Depending on your goal, I dont think a good post makes it successful. Its more dimensional than that because of how steemit behaves. Inherently, your post will get buried and no one will ever see it. The very fact that no one sees it, prevents anyone from judging it. So who is to say if its a good post if no one sees it? It's the classic example of, if a tree walls in the woods and no one is around to hear or see it, did it fall? Well yes, but who cares.... that was where these bots come in. Someone saw an inherent flaw in the system and created these bots. The reality is, if these upvoting bots didn't exist, it would be much fairer, but you would still have the issue with finding an audience. The trick to that, I think is interacting. Atleast that's how I want to approach it. Not going to lie though, I have thought about those bots.
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Quality is subjective, I agree. That is why I also mentioned: Add Value is something I find really important, and that can be anything. But I have my boundaries and some of the posts are simply not adding any quality, actually they are spam, like all (or maybe most of) the accounts I listed in the post.
I do agree that in the end it is about interacting, I can even say that when I interact well, I spend time to read the post carefully and create some meaningful comment, I may even get more rewards than creating a post, using the same amount of time. And the good think of interacting is that it makes a community, interacting is not send and forget.
Thank you so much for bringing your views across!
Those who leverage the use of those voting bots will also be the ones who climb to the top fastest. No one will remember how you got there, just that you did. So while it is cheating the system to reach that point, does it really matter? If everyone used it, then those bots would be making all the money while everyone fights for the fastest way to reach whale status. That's the part of steemit that I really do not like.
Good point on interacting though. I think its much easier to get paid for your comments than creating new content in terms of effort and time. I've spent many hours creating my videos but no one watches them because they get pushed to the bottom so quickly. I do it anyway, because I enjoy it, but sometimes the motivation to keep going dwindles. As a result, I rather just enjoy life rather than spend my time in the digital world.
"As a result, I rather just enjoy life rather than spend my time in the digital world." Although I spend quite a bit of time on Steemit, I do prefer the none digital world better, in general. Steemit allows me to have conversations with those I may not meet that quickly in real life. I'm learning from my interactions with a good bunch of members here.
thats for sure! I've met quite a few friends through the internet. Actually,once you discount friends from high school and college and gym, my next source of close friends are from the internet! Largely because its easy to strike up a conversation with someone if it relates to something that you find on a hobby forum.
Indeed, the digital highway adds to the personal life in terms of friends, I also gained some good friends that way.