Problem is that people get frustrated too soon, with too little efforts.
My goal for the first month was - to buy myself a coffee (5-10 $)
And to write about the topics I like, cars and science.
It's a good fun for me and just the sharing of my regular daily curiosity.
At some point, I became a bit greedy, but I learned... It's ok now.
You are maybe right about my first young favorite.
But... I think we could have new, successful author.
- Posts with real scientific references
- One post in 2-3 days
- Ph.D. in Biology, real scientist
- She helped me with my posts devoted to cancer therapy
And the nickname is nice @scienceangel
Oh yes totally understand what you are saying about frustration, and the main reason I shared that above is because I see this is a root cause of frustration - if you already have it in your head that your success is going to be less about the quality and time you put into your posting (at the beginning) and more about the time you put in networking, it helps to align the effort you are putting in with what will actually bring you reward down the road. The entire first few weeks or month is likely to be kind a slog if all you are doing is posting and are not spending at least as much time interacting and building the network. And the most valuable "reward" you can receive when you are starting out is the friendship and "follow" of an established user with higher stake - this means way more than a payout on a single post. Checking your submission now.
In future please link to a specific post and not a poster - it makes it easier to give more focused feedback. I enjoyed her last post and upvoted through my main account: https://steemit.com/health/@scienceangel/why-do-some-people-faint-after-having-their-blood-drawn
Clearly written and well cited. From the particular lens of Curie, this post doesn't really have any original thought and is more just a summary of the existing sources and literature on the topic - this is absolutely fine for a post in general, but to me I am not sure it meets the high bar of excellence I am looking for when submitting Curie posts. From the expanded guidelines: "Fact-based articles must be properly cited and with author’s personal take on them. Simply paraphrasing other sources without adding anything substantial does not qualify, even if properly cited."
You could argue that the author did add a short story RE her personal experience with this issue, and added a sentence of conclusion at the end. My personal opinion is this does not qualify as adding anything substantial to the information that was already in the sources.
Definitely a quality poster, I have added her to my Curie follow query.
Cheers - Carl