RE: Non-existent followers
I agree, and this is taking the whole platform down. I am looking for some good, clean content but I see lot of bot spam, articles with SPAMish headliness full of CAPS ***** ascii emoji etc. When I look on the articles on Medium, it's very clean and I can get to the good content right away without swimming through loads of nonsense. I agree many people just learn and use all the Steemit mechanics to go up and get few steem dollars and that's killing the good content.
I really like your articles but only thing that I don't like is that you post too many of them :D I am quite busy so I just can't keep up with you. I also think it kind of splits the attention, comment concentration and everything in many articles. But to be honest you are one of the few consistent authors with original and meaningful content.
(Sorry for the late response, I try to stay away from work in weekends).
Yes, sadly, people interested only in money, who don't really understand that the best way to form a community and to earn a lot is to create high quality content, bring this platform down.
When I started using this website last year, I was spending quite a lot of time searching for new and interesting content, leaving a lot of comments and upvoting people who were trying to create something good.
However, these days I'm not even trying that hard to search for new content, and I spend most of my time reading what those I follow create, because I know they're interested in creating high quality content.
It's sad, but there's not much we can do about it. Wherever there's money, there will be people who'll do anything to get some. Websites like Medium will be ahead of Steemit, at least for a while, simply because it's harder to make money there, through a partnership program, and people who start creating content know that, so they don't spam others with shitty things.
Who knows, maybe this will change in the future, but I kinda doubt it, unless the website and how things work change as well.
Related to my content - thank you for the kind words! I know I kinda publish a lot. Sometimes I feel like stopping and only publishing once a day, or once every few days.
The reason I'm publishing so often is because if you don't, it's hard to get anywhere. Publishing long articles usually is a waste of time, since not a lot of people will read them, either because they don't have time or they're not interested, and publishing rarely means receiving less attention, since every time you publish something, your article is buried under a lot of crap in the "New" section, so the only thing left to do is to publish fairly short articles as often as possible.
Again, it's sad, but there's not much I can do. If I want to get anything out of this website, I have to publish often, otherwise, it's hard to compete with those who create the same kind of content, who have a lot of money or who simply got lucky and got a lot of followers.
This website kinda became some short of Instagram for bloggers. You have to post little things here and there as often as possible to become relevant.