Over the last week, I tried to see if I could make generate more steem by curating content vs. simply writing posts. I believe that, because of the increase on the number of users, it will be more difficult to "get noticed" and it will be easier to curate content to make STEEM.
Here are the metrics:
I made 7 times more steem curating than writing.
Over 1 week, I wrote 12 posts and upvoted 65 stories, and here are the rewards I got:
- 1.35 Steem writing
- 9.4 steem curating stories.
It looks pretty satisfying to see that you can make SEVEN times more $ curating content than reading it. I add to the equation the fact that I spent way less time clicking on stories than actually creating things.
But it comes with a price... a big one
During 1 week:
- I DID NOT upvote content I judged "good"
- I DID NOT even read what I was upvoting (probably 4 or 5 stories out of 65)
- I was ONLY upvoting content that I believed would generate Steem...
This is good news for my steem power, and overall good news to see that curation can help a minnow become something bigger.
But the main conclusion is that it's also pretty bad for the community. It forced me to click not on stuff I would not consider good, but on stories that I would imagine making it on the famous-infamous trending list. Stories I did not really care about... I was not even reading 90% of them. I played the "garbage game" and clicked on stories with clickbait titles and nice pictures (#girls...).
Unfortunately, my strategy based on upvoting lesser-quality content (that I would believe will make it to the trending list) worked better than spending time reading good content ...or even writing it.
NOTE: I still DID upvote for good stuff... but it was only for a minority of my upvotes.
I've been curating as well. I haven't posted a single article yet since coming onboard here about 3 weeks ago. I have found curating to be the best way to get familiar with Steemit and still get paid.
If I were you I would change my focus. Your focus seems to be to extract value from Steemit. Instead shift your focus to ADD value. You are looking to simply make money, or get steem. That is not what this community is about. Sure.. we get paid to do things we usually do in social media anyway.. but if you start to just look to make money you are working against the system in place. My suggestion to you would be to act like this community is just any other social platform you have participated in. Write shit you like to write about.. upvote shit you like and see what happens. I would guess you are not going to be rewarded immediately... but over time.. you will. If you are looking to make alot of money really quick.. you might as well go buy a lotto ticket cause you are basically just gambling.
Work with the system.. not against it... and you will find the rewards to be much more gratifying; both monetary and internally.
Agreed. It was an experiment.
I just uploaded some pictures I made a couple days ago in a French castle. Have a look, some are pretty cool !
This is what i've noticed also, that's why the bots try to tell you to only vote on 20 posts a day. Thanx for sharing you have my upvote! Here is one of my posts for your pleasure Blessed Be
https://steemit.com/honeymoon/@kalaylah77/ever-been-on-a-cruise-what-s-one-thing-you-wish-you-brought-that-you-d-deff-remember-for-nextime
your picture is KO. Use imgsafe.
upvoted.
An interesting experiment. Were any of the posts you thought (and did) generate steem spam? Or just poorly written?
In fact, I do not even know what I was upvoting. Good catchy titles, smap for the masses... cute girls... and I was upvoting.
I had this strategy of running down the "ACTIVE" list, and see posts with already $5 to $20 in the list, and then I would hope that they will continue to climb.
Typical example is: curation reward of 0.512 STEEM POWER for allasyummyfood/7dek2o-hello-steemit-my-name-is-alla-i-am-a-youtuber-and-private-chef-with-my-own-show-let-s-do-this
One great post I upvoted is that one (a great story):
curation reward of 0.012 STEEM POWER for jrd/arrows-of-the-leviathan-prologue-and-chapter-1
Fun fact: the author had been considered as stealing content by a bot...
Man! You are right, I like the post but I will not vote up, you know why. Sorry ^^
;-)