upvoted! Nice collection of areas to focus on, pretty much confirms what I am already following (from earlier experience with social media centralized "stacks").
I find it a bit problematic to outright discourage curating because that seems a bit short-sighted: Steem is not only and not even primarily about making money but about having fun ad about interaction -- also, where would your own upvotes -- hence rewards -- com from if everybody started to follow your advice and "not vote"...?
Also, for real quality content, you may want to watch your spelling and grammar (on weekends, not "in", *time is spent, not "spend", auxiliary clauses are separated by commas & more)...
Some people may not want to up-vote your content if it's badly written, so this might also hurt one's posting success. (Again, I still gave you a courtesy upvote here.)
A good starting point might be this current Steemit post here: https://steemit.com/writing/@dragonslayer109/improve-your-writing-avoid-awkward-sentences
Please note, I am not a native English-speaker either! I am proof of some success and reasonable levels of language quality being achievable though -- even if it's a foreign language...
Thanks for letting me know about the spelling mistakes! Fixed them. I always try to be decent with the spelling & grammar, but after a few hours i'm usually out of energy and just want to publish the content. I'm also a technical guy and don't care about things like language or graphical design. Also, as i mentioned before to someone, i don't want to spend 50 hours on every article to make it perfect. I will remember the corrections you made for the future, thank you very much!
About the curating thing: the main point is that you shouldn't be curating for hours and hours every day to make money from it. Of course it's fine to upvote 10, 20 or 30 posts a day to feel you rewarded the content creators. Most people don't realize just how bad the rewards are and not only invest way too much time on it, they also don't understand the algorithms at all. In fact the power of most people is so small that they can't even reward content creators anywhere near $0.01 and almost always get rewarded <0.001 SP. But you're certainly right that i shouldn't discourage people for voting on content altogether :)
P.S.: sometimes i'm on SteemIt way too long and write while being exhausted, you might recognize the experience ;)
yes, I know that feeling :)
Okay, got it -- then you weren't advising against curating in general, after all. Noted. -- I just want to keep the conversation on Steemit going and not have people feel discouraged from voting, for all our benefits on here.
You're right though, @calamus056, in that it would be unreasonable to spend hours on end just voting (as some of today's smartphone kiddies might, indeed, do -- failed to see that, 'cause that's not me...)
Keep up the good work & good luck here on Steemit!
Let me be a wise ass this time: it's not Steem, it's SteemIt ;)
STEEM is the currency/the name of the blockchain and SteemIt is the blogging platform which is the first application of the STEEM blockchain.
I know (see post, where I used it correctly) -- did I mix it up somewhere else?
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ah, second line -- there it is. Fixed.
Thanks.
" I just want to keep the conversation on Steem going and not have people feel discouraged from voting, for all our benefits on here." ;)