Everyone knows what a POST is... Do you know what a POSTLING is, and how it's like spamming your followers?

First of all, a couple quick definitions:

1. POST - Hard work spent (more than an hour) to write a good post, with good content
2. POSTLING - Easy work (less than an hour) to CHURN out content quickly and repeatedly
3. SPAMMING FOLLOWERS - Hitting them with non-stop content, and expecting upvotes

Imagine Leonardo Da Vinci, who only created 280 paintings during his lifetime.  Sure, Da Vinci could have created 28,000 but at what point do they become worth a lot less?

Your followers can be considered your fans of your work.  Don't abuse them by constantly throwing content at them like a printing press.   They'll get numb to your work, and stop upvoting you.

When I first joined steemit about a year ago, I had a few favorite authors.  They really did have good work.  I upvoted them regularly because I liked their style.

Then I began to realize something... 

Hey!  They're starting to churn out content just to get upvotes.  It got to the point that every single post made several hundred dollars, and not all of them were that good!

I also hated the fact that everytime I logged onto the system, this same author would have 18 posts in the queue that I was suppose to read and upvote.

After awhile, I just stopped reading their posts.  There was too many, and I began to feel like the author was undeserving of that many upvotes on a continual basis.

I'm not a cow.  Don't milk me for my upvotes.  I won't be that generous all of the time.

Let's consider what you, and most of your followers have in common.  A lot of them follow you to also have you come see their blogs and upvote their content as well.

If you're constantly seen dominating the feeds:

• EVERY DAY
• MULTIPLE times a day
• NON-STOP

...then when you end up doing, is alienating your followers.  That's my opinion anyway.

If I write a good post, like that last one I just had, I take a temporary 2 to 3 day breather.  I won't make any new posts for a few days.  I stay out of the reward pool so someone else can have a chance.

In the next 2 or 3 days while I'm not writing new posts, I'm upvoting other people's comments, and visiting their blogs.  That's when I curate new content the most.

Steemit is like a buffet. 

Grab your plate, and move out of the way so someone else can eat too.

There's more than enough here for everyone.  Don't be a non-stop POSTLING author.  Get paid well on a post? Settle down for a couple days and go visit your followers.  They'll be happy that you did.

Here's the definitions again, incase you scrolled down too fast or used speed reading during this post, because they sum it up:

1. POST - Hard work spent (more than an hour) to write a good post, with good content
2. POSTLING - Easy work (less than an hour) to CHURN out content quickly and repeatedly
3. SPAMMING FOLLOWERS - Hitting them with non-stop content, and expecting upvotes

SPAMMING FOLLOWERS WITH NON-STOP POSTLINGS WILL LOWER YOUR UPVOTES OVER TIME.

(So be nice.  Go read and upvote someone else's content that follows you today.  It's the right thing to do)

 

** CREDIT for the term "postling" is given to @winstonwolfe who gave me permission to borrow it.  His comment one day was:

I've been on lines of thinking like this as well. I think the problem  I'm having is trying to think of "the next big post", while in the  meantime missing out on payouts for "postlings",

To which I replied;

Yes,  those are all good ideas.  There are some people who get annoyed if  someone has too many postlings.  Eventually your followers get numb to  your postings and won't upvote them as energetically anymore. So caution  there. May I borrow your term "postlings" that you've just coined?

@winstonwolfe replied: "For sure. :)  I figured it might click with Steemians in particular."