Hey there @biglipsmama! Cool post, but I just wanted to run something by you and thank you for up-voting/resteeming my travel posts in the past. As you know I've been putting up quality work for months now. Basically your votes and votes like yours are the reason I haven't left the platform. Every now and then I get a vote like yours by other dolphins/whales that make it worth it. But I get plenty of votes that pay nothing or next to nothing. It's totally killing my motivation on here and I'm completely on the fence about leaving the system as I'm putting too much time into this for peanuts.
I just spent hours putting up all sorts of cool real life high quality photos of life in Bangkok. Like out of one of those books in the library that depict people in the real. You can see they all have similar up-votes, but someone with higher voting power hit on a couple and suddenly they pay 10x more (a whole 1.80, instead of 18 cents) but that's lunch for me in Thailand.
Can you talk to some of your steemit dolphin/whale buddies and help me out? I think I'm highly unique. I do real good quality articles and now great real life photos of my travels around the world. I believe my unique lifestyle makes me a great asset/content creator for steemit. I'm finding that there are many hidden, underpaid, and talented content creators on here that are feeling a similar way.
Not sure how this will be perceived but thanks in advance,
Dan "World Travel Pro"
Hey Dan,
We totally understand, we will try to come up with some ideas over the weekend, this is one of the reasons we created The Curator - with the last three posts we may be in the same boat. We've been talking about what affects post, and wonder what factors affect post - which could be a combination of what time the post was posted, being active and commenting on Steemit, but also being involved in the discord rooms, tags, etc.
We are seeing a lot of knowledgeable posts being undervalued.
We do have a discord stream for The Curator, we haven't given out the link yet do you think that may help with morale and keep motivated being able to chat with others.
There is the ADSactly Community discord which is great for keeping up morale and motivation, also steem speak and steem gigs.
I'll add your post in the discord rooms that I'm in for Steemit post promotion, but can't say if that will help.
I think it would be great to get everyone feeling this way together so we can all come up with some ideas that can help everyone.
Let us know what we can do to help!
Keep your chin up Dan!