Yes, I'm joining in the chorus. We need more quality in the posts on Steem.
There are two parts to this topic - what the posts are about, and how the posts are presented.
For this post I am just looking at the second of these - quality of presentation.
That is a broad enough area in itself covering titles, punctuation, grammar, spelling, images etc.
The goal is simple. Make your posts look good and read well.
Five Tips for Better Posts
1. Titles
Keep them short and informative. Cut out the unnecessary information that is already in tags.
You don't need to include your club status, nor your burn status - they belong in your tags.
Most of all do not include your account name in the title - we know who wrote the post.
And check the spelling. The title forms the url (web address) of the post. If you get it wrong it is there forever.
So if you are writing about your daily life, don't mention the cows...
[Heads Up - that's a farming joke - I'm just milking it for a few laughs 🤠]
2. Introduction
Keep it short, keep it sweet.
You do not need to thank everyone under the sun for supporting you. You do not need to recap how you arrived on Steem. You do not need tell the world how important Steem is in your life.
You just need to introduce what the post is going to be about, and maybe highlight the key points of the post.
Five or six simple sentences should be quite enough for an introduction.
3. Punctuation, Spelling and Grammar
These could all be individual points, but I have lumped them together as they all come under the heading of basic writing skills.
Not everyone will be fluent and well versed writers. That is a skill like singing, or cooking, or carpentry.
But it is a skill that can be improved with practice and diligence.
If you are writing in English it can also be improved with Grammarly. I have not used it myself but I believe it does a good job and the basic version is free...
[ I would be interested to hear from people who use Grammarly. And for non English writers are there similar packages for other languages? ]
If you can't use Grammarly, I am sure there must be spellcheckers for most languages - please use one if you are not good at spelling. This is particularly important for Google Translate - if you misspell a word in your own language Google will have no chance of translating it correctly for readers of other languages.
And please remember sentences always begin capital letters, and I is always a capital letter...
4. Photographs
Be selective with your photos. Just because you took 17 pics of your nephew on a bouncy castle does not mean you have to include all 17 in your Steem post.
Choose your best photos to illustrate individual points in the post.
Make sure the photos are in focus and the composition and lighting are good. And crop and resize if needed. Try to make all the photos in your post of the same size. If need be have two different sizes for the photos.
For most posts up to five photos is likely to be enough. Although if you are doing a step by step tutorial for example more photos may be justified.
Don't use composites or collages of images - each individual image becomes too small to see anything useful.
For every image include a descriptive and informative caption. 'Dog' doesn't cut the mustard. 'My Neighbour's Doberman, Rex, Playing with my Pet Rabbit' works better.
Ideally use your own photos, if not use ones from copyright free sources such as Pixabay or Unsplash.
5. Cut The Crap
Don't include unnecessary and superfluous 'stuff' that adds nothing to the value of the post.
As mentioned in #2 keep your introductions tight, and your conclusions brief.
Again you don't need to thank every curator and every Admin and Mod of your community in your closing paragraph.
AND DO NOT TAG PEOPLE JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT. This will unlikely get you more votes, and most likely get you less as the people who are repeatedly tagged might just get annoyed.
It's personal choice but I do not like all the animated gifs and other graphics that many people carry at the bottom of their posts. Do they add any value or do they just add to the mouse scrolling time...
When you have finished your post, read it again. Is every word necessary? Cut out those that aren't.
Then when you have finished those checks and corrections, read the post one more time - just for luck 😀
Thank you to the many people who have written similar posts recently. (I will resist the tagging, but you know who you are 😉)
I don't like to be repetitive, but the message still isn't getting through to large chunks of the Steem population.
Take care with your posts. Take time with your posts. Check and re-check.
Make posts that read well and look good.
Pennsif
[ graphics by @pennsif ]
Muchas gracias por el recordatorio, aveces los autores no tomamos en cuenta que "menos es más " cuando la situación lo amerita, necesitamos cosas que realmente agreguen valor en Steem. ¡Gracias amigo!
Creo que agregaría un punto más:
Pero supongo que es avanzar a un nivel mayor; comprender que es tu deber dirigirte a un público y mantenerlo firme.
Expreso eso porque al leer algunos diarios, me encuentro con el tipo de personas que "escribe por escribir" y resulta complicado sacar algo bueno de sus publicaciones para hacer un buen comentario 🤫😅
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Te diré que todos los días leo muchas publicaciones y nunca me gusta considerar que alguien "escribe por escribir", en toda publicación que al menos tenga un cuerpo y 300 palabras siempre se puede encontrar un mensaje y una historia. Nosotros como lectores debemos tener la sensibilidad para ver esto y no despreciar un mensaje que este dando una persona.
No todo el que escribe tal vez sepa expresarse de la manera más eficaz y acertada, pero el solo hecho de escribir coherentemente ya es un merito. Hacer un buen comentario va a depender más que todo de nuestros propios intereses, lo que nos llama la atención, y no tanto de lo que encontramos, en todo se puede encontrar algo, aunque sea para decirle a esa persona como mejorar su post.
Sé que dices las cosas con la mejor intención, y este mensaje es para ti con la mejor intención también.
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Tienes razón querida, tomaré en cuenta tus sinceras palabras, estoy puliendo mi lado "comentarista" y supongo que me dejé llevar al intentar reflejar mis propias experiencias "comentando y publicando".
(Aunque por mi temperamento me expreso de esa manera en persona pero siempre intento refrenar palabras o expresiones que no son correctas.)
Me llevaré este consejo a mi corazón. Yo he llegado a ser de las que "escribe por escribir" y solo por esa acción han salido palabras en mis diarios de que las que luego me arrepiento. Pero ya es demasiado tarde, alguien más se ha dado el tiempo de leerlas
Gracias @inspiracion
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La sinceridad es el lado que puede hacer que conectemos unos con otros, solo así podemos comprendernos de verdad.
Escribir en los diarios o mejor dicho, en internet, puede ser complicado por esa parte que mencionas ¿qué pasa si me arrepiento?, pues no queda de otra que asumirlo, creo que escribir es algo que entregamos de nosotros, lo que dejamos por escrito ya no nos pertenece pues el otro lo interpretará como quiera o pueda.
Lo único que puede salvarnos es hacer las cosas de corazón, así no nos sentiremos mal por lo expresado (en algún momento), ya que son decisiones que uno toma, pues también me ha pasado, somos humanos, lo que hacemos esta sujeto a fallas, y solo queda hacerlo lo mejor posible.
Gracias por tu feedback querida.
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Gracias a ti querida por tu comentario, bendiciones y pues a seguir haciendolo lo mejor posible!
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Hello friend, I really liked reading this publication, it may sound exaggerated, but everything that is about how to learn to write, I love it.
I don't like excess either, in writing almost always less is more, even for poetry, because it teaches us to be concise and that our messages have weight.
I don't like banners or gifs either, I think that after seeing them three times, you stop noticing them and they are like a TV commercial.
And you are right, this topic is not exhausted, because every time we can learn again to be more concise and meaningful in our written language.
Thanks for sharing 😊
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Hello bro,
Always glad to read you, very nice suggestions, I’ll surely try to improve my templates. Specially my The diary games ones which includes a lot of things at this point.
I have a recommendation for you, probably you don’t tend to do it but justifying your texts always could help to improve yourself too
Check this
Compare with this:
I think justifying is nothing too complicate, you can simply apply a div class text-justify to the whole post and inside it add the other markdowns and that will works for all texts that doesn’t have other div.
We can always improve ourselves, all suggestions are always appreciated too, thanks and Steem On!
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Quality? Yea, very important and all the tips mentioned are all worth it. Spelling and grammar is of paramount. It's good to read and reread our writings before posting.
Thanks for this wonderful tips. I have resteemed your post for wider audience
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@pennsif thank you very much sir. Submitting informative content to us to maintain or improve post quality. I understand the mistakes in my post through your writing. Hope I can make good quality posts in future.
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This guide is very useful for Steem Entrepreneurs Community page users, thank
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Excelente este post, creo que debemos hacer un esfuerzo importante en mejorar la calidad de las publicaciones. Es una tarea que debemos comenzar a hacer en cada camunidad, gracias por compartir esta publicación tan interesante.
Saludos
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What you say is true, but everything needs a process so that they can provide interesting articles for steemians to visit. To get good articles they have to study Or often read from other people's articles for them to learn more.
And it depends on them willing to learn to improve, write the best articles and provide innovation and education for their growth in the future.
Thank you for sharing your useful post, both for me and for those who have read this post.🍻
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Your post is upvoted using the @steemcurator08 account by @pelon53. Continue making quality content for more support.
