RE: The Steemit Visibility Conundrum
Are you willing to forgo a small reward and upvote someone quicker because you understand it may mean the difference in their visibility?
I suppose this matters mostly for people who frequently curate new content in tag feeds and people who monitor their feed continuously throughout the day. Is that what you do? If you check your personal feed only a couple times a day, you don't have access to many posts live for less than 30 minutes.
Also this makes me think: does a post sabotage its own visibility by being longer than average? Assuming (most assuredly incorrectly) that most people won't upvote your post until they have finished reading it, upvotes will come in later and thus decrease visibility relative to shorter posts. The system encourages posts to be within a certain length to achieve visibility, otherwise well-meaning followers must assume quality and upvote before reading.
You raise another point I saw firsthand. I read a long post from someone I am following, waiting till the end to decide to upvote. In the time I took to read it, there were several upvotes worth money that I missed out on. Not sure of a good solution, as I will not upvote until I know it appealed to me. It is rather meaningless at this point as my votes are not worth the same as many due to just starting. But I realize how few votes I have and am training myself only to give them for good posts. At some point this will greatly skew the amount of content I have just in my feed alone as those I follow grows. I will never just assume quality though, even if I am following the person. But I can see why many would as you suggest.
Thanks for responding, adding to the ways the system is designed to reward certain behaviors not conducive to rewarding the best quality.