What do people like on Steemit

Hi guys, I'll keep this short, I have made an overview of the most used categories on

For those of you who would like to make pretty (more) popular posts, it may be interesting to know which are the most used and maybe not so used categories or tags on Steemit. Because as I was looking at them I realized that it was hard to sort them, in order to know which is the most popular one, I made myself a really small app to sort them for me, here are the results:

Top 10 tags by the number of posts:

1. life
2. photography
3. steemit
4. blog
5. art
6. bitcoin
7. story
8. news
9. nature
10. travel

Top 10 tags by the payouts:

1. life
2. steemit
3. steem
4. photography
5. blog
6. art
7. travel
8. writing
9. introduceyourself
10. bitcoin

And where the people really like to talk :

Top 10 tags by the number of comments:

1. steemit
2. photography
3. life
4. kr
5. introduceyourself
6. art
7. bitcoin
8. travel
9. cn
10. food

So people like to talk about food :) Now the most rare tags:

Top 10 rare tags by the number of posts:

1. dailyspotlights
2. charlesfuchs
3. steemit-ironchef
4. miprimerconcurso
5. untalented
6. witness-category
7. kr-market
8. steemdev
9. freesteem
10. discussion

Top 10 rare tags by the payouts:

1. markboss-postpromo
2. trafficmonitor-promo
3. trafficmonitor
4. cryptomonitor
5. dailyspotlights
6. indo
7. monitorcap
8. monitorcap-promotion
9. bescouted
10. markboss

And where the people don't really like to talk :

Top 10 rare tags by the number of comments:

1. cryptomonitor
2. markboss-postpromo
3. monitorcap
4. monitorcap-promotion
5. trafficmonitor
6. trafficmonitor-promo
7. indo
8. lol
9. analysis
10. markboss

So if you tag lol on your post, statistically there are a few people commenting on it.

Hope this top gives you a better idea of what tags (not) to use to promote your articles and if you have any question, feel free to ask me.
Have a nice day!