Obviously you have the ability to type and compile these long-winded responses a lot quicker than the average person can, count yourself as lucky dude. Not everyone has the same mental capacity as the next person. These hundred and two hundred word posts probably take me longer than it takes you to write one of your two or three thousand word posts. They are not easy for me, I'm still trying to learn this whole blogging game. I'm a numbers person, I am an accountant by trade not a b******* artist. I wasn't trying to be confrontational, but it seems that a lot of people have really bad attitudes on here. I'm sorry for wasting your time. Keep up the good work
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First, you shouldn't get mad because I wasn't confrontational, I was just telling you the truth. If you are an accountant, then you should understand that if the upvote of a person with almost 0 influence and 0 steam power is around $0.5 - $0.10 and the vote of a whale with a lot of influence and a lot of steam power is around $15 - $25, you shouldn't try to write articles for people with 0 influence and 0 steam power, but for whales and people that matter.
Second, I do not have an "ability" to write fast and create really long articles. I wasn't born with this, and I wasn't "blessed". I spent hours writing comments, articles, answers and all kind of things until I managed to be able to type fast and write long articles without needing huge amounts of time.
And even like that, I still need a lot of time to write a normal sized article. One with 1000 words takes me around 15 - 20 minutes to write, if I know a few things about the subject and another 30 - 45 minutes to make sure everything is okay and I didn't make a lot of mistakes. So, over an hour for 1000 words articles.
I wrote an article that has around 23 pages in microsoft word, God knows how many words - it took me 1 week to write, 7 hours to make sure everything is okay. And I know the subject really well. Some people would need 2 days to post something like that.
The only thing I have that you don't have, is the understanding that the quality matters more than the quantity, and that posting a great article once or twice a day will get you more than posting 10 bad articles daily.
If you don't believe me, ask any "whale" on this website and they'll tell you that the quality of the content matters more than the quantity. 5000 bad posts will always make less money than 500 wonderful posts, because the wonderful posts will attract upvotes from both new people and whales. If 4 whales vote one article of yours, that's around $100 right there.
Numbers are not everything that matter, especially if you're looking at the wrong ones. I say this again - 100 upvotes from people with 0 influence and 0 steam power will always have less value, in money, than 5 votes from 5 whales.
All you need, and apparently lack, is the will to invest more time into your content, and the will to work more in order to create high quality content. If you don't want to spend 2 or 3 hours a day to write and post a great article, then you can't complain about anything, you don't have the right, because you're actually no working as much as you should.
If you don't create high quality content, you can't expect to get a lot of rewards. Is that simple. I just told you, go look at your content without thinking it's yours, and see if you'd like to follow that guy and see his posts every single day when you enter Steemit. If you think you will, good, then you're doing a great job, but if you don't, you have a problem.
I'm sorry if I upset you, I just don't like bullshitting people, and I'd always rather tell the truth to someone than to lie to then and see them go down.
You can either listen to what I said, run the number yourself, learn a little more about steemit and understand what the problem is, then work hard if you want more money, or you can stop posting on Steemit at all because you think I'm wrong and you are right.
Have a nice day.
You're the one having all the success so I am not discounting anything that you're saying. I spent 6 years in University writing 5 - 30 page papers every week and it still takes me a good two to three hours to write 1000 word paper. So don't undermined your abilities . They are unique and beyond what a normal and average person can do. Sadly, practice doesn't make perfect for everyone. I can probably spend the rest of my life and never be able to match your speed of writing. And I am fine with that.