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RE: I won't post quality content until my payouts are high enough
Your comment in no way sheds a new light. Preaching to the choir.
Yet, the reason why they’re here is because the majority would never get 100 views/day on their own site. That’s what is the meaning of “the alternative is...”
People come to these platforms because there’s an existing audience and it may or may not be easier to capture attention than with an own site which needs to grow traffic first.
A majority of bloggers don’t make it past 18 months because they underestimated the challenge of getting traffic.
The demographic the title appeals to are the content quality elitists who think their content is worth more.
I challenge them to show me how much it I should worth.
PS: I have pushed 20-40m uniques/month in a previous life.
See, the problem is that you think it takes 20mil visitors to make money :)
Hell, you don't actually need visitors if you are a writer. You need a free account on a freelancing platform or 10 cold emails per day to companies that seek writers.
Anyway, I've written 3-4 posts already bitching about the low quality here (hint: the readers aren't that bright themselves eg "Nice text, vote up me").
I believe that Steemit is tighed to the ups and downs of Steem (obvious, right?) and unless it goes mainstream, we won't be able to see quality.
But that’s not the targeted in this case demographic.
You don’t need to tell me how it works, we operated a top 5 then freelance writing gigs site.
The problem is that you don’t want to see, or maybe don’t know, the attitude of the writers targeted by the title.
They think that, maybe correctly, they’re Salon quality. New Yorker even. Many will never ever touch an affiliate. I can tell you stories about that audience. We’re talking a different demographic.
Anyway... argue what you want. I don’t care. I know how this drum rolls.
If you think quality is an issue here, then you don’t really grasp the platform either. But that’s fine. You could have discovered some if you made some effort to find some articles in my feed.
I know the demographic.
Decent writers/shitty marketers.
I am just pointing out that most people aren't honest with what they want.
If they want money, they should gtfo of Steemit. But no. They want validation, status.