It is frustrating. Personally, I am struggling with feeling like the only ones reading anything are small accounts still trying to "make it".
When I know how many "base" votes I am going to get on any given post, it takes some of the enjoyment out of it.
Meanwhile, the trending page... blah will not even bother to say it.
I am hoping people who care about the future of the platform will begin to support those who are actually reading, commenting and using the platform. This is part of the reason I have been annoyed with the focus on comment votes. Seriously, let's reward those who provide POR. (proof of reading)
I know what you mean. It seems only a few small, well-meaning content creators are active and the rest is on auto-pilot. It's not hard to see why, after being here for a few months and treating it like a 60-hour-a-week job curating, commenting replying...it's hard work. And often thankless or outright retributive.
Slogging through the new section and all the porn reposts is like a tour of duty.
Yes, 3/4 of the comments I get are from newer accounts from the past few months, and very few old accounts.
I don't loo ;) No idea what's going on there, but I suspect more of the same types of stuff as last year.
Multiple problems can be addressed, self-voting is an issue. If a comment is valued by others they should learn to upvote it, even if it's only 1%. It's because of the monetary focus that acts as the primary motivator from curation. Posts get you money back, but comments don't much because no one else is voting them up either. Or do comments not have curation at all? lol People are drawn to the activities that can get them the most rewards. New people tend to comments more than post, as to have more exposure from saying something on many post with more views, than just their own unknown posts.
I like to just keep an eye on the new section, lots of stuff to sift through but it feels good bringing up a good post that was at 0.00 even if its just a meager $0.10 vote from me.
I find comments almost never get noticed or upvoted so I dont bother putting much time into commenting anymore.
I also like to sift through the mass comments on popular posts and upvote the good ones to move them to the top (rather than upvoting the post, since it is already doing well)
I love the new section also!
POR - I like that. It's the real appreciation - that adds value to one's post.
Exactly and if we want "Real People" using the site, the way to do that is to reward those who are using the site. lol
I call it quality - followship. Rather have 100 of those than 10,000 of crowd that doesn't appreciate/or engage.
I like that, "proof of reading." I spend more time on Steemit enjoying other people's work than putting up my own. But I don't always want to comment.