RE: Diary Game Project: is it easy to write a diary?
This is such an interesting conversation. If it were not for @jae5086 having been a user on the platform for the past ~6 years, I would have considered my knowledge inadequate given the short amount of time I have been an active user to warrant commenting. Since he is joint owner of the account (our "business" account, so to speak), this is largely his opinion...
Specifically in regards to the diary game, this was not something that existed many years ago when I was first active on steemit. More recently when we created this account, I couldn't help but notice the insane number of diary game posts. They were written in so many languages and in virtually every community. I wasn't even sure what the deal was with it but I certainly took notice to the fact that they were earning!
At first, I thought about doing them to try and help get the account established, but the more I read them (at least, the ones in English that I could understand) the less interested I was. This is not that keeping a diary in blog form is inherently bad, but rather that - when the point here is supposed to be writing quality content - I saw very little of it.
Couple this with @stef1's point that words don't specifically mean the content is of much value and one can see the validity that there may be too much emphasis on the number of words. After all, those of us who are posting our artwork put in a lot of time to create what you see in those images. A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say...
Conversely, even though I place great value on the original pictures others (especially fellow artists) post, I can't help but feel I want more when there are many wonderful pictures but so few words to add further substance. It's not that their artwork is diminished, I simply find the posts a little less enjoyable. After all, a blog is inherently about reading. If I wanted to simply browse beautiful pictures, I could go to Pinterest or many other sites.
This is why my personal choice was to make each of my art posts about both the art and, to some extent, whatever else was happening in my life, usually still art related. You will never see me posting about "waking up, then brushing teeth, yada-yada-ya", though I may talk briefly about some things that others may feel mundane. Those things at the very least won't be daily activities but more importantly, supplement the rest of my post; they are not the meat and potatoes.
I don't know where the balance is or how to solve the underlying issue, but in my time here on steemit, I have seen some very nice posts be completely overlooked while what I perceive as, frankly, very low quality content, garner a lot of attention. I appreciate the efforts of @stef1 and others in trying to change the culture here in this regard. Posts like this and the actively engaged responses I have read in these comments is a great place to start.
I look forward to seeing where this discussion goes and sorry to everyone for such a lengthy comment...
Hi Erika and @jae5086, thank you for this comment it is really worth a value of a real post, that is containing the analyzes but also the view of a person who were not involved much recently and can judge from the post of view of someone who let's say just joined the platform.
The platform is overwhelmed with big number of such repetitive posts and do understand those users who do that because they receive their daily Upvote and that might be their daily bread. On other hand the fact that curators concentrating on those posts is also not really making it better. Some users after posting some posts and receiving no attention simply leave, which is also very understandable.
I also agree with you that posts with few photos and less writing are not attractive, even though they might be really good quality. But this is like the user also had not much care about his blog and does not care if people will come and like the posts or not.
As curators especially those who received such a post from the Steemit Team, they should be people who think and not only automatically checks if the post long enough, if there are markdown and so on. Because otherwise it is possible to create a program and let program to check if post is complies with rules and get reward. Because AI has no soul and can't read between the sentences.
I know I caused a whirl of emotions and people do not like any open discussion of such sensible topics and I was even been told that we should be humble and follow what we are told. Really?
I was grown up with and encouraged to tell what I think, no matter how different my opinion is and it might be wrong but how I would know if I do not speak up. I am not afraid of being heard, that is the way how we should be here. Speak up what we think. I do not like the people who are friendly and nice in face but have completely different opinion in their soul and never tell you.
I really like how you developing yourself Erika, this is the great way and I am pretty sure you will find many people around.
I've written that program 😉 It helps me to find posts with specific hashtags, etc. which I might be interested in reading and (the important bit) then I choose whether I consider it worthy of my vote or not. I did similar when I was using one of the steemcurator accounts.
I second this. I've only just discovered the work of @scratched-burnt and it's very impressive.
I happened to read that post over the weekend. You caused a bit of a commotion, haha!
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Quick unrelated question. How do you emoji? I saw a list of them from the markdown guide but they don't seem to work, example :smile:
Which post is that? I like to cause a bit of chaos every now and then to get people thinking 🤣
I'm on a windows PC and if you press the windows button and "." together, you get the option to add them. There are also lots of GIFs that you can add too. They don't always work so I might look for the HTML code which start with & and then #.
If all else fails, this link has a few tips 😁
This one