How are you measuring your progress on Steemit? Is it just about how much your posts make? Of course lots of people hope for a whale vote that could make them hundreds or even thousands of dollars, but most of us will only be making beer money, if that.
Given that what I make here is not likely to compensate for my time I want value in the form of interaction. This is why I comment so much and have reached over 600 posts in just over a month. I try to post on topics that will generate discussion. It's great to gain new followers, but I'm not going to follow back unless they interact. Then I'll see what they are posting and consider adding them. I want my Feed page to be full of interesting content. Eventually I hope there will be options to filter the feed by groups of people, topic and other criteria, but meanwhile I will have to limit the number I follow.
I do check my page on Steem Whales as I like stats and graphs. Note that my value drops even as my SP increases due to the variability in Steem exchange rate.
I believe that as Steemit grows it will become more attractive if the standard of content can be maintained. There is a problem that we are overwhelmed with data. Nobody can keep up with all the blogs, videos and podcasts on the topics that interest them. I think some gave given up on trying to absorb it and just seek a 'quick fix' of pretty images and memes. It may be that long form posts, like this, will die out as people just don't think they have time to dedicate to reading a single long post.
I do still read longer articles in a print newspaper at the weekend, but I don't buy a paper during the week due to lack of time. I subscribe to more podcasts and Youtube feeds than I can consume, even when I play them at x1.5 speed. I just have to pick and choose those that look most interesting.
Anyway, thanks if you read this far. Please comment and vote if you feel this has value for you.
Nice post. Thank you for sharing it. I should say that I have no time to read more long posts too (I think your post is not long). For me it is the language problem too. I can't read in English quickly. In addition, I myself share photos and me more interested in the posts of other users with pictures. In general, I agree that there is a very large flow of information in Steemit. And I hope that it makes it possible to select the information to each according to their own interests
Your English is good. Be encouraged.
Thank you. But it is hard for me to write. And even harder to read difficult articles. I often use a translator. But sometimes it's easier to read in English than to understand what abracadabra gives the translator 8-) By the way steemit helps me to train my english
I've followed you, and look forward to watching you improve.
You are welcome!
Thanks. I can appreciate that there are a lot of non-native English speakers here. You have my admiration for writing in another language. I couldn't do that. Good luck
Thank you! Good luck to you too!
Ones use Steemit purely for commercial purposes. Not for a set target audience for your blog. This is a standard Twitter short blogs and discussions to read for a couple of seconds. Or just a regular picture. To Express your thoughts and people read them takes time, I think there is a future for Steemit!
I've blogged for years without making any money from it. At least I get something here. I like the Steemit technology, so I'm not going away any time soon.
Me too. I've been methodically thinking through topics, composing arguments and posting them on facebook for years.
Now each one is a lottery ticket :)
I hope your numbers come up!
Steem is agnostic to long or short articles. One can do either. You can even combine the two, and compose the first line like a tweet but then have more inside, sorta like Headline -> Tweet -> Article. Your readers can then engage as much as they want to then, while you make it possible to get something out of a quick glance or 5 minutes poring over it.
That's an interesting perspective. I thought it was more focused on long-form content and have been confused by seeing short posts, some just a photo. I might try a few posts with that format -- or at least some short posts. Why not, eh?
Well, after a week or so here, the "quick fix of pretty images" seems relaxing! You put your finger on a key thing about TSU. Each post was pretty short, and had a pretty picture. And there were options to see lots of pretty pictures on the screen all at once, even. They layout here isn't near so pretty.
For me, one thing I'm coping with is that there's no way to tell if a post is going to be long or short. Medium has an estimated reading time for each post, so you have a sense of what you're getting into.
And thanks for showing the Steem Whales stats. I didn't know about that.
Good post - am not very active, did not post recently as i did make 0,00 yet but saw at least i got some followers recently :-) - Re-Thinking of how to value this might be good for me too.
I quite enjoy blogging rather than posting pictures, so this suits me. There's some good posts on topics that interest me, including the technology of steem itself. You can just use it as a conventional blog as it ranks well on Google. There are even tools to make an RSS feed. I like the openness. I want to try writing some utilities of my own some time
Steemit will be like the reality outside in the blogsphere. We will have short picture posts and we will see long well written posts. Communities will form around different contents.
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I believe there will always be room for both. Short and long posts alike. When I have time, I enjoy reading longer posts. Mine tend to be "medium" in length like this one.
I quite like writing longer posts, but I need to work on structuring them. Steemit doesn't feel like a site for Twitter-style status updates, but if it grows so that people have more of their friends here then that could be part of it. I think people are working on that functionality. I guess it can be whatever we want it to be.
I think that is the beauty of Steemit right now...it can be whatever we want it to be. What I find is that it is more of a community and it is more engaging than say facebook or twitter. Fewer trolls too!! For now at least.
Success for me has to be input-based and boils down to "am I adding value to the network?" - that means either by making new stuff or building and maintaining connections. The STEEM numbers are interesting and my reaction to getting 18 cents just for publishing an article is "interesting" too. But I'm most pleased that it's a place to write and share my stuff and find new people to talk to.
There are some interesting people here, but it tends to be certain 'tribes'. A lot of people will go where their audience is. We need to bring in more people to here. Having any success with that?
I can see four people in my followers who look to have been drawn in by a perfectpath.co.uk post I wrote. They need cultivating though, which is competing for priority on my list... gah!
That's something. I think the site is a little intimidating for new people. Some folk may like it that way, but it will have to change to go mainstream.