We all have limited attention that we can invest in reading posts, so writing shorter posts (300-500 words) is a way to attract people outside of Steemit, as well as Steemit users towards your blog. They may take less effort but are not effortless. Also they should not be low quality in a way I mentioned in my above article (these are actually effortless).
I myself try to stick to interesting shorter posts nowadays (shorter than I used to write) with occasional longer ones like this one. Both longer and shorter posts are valuable. They just attract different audience.
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Very true. I had gotten confused and still am in some ways on what is considered a valuable post. Ultimately it's up to the community to decide but of course there will be influence to discourage effortless posts.
The quality post is the one which has been written with original input with a decent amount of work. Spending 30 seconds on copypasting something takes minimum effort and zero personal input :-)
I find the distinction very easy to figure out.
Well like you said though, an effortless post that earns a lot could attract outside users.