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RE: When Your Posts Are "Super Good" - People Will Upvote Without Actually Reading Them

in #steemit6 years ago

I'm so with you.

Get this - I've been actively writing on here for 17 days. I've had limited views, as I quickly knew I would until I entered a Sndbox quest. And I will continue to have limited views, I'm sure. But the short story I submitted for Sndbox did make it to Trending on views alone.

I also quickly decided that I wasn't going to game anything here, I wasn't going to buy votes. If I couldn't get anywhere on the strength of my words then I couldn't be arsed putting in the required effort.

Except now that the views have been removed on posts, who the fuck would know that I didn't buy upvotes? Nobody.

This platform is full of people just trying to game the system ... and then mixed in there are people who actually have some conscientiousness, who want to see this platform grow instead of it being the embarrassment it currently is when new people come to visit.

I guess it was always going to be like this. It's what is messing with my head a little about being on here though - the vibe here amongst creatives is great. It feels inspiring and like how blogging used to feel for me a decade ago, just now with added money. But the pigs snorting at the trough are the disappointing soundtrack to all this. And there doesn't seem to be any will to rein them in (from my admittedly limited understanding of the elite workings here).

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IS it too late to do the Sandbox stuff - I only just found out about it? let me know if you have any favorite writing groups / challenges on here - or accounts i should be following - I love challengers - especially writing ones. I've had a huge influx of followers - Forgive me if you have been one from the beginning - but may i ask how you came across my page - what post brought you in . - I'm trying to get an idea of how people end up on my content so i can track titles fo articles to traffic and see how tags help or not.

I've paid for votes - no shame in it - Hell i did it on this post - with intended irony - Ive got a budget of less than 1SBD per post / day - Ive not put money into to the platform out of pocket - all funds / account value have been generated on the platform. - I don't think that is the same as people pumping money in to promote their- shitty content - Like blurry pictures of a fences taken with a fucking ipods from 2011 - that end up being worth - $400 -

Thank you for reading my content and engaging - I hope you stick around - I've got some big plans for the future - Waiting on post pay outs then I'll be announcing a writing challenge of my own / and an art contest. All the best @sue-stevenson

Unfortunately the @Sndbox writing quest is finished but I think they will have more before their summer camp starts in June. There was a photography and filmmaking quest as well a month or so ago. I think they run the camp twice a year? You can see details here.

I can't remember how I came across you now, sorry :) But I'm pretty sure it was in the last week. I've only actively been on here for three weeks so I'm still finding my way around re discovering good contests and people to follow.

I love the level of creativity and collaboration on here though and am keeping my mind open to good ideas for running a contest of my own too.

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