Well, I wish I could point to something in that and show you where you were wrong...
I am shopping for a new place to post, I am watching typerium and medium, I may try cross-posting for a while but here is the sad, sad truth of my time here...
Even the people I have met and really enjoyed interacting with are not reading what I post for the most part. I post almost every day, until about a month ago. Almost everything I post is original work, some of it requiring hours and hours of tedious editing, let alone the time spent trying to get good photos and craft a well written article to go with them. I make less than $2 per post, often less than $1. Then I see the "hot" page and at the top are poorly written, unedited 2 sentence posts with imgur pictures, making hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Here is where it gets really sad... I get lots of upvotes, from people on curation trails. They do not read or comment and their upvote is worth 0.00000008 or something like that... I only get actual valuable upvotes from the bots I delegated to. I do not like bots. Without bots I would give up, I would make NOTHING at all. Or, would people start reading posts if the bots went away? I don't know, but I see NO ONE trying to eliminate or even reduce bots, so...
I like to write. If I just write because I like to write, then having others read or comment is not such a big deal. But there is risk... I have stuck my neck out politically and made some rather powerful enemies who are very glad I like to write and that I hit the internet and put my heart on my sleeve... so I want some return for the risk taken. If not interaction, then a little crypto would be nice. At this point, I get very little of either.
Hmm... this is labelled "reply" and it has become rant... I will stop there I guess lol!
I am just coming up on a year. At one point my account was valued over 8K, it is now around $1500 and I have NEVER powered down, not a dime. I moved 50 SBD over to bitcoin once when I first started. I have donated to @arbitrarykitten for a new Jeep, and I have donated to YouAreHope every week. Other than that, it is all still on the platform. I believed in the concept and I kept my investment here. That has not proven to be a wise financial decision.
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I hear you, and I understand your frustration - it’s a combination of factors right now the value of Steem is just dropping with all other crypto - Bitcoin is horrible right now. There is no reason to think it won’t climb again, and your retained Steem Power gains in value by 10% each year that is built in.
On the subject of people reaching your posts - or not, it’s a struggle. I try my best to get around people - but I work and have a family so it’s real tight finding the time to visit posts - and with so many to cover it’s a challenge. Plus right now I think the low value of Steem has reduced interaction- plus with summer and hot weather people are just out doing stuff not sitting on computers.
For me the greatest value here is the people, I have met so many incredible caring, wonderful people and that drives me to stay here. It would be a shame to see you leave, especially with new features literally about to be deployed that could make a massive difference to how we all interact.
YOU keep me coming back. OK, it is not JUST you, but you are a HUGE part of the reason I keep dusting myself off and trying again.
By now you surely have noticed I am a chronic whiner... I also have a good sense of humor so I often manage to whine funnily... I hope... LOL! I get frustrated by things and take them personally far too easily but... I also get it off my chest and soldier on...
In other words, I ain't going anywhere soon...
HUGS!!!!
OMG my FULL UPVOTE is only worth 4 cents now... WAHHHH!!!
Thank you, that really means a lot 🤗 Operation retain users on Steemit by being nice, friendly and genuine is in full effect. It’s not hard though, being nice is just in my nature it’s how I was brought up - it makes me wonder sometimes though.
You are right to be frustrated, you and @robertandrew could have a long conversation over this - except he’s on vacation right now - but like @dswigle except she is on permanent vacation.
My buddy @techmojo could give you an entirely different view though, he got a Curie on one of his recent posts and has been plugging away for a long long time - but even with not so much per post he really feels he has done well and earned good money from them.
regardless of all the ''minor'' issues with the platform as a whole and the individuals who complain, if your work is good enough and you keep the same standard, you will eventually get the attention you deserve... and even if you only make $0.10..... its 10 more cents than what you started with....
the rest of my reply would contain some prolific language, so i will save that for my own posts and live streams...
Just keep typing...
Just keep typing...
Just keep typing typing typing.....
