RE: TIL: Today I learned It Doesn't Matter How Hard You Work On A Post
I use a bot and when I wake up in the morning I read the posts that it voted for, then I read the posts that things like "Daily Tribune" and "Crowdfundedwhale" voted for, then I read some posts and resteems from my followed feed, then I cruise the 30 minute mark n the new feed during the day for new people to follow. Every now and then I go to someone's profile to read their last few posts.
That's how I found this post, which I will now vote up manually after reading it, reading the comments, and writing a comment myself. But even so there's a large amount of random chance in what I might read.
So I absolutely feel what you are saying. I still feel like my best story ever is significantly undervalued. In fact, the index I posted that only links to the best story I posted got more votes than the story.
Yea makes sense. This didn't take much effort to write. This probably one of the least time I took to write on a post. So since here are a lot of people using bots to vote, not much is really paying attention to what they are voting on and are voting on some nonsense posts. I honestly think this post I did is nonsense but apparently this is what get's votes.
Hopefully, for the optimist in me, there are about three main streams of posts.
Gamified posting by people who are here to make a profit and nothing else. They may have a vague idea that improving the community improves their return, but they won't let that stop them from extracting as much cash as they can get from the system.
High effort posts by dedicated Steemers which can only gain points by random chance. It would be nice if there were some residual profit that could be made by them for late votes. I know I have read at least 100 three month old posts to learn about Steemit, for which no one got any credit. This also includes creative and educational posts, which always have a value, but excludes gamified post which lose their value immediately.
Personal posts like this one which build the community but have little other measurable value. They are topical, and have a value for having existed, in that you and I, for instance, have had a conversation that reflects in our future posts. Immeasurable and technically unrewardable, but a real value nonetheless. Current votes from people like me reflect that value.
Dang, I should make this into a post.
I wish I had a lot of voting power. Your information is worth something. You can try put it up as a post but I think it's worth more than you can ever get on a post :)