Thanks for the shout out, @charles1! 💛

Your advice is pretty solid for newbies. It's often said around here that "You'll come for the money, but you'll stay for the community". There are many more ways to measure success than post payout.

There are so many ways to get involved and get quality content noticed! I think making thoughtful, valuable comments on posts that interest you is the best way to get significant exposure, plus you can potentially make more on a meaningful comment than a post!! Not to mention a solid comment section gets an actual community discussion going on topics we want to spend our time and energy thinking about and hashing out.

I think real success on Steemit depends upon shifting one's ideas about what social media is "supposed" to look like, and instead considering what value(s) actually mean. We're trying to build a better world here!