At this moment I'm investigating two steemit subjects in specific. As this one relates more or less to one of my investigations I'm hoping I can use this occasion to ask you a question.
Introduction: I noticed that my own posts barely get any views. Which is kind of logical as I have about 50 followers. I figured that if my posts get 2-5 views this means 4-10% of my followers have a look at it.
I the made the assumption that if these percentages also apply for you, your posts will get 80-200 views. Most of your posts have just a bit more views (200-500). Can this be explained by a few resteems? Or people that regularly visit your profile?
Also noticed just a few posts with thousands of views. Was this because they were hot or trending? Or did you promote them somehow?
Don't feel obliged to answer. If you do I really appreciate.
Thanks for asking - a very interesting question. I haven't promoted any post but I got some resteems of people with a big community. I mentioned most of them. When I got e.g. a resteem by @haejin or @philakonecrypto the view went up significantly. Also when @knircky is posting it on twitter etc.
So I guess that explains most of it but I haven't done much research to be honest.
I also noticed some regular upvotes from a few people. So it could be that they either like your stuff (I do) but also that you are good for dolphin/orca curation and for that reason receive some votes.
That is true as well. A kind of circle gets created - some I am upvoting regularly and they upvote me regularly. That said - I upvote only what I like so the circle gets created by mutual interest in the blogs of each other.
I find that curation thing not very helpful for the community to be honest. I would rather see some other mechanics to keep people active. But I am not doing the rules and the game gets played and maximized by those rules - always.
I personally also think some things could be improved. Although I find it very difficult to oversee the full picture. So I might change my mind in the coming weeks as I learn more.
At this moment I think it's almost impossible to receive any curation as new steemonian. And even if I do, in absolute terms the value is close to zero. However I'm trying to gain as much curation as possible now, just to see if I fully master it. I think it could be possible to earn up to 1% curation per week. In your case that would be around 1,000 SP. Almost ten times higher as you receive now. And that makes me wonder if you never feel like just upvoting to gain a bit more? I think there are lots of people that can't resist to do so.