Contest:Constructive Criticism and Ideas for Steemit.

The meaning of the quote stated above means, your worth depends on how much value you can bring to the platform through your content.

The quality of your content determines the value of your work. This is the pain point that i am going to elaborate in this contest.

Quality Content

One trait that i think this platform lacks(to some extent) is the quality of the content, as compared to many other blogging websites(medium or blogger).

When i see people with low calibre content, literally below average, but being curated, it hurts, and i feel cringe about it.

^{Before criticizing about this loop hole, i wanna first share my experience, when i got negative ratings, a couple of months ago.
I participated in a steemit engagement contest, and expected to write a review about the downfall of cryptocurrency. I researched thoroughly and wrote a good piece of articles(writers are allowed to be little biased) and fulfilled their demands(I thought so back then).
But after reviewing my post, they gave me 0/10 rating, because i wasn't following any club. But i thought i was in club5050. Then i explained them why i wasn't, i had a genuine and technical reason, but they didn't bother. It was so heartrending.
I had bunker mentality back then, so i got defensive.
They didn't curate me not because of low quality of my content, but due to no club status(where i wasn't an offender). Now when i see people with good club history, and content of no calibre, but still getting curation, i feel this shouldn't be the trend out there}

In @steemit-pak, the posts are usually about the diary games. In which most of the time, people share what they eat throughout the day(being a Pakistani who live only to eat, no offense to anyone). What they did, where they went. This kinda posts are tempting once in a blue moon but not all the time.

Speaking for myself, writing such things is like eating a cupcake. I tried to share such things, but couldn't continue, thinking what value this could provide to the people out there.

Then there are those people who get votes on their posts, they're growing their accounts, but what they write is not readable. Due to poor command on English and grammar. If we criticise such kinda content, they think we're letting them down for writing poor English. It's not their native language, they are learing and trying, which is fair enough.

But when you're doing it on an international platform for bloggers, and getting paid for your nasty content, then surely it is a BIG NO NO.

There is an option to write in your native language too, where you can do justice. Many reowned communities on steemit encourage to write in their native language, some even put this as a rule of order in their contest, to share your content in their native language too.

What is the good content then?

A good content has a large proportion of E-Educational element and small proportion of E-Entertainment.
It has following traits

1.Educational / Value driven

A good content is the one, where people don't remain the same after reading your content. It adds value in their life, it must be informational. Like if you're sharing what you eat in a day, then why not educating people how to make it or bake it.

If you went on a vacation, rather than only sharing your pictures about food, mood and the location. Why not educating people and guiding them about the voyage. A bit history of the place,its people, its weather, food and its cost.

2.Crystal clear like a Mirror

^{Great content hooks the reader's mind and heart}

A good content is easy to understand and relate. Such kind of content is written entirely for the limited audience(you can't write for everyone, Harry potter books are not for people who prefer romance or sufism).

A great content makes the reader believe that it's written only for them. Reader feels as if the writer is only engaging with him. It's like the desire mirror of harrypotter, in which he sees what his heart desires and wants to see.

3. Entertaining

^{A little bit of humor doesn't harm anyone}

Rather than writing in a single boring tone, good content encases many elements like excitement, fun, sadness, and merriment.

There is a giant entertainment industry, which was built to amuse us. But i believe it should be done in limit. Entertainment once in a while is ok, but content based soley on entertainment won't add any value out there. Soon it will deteriorate the intellectual growth of a consumer.

4. Original and error free(Grammatically correct)

Great content is not a plagarised content, but the one which is composed without cheating. You can take an idea from others, but only those contents stand out, which are unique.

Also, it has no grammar mistakes. The moment a reader finds it, it literally damages the content and the credibility of the writer.

^{What is the solution for this problem?}

• The only solution in my opinion is not to give rewards to low calibre content, and warn the people to avoid cheating to do justice to this platform.

• Every post should have ratings(great, good, mediocre and low content)in terms of written quality of the post.

• Grammatical errors of every post should be scanned.

• People should be encouraged to write in their native language, if they fail to meet the criteria for written english.

• It must be mandatory for the posts to have more educational and informational element than entertainment(Ratio should be 2:1).

That's all for this. Hoping for you to read it.

Thanksgiving

@huzaifanaveed1