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RE: Posting and Succeeding on Steemit: A Closer Look at "Quality" and "Value"
You definitely add a lot of value with your posts. But we can't expect 10 or 100 million new users to be good content creators considering their background and education.
Thank you, and absolutely right! We can't expect the next ten or hundred million users to create quality content... but we can ask them to do their best to add value.
I love the site "engrish.com." It's just a bunch of silly photos of public signage featuring awkward translations. Quality? Hardly! But it adds value because I am amused every time I go there, and each photo is presented in an organized fashion with a clever caption.
Pretty much anyone is capable of saying "here's my cat Max being cute!" and "photo is my own," as opposed to just a photo with the title "cat." I suppose it's about "giving a $hit," on some basic level.
I believe people are smart and will know who to support. On the long run, it will level up by itself. A lot of spammers trick me once or twice but I find them over time and even if they get a buck or two I'm not concerned. We want distribution after all and it's not easy to start on steemit. A lot of people coming from different cultures and have different values. Begging is a normal thing in some countries for instance.
Ah yes, the "different cultures" thing does play into the mix, and very much so. I often used to wonder why our members from the Nigerian community seemed able to figure out "posting and engaging" while others from certain Asian countries often "begged for votes." Different cultural values.
Being Danish, I find "self-promotion" loathsome; yet it's an essential part of social media. If I had a "more American" (meaning US, more than Canada) mindset, I'd probably be doing a lot better with my blogs and even my Steemit efforts.