Or merely quick and topical content?
PREMISE 1
Steemit posts are ethereal when posted. You are seen and recognized as a quality post early, or you are doomed to languor at the bottom of the New page or your follower's Home feed. There seems to be very little middle ground, and very little opportunity for additional discovery.
PREMISE 2
Steemit topics are highly focused. Below is a chart that highlights the current skew of post number, comments, and ultimate payout. For your highest change of success, you are either blogging within this spectrum, or you are being ignored. If you are not talking about Steemit, Steem, Introducing yourself, Travel, Bitcoin or Blog, you are out of the major loop.
Steemit really likes talking about only a small amount of topics, primarily itself. Even Love and Beauty are only found in the long-tail. This topic myopia only encourages posters to limit themselves to try and get some level of attention on this platform.
CONCLUSION
Posts are treated as quick and disposable. Posts need to be topical down to a very small amount of ideas. Neither of these forces align themselves with authors taking the time to make quality content in areas of expertise.
So, Steemit, I ask, Does Steemit really care about quality content?
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I hope that as the site matures, the focus will broaden.
But then you have a chicken-egg problem.
If other topics do not become successful, those creators will leave.
If the creators leave, those topics will never be successful.
That could be the case, but don't be so sure that people will just leave if their favorite topics aren't being rewarded..
Personally, most of my posts are photography - because that is a very important hobby for me. My pictures usually make a few dollars.
Recently, I did a few posts regarding the minnowsupportproject, and they made significantly more rewards.
Will I stop posting photography? Nope, but I might write about a wider variety of topics, to include some of the more popular ones.
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Nice
Good write up. In regards to narrowed categories, I think posts are being put into the known-popular categories in hopes of a view and vote instead of the right ones.
So, what can be done to help all the new members joining that have quality content outside the established topics?
Thoughtful article. Good images (especially the graph)
Thanks. I knew there was a discrepancy, but until it was in graph form, I never realized how huge the gap was between Steemit and Steem topics vs everything else.
Yeah, it is hit or miss as to what content gains traction, and which content gets buried. Really, it is all about your followers. Manage to trap a whale, and you will be set. The hard part is getting the whale's attention.
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I've noticed focusing on their dreams works well - i.e. talk about Steem going to $5000 dollars.
Its kinda funny how much that echo's the Patron model of the past. Makes Steemit seem more like a Feudal model at the moment, which probably won't scale.