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I will take into account a lot of this aspect, I could see that there are several things that can be done wrong, but it is all about constant learning, the idea is to continue nurturing knowledge
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A very useful post for newcomers like me, I hope to continue to see posts like this in order to motivate other newcomers on the platform, success is always for sir🙏
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Thank you sir @pennsif
I understand what you mean, and now I will start by setting the writing to be in the category of a good post as you mean here.
This post is really very useful for me to understand something more meaningful and at the same time to fix the mistakes that I have done.
This guide will hopefully be a better first step for me to stay on Steem.
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Una información muy útil para quienes a diario escriben sus publicaciones para Steemit. Es importante seguir cada uno de estos consejos para lograr artículos de calidad.
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Excelente post amiga @pennsif, mucho hemos hablado al respecto, incluso nosotros mismos hacemos en estas practicas, las cuales nos volvemos autómatas al hacerlo repetitivamente.
Trabajaré en mejorar la parte que me corresponde.
Gracias por compartirlo.
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thank you for sharing tips that are very useful for us in writing quality posts, hopefully my posts on this platform will be of higher quality
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Hola amigo, muchas gracias por tu valiosa información compartida
A esto creo que le agregaría colocar imágenes o fotos de portadas que sean llamativas. Por ejemplo si subimos un Diario colocar de portada la imagen que más resalte en la publicación.
Además si utilizas canva o alguna app de diseño tratar que las portadas tengan relevancia con lo que desees compartir.
Y otro punto importante es el uso adecuado de los comandos para Justificar texto, centrar imágenes, títulos y demás
Tomaré nota de lo que mencionas, en especial lo de revisar una publicación dos veces porque siempre se nos va algún error ortográfico.
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Si muchos o todos nos unimos a seguir las mismas sugerencias pronto steemit estará llena de publicaciones de muy alta calidad y eso será genial .
En mi guía mencionaba eso deblos títulos pero al parecer la gran mayoría aunque entiende que es muy cierto el hecho de que se ve feo colocar etiquetas en el título si no colocan por ejemplo el burnsteem25 es poco probable que les voten, o almenos es lo que alegan cuando les vuelvo a sugerir el no usar las Tag allí .
Hace falta mucha comprensión y unión entre curadores, representantes de país y Moderadores, esto con el fin de que se apoyen más las publicaciones que estén cumpliendo con la gran cantidad de sugerencias dadas, pero si sugerimos algo para mejorar la calidad del contenido y solo apoyan las publicaciones feas es como si estuvieramos perdiendo el trabajo.
Es mi humilde pero sincera opinión.
Saludos .
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Todas las publicaciones que sea para mejorar nuestros blogs debe ser difundidas y en lo personal siempre tomo las recomendaciones, sin embargo pareciera que cada semana van cambiando estilos. Los básicos debe prevalecer como ortografía, fotografías y contenido de interés. Saludos y gracias por los consejos.
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This is really a plus factor word "quality" in making every article.
Although majority of the readers are such very selective in reading every content. Because in my own analysis and experiences, readers are just curious to the post who had already big votes. And they have enough time to read and exchange messages to the author.
But if it is 0.0 vote and eventhough it is quality, then it is just really ignored and leave that article.
I am not judgemental but I'm just telling my own experience.
So that's why, I make as quality content article as I can in behalf of my knowledge. Because I know that someday it will be noticed..
And this is my friendly advice...
And all must bear in mind here, try to make as quality content as you can. Whose topic are such knowledgeable and admirable to one whom reading. And make them inspired and follow out from your article.
Good example if you had a planting or gardening hobby, enhance it here.
Coz I'm telling you, later or sooner it will be notice by someone VIP..
If you had patience and perseverance..
By the way thank you for sharing sir..
Regards..
Natz
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This is difficult for us who are often tagged in a post.
Unfortunately, I hardly ever visit posts where I am tagged anymore.
It's a shame because I miss posts that I should have read and that I was sure meant that they wanted me to read and comment on
But to all of you who think that tags bring upvotes to your posts will only be against their purpose
Great post about ethics, hope many people will read about it, resteemed
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Hi @pennsif!
This publication that you have prepared to guide users to improve their publications is very good.
I'm going to share it in the groups I manage so they can receive your advice as well.
Spanish speakers use Deepl.com translator to make us understand a little better in your English language.
I hope I am being a good example for those who read me. Greetings from Argentina.
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