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RE: Are you holding back on your good stuff?
Personal experience:
I spend less and less time on posts because having a succesful post seems completely random. The ones i spent all day on get nothing and zero comments but the simple posts blow up??
So yes, i guess i would say that im saving many postings until a time where it will be appreciated.
Certain users with auto whale votes also seem to spend less time on there blogs, as i have noticed their content dramatically shorter now than in the past. So i know i am not alone in this.
But your right, its still in beta. So saving some posts makes sense...
I remain optimistic that the future of steemit will bring higher quality content but for now, most seem to post the minnimum of what they believe a whale would vote on.
Since it is so hit or miss, i put effort into my posts until I get tired, then I wrap it up. What I should do instead is to save a draft, then to fili every post with the best effort.
Effectively then, my best posts AFAIAC are the one I have had the energy to complete as I intended; however, just like you said, what I feel to be quality and what the voters seem to like are two different things.
You can chalk that up to 3 potential factors: