Creating Good Content VS Spamming The Blockchain

I have always been a firm believer that anything I post to the STEEM blockchain better be worth reading because it is permanent! Often times I will come up with an idea for something just to end up scrapping it later- not because the idea wasn't worth discussing or exploring, but because I felt like I would not do it justice in that moment. Either I don't have all of the components together sometimes or simply don't feel like putting an hour or two (at least) into writing, proof-reading, photo editing, posting and then promoting my work.

When I first joined Steemit I saw a lot of the popular bloggers posting daily, and multiple times at that. Their audiences seemed to eat it up and the votes came pouring in. Consistency is what seems to work on this platform... in frequency not necessarily in quality as I soon realized that much of this voting was being done by automation and by bots. The attention and money came at a cost to the authors too. Many of them pumping delegations and crypto into the system to churn out a small return on investment when all was said and done. Over time the attention on this platform faded along with the prices and now it has become a virtual ghost town.

These "fluffed up" posts inflated the expectations of new bloggers and actually deceived them by making them think that they too could start earning vast sums on their genius thoughts once magically transcribed onto the blockchain. Like printing money some believed, or so it seemed. In reality, becoming quite popular on Steemit takes a little more effort than most are willing to give. It requires actual hard work, dedication, repetition, drive, passion, networking, skillful communication, and a constant ability to learn and adapt. The people who are earning the most on here, by bots and delegation or not, didn't get there by chance- they got there by continually creating new content.

Every author works at their own pace I guess you could say. Some people are able to write a masterpiece every day, like @chbartist who pumps out liquid gold daily. Others like myself may go days, weeks or even months without writing so much as a single paragraph only to suddenly emerge from the void with an in depth piece when least expected. I try not to compare myself too much to others because everyone is different; I will never be exactly like someone else and I'm certainly not foolish enough to believe that I will ever be as talented or intelligent as the best. What I am is myself and that works just fine for me.

If anything I am helping to reduce the spam on the blockchain by selectively posting these days rather than aiming to do a daily post simply to milk the rewards system. The more posts someone makes, I feel, the less likely people are going to look at all of them. Not because we aren't interested in content creators but because time is precious and we only have so much of it. You have to be very careful about how and where you spend it! This means not sifting through piles of blockchain spam posts in order to curate content you might enjoy. As the old saying goes "Quality over quantity."

It is actually quite hard to create posts that are engaging, entertaining and informative. Because of this some people go the easy route and take advantage of their reputations or followings by posting low-effort content, knowing that most of their votes will be auto-votes anyways. Many have really just given into the fact that very few are actually reading through the entirety of these posts and even less are engaging. Ironically on free social media platforms you get interactions for days but you can hardly get a comment that isn't from a bot when STEEM prices are low here.

It will be a miracle if anyone actually read through the entirety of this post in fact so if you made it this far congratulations you officially have an attention span greater than a gold fish! If you just jumped to the bottom to upvote me then you might just be part of the problem, but who am I to judge- upvote away!

*Never invest more than you are willing to lose and always do your own research before making any investment decisions. I am NOT a financial advisor and this is NOT financial advice- this material is intended for entertainment and informational purposes only.
(All pictures are free domain images created by myself with the help of snappygoat.com)