Some thoughts on Steemit from a new user.
Hey guys, iv'e only been on steemit for a few weeks now(almost 3 to be exact) and i wanted to share some thoughts on Steemit.
So a friend of mine got me on to steemit and before i knew it i was hooked, i was incredibly interested in the platform and the people on it and the prospect of making a living wage from it was even better, so for the past 3 weeks iv'e pushed out content as much as I possibly can and tried to make it the best quality i can give.
However there are some massive downsides to this that iv'e noticed, let me be the first to say that i'm not afraid of hard work to build a following and i love writing so this is the perfect fit for me however I find that some things on the site go unanswered, especially from minnows who post great content but are practically ignored by the community in favor of pretty vapid articles from dolphins and whales.
My self being a fat minnow i experienced this and essentially have had to dumb down my content down sometimes into things people are actively looking for just to get my steem power up, and I have no problem with that as a whole, it's a free market you go were the money is.
However i fear it diminishes the site as a whole when someone writing a 1000 word original piece on a subject makes 3 cents but someone copy pasting "Top 10 things you didn't know about watermelons!" ends up making $300, again, it's a free market but it doesn't have a dampening affect.
There are also numerous people on the site that don't contribute anything at all and instead raid the comment sections of trending posts begging for up-votes, again if it works it's good for you, but it doesn't contribute anything and lowers the quality of the site.
Steemit, is in essence a popularity contest the more followers you have the more likely they are to read your articles and increase your bottom line but for some people who don't like being disingenuous with what they post, myself included, it poses a problem to either change what you're writing about, or soldiering on releasing original content with little to no reward.
This may seem like sour grapes to some, i'm not saying my content absolutely deserves $500 a post simply because I exist, but there are many content contributors that are simply over looked for buzzfeed style articles that really serve no purpose.
Do yourself a favor if you're reading this, go to the new tab and refresh it every 10 seconds for a minute and watch the articles that make the most money and the articles that are drowned out in a sea of hashtags, being liberal about it i'd say it's roughly 70/30% in terms of low quality vs high quality.
I also want to stress that this article is solely aimed at minnows, not tunas and whales.
There are a lot of people on this site that deserve the money they're getting people like @sweetsssj(if you don't know her you should) or my new buddy @richq11(he deserves more though :P) but there are also many, many minnows that produce amazing quality posts that are being lost in a tide of inane content and "follow for follow" articles that inevitably lose confidence and stop posting all together.
Well said, I agree with this.
Thanks Kabrink :)
at the worse part of it, this post at time of me writing only has 1 cent. there needs to be a way to make posts stand out. maybe it's time to look at a way of getting paid on views as well. Upvoted this post as well
Haha thanks niall, i only made it a few moments ago but this one isn't about the money, just trying to get the conversation started out there about this issue.
yer i know mate, but if this place is going to compete with the likes of facebook and twitter, it needs to get this sorted. why would people leave the social media platforms that there on. The hook needs to be bigger, it also needs an integrated chat function.
I can't be arsed signing up to a separate chat app just to talk to people on steemit.
steemit has gone about it correctly through with offering money to get people here. but most people on facebook don't want to write 300 word essays. they just want to share content and like some pictures of cats.
For me it's more so the fact that i have content ready to go that i could post every single day but i hold off on it because i keep thinking "What's the point of writing for an hour just to make 3 cents?" i think a lot of people feel like that as well that even though the reward aspect is there, their work might be for naught.
well if they don't sort it out soon, the guys from Africa and east asia will destroy it. i don't want to follow someone that i know they are writing in a language that they don't understand
It's not too bad at the moment, usually korean and indian stick to their individual hashtags, i'm more worried about content spam
you mean like robot content writers ?
More so people who copy paste things from other websites without giving any opinion of their own
Nice share.....
Thanks rocha :)