RE: Posts That Never Made It! - Let's discuss things and make it viral! -A second chance of exposure!
Hi @robsteady
I don't think there is something specifically "wrong" about your post that caused it to do poorly, and when I looked at it I gave it a vote because it seems like the kind of original content that Steemit desperately needs more of.
However, the current rewards climate on Steemit is heavily weighted toward posts that are about promoting Steem and Steemit, and the power users with enough voting weight to make posts start trending aren't spending a lot of time trawling through secondary content (which I'm defining as any content posted by someone who is not already an influential user) looking for hidden gems.
None of my posts have done well in the financial sense, but I don't take it personally and it hasn't caused me to judge them as being poor content. If you believe your content has value and keep posting, at some point, someone with voting weight will notice, and then more users will pile on. If you look through the posting history of people who have created popular content, you'll see that there aren't many "one-hit-wonders" there. Once a user creates a popular post, all their future posts tend to do much better than average. It's getting over that initial hump that can be extremely difficult.
That may not be the answer you're looking for, but it's what I think is currently true. Or maybe I'm just a poor judge of quality, including the quality of my own work. I guess you'll have to be the judge.
Nah, I totally get what you're saying. I have faith that things will balance out eventually, it just gets me frustrated because I'm not a very patient person anyway so despite my efforts at trying to help other people here, it just feels like it's not effective enough. I'm trying to just keep on keepin' on, but it gets tiring to even go through the stream and look for things I'm interested in let alone expecting any of my content to get to the right audience. I really believe the stream/following by category will be one of the most important things to straighten out as time goes on.
One thing I will say is that while large files look good, it kills me on mobile browsing becoming glitchy on phone/tablet. I might suggest taking a screen shot of the original pic and cropping it to size and thus greatly reducing the size. I myself wonder about length. People aren't going to watch half hour videos or read 20 pages, but what do you see as a good benchmark for optimal length(obviously depending on content it can be flexible)
I like that outlook and we should get together and support and critique each other's work. Applaud the good and suggest future changes to the bad. We shouldn't simply upvote ppl just because we like them, but because the content is good. If someone gets lazy and starts posting average content that once was a very interesting poster, they should be called out.