RE: Too much Steemit on Steemit?
It's funny that you mention this. I actually posted something that I thought was pretty interesting about some of the most popular users - comparing their SteemIQ and earnings stats. It was a post about a Steemit program that was used to find some possibly useful information about readability. But, it was fun to look at the different numbers. I even dressed it up with (bot) "quality content" - links, a photo, rich text - and used the Steem-related tags.
It likely won't even break a dollar. But worse than that, it likely won't even be read by 100 people. If I simply asked people what they thought of Steemit and posted some Photoshopped image with the logo, I might be trending right now.
I just don't get it. I'd love to know what the whales and bots are actually looking for. It won't change my writing style, but if there's a way that I can dress up the code better, I'd like to know.
Nice reply! Yeah - my fear is that people will look at what trends: mostly STEEMIT posts, so then everybody jumps on the bandwagon, and ALL we will then get IS Steemit posts. And there are some other awesome posts that just get lost in it all. We as the community need to up vote QUALITY content and be more critical.
Absolutely. But the problem is, as long as whales keep upvoting Steemit content like they do, there will always be people competing for those votes. This is intentional. They want people being enthusiastic and talking about Steemit. But here's the problem, in my own opinion: these posts are mostly being viewed and supported internally by the existing users. I'm not really sure how much it does to attract "quality content" creators to the platform and then retain them once they're here.
I don't mind seeing posts about Steemit or even that some of them make a lot of money. I just don't like the vast number of Steemit posts and the fact that so many of them get huge payouts. It skews the trending content and the motives of users while simultaneously discouraging those who really want to make this work by creating original/artistic quality posts. I just don't think the current curating trends are very helpful.
Well said. To get a better diversity of content, the whales need to ease up on up-voting all the Steemit posts.