a comment below. That way people can see the people who prefer content that's more short and sweet.
exactly people write long rants for things they could put in a single tweet and would stay as informative as one liner.
but they make long posts that nobody really reads.
I like good meaty posts that are not long-winded...unless its a super good story (that's you @therealpaul !) I like a bit of humor in the writing, and I like how-tos and I like to generally learn something. I try to stick with these parameters in my own posts as well. I also like some of the challenges - especially in cooking and photography and memes!
Sounds like you're speaking of my posts..
ok, i'm convinced ;-) i'll follow ;-))
I told you, didn't I? @the-oracool is never wrong.
I keep my posts pretty short. I don't think I've ever written more than a page for one.
I agree with you. Posts that are longer than they NEED to be are disrespectful of my time. I sometimes bail out of reading them to the end, and then they don't get my upvote. All my voting is manual and I can only read just so much any given day.
I'm trying to shorten mine a bit more too! We need to encourage all types of content and not make people feel that they have to write "War and Peace" to be appreciated!
I still believe like in real media and blogs. The post normally don't go over 1300-1500 words on average. And min is normally 300-500 words. I can see how some people don't have the time for long post but images can make them seem much longer then they are.
So many lessons can be learned from games. If we play our cards right we might have the greatest game of all times.
#steemit
I prefer shorter quality content, like yours, time is money.
keep it up.
This post is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long.
You're not getting my up vote, you know why ;)
You still got mine.
Trying to make me feel guilty. hhmmm.
Ok it worked....................... upvoted.
Lol.