RE: The matchmaking economy is probably worth billions if not trillions and it's an economy in it's infancy
aside from the 2 zaps that I made, everything posted on @trafalgar should be longer articles, there's been 3 or 4 since my return
the length has always been similar, about 600-900 words, although my most recent one was 1200, I don't really think the quality has dropped either, if anything, I made a conscious shift to favor stronger punchlines over raising more insightful points, not sure if it's no everyone's taste but we're experimenting.
I don't agree that longer articles are better. I would wager you're in the minority here, as I can judge just from the comments that most people don't read more than the title, and that's just from the people who bothered to comment.
I'll write a post about shorter content soon I think, but in a nutshell, I don't think it's chance 99% of the most viral content on the internet are all in short form, and I'm definitely making a push for it on here as I think it's better for the blockchain overall.
In terms of rewards, I think I met people half way by making a new account. Yes, I vote for my own content with my main account and post frequently, although I generally don't go 100% weight. This came at a cost of losing 6500 followers and a very established curation trail. And if i do say so myself, I think my content is pretty good, at least compared to the other stuff here, especially the shorter original memes and one liners.
I didn't mine the token, I invested as content creator in the platform but I also invested in myself here. I do want the power to draw both attention and rewards to myself, and I forfeited my established curation trail on short content as good faith. Basically I'm concentrating on making content that can be comparable with the viral memes on facebook and reddit. Maybe I'm not quite there yet, but probably not that far off. The quality of the post shouldn't be gauged by its length, but the impact it inflicts on its readers. And doing it relatively well is not easy. So I stand by my own works and the votes I cast on them.
I hope in the future, people here don't equate length with quality and are less reluctant to vote big on really short content that was impactful, rather than just reserving it for dull and long winded posts that required no talent at all and were only drawn out for the sole purpose of showing that effort was involved.
It's entirely possibly that you're correct, or remotely possible that every writer has their niche.....I've seen a 100K worded book gross a billion (some obscure prisoner of azkaban story by some anonymous J.K. Rowlings), but I still haven't seen a mime hit a million.
Still pound for pound or word for word. I would say your quick zaps are pretty good....I just wish there was an app or function in steemit to bring your work forward as some kind of *priority trail over others as I don't see them unless i scroll down a hundred post in my feed till I spot yours.
yes that is how I mastered using my mouse as a zoom-zoom little car...sometimes I even drive it all around my pretty pink laptop and imagine I'm a le mans grand prix racecourse champion
ok...so in the spirit of keeping things
brief/shorter/medium length and sweet, I'll just say:please continue to mix it up.....yes, do lots of short ones, and upvote yourself like mad cause all the noobs still don't know how to invest in themselves with Steem so most will not notice and when they do you already have you hooks into their funny bone and they will wonderfully accept it as underpaying yourself
but also continue todo....medium to lengthy ones for the patron of distinguish taste (that 1300 was breathtaking..I think I convince a friend who didn't know what Steem was to join just by reading that post). Cause these are the ones that I believe should be the standard for doing an auto upvote which I plan todo when I figured out how to anonymously buy btc without meeting up in back alleys.
compile something book worthy....or something that can be moved onto tv (like a cartoon character).....start an adventure of some crazy character called Trafalgar or Traf for short.....that's a total original nickname that I came up with ;P ...heck, I already seen his persona coming to life just reading your materials for last 3 weeks....he could be like the Neil Strauss but instead of putting it into a book that sounds 'How to Have Make Love Like a Porn Star'....it would be more an adventure of 'How to Invest in Steem and Become A RockStar'
ok..I'm going to stop here....I just realize who am I to be giving advise to a real writer when I have yet to even post 1 single blog.....gosh I'm still a Steemit virgin
Oh well....I tried upvoting by tossing you a goat, only cause I can't lift a cow. but that damn minnowbooster refused my precious sbd (cause they no longer upvote comments or some excuse)...so I will point it at your last post at @trafalga. Thanks for sharing....I learn a thing or two today, much oblige.