Honestly, I do not think "just keep typing" works. I notice many of your posts are live streams, that is not typing. I have been considering going to videos, they take a LOT less effort and seem to make more money in general. Thanks for input!
yeah. recently more of my posts are live streams. however, i have only been streaming for the past couple of months. most of my reputation and followers that i gained came specifically from blog posts that are a combination of gaming lists, tech lists, reviews, builds, mods and more.... and at present. i still blog for 4-5 days a week, with several streams, some even on the same day. and i post up on a daily basis, so to say, '' just keep typing'' doesn't work is horse shit.
myself, @c0ff33a, @gaming-stuff and so many other accounts built there reputation in much the same way. why? because they didn't bitch and moan because they weren't getting anywhere. they post up damn fine work, and are all very consistent. so get off your (prolific language warning) fucking high horse. man the fuck up and put the work in to your blog. because if you don't. the community wont respect you, you will not gain any new followers, and your posts will remain unnoticed because they will not appear in anyone's personal feed.
what helps more than anything is interacting with the community, and not posting crap up like this shitty post.... sorry to the author, but i think he is a bit of a dick.
i tell it as it is. and that is one of the reasons why my followers, supporters, friends and fans stay, join in and like the content i produce. if you dont like it. you can just simply mute me. my feelings won't be hurt.
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I so commiserate. I finally gave up on SteemFollower because it was taking way too long to find even five worthy new posts to upvote.
I do still believe in Steemit as a concept, and powered up this past week as a mental commitment to myself, so I'll still be around. And Marek is (mostly) over being sick, so I'll have more time to curate, and actually read your posts again, which I've missed!
But yes, I'm looking at other options as well, because I'm a writer, and I want what I write to actually be read. Which it is, more and more, but still, it gets old seeing the crap posts make hundreds for zero work, when the post I worked my ass off on for hours does nothing.
Yeah, I am taking a week or two off. I really have some serious choices to make... I am NOT getting more readers, I have the same handful of people who reply and I do not want to spend MORE time over in discord (I end up in tears there WAY TOO OFTEN) to try to earn a few more pennies. It is not about money for me, yet having the money involved makes me feel like I have "no value" by comparison... I do not want that comparison in my face on a daily basis. It is not accurate.
I completely understand, and have felt the same way more than once. And I agree, it's a bogus comparison, and I know first hand that it's hard not to take it personally.
It is disheartening when I tell Marek I made another post, and his comment is something to the effect of, "Oh great, another 31 cents." Yeah. That.
But I do have faith in the people I've met on this platform, many of whom are actively working on a way to make the system fairer, and to hide the crap posts from our feeds. And, hopefully, to ban repeat plagiarizers.
And I was VERY heartened this morning to read an article in Vanity Fair about Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, and is now actively working with his foundation to re-centralize the internet as we know it, to return control of personal information back to individuals, and to make it harder for governments and corporations to spy on us 24/7.
His project's name is "Solid," and his foundation's website is www.w3.org, if you're interested. I plan to get involved in whatever ways I can.
Meanwhile, if you do ultimately decide to switch platforms, please give me a way to contact you. I consider you a friend, and would hate to lose contact, as I'd love to meet you face to face one of these days. ;-)
:( let us hope steem rises and you can take at least half off the platform I mean i only had like 1000K worth and not it's shite too lol. but i could not imagine seeing 8000 turn turn to dust :( I haven't powered down and the only two bots i have are the alliance ones ...i refuse doing any bid bots or others ... and yeah the 000000.nada votes are great ;) as for the $ I now do this I split the minuscule amounts I make into 3's . 1/3 to power up , 13 to take off the platform eventually when i have enough together and 1/3 to make some contests .
Thanks. I have kept an attitude like "it is all monopoly money" all along, but it still is a bummer!
I was curious to check out the other platforms you mentioned. Can't pay for medium, and typerium wouldn't let me access the page. Said my IP address was banned. :(
You only have to pay to subscribe to medium, you can contribute content without subbing. As far as typerium, the last time I looked they were not live yet, so I would not take that personally... OK, yes I would I take everything personally but YOU should not take it personally lol!
Ditto to everything you so eloquently stated!