@michelle.gent : Disagreement on reward, Posting a novel page by page, getting ~65$ for ~20 views.
@suesa : Disagreement on reward, Posting a novel page by page, getting ~115$ for ~100 views. (Only flagged posts that were getting more than 1$/impression after a few days.)
So you think hard working (and good) writers should not be paid as much as semi-automated (or fully botted) posting of the same Bitcoin (or whatever coin) graph with a few (probably also auto-generated) words??
Or just videos thrown into the fray, with made with nearly zero effort, just a bit of talking?
You seem to have a vastly different image of quality then I have.
It's not about hard-working or so much about originality it's about timeliness and popularity. Relatively few people will rush to read a novel just because it came out. Original novel writing will never be a good fit for Steem which gain it's value from ever changing trending page based on 7 day voting window. If on the other hand you are a known book author with a user-base and you publish your book chapters first on Steem or exclusively then I think the promotion initiative is worth rewarding relative to the amount and quality of viewership brought to the platform.
Want an other example:
If you manage to land a Steemit.com post to #1 rank of r/bitcoin or r/cryptocurrency , I'd vote your post to 80$ and will send you 500 SBD for the achievement.
Here: https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@transisto/bring-a-steemit-com-post-to-1-daily-rank-of-reddit-com-r-bitcoin-or-r-cryptocurency-and-earn-500-sbd-big-votes
If, on the other hand, you are a known Crypto blogger, you don't need steemit at all and should not get paid, right?