RE: Steemit - 'Maybe' get paid for blogging
re: lucky if whales find you
The problem is that all bloggers want to whale upvotes all of the time. There simply isn't enough for everyone to be successful all of the time.
This is why sometimes these posts get attention, or a different post gets attention, or even why like @doitvoluntarily wonders "But then i see posts with 1 photo get hundreds of dollars".
The attention spotlight is moving all over the place. But it is only a spotlight. It can't light up every single person at the same time. This is why people get frustrated. They put their heart and soul into writing, and when the spotlight doesn't light them up as frequently any more, they get frustrated.
Of course that is going to happen as more and more tumble in here. The problem is that we have too many authors, and the value of steem is low.
If the value of steem was 10x what it is now, this would seem like 10x less of a problem.
So finding that healthy balance between the value of steem, and the number of authors and their frequency of posting, is when this place works the best.
Absolutely right @intelliguy. You get it. I wish more of us saw it this way. I guess I'm just a little bit peeved with the negative rep people give Steemit. Like, it works, I've benefited, and yet they act like it doesn't even though they can look on any account and see the proof for themselves.
I hope this bad weather passes. I really would like to see the value of Steem back over the $2 - $4 dollar mark that it was when I first started
I agree but at the same time disagree with parts @intelliguy. The reason the spotlight doesn't touch on the average person as much as it should is also because the whales are circle jerking each other for a curation pay out. Watch them closely. Look at who votes who, it's a closed circle where occasionally they'll throw some bread out to the seagulls to keep the hype going. Consistency is key here and I'm not really seeing that from the Whales. Just a bunch of circle-jerking & powering down there. A big thanks to that charlie shrem guy for being on here - one of the few powerful individuals here who actually tries as hard as the common minnows to create good content. cheers :)