Read first, upvote later

Recently, I did not spend much time on Steemit, didn’t read many posts by others, didn’t comment and upvote others posts, most of the time is just writing and posting. There is no doubt that the interaction between the steemian is necessary, which can help to improve and grow.

Have you spent your time to read the post before upvoting? I'm afraid sometimes you just click on the upvote button before clicking on the post, not even read a word. Do you know? It is not a good thing for you to behave like this, the author will mistakenly think that his/her posts are really good, intoxicated in his/her low-quality post. And for you, on the surface, your post seems like getting recognition, in fact, all you get is against the will and fake, you just satisfied your own vanity.

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In Steemit, we interact with each other, comments; upvote seems to have become a tacit understanding, as long as you give me an upvote, even if you do not read my post, no matter how the quality is, then what is the point of such self-deception?

It has been six months since I joined Steemit, my first ever post, doesn’t have a lot of upvotes, then I looked at those posts that have high upvotes, most of them are travel posts, crypto related posts, and most importantly, most of them are whales. I feel depressed after seeing all those posts, and started to wonder is this what Steemit value the most?

I have no intention to attack any platform and individual, Steemit is indeed a platform for writing dream, there are a large number of people silently adhere to their dreams, they have profound thoughts and fluent writing, I enjoy reading their posts every moment.

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In the big platform like Steemit, I am small like dust, but I think it is necessary for me to speak out my thought and understanding, that may bring a little inspiration to others.

We can’t be impetuous when we are writing. At first, everyone wants to be recognized by others, want to write a post that worth more than $100 upvotes or even cater with readers.

But I always feel that we must always remember why we join Steemit, is it because of the money? Is it because you like writing? Or is it because of the community? For me, I write in order to find inner peace, to share my experience, feelings, and insights with the community.

But sadly, I don’t know when does it start, I started to forget the reason why I joined Steemit. I went too far and forgot why I joined, all I was pursuing are the views, comments and most importantly, the upvote value. Every time after posting, I will keep on checking, can’t wait to see the comments and upvotes. This wasted a lot of time and energy.

In order to get other people's "recognition," increase my popularity, I also began to comment crazily, randomly upvotes, and rarely read others post seriously.

By doing so, my posts did get a little bit more upvotes, but it doesn’t last long. I know that others upvoted my post is not that they like my post, not because of the good quality content, but it is just a tacit reciprocity.

Such vanity is not what I want, what I need is you read my post carefully, give pertinent comments and suggestions, and I welcome fair criticism and attack. The daily post per day on Steemit is astronomical; the quality is uneven, we can’t even read them all.

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When reading other people's posts, I don’t plan to read at all of them (even if I want, I can’t), but have to choose, and read every single word carefully, and only upvote those posts that I really enjoy reading and leave a comment. I think this is the real encouragement to the Steemian, and the respect for them and their words, will help them improve, and I hope that we can all take this attitude towards others ' posts.

Any platform has its own advantages and disadvantages, Steemit is no exception. I have been grateful that Steemit provides a convenient platform for the vast number of writing enthusiasts. But because the platform threshold is low, tends to become more popular, contain all kind of people and all kind of posts that may bring negative to the platform. But these are also possible advantages, in this platform, you can know from all walks of life, all ages of people, through their understanding of society, understand the world, you can also make friends with them and communicate with each other.

But we also need to recognize the various types of this platform, look at their good, and change the bad. In fact, there is no so-called good or bad on the platform; the key lies in our own understanding and choices, the most important thing is not to forget why we joined, do not lose ourselves, do not let ourselves fall into the wave of vulgar and commercialization.

Finally, to all the friends who love writing: your persistence, will eventually be beautiful.

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