It's no secret that here on Steemit, sub quality content often gets more upvotes and make more money than quality posts. The stuff that makes it on the trending page is often just content with money behind it and not quality content, or just posts by powerful members on Steemit.
I saw a post this morning which perfectly illustrates this problem.
The @hodgetwins made a post this morning which I think may have been some auto posting glitch as it only says "Hodgetwins ZAP - 20180411t141651271z" in the title and "some mo blockchain action!!!!" in the post. This post got 32 upvotes and made $2.45
Then we have quality long form content like this post by @kenanqhd which is actually a quality post, longer form content, and actually very interesting, and it earns $0.27 cents and gets 8 upvotes.
Now I realize not everyone has the same taste, but there's no reason a glitch post should earn more than a quality post. Yes I also realize people use upvote bots and this is why this likely happenend as I doubt anyone would actively upvote a glitch post, but this just further highlights the problems with Steemit.
I gave up this fight a long time ago. Just write what you want to write at Steemit without expecting miracles. Such is life.
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I like to use steemit for blogging detailed content because it can rank well in google - and as an SEO boost by linking with good keywords to other websites.
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I stopped using Zappl because of the way the title glitches like that....Plus I just didnt think it was right to get upvotes for such a short post. Blah lol
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I wrote a spot reviewing 'the upvote game' on steemit - wondering if the entire system can be gamed for profit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ipmal/how-steemit-upvote-bots-work-for-noobs
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Yes, curation teams are struggling to find good content... very sad to see. @kenanqhd's post is exactly what Steem needs. The self promote drivel is so annoying. I'm hardly ever on the Trending page anymore. Love to see the whining when a shit post gets downvoted.
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Reason why I prefer posting for fun like others instead of a serious, detailed time consuming blog post when no one reads, specially from planktons/minnows like me. It's get right into the bottom of the Steemit ocean. And eventhough been tempted using bots, still no I haven't used one and proud of that. ☺
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This is why I said a while ago that Steemit should be trying to become a Medium competitor, not a reddit one.
I can regularly find good content to read on Medium but it is getting harder and harder on Steemit.
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Hahahahaha, poor @kenanqhd. Thank you for the shoutout man!
I think the @hodgetwins were testing out Zappl (Steem's twitter). They made a post earlier praising steepshot over instagram and they said something like "if only there was something like twitter" and many people recommended zappl. You can even see their tag is "zappl"
I guess it just has to do with the sheer number of followers they have. It all adds up. If PewDiePie made the shittiest video ever, it would still get more views than some awesome video posted by someone with only a few subscribers.
One thing I don't like is how whatever you post on one platform will automatically get posted on another. So for the hodgetwins example, they posted that from Zappl which is like twitter but it shows up on Steemit. The thing is, I think a post from Zappl looks really out of place on Steemit because I associate blogging with Steemit and not just some post of a few words. It makes it seem really low quality.
At the same time, the hodgetwins have been posting very subpar content on here. Either they just repost their videos or they post crappy memes. This is why a new place like Steem needs to be careful not to spoonfeed established content creators from YouTube; they may add nothing of value and then cash out.
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haha yeah that poor @kenanqhd lol
yeah I was just watching a video the other day where a guy said distribution beats quality any day. I think he referenced a Nick Jonas Twitter post in which it said one single word "burger" it got something like 100K shares. Definitely not quality content but distribution beats quality
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Ha ha ha ..... Very interesting character......
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