RE: OCD past HF21
The difference is that decent writers will go elsewhere quicker than shitposters
Like where?
I understand the frustration, but before any changes are made we've had rules to not curate authors over and over with at least some time in between last curation and on top of that we've whitelisted them to give them a way to continuously grow by bidding on @ocdb and making sure that content is not constantly degrading in quality as they are after all earning around 10% of their bids on each post. Something we will enforce with stricter rules come HF21 as mentioned in a comment here in the post.
Other than that we would want to continuously curate great quality authors and although we will focus mostly on the new ones we bring in to start out with we hope that many others will undelegate from bid bots and delegate to curation projects either doing the same or manually curating a whitelist of great quality authors. (No autovotes cause that will quickly spoil them which most of the time leads to lower quality but instead judge what kind of vote they deserve based on the content).
A lot of options for good writers... all with better chances of qualitive pay (as in being paid a reasonable rate for your time).
I don't post any short fiction here anymore. It all gets submitted to literary journals, magazines that pay for genre fiction or held for a personal collection. This is steem's loss, that may sound arrogant but it's not arrogant to not undervalue yourself to the tune of $0.30/hour lol
Article-wise it pays much better on medium if you're shared by their curators through the partner program. Also, there are many other websites that will pay $100+ for SEO specific articles, '10 greatest historical figures' type stuff.
Crypto-wise, 'Narrative' is looking pretty good ATM, and there are new options coming up in the future.
My point is, those types of places are where a lot of the best steem writers have gone. There is massive movement to Narrative ATM as there is no delegation, or bidbots over there.
OCDB is all well and good, and I do understand that you're trying to make the best of the mess that delegations brought to steem, but it's still buying a vote.
We used to have a renowned author posting on steem. He left a while ago. I curated pretty much exclusively poetry and fiction for curie for just over 8 months and we had at least 30 people on steem writing in those tags to a 'mainstream publishing' level. Right now, I can count on one hand the amount of people writing in these tags to that level.
These people will have left for all of the reasons I stated.
I'm not saying any of this to be negative, just speaking the truth as I see it.
P.s. I always try to end with something positive 😉
100% agree with you on this one acidyo 👍
Did you, or the other quality writers you're referring to, consider to start your own website where you're in control and can monetize traffic? Just curious.
Well... I can only speak for myself @fredrikaa. Yeah, I've considered building up my long abandoned WordPress site, but it would take a whole pile of extra work which I don't have time for right now due to health issues.
So far as others who have left are concerned, all I can say is I have personally spoken to a lot of people who are quality writers who've left steem, many whom stated some of the reasons I highlighted above.
I dunno what to say beyond that. In my opinion, it is a problem that the steep learning curve and crazy levels of networking required to get anywhere on steem drives many people away. Add to that diminishing rewards, and a large proportion of high quality content creators will walk. Right now steem is like an echo chamber of people writing about tribes and steem.
I'm not sure what mass appeal that has, but it wasn't always this way. There used to be a majority of wide ranging, decent quality content on here. Right now people are incentivised to create steem-centric content because that is what whales, devs and a bunch of people who are emotionally invested (myself included) seem to want. But this makes for a very strange site to look at from an outsider's perspective.
Anyway, I've gone on a tangent 🤣