RE: Good Curators vs Bad Curators
I find this place exceedingly complicated.
It sooo is! lol - And to be honest, I have little interest in the 'techy' side of things.
All I really want from the platform itself ( and presumably I am not alone in this), is to log on, post your content that you consider good, check out new posts, talk to friends, comment, and up vote quality content.
(and make a few dollars a day...?)
This all takes quite a lot of time. ( I have an obscenely large amount of free time, and still find it sucks waaay more than I bargained for).
The ( monetary) rewards for the work/time involved is dis incentivizing lots of people who come here, and stopping the platform from growing, especially when you see big up vote rewards for absolute brain dead posts, day after day, does nothing to help the situation.
In my 3 month(ish)I have been here, I have been lucky enough to get the attention of 2 BIG up votes/whales I think! wooohoo. - and what a rush.
The incentive to produce more quality content grew.
And quickly fell away again.
I want the money, sure, but I want it from people who appreciate my work, not an algorithm.
I see a diminishing future for original content makers on here unless things are addressed. (especially concerning bots)
That would be a crying shame for a place with such potential.
I'm stopping my whining now, as it interferes with my creativity!
( the reason I took a 10 day holiday from steemit, recently)
I hear everything you say. I decided to focus on earning money here until I could get a bit of power (5000 sp and then we'll see). There are ways for minnows to make money without a lot of support from whales.
I've got a whale bot of a fairly small amount, but also the bots of smaller people who add up to be more than the big guy. And for a bonus, the smaller ones actually visit my posts and comment. They just use the bots to catch the post and vote at the right time.
And yes, the time suck is outrageous for me too. I have a lot of social media balls in the air and I have dropped some while others are going crazy thanks to steemit.
I wrote this old post with about 15 ways to make money when you are new and I make money with these ideas. not a lot, but over time, it is increasing. Maybe some of these tips will help you too.
Make Money Blogging on Steemit Top Tips and Checklist for Better Results!!
