Comments, Views and Votes...????

I don’t get it – Am I missing something?

OK, so I am relatively new, still only a few short weeks here (some may say that’s a lifetime) and I am slowly getting to know stuff; slowly plodding my own sweet way through the protocols and pathways and accepted norms of steemian society.

Great people – great posts – lovely connections being made – discovering gems of creativity - all so richly wonderful, and to top it all, I am actually beginning to make some real tangible headway with music exposure, which is the icing on the cake.

For so many years I wanted to share music this way, as having the creative drive is one thing but when your temperament for live exposure is less at the forefront, then on-line sharing becomes the perfect outlet.

But there are some quirks about this place that I don’t get and wanted to ask you guys, as the title of this post alludes to… I don’t get the correlation of posts to views and votes.

As an example, on the more successful posts I have uploaded, I notice I may get 3 times as many view as votes, and for me that is a really healthy 30% hit rate. I get that lots of people wont fall in love with my sound, of course not and so I am more than delighted by those that do. This hit rate varies and I notice with other posts in the same ball park, it’s a pretty similar picture.

Now let me say right here that I am in no way questioning the quality of a post just trying to understand the dynamics of the system. Becuase it got me to thinking there are some REALLY ( I mean whale size ‘really’) successful posts on here from the big hitters, with many times the vote size I am able to muster.

If like me you are trying to get a grip on the way things work, you will dig a little here and there, as I did. I notice very often the ratio for these highly successful posts has a strange phenomenon happening. The Ratio of views to votes is, well, just plain wrong!

What I mean is that I have noticed it is not uncommon, and indeed the norm, for these posts to have a negative ratio of views to votes (Perplexing I know) and often at a considerable rate of say 50% or more.

So what is the deal here guys???

Look, I know I am not the brightest button in the sowing box, But the numbers just don't add up. How does a post viewed by only 80 good steemians, get to be voted up over 200 times, Did I miss something?

Is it perhaps the curation reward? Is it that some more 'financially minded' folk jump onto successful dudes posts to reap the benefit and does that even compute?. Its Great for the creator in terms of SBD, but what about the genuine-ness of the process, the integrity of the platform?

Should I be saying this – Am I being too provocative? – biting the hand as it were – It's not my intention.

I Love STEEMIT, I truly do. I love the openness, the sharing, and yes the rewards as well as the abilty to ask difficult questions, like this. To be heard, and hopefully open debates about what this platform can be. I am beginning to feel a part of this place and understand more and more of the nuances (not all of them, as you can tell).

Ultimately it is about our own content, expressing our own unique creativity, following our hearts and allowing that to be the drive of our interaction on here.

Thanks so much to all of you on this platform, no matter what your drive or reason for being here.

And so my question is an honest and sincere one, that I put out here for a deeper insight, and who knows, I may take another step in my journey to understanding the STEEMIT vibe more clearly.

Thank you so much for reading this far….