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RE: Calling all meme-rs, the #originalmeme challenge
This blew my mind @carlgnash
Judge the post not by the effort that was put in, but by the quality and engagement it creates.
Like even though I spent 5 hours on a post, no one cares. Question was, did it give value and create engagement? Time to be even more intentional with the type of content I create.
Yes! Exactly! This concept blew my mind a few weeks back as well when it was first being discussed on various @curie steemit.chat channels (before it was published in the guidelines). It totally changed the way I looked at my curation for @curie and I have already submitted (and seen approved) several much shorter posts than I ever would have in the past. I think it makes great sense but I had fallen into the trap of equating time and effort with quality, value and potential for engagement. Of course the latter can take the former, but the reverse is not necessarily true. As someone who has been very impressed with your posting to begin with I look forward to seeing where you go with this nugget of information :) To the moon! (hopefully)
Much love - Carl
Thanks Carl for the support and being awesome. I will definitely keep that in mind when creating my content calendar for 2018.
p/s. I also feel like sometimes for those of us who do daily content, we can churn out many, long, watered down posts just to fulfill our daily quota yet we are disregarding the above. Quality over quantity always.
Cheers to that. :)
100% agreed with the post script. Some months ago I made a shift in my own blogging away from trying to do daily content and instead focused on posting when and if the spirit moved me to make an awesome post. If a post took me a week to work on, great. If I didn't post for a few days, that was fine. Forcing myself to churn something out every day resulted in a great number of half-assed posts. In fact a piece of advice that I give newbies sometimes is to spend the time necessary to really make an awesome post instead of posting a bunch of mediocrity. The former is really good for the long term health of the platform while the latter just dilutes the content sea and makes it harder to find the good content.