This is definitely a good point. I am wondering how this is going to turn out. I wrote a few articles already without making too much money and I am really wondering whether anybody is going to go back to any of these articles. Seems to me right now that people are just chasing new posts and hot stuff to make money on upvotes. Not sure who is going to upvote posts that are weeks and months old. They can barely count on making money on upvotes I guess. In case the post didn't make money when published, why would it suddenly raise money months later. So only people supporting good content by heart will do so. Let's see how many are out there. But perhaps my predictions are not correct, we will see :-)
For now it is not too much fun, trying to be original for $50, watching others making thousands. It is only natural not to be trying anything new as long as people are upvoting the same topic over and over again.
I've had old posts double in value weeks later from late upvotes, so some missed Jems can be picked up later. Try writing a post with links back to older posts if they are appropriate and this way they may be rediscovered.
This is actually what happened after @steemship voted for one of my posts today, so definitely true :-) Good idea, linking back to older posts. I am actually trying to do that where it makes sense.
I've enjoyed your posts so far. They are thoughtful and well written. You generally won't get thousands of dollars for smaller postings, though, unless they really cover something new that people haven't seen before. I think $30 or $50 is more realistic for most posts. If they are longer and more informative, then yes, I think more voters are ready to reward that extra work.
True. I haven't been really writing posts with much planning or so, I usually just dump what comes up my mind. Perhaps I will try a different approach next time, thanks for the advice :-)
On the other hand, seems to me that you never know here on Steemit. I've seen posts of questionable quality getting thousands of $. But I guess that other people did consider these posts informative and there is not much to say. People decide :-)
$50 - $5 today :)