RE: Thoughts on Crossposts, Reposts, and Evergreen Content
To be entirely honest, as an experienced online creator: the early days/weeks/months rewards on Steem are an utopia.
One must have built years of following online to come anywhere close to that when starting a new profile on a platform or a new site. On Steem, one not too shabby introduceyourselfpost... BOOM!
Next few OCD upvotes (pre-communities) and few curie upvotes. TRIPLEBOOM!
Most people who create elsewhere will never earn in first 12-18 months combined what an average steemian can make in first 2-3 months. Then, when elsewhere a profile and traffic start to grow... on steem one risks finding the vacuum of merely minimal support trails. Everywhere else it's usually at least 12-18 months of hard work to grow a profile to a degree of support and many give up again in that time. Here, it feels the curve is inversed and thus wrong.
We've seen way too many solid creators disappear because of that.
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Many become confused or something. I've said this before but for me personally, I want to sell out a stadium. I'd love it if this place had hundreds of thousands of consumers with tiny 1 cent upvotes. Produce my content, get 30000 'likes' much like a Youtube video, then feel like it was a job well done. The confused members here seem to only want that one big whale vote. Instead of selling out a stadium, they're performing for that one guy in the front row. For some, they only came for 'rewards' and their content is just filler. If some of these folks printed off their post and tried to sell it on the street in paper form, they'd be better off just sitting down with a cup, asking for spare change. Nobody would buy that shit. The real artists and real writers, the ones who work for eyes and hope for votes, they're the ones we need to focus on.