Setting a Higher Standard - Life
I've been sitting back and reading different posts to get an idea of what good content is.
I've found some who don't take the time to write out a concise thought process.
I feel many bring the bad habit they picked up from social media sites to the steemit community.
You need to set a higher standard here to have people enjoy your work and to be an original content creator.
You need to invest in yourself and dig deep within yourself to produce a meaningful blog or vlog. Dont post just to post to get money. Also, take time to meet people you never know who will invest their time to see you succeed. Most of all have fun creating meaningful pieces.
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I'm not sure it's necessarily an issue of people bringing bad habits they picked up from social media sites beyond Steemit, unless you're talking about the impulsive desire to post one line/140 character/250 character blips or a link to a single meme…
And not even that is necessarily a failure mode on Steemit. There are people who really want that kind of content. There are people who will happily upvote that to the moon because they like it.
That we don't like it, that we would prefer to see better longform or even medium form content which involves more work and more preparation – that's on us, I suppose.
I'm fond of saying "you get what you reward," and Steemit as a platform gets what it rewards.
Most of my posts take at least three or four hours – at the very least – to put together, between creating visual assets and composing the text, making sure that everything is put up in the right place, everything is working as intended, that takes a long time. And sometimes I get a reasonable rate of reward on that work. But looking around, examining the sort of thing that rides the top of Trending and Hot, seeing what people actually want? Even as a word-heavy creator, I have to stop and ask whether or not I'm wasting time rather than helping myself by focusing on tiny, bite sized content which takes at most half an hour to create and would earn easily as much.
Because while posting just to get money is not a recipe for making great content, posting to get commentary, to engage with an audience, to feel like your work is rewarded – that is why we post. Otherwise we could keep all of this stuff to ourselves and save a lot of time.
If we are creators and we would create anywhere, anyway, the question is why continue doing it here? Why on Steemit? The potential for money is nice, and it has that going for it, but why create here other than that? Facebook and Twitter both have far greater network effects and your work will be seen by many, many more people. Instagram is a haven for people who want to try and make it on their experience through the eye of a camera. Medium is a great place for longform both because the editor is wonderful and the audience expects to consume longform content.
So why do we continue here on Steemit?
For me, I'll be honest – the extra trickle of money doesn't hurt. But primarily it's because I like getting to use a Markdown editor that mostly works, and because I've run into a handful of people who consistently both create and consume things that I am proud of and enjoy. I'm not writing for everyone, I'm just writing for a few people. Mostly, I'm writing for myself.
Maybe the stuff I write isn't particularly meaningful. I go on about games and game design, 3D modeling, and how to approach very abstruse ideas on a regular basis. I'm not sure that that is really "meaningful" in any meaningful way. But it is what I enjoy, and that suffices.
For now, anyway.
Thank you for sharing your light on it. Its what i experienced thus far.
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