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RE: View counter : I can take a hint - eventually
There are posts of mine, the view count keeps increasing. I did mention one of my methods to you. You were told within this comment section that outside views don't register. It can't be a coincidence that only a few of my articles keep receiving views while the others float face down in the water. How would the steemit members know to only go to those articles and leave the rest?
I actually hope to get most of my reads from your proposal at this point.
Yeah, I don't see how/why a counter would bother to check where a read came from, it would take much more work to programs that in and then it would be a fault, not a feature.
The other platform I mentioned is slow going at first. Not everything I add there takes off. The few that are were liked by other members, so their followers now see. If one of those followers sees it and likes it, I'll start seeing 30-50 more views added to the counter per day rather than my usual 20.
Remember, I didn't even have any followers on that platform when I started using it. If I would have had followers, these view counts would be in the thousands. It's unfortunate that I won't get paid for this, but I'm like you in the sense that I want some of my stuff to be seen by a wider audience, not just die after one day. I don't put everything I write into that database, just the gold. Not everyone there likes it, oh well, at least people are finding it.
I'm completely onboard with building readership taking time. But seeing things voted on sight-unseen is disappointing. Like you point out, Steemit voters are unlikely to go back and read something more than a day old. It's both more exciting and more profitable to read things in the first 30 minutes.
I see the same problem with Patreon in a way, people want what you've just posted more than the body of work.
I have a theory. Certain elements have to be present in order for something to go viral. Look around social media. What goes viral? We have news stories, those have a good chance (and a massive corporation behind it pushing it along), we have memes (a current event, piece of pop culture and someones quick wit), we have videos (comedy, news again, certain forms of abuse with graphic scene warnings). We do not see short stories, informative articles, poems, etc by unknown authors going viral. If I'm able to pull this off by writing a ridiculous story with a strange twist and a punchline at the end combined with digital art, I'd be achieving the impossible. Stories in general are not the typical media that gets passed around. It's the quick and easy stuff people consume. It doesn't require effort to watch a video of a cop shooting a dog and people feel like they are not doing their part if they don't share it. A meme is a quick laugh and a quick share. The stuff we're all providing to the world on steemit is "new". Even if someone hit that "share to facebook" button for us, there's a strong chance it will stall because someone has to go through the "effort" of opening a link and reading. Many mobile devices won't even open our stuff if the person doesn't have a proper data package set up. There are million things working against us. Getting these hits is hard.
Well, I hold out hopes. I would like to think that some noticeable percentage of people still have an attention span beyond 3 minutes. But even movies only hold their attention by having millions of dollars in the budget and a team of 300 creators.
Well, I'm doing my thing. It seems to be working (but not every time, I need to do a better job of tagging and using categories on that site). Everyone else can keep scratching their heads. I tried my best and can't keep repeating it until people actually read my stuff. I'll speak when spoken to sort of thing, and offer help when I can. I've looked around. I have not seen anyone with more than 100 views on something published before the view counter came into play. I'm not 100% sure my tricks are woking or which tricks are doing the most or what's really going on, but when I take steps to do something and notice change and know others are not doing the same thing, I think that's enough to have confidence in my approach and know it's working.
The one thing I haven't done is record the current counts of posts I am highlighting for exterior views. I should go do that now. I think you are on to something, but I leave it for you to decide when and how to spread the word. Unless you want resteems... I got the feeling that you didn't.
I think steemdb.com shows the resteems and no, I've not received very many. I can pull up the likes page on my other blog, I can see which ones received a few likes by other members and I can see now how that correlates to more views here. ...also, I'm glad not many people read it anyway. The part about not filling up that service with crap was important to me. This avenue is more for the creative writers. I'll leave my blog style status update and steemit related stuff here and push my stories and art posts that way. I think you know what I mean. We all have the variety on our blogs here.
On the other site, my recent additions have hit a roadblock for some reason. It tells you how many hits you're getting over there.
I didn't know that, I'll have to check mine. I doubt there's any hits.
Yeah, zero hits. That thing is really a time and luck game, but by statistical law must eventually start producing results.