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RE: The Writer, the 'Bot, and the Steemit Reader🤖
One of the problems is that content creators can wear themselves out on creating; and then not have the brainpower to comment on other contributors' works.
(For me, maybe it would be nice to post, "hey great job", sometimes...but when I comment I like to show that I actually read the post ;>)
A second is that since there is a limited "supply" of commenters, the interest for certain categories is even lower.
As for the bots..well, I'll plead a loss of brainpower ;>
And down to the readers...I have lost track of the bookmarked Steemit posts I never read
hmm, title looks good, upvote, bookmark, move on, I PROMISE I'll come back
Nice job on the schizophrenia!
And that's the reason I see 2 views on many a post that has literally hundreds of upvotes. The reality often doesn't reflect the perceived fame of an article. I would pretty much like to see people read articles first before upvoting. Make bookmarks instead of upvotes if you want to come back to read the actual text. (Please, guys?)
I think that curation bots are the number one reason you get that discrepancy, but you do have a point...
maybe require that the post actually be opened before voting?
Although I do that and still sometimes just skim before moving on
That might be worthy of a thought. :)
Whenever I'm lacking motivation to write a post, I search other posts until I find something I'm passionate enough to make an extended comment on, and that usually provides enough energy to write a post. Sometimes the comment becomes the post.
That has happened to me as well!
Thanks, Steve!
One of my hopes, and one of the reasons I provide a Catalog of my work, is that (especially with the archival nature of the Steemit blockchain) "ordinary people" will be coming back far into the future and benefiting from what I write.
I also like to leave "meaningful" comments when I do comment, and so I appreciate you!
the catalog is a good idea; I keep an index of fiction, and I need to recreate that for other topics.
another idea I have thought of is link-chains; maybe not a full index, but a series of related posts
I have also thought about mirroring my Steemit work on a wordpres or blogger site, solely for adding tag searches and indexes.
you gave me some ideas - you're a really good commentator, Steve - Thanks!
thanks!