Why aren't there any micro blogs ever trending?
This might be my longest blog post I'll ever do. I have a few questions and have a few things I want to make visible.
I've noticed that most of the hot and trending posts are pages and pages of content. I don't have time to read all of it. I know that people work hard on their content, but is quantity really better than quality? I'd rather read a short blurb about something like how @berniesanders posts. Dude just asks a question to his followers, very low effort but high reward. I don't have time to write a 6 paragraph blog on why the Milwaukee Bucks are the best team in the NBA, I just want to state the fact, have the people agree with me make their points, and then move onto my next topic. Or if I hear a funny joke and want to share it. Why don't blind people go skydiving? Because it scares their dogs. I don't see anyone ever posting jokes anywhere, and I think it's because steemians are more focused on the length of their blogs, not the true quality. Steemit can be a Twitter/Facebook/Instagram hybrid but yet most steemians are just using it as bloggr. Maybe I'm using Steemit wrong. Maybe I'm ahead of the game. Post what you want on steemit. Microblogs are great.
You know, I think you have a point. I came into this looking to blog, and I wrote long posts. Sometimes I got great comments, sometimes nothing. I started another account to microblog. I just wanted to keep my blog what it was and not have it interspersed with actifit and steepshot photos. But at the same time I wanted to use those apps. I found that my shorter posts from an account with fewer followers got more engagement.
Well this is a ridiculously long comment and it's going to go against my point. I worked at a place where my main job was taking other people's long winded writing and shortening it to just get to the point. Maybe I should remember the value of brevity.
I would also add that it was much easier to make long posts when I had a job with a computer and later had no job. Now that I have a job that requires actually working all day, I don't have time to write long articles. If steemit is ever supposed to be widely adopted, it needs to accept that those people may have jobs that don't allow time for longform writing. Also, mobile phones might be their only internet access and aren't fun to write essays with.
100% agree. A lot of my posts come from my phone. If I type something longer, it's because I'm on my laptop. And I don't mind combining my actifit and steepshot posts to my steemit, I'm working tirelessly on getting my friends who are so infatuated with twitter and instagram to make the move to steemit. I could see steemit growing to over 3 billion people. All you gotta tell them is that it's an instagram that pays you.
The shorter my posts, the higher the engagement.
True story.
I am sure there is a penis joke in there somewhere.
That was a close one dooms! I didn’t catch the wOrd “joke” until I read it a second time.
Lol. That is how it goes when dealing with the nigerians. This is basically the slogan over there from what I understand.
Dude I seriously can’t stop laughing.
Out loud.
Glad I could be of assistance.
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@holybranches
That's interesting. Maybe because people get bored from long posts and don't read it anyway. The average attention span is not so much.
Hi I just made a micro blog due to this post. Thanks for the advice
https://steemit.com/berniesanders/@bigredd/how-can-i-be-like-berniesanders
I've seen plenty of microblog posts on trending. Also, the only way to trending is to purchase votes. So, I guess people with little time and effort to put into this, don't buy enough votes to get to trending.
If you want your microblog on Trending, just buy the votes.
I totally agree microblogging should be acceptable and if interesting enough I will vote for them. It's just.... Usually they hold limited appeal to a short topic. I would like to see them do well. As you stated successful people with busy lives tend to have less time.
Why is trending the goal? In addition right now I think we have very few eyes on the site, so post what you want and pray someone who is still active sees it.
Posting microblogs may get you banned from some vote-selling services.
Being on trending makes you the most money, which is the only reason why anyone posts anything. It makes sense to want to make the most possible.
I bet most of the posts on trending actually clear very little. the idea that trending is where the money is at... is kind of outdated, and then falsely reinforced by the Payout amount at the bottom. :)
But I do get the point.
Maybe trending isn't the goal. I don't care about being on the front page. My few front page posts on reddit have been just posting something I thought was interesting and letting it sit. I'm shocked on how much of an upvote I've gotten on this post.
People who purchase enough to get on trending can also make money from people who vote on their posts early to get curation, knowing that the user always buys a huge upvote later.
Don't be shocked. Many if not all Steemians know this but few, like you, openly admits it.
Don't care about trending!
Care about the users you are following.
Some of them write war and peace equivalents.. Other just post a sentence.
I follow both kind and I like it.
I even use both for myself.. Some articles are just way to long.. Others are just a silly meme.
Forget trending, listen to real users!
:)
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that a lot of people are adamant about only using steemit.com as their front end (or don't know of other options). Everyone sees that format and thinks they have to do the same lengthy word-vomit, and get angry when they see people doing short posts.
I know @zappl was around for a bit, but haven't seen much of those posts lately -- seems like they're working on a version 2.0 of their app... We'll see what comes of it.
Yup and I think most people are like you. Lots of people here aren't writers.
Want jokes? Go check out @comedyopenmic . They have a weekly contest. While you are there vote them for witness.
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I understand your point, but I haven't seen Steemit as a writer's page for a long time now. You get to trending by purchasing votes. It can be a novel or a single word post. The bid bots are completely content agnostic.
That said, I've seen shorter posts do very well in the past. Some of mine have, as well.
Content quality mattering is very 2016, though.
I couldn't agree more @jeebus1, I'm happy to read a post that take maybe a four to five minutes, or shorter. But some posts I come across are more like a novel. I just don't have the time to spend reading all that. I mean, lets face it, that novel type post isn't the only post that out there, and I have plenty of Steemians I follow, that I like to keep up to date with.
Beside that, it takes me forever to write a post that's only a five minute read.
Oh and as for the jokes, I'm afraid the only ones I can remember are all nsfw. Lol
Nsfw jokes are the best jokes