@brianphobos I am still new to this platform and thus my opinion may or may not register as relevant. I believe I understand the point you are trying to make on the followers vs votes. There seems to be gap between the one who posts and those who read said post. Not always easy to follow all feeds, even if you enjoy material posted by specific persons. I was first attracted to STEEMIT as a venue to post original material to a community eager for new content. Unlike my personal Blog on Blogger, I have yet to find my place here. Thus, it has been months since my last visit. I am trying a new strategy of posting a multi-part series and I will see if that helps get more traction for my original content material. I only upvote material I have actually read and like. Until your post I was ignorant of auto-voting. I liked this article. I will drop by to read more in the future. Cheers.
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@satasco I've been on here since mid June of 2017 and something I've come to realize is it's really not about your content. You could be the greatest writer with the most amazing content and it's not going to get you very far unless you have eyes on your content. Now that's true of any platform but the other thing it's not just about having eyes on your content, it's about having the right eyes ie powerful accounts on your content. This platform is more about interaction and being part of the community and contests and knwoing how to use the platform to your advantage moreso than it is about creating content IMHO
Really great point. I've found this to be totally true. You know what they say "it's not what you know it's who you know ".
This is a Social Platform so interacting and getting to know one another is crucial
@rulesforrebels Thanks for that. I am still trying to learn how to make this work. Cheers.
I think one of the things that happens as well is that when there have been a rush of new accounts then some of the older users do tutorial type posts to help new users but eventually that seem repetitive so I know there are new users getting on and the system can be very confusing to them. So oftentimes they might not even understand the flow of the votes and all the intricacies of this system. It takes a lot of research to really understand the pieces. But I would say the same thing goes for YouTube and figuring out how to tag videos the best and try to gain a following there as well.