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RE: MINNOW, DOLPHIN, WHALE. EITHER WAY WE ARE ALL GOLDFISH ON STEEMIT.

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Good post, @mudcat36. Somehow, you always manage to fly under my radar. Won’t happen again, though: I’m setting you up on Gina right after I’ve finished this comment.

You’re absolutely right about the short attention span (pathetic, isn’t it?).
I catch myself skimming a lot when it comes to large chunks of text.

Personally, I like to break up my paragraphs in chunks of 6 lines or less. I used to spend a whole lot of time looking for the right image, but at one point I realized that it wasn’t so much about the right image, but about just something to attract the user’s attention before he jumps to the next paragraph. (Of course the image has to relate at least a bit.)

I think many users go wrong when it comes to styling their blog posts. If I see a post is just a large piece of text, I simply don’t start reading, no matter how good the content might be...

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Hello stranger! :) Yes we do seem to have missed each other lately so it's great to hear from you. What's Gina btw? Never heard of it?

Gina stands for ‘General Instant Notification Automation’ - it’s a Discord bot that notifies you of whatever you want: somebody that makes a new post, new or lost followers, comments, mentions,... literally everything.
I especially like the ‘mentions’ feature, because SteemIt itself doesn’t alert you when somebody mentions your name.
And I learned just recently how important it can be to know about it :0)

So I’ve set her to notify me whenever you make a new post. I will then get a notification as a PM on Discord.

I noticed you have a Discord account, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen you there...
(Not that I’m around much - lol. Chatting is not my cup of tea - but being able to send someone a PM comes in very handy at times. And then there is Gina.... I wouldn’t know where to go without.)

You can learn more about Gina in her introduction post:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@ginabot/hi-i-am-gina-i-m-here-to-help