Should a newbie care about a 4-post-penalty? - No.
Answer: no.
Chances are, if you are completely new to the platform, you won't make a lot of money in your first few posts.
Assuming the chances of a post being viewed and voted on significantly is completely random, and is uniformly distributed in the x second window before your post is nested (in the 'new' filter, let's say) - the more you post, greater the chance you will land at least one post in that window that will be significantly voted on.
Another point is that a newbie should focus on becoming recognized. To become someone that can actually attract a following - to develop his own brand as it were.
In summary, mass-posting your unique content would help develop that unique, identifiable brand and would make probable that in a specific time window, users will catch your post.
Restricting yourself as a newbie to 4 post, will prolong your ascent on this platform.
What do you prefer, months of $0.00-$0.20/day or, one month of of $0.00, and following months with $2,000+?
I know which one I prefer...
Note:
An alternative approach is to comment as much as possible, if you can (under popular posts). It's easier to get visibility, and you can earn more as a newbie without needing recognition.
Problem is, it takes more time, and comments that get rewarded tend to be pertinent critiques on the post. So it requires greater reflection. So, doesn't interest me.
How to mass-post without quality suffering
You can consider one topic for a post. Then divide into more focused sub-topics. Well done, you've just created more than one post out of one topic.
Extend that to more topics, keeping each post focused and concise.
You'll find you can produce a lot of valuable content a day.
And it won't take much energy or thought - or at least less so than successful mass commenting.
Makes sense.
Disclaimer; be sure to keep your content up to snuff if you bypass the 4 post penalty for visibility reasons. What good will an increase in quantity do if it causes your quality to drop below a valuable treshold? Little to none.
True. And very important, but part of my point is that quality doesn't have to suffer if you play around a bit with formatting.
Well you risk getting flagged and having your new reputation suffer.
I mean, I don't imagine most people will flag because you're too visible - which is the only cause for flagging if you're posting material of reasonable quality.
Why should there be a 4 post limit? If the content is good shouldn't we let the up-votes decide? Also, if a post doesn't get up-voted it should get put into a "nobody cares section".
I agree for the first point, though I'm sympathetic to the the anti-spam cause. For the latter point, there is competition for exposure, so some posts must be able to afford this exposure as it were, and this is determined by upvotes (really vote payout).
I definitely know which one i'd prefer $.$
Not so sure you should go on a mass posting ritual although that is not stated. Guess we just have to aim for some happy medium that works. So the idea of more posts early on may help chances of getting hooked and finding what works with you since taking more chances early to do so may be a viable tactic.
No reason why you shouldn't. That is, no law or terms and conditions stating you shouldn't.
In fact, I maintain that you should.
I agree with the latter point.
Recently I see a lot of posts on how to make money on steem. Making money in RL should be much easier for many people, while steem is actually realy great for enjoying yourself and reading on things that you might have never came across elsewhere. You can find a 100 dollar bill on the streets as well if you're lucky, but by staring at the ground you might have missed a lot of beautiful things. My tip, try to have a great time here. Maybe someday a whale gives you something ;)
True. But if you want to survive on Steem blogging post-gambling is not the best approach.
Hi! This post has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 8.1 and reading ease of 67%. This puts the writing level on par with Leo Tolstoy and David Foster Wallace.
Well, this is your 9th post in 2 days time and I can see you are doing well on this one here. And you have barely crossed the borderline of 4 posts per day. This simply proves that you don't have to take that risk of getting flagged and downvoted by mass-posting regardless of quality. But the risk is for you to take.
You don't have to do. But I'm not completely a newbie. I owned the account @positive, and some of the people upvoting me, are followers from my old account. Plus I'm a mod and regular poster on steemit.chat, not 100% unknown. Most of what I was talking about was building a brand.
I can already tell I will be wanting to buy Steem Power. I opened my account and started posting today, and as someone who has been a social media content producer, I already am finding posts like this one and others that I think are very valuable for multiple reasons and should be getting more noticed.
Being a n00b here as it were, I really appreciated the plain-English un-doctored help, thank you very much. I only wish at the moment I could make it visible to many more eyes.
I will be following you.
This really means a lot. Thanks!
Thanks for the post!!