Steemit’s Evolution: Quality Content Rising to the Top!
The increasing user base on Steemit is having a darwinian effect on the quality of content rising to the top of the list...
We are not quite there yet, however there has been a marked improvement over the past 2 weeks in line with the user base swelling from 4,700 to over 18,300.
Steemit will live and die by the quality of content on the platform. At the moment every man and his dog is attempting to write content to try and emulate posts like;
‘The First Makeup Up Tutorial’
https://steemit.com/beauty/@guerrint/the-first-steemit-makeup-turtorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit
..or even 'The First Male Makeup Tutorial
https://steemit.com/beauty/@roelandp/the-first-steemit-male-makeup-tutorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit-roelandp-is-back
But, these users will begin to (or already are) get frustrated by their content disappearing into obscurity within a matter of seconds as only the creme de la creme rise to the top. It is great to see the quality of the content increasing and this needs to be the case in order for Steemit to succeed. We need to hook non-successful blogger into staying on the platform and contributing by curation, and also for these users to enjoy their experience.
Competition will only get hotter, and with every day that passes, I expect the top pages to become filled to the brim with more intellectual, humorous, original, quality content. If the content is good enough, Steemit will generate a very large curation base which will help Steemit succeed in the long run...
5 Posts in the space on 1 minute. It's getting competitive out there!!!
I hope you are right I saw some good content burried during American nightime. Hopefully Europe and Asia will stand up on its feet soon, waiting for Africa to wake up.
@leksiumus interesting you brought that up. There is definitely peak traffic around this time IMO. I sometime post in the UK morning...11-12hrs forward from now...and posts really don't get the same kind of attention as they do around this time. I'm working on getting the UK signed up, one member at a time ;)
that's interesting, I was wondering when the best time to post might be
I'd say anytime (GMT) between 4pm and 4am... Generally when most of America are awake...
Even better time IMO is from 8pm (GMT) to 4 am. During this time all good content gets love. American moms gets their kids to schools or activities and have time for themselfs. For example I'm here for like last 13 hours and this guy didn't get enoguh love IMO, if he were to post now he would have scored even better knowing how much america loves travel.
https://steemit.com/travel/@jetsetter/usd1-100-a-month-to-travel-around-the-world-july-2016
If u mind posting others content here please say and i will remove it.
Another point is that most of whales live in America (just guessing here).
@leksimus I don't mind you posting other content at all. Thanks for your detailed reply. Very useful!!
Good post.
I think it will improve even further with more and more users with different areas of expertise and interests signing up. This site is really amazing, you can't help but be impressed :)
@willidungl Couldn't agree more. More users, More competition. Competition is this form will breed better content. Writers/Bloggers will be forced to pull out all the stops, and the curators will benefit with great content to read. Exciting times.
Agreed, also we'll see the growth of different topics and threads for all sorts of different niches
That's what is exciting, and what will allow more niche writers to succeed. The platform is reasonably internal looking at the moment. Introduce yourself, and Steemit based posts do the best.
But, as the community gets educated and introduced, curators will naturally look further afield for their content fix, and writers with specialised knowledge will benefit from this (when maybe they are not benefitting just yet...)...
yes, it can be a little self referential sometimes! lots of Cypto chat and Steemit news, which is great but will be interesting to see how deep some writers and content creators go with what they produce.
@jamessmith I am literally being a culprit of it right now ;) I'm intending on spending a little more time on my posts from now on. Definitely feels like there is no place for average content on this site anymore. This is my last splurge ;)
I think the non-successful blogger will stay on the platform and simply vote. They are still getting rewarded. It is hard to get out of steemit once your in, there is too much incentive here. I do not even care for social media but am here
Wait... there is one more thing...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@pump/poloniex-open-for-steem
@pump relevance? More than happy to chat. Be careful, you'll be targeted by the down voting bots if you keep posting like this...