Exactly! People should really ignore the trending page and find stuff that really interests them. Build communities around what you are into and Steem will be more fun. You will get more responses from people who are not just into the money aspect.
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Maybe another reason behind this could be that the default view is the trending page.
You click on a tag, and Steemit automatically takes you to the trending page of the tag.
But to be honest, most of the people are interested in money.
Probably almost no one would use Steemit and the Steem blockchain without the money earning opportunity. People are ignoring the posts of accounts with low amount of Steem Power. Like my (and many other people's) account.
Just like I said in this comment: "The dropping number of the active users is like an avalanche, and to be honest, I am not surprised.
Why would anyone want to be active on a platform, where their content is getting ignored?
A lot of people's content are ignored, and the real, human comments are rare.
The problem with the Steem blockchain (or at least with Steemit) is the fact that most of the people are posting blog posts, but only a few of them are care about other people's posts.
This leads to a lot of (thousands of) (or even hundreds of thousands of) disappointed and eventually inactive users."
I wouldn't say that it is ignored but I would agree that it might not be seen. There is still an issue on the chain with getting the best content seen by the most people. A few of the interfaces are working on a fix for that problem as we speak and i'm sure that they will have a better system going forward to get your posts noticed.
Everything here is under development so there are still a lot of things that need improvement. What I would say is that a lot of the users here are very active on the site and if you put in the effort to connect with them and get involved it will help you a lot in the long run. I found that the best way to get noticed was by engaging with more people and growing my circle. If you can grow your active followers and post good content then the votes will follow.
Of course we all like to earn money and i love to grow my SP but for me that is an extra benefit from enjoying what i do on here. If I don't enjoy it then there is no point in spending my time on the blockchain. I already have one job to make me miserable so my activities outside that need to be fun.
Did you ever written an article where you have invested more than one hour of writing?
This is the problem people write no articles at all. They make posts but no articles.
lol I have to laugh, I tend to do analysis posts, these could take 8-12 hours, sometimes I have spent a few days lol. we do have posts, they are just hard to find, thats why steemit.com is not the best interface, there are others that are more focused.
as @steevc said some are not bothered about curation rewards at all...and this is great that you put in more, than you get out. Know that feeling, Steemit is a net-loss when you write scientific posts. Even though #steemstem is doing a great job.
But what I addressed with my reply was @xplosive
maybe he/she should consider that it is not enaugh effort and as you both have proven...maybe steemians should consider that it is not about the curation at all. At least not now. Well, obviously it is not. Only a masochist puts in hours for a few dollars.
"Only a masochist puts in hours for a few dollars."
Then I am certainly/definitely a masochist.
A very big masochist.
There were times in the past (months ago), when I put hours of work and effort into my blog posts, but I earned only a few cents. Not a few dollars, but a few cents.
Nowadays I don't write articles, because I realised/realized that it is not worth it.
Almost no one cares about my Steemit/Busy posts, no matter what I write about.
Nowadays I put up polls with dPoll (poll dApp on the Steem blockchain).
I am still earning a few cents (not a few dollars), but at least I don't put hours of work and effort into the posts.
Some of mine take a while and I see plenty that took some serious effort. People need to be giving rewards where they are earned. Some of us are not bothered about curation rewards.
I've long thought that having trending as the default was a bad idea. A lot of people are here for the long term and they want to make it work. Those are the people I'm interested in. If we can build it up enough so that it has the same level of engagement as other platforms then it will be attractive as a social site, but with the added attraction of earning something. Some people also like the freedom they have here. I think it's worth trying to make it better.
human comments are rare beacause we have more creators then consumers. we need a big drive to get consumers. lets get this project over the line first :-)