I realize by posting this I may very well be shooting myself in the foot. But fuck it, I've never been one to shy away from controversy... so this is happening!
Let me start with this:
I understand that Steemit is founded on crypto-currency. I get it! I understand people are going to post about Steem and Bitcoin. Still, I get it. And I understand that this is a community that supports others that support Steem and Bitcoin. Yep! Once again, I get it!
What I don't get?
Why every time anybody post about Steem or Bitcoin, NO MATTER HOW BULLSHIT THE POST ARE, are upvoted out the ass!
Now when I say BULLSHIT, I don't mean someone wrote a post I have no personal interest in.
What I mean by BULLSHIT:
- Grammatically awful (one guy didn't even use periods.)
- Terrible post structure
- Misspellings... SO MANY MISSPELLINGS
- Ridiculously small word count (like less than 100 words... sometimes it's just pics.)
- Generic updates on the same topics (pretty sure some are just copied and pasted.)
But because "BITCOIN" or "STEEM" are in the title of their post, the up arrows are clicked...
And the circle-jerk begins!
Again, this isn't me voicing my personal taste on the subject matter, I'm talking about actual bad post! And to see it day after day makes one wonder...
"What the hell is really going on here?"
Do you "HAVE" to write about Steem and Bitcoin to receive upvotes on this site? Cause personally, though I have I general understanding of these things, it isn't something I actually care to write about on a regular basis.
It's not "my thing." I even tried to write about it once or twice and I don't even feel good about what I wrote because I felt like I was doing it purely for the wrong reasons. I wish I did have more of interest in this topic cause as someone who does get paid to write, it would be much easier if I did.
But if that is the formula, I would rather it have been upfront from the start before I began writing post after post, cause obviously this is not the forum for really anything other than crypto-currency conversations.
CONCLUSION
Maybe I'm missing something. I'll be the first to admit I'm not the smartest man in the world. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. We're all adults here. But so far, I haven't seen much that proves otherwise.
(And yes I know there are some who write about other things that have done ok. But I'm talking about the norm, not the exceptions.)
Great post
Someday... someday... Steemit will be something more than BITCOIN and STEEM chatter. As more and more people move away from facebook and youtube, etc maybe we'll see some ACTUAL content. I'm encouraged seeing the #homestead crowd on Steemit. More like them, for sure. @ironshield
its only because it attract people, i myself love to see steemit steem or bitcoin word, but when its shitty i dont upvote at all.
I partly agree with you, still it's kind of logical that lots of cryptocurrencies fans are here on steemit and many topics are poorly represented or not at all.
If you check the posts you're not going to see many "women" topics.. like clothes, makeup and that kind of stuff which are huge on blogs or youtube.
Than again, steem is still pretty young and will need to attract all kinds of posters to really go mainstream.
I'm guessing having 3 currencies (STEEM, SP and Steem dollars) is too strange or complicated for your usual internet person
I'm a content creator in health and weight loss. I've been here about 7 weeks. I am not really posting my content although that was my original plan. I came here to get my message out - but that is on hold pretty much.
At the moment, I'm posting into color challenges and tags like yunk and into steemgigs. My understanding is that my posts will not rank to the outside world until can make $10 on a post. this is not easy whatsoever here unless I had something to say about crypto - which I do not since I know nothing about it.
I have all kinds of contacts in the blogging world in the "chick" genre, and health, and chronic disease, and teachers, and authors. But I can't really ask them to come here. I've been working my butt off for not too much return. Until I can have good results, I have to keep this to myself for the most part.
Yes, I'm confused about the money - but I came here to rank on google with my content - so the money side is not really my concern. I hope I will get more attention to my feed, but I'm not sure how in the current climate.
I'm still swimming though and I actually like posting here for the most part :)
I'm pretty much in the same boat with you. I've been taking it in stride for the most part, but I get somewhat frustrated when I see ridiculously bad post doing well. But I also have to admit I had a few beers when I wrote this so my filter fell off temporarily. I'm hoping this will start to make more sense soon though.
lol - the beer filter! I have regretted that one a few times :)
Fair enough.
Ha this is so true!
I just wish I knew enough about steem and bitcoin so I could write some popular posts!!