What is VALUE and what is PRICE of a Steemit post, my dilemma + 8 rapid fire YES/NO questions

in #thealliance7 years ago (edited)

I've been thinking about this lately. There's a motivational saying used in sport circles:

You get back only as much as you are willing to put in...

...read, you need to work hard to get your rewards. That brings me to our common friend named Steemit. Nice Martin, great use of personification here! 6 years out of gymnasium and you could still write better essay that your sis' @zzuzza :D Back to the topic now... I'm sure many of of us have almost love-hate relationship with him. Why hate though? Well I mean, not necessarily hate, but we've all experienced that bitter feeling of not getting rewards for the work we've put in to the post.

Price of Steemit post

To create a post, we have to pay a price. We're not paying it neither in fiat currency, nor in cryptos. There's one more currency in the world - and it already reached the biggest mass adoption possible. It's equivalent of satoshi is called a second and its name is TIME. We pay for our posts with time. How big the price is depends on us but we all have to pay something.

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Value of Steemit post

Well I think there are actually 3 types of values of Steemit post:

  • Subjective value- value of post in our eyes AKA rewards we'd be happy with
  • Objective value - value of post in eyes of someone else AKA what he thinks your post is worth
  • "Official" value - paid-out value counted in SBDs and SPs we get after 7 days
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Price:value ratio

Here are also 2 scenarios:
  • Bitter scenario - we've paid high post prize to create our post but the "official" value of it is much lower than the subjective one.
  • Sweet scenario - I'm not saying shitty post, but a post which didnt take as much time to produce (it's prize was low) gets very high "official" reward.

Why I'm writing this

Just because I'm ashamed :) Prize I had to pay for my two previous posts was very small. And yet I'm hoping to get a big reward because of the dma.nia tag I've used. I've just created meme and paid for it 3 minutes. It doesn't feel right. But actually why? I've just done 100% rational decision to go there, where prize:value ratio inclines to lucky scenario. So was it right? I guess it all comes to what our goals on this platform are. And I don't actually know why I'm here. And sometimes another point of view helps so I thought you might actually tell me :D

Here are data for you

  • Are you here to make some extra money? - Yes
  • Do you like writing? - Yes
  • Have you ever had a blog before (just for the joy of writing) - No
  • Did you like memes before dmani.a? - Yes
  • Did you make more than 5 memes in your life before dmani.a? - No
  • Are you willing to use bidding bots - Yes
  • Do you feel bad for using bidding bots - Yes
  • Can you always pay a big price for writing your posts - No (my injury is 90% healed-up so I'm getting back on daily evening training schedule soon)

Soo? Does anyone know what my appropriate actions on Steemit should be?

Thanks for reading!
Martin

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Prom,ote your content and network and build your empire here. Learn and grow and do well.

THEN you will be able to use that empire to help the community and spread the wealth. Be successful and become the change we need in this platform.

I wish you a successful return to training! kickass.

Hahh empire is very strong word. I'd be happy with even a tiny village :D Ideally kind of Spartans, not many of them but active. My native tongue tag #cesky is nice example, people really read and talk there. I actually get bigger rewards from them than from 90% of my other english followers haha :D

If you want to grow on steemit you need to do much networking and investing time into it. Not by spamming, but by reading interesting posts and interact with the author until you got a nice fanbase supporting each other, because you have similar interests.

It is not just time we invest, but also our knowledge. Just because you need 3 minutes to create a meme, a oneliner or something similar it does not mean, that it is worth less. It is also a skill and it takes its time to craft it. For example a logo-designer can design a good logo in 5 minutes (good, not perfect), but it took him years to get the skill to make it in 5 minutes. That does not mean, that his post is worth less, because you and me would maybe need hours to post a logo of the same quality.

There is no magical formula on steemit what to do to be "successful" and I have seen many many people changing their strategies to do so. So just do, what you think is right and suits you

Yepp, you're right here 100%...even to create a meme, you need to understand the topic and pick the funny aspect out of the situation...I'm just rambling cuz I still can't get over the fact that Steemit is not that perfect place as I've think of it when I was signing up :D Don't pay much attention to it :D

When you see the upvotes of some posts you get into this "golddigger" state and think I can make posts as good as that & and I will earn the same, but that is not how steemit works unfortunally. There is much circlejerking and d***sucking behind the scenes

Do you know Calle 13?

Nope, is it something related to quality content on Steemit?

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

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