Look at @budgetbucketlist.
Her recent post explaining why she's stepping away until the platform is fixed.
The rewards aren't there like they used to be etc.
This is from an author who made $14,000 from her first couple of posts, back when steem was 50c (so 25-30,000 steem), and did nothing but constantly power down and sell out.
Now she's asking why the influential people have gradually stopped supporting her, when she herself could so easily have been incredibly influential today.
This is not a bad thing, though.
Who has two thumbs and was buying up the steem she was dumping back then?
The system works :)
With that kind of income, had she stayed powered up she could have given herself a vote now and again to keep her income coming. I don't think anyone would have begrudged that if she still shared votes and they could tag along for the curation rewards.
She actually illustrates another thing I was thinking about. Those who get huge rewards on early posts because of blocktrades or curie and then experience some posts without that support often give up. I guess their expectations have been set at a high level then they can't accept what they get without that support, not appreciating that the support the high post probably got from being noticed brought them to the attention of people that wouldn't have noticed them without it.
I was reading something that a criticism of curie is that they upvote then abandon. I suspect that a smaller upvote more often would be a carrot to keep them trotting along, but that wouldn't get them any attention in from hot or trending. Sometimes we don't appreciate hidden benefits.
I had Shaun complain a bit when he first started that he was only getting $5 on posts! He'd caught the attention and support of wwf, so that was still double what I was getting on an average post and WAY more than I was getting early on and he got that from about 7 upvotes! I told him some of us had to work a lot harder to get to that point. 😆
Absolutely. If you wouldn't normally blog but come here to do so for money, you're probably going to burn out pretty easily.
If however, you've always wanted to put your thoughts and activities online, this is hands down the best place to do that.
I was lucky to make 5c a post in my first few months, but I didn't care because I just wanted a permanent, free place to get some of these concepts out of my head.
If I'm hit by a truck tomorrow my kids will have a record of who their Dad was.
That's what drew me here in the first place.
I'd been putting a few blogs on a weebly platform, but had no real idea how to get views to it. So this was the opportunity to get a few eyes with a small chance of earnings. I certainly got more communication here than with any other attempts. Although sharing about gardening isn't really a crowd pleaser! Lol!