Hi @robsteady
I don't think there is something specifically "wrong" about your post that caused it to do poorly, and when I looked at it I gave it a vote because it seems like the kind of original content that Steemit desperately needs more of.
However, the current rewards climate on Steemit is heavily weighted toward posts that are about promoting Steem and Steemit, and the power users with enough voting weight to make posts start trending aren't spending a lot of time trawling through secondary content (which I'm defining as any content posted by someone who is not already an influential user) looking for hidden gems.
None of my posts have done well in the financial sense, but I don't take it personally and it hasn't caused me to judge them as being poor content. If you believe your content has value and keep posting, at some point, someone with voting weight will notice, and then more users will pile on. If you look through the posting history of people who have created popular content, you'll see that there aren't many "one-hit-wonders" there. Once a user creates a popular post, all their future posts tend to do much better than average. It's getting over that initial hump that can be extremely difficult.
That may not be the answer you're looking for, but it's what I think is currently true. Or maybe I'm just a poor judge of quality, including the quality of my own work. I guess you'll have to be the judge.
Nah, I totally get what you're saying. I have faith that things will balance out eventually, it just gets me frustrated because I'm not a very patient person anyway so despite my efforts at trying to help other people here, it just feels like it's not effective enough. I'm trying to just keep on keepin' on, but it gets tiring to even go through the stream and look for things I'm interested in let alone expecting any of my content to get to the right audience. I really believe the stream/following by category will be one of the most important things to straighten out as time goes on.
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One thing I will say is that while large files look good, it kills me on mobile browsing becoming glitchy on phone/tablet. I might suggest taking a screen shot of the original pic and cropping it to size and thus greatly reducing the size. I myself wonder about length. People aren't going to watch half hour videos or read 20 pages, but what do you see as a good benchmark for optimal length(obviously depending on content it can be flexible)
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Amazing!! - This is EXACTLY what I wanted with this post! Thank you @robsteady for sharing and thank you @sndphoenix for this outstanding reply!
With suggestions, feedback and by being friendly, we can come a long way! - This totally made my day. Thank you :)
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No problem. I spend most of my time on the site reading through non-trending posts and making comments. I don't have any voting power, so at the moment there's very little else I can do to contribute. However, I think there is long term value in the entire concept of this platform, and it just needs time to develop to the point where non-mainstream (i.e. non-Steem-based) content gets noticed.
My post here for example:
https://steemit.com/art/@sndphoenix/e01-of-cgs-presents-high-school-heroes-introducing-jen-rogers
Got a total of 4 votes and one comment, and that comment was from someone that came to look at my post only because I welcomed her to the site on introduceyourself. However, I don't think the post was fundamentally valueless. If you disagree, feel free to let me know of course. I have thick skin!
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I think you're a talented writer. Even though I haven't enough Steem Power to make a huge impact, I still upvoted your post. It's just like "doe" said in the comment on that post: "That's the best part. It's telling, it's interesting, and I'm intrigued!".
I feel sorry for some people who spends hours on their posts and gets nothing in return. And no, I'm not talking about money alone here. I talk about nice comments & feedbacks too.
However, I know it's impossible for everyone to go big or to build a great reputation on steemit in these early days.. But I know it will become possible, for everyone. Hopefully posts like that won't fly "under the radar" and just simply disappear among all the other posts further on, when steemit has made some future changes. I hope steemit will evolve and hopefully it will be easier to find quality content using the filters in the nearest future.
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I like that outlook and we should get together and support and critique each other's work. Applaud the good and suggest future changes to the bad. We shouldn't simply upvote ppl just because we like them, but because the content is good. If someone gets lazy and starts posting average content that once was a very interesting poster, they should be called out.
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This is so true! - Upvote the content we think is good. That's essential. If you have to upvote your friends posts just because you're friends, do that after you've upvoted every other post you feel like upvoting. That way, the friends wouldn't get as much money rewards at least.
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Yes if the content doesn't improve overall, it will sink to the level of any other site where people can post whatever they like and not worry about content. That hurts everyone. A lot of changes need to be made and looked at, but I keep telling myself it's only in beta and there are great minds behind it
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It sure is great minds "behind the scenes" and the platform is awesome. It's innovative, fresh and cool.. But I agree with you. There's a bunch of things that needs to be fixed and I'm certain that these great minds are working endless of hours in attempts to do it.
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