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RE: HUGE NEWS: Famous VC Investor FRED WILSON is ROOTING FOR STEEMIT!!
I posted about this 7 hours ago... :D I think the Steem discovery/curation mechanism needs some work.
But anyway, Fred Wilson is an amazingly intelligent person, and I always gain a lot of insight into what he says. In my opinion, he is probably the most insightful, knowledgeable and objective person to have supported Steem publicly like this.
you posted in "steemit" , @kevinpham20 posted it in "news", that, and the timing will make all the difference (if you post it when half the subscribers from the US are asleep, you'll have much less visibility) .
I don't think that's where the difference comes from. Rather, @Kevinpham20 has an established presence, there is much more incentive to upvote his posts, because they're more likely to be discovered. I talk about this in the post I linked, I hope you give it a read and tell me what you think.
I think the fact that I provided context and background to the story, instead of simply copying and pasting the blog post, might have had something to do with it...
EDIT: I must sound really bitter. And to be honest, I do kind of envy your success. But whether it's because your post is better timed and executed than mine, or because you are already quite established (which really means that you put in the work beforehand, there's no shame in that). So congratulations, hopefully I can learn from you.
I do hope you will read my proposal linked above though, but that might be too much to ask. Enjoy your day.
Hi , yeah, to be honest, I didn't think about that , but you're absolutely correct, the bigger the whale, the higher the chances to be discovered. I'm sure that timing + right tag also matters, but I agree, the "whale factor" is very important.
I just read your link now , very interesting proposition, I really hope it gets picked up :)
No, it's not that. Posts from steem celebrities get much more attention, that is a feature of the current rewards system. Does not matter at all who was the first - votes would go to the highest bidder anyway :) So actual mechanics of finding good content is not quite working, yet, as it is much safer to vote for content from top authors, rather than for top content from an unknown author.
Exactly. This is a structure technology framework. There is a learning curve. Pay attention to the details and you'll do great.
This is interesting.
I saw your post last night @lightnovelist just as it was posted. I thought to myself. This is surely going to get to the top of trending so I should upvote it. Then it crossed my mind that this won't get as far as it could because the presentation isn't up to snuff. So, decided to not "waste" my vote.
The next thing that occurred to me was to take your story and spruce it up with pictures and make it presentable. But my inner sense of fairness took over and I felt dirty (literally and figuratively), so I instead took a shower and went to bed.
Pretty sure my minnow status would have kept it from getting anywhere, but lesson learned.
Sleep is for the weak!
Yeah I posted it too, it seems after yours but before @kevinpham20. He made $14k, you made $60, and I made $0.50. I think a lot of people will end up posting largely the same news articles, and maybe even read others and re-post them, hoping to get into that viral funnel better. But this is how Steem is going to go, especially if the rewards are so big.
Ironically the one that got the least amount of upvotes/money (you) was the one who put the most work writing original content in addition to Fred's blog post.
I noted that too. Getting into the viral funnel, which is a lot of luck, probably requires nabbing an early whale. You need to get the article in front of them somehow other than luck. Maybe a secondary market will open up for this in the future, but who knows. Wild west type stuff right now.
Yeah agreed... Along with the whole timing and luck thing, you've got to factor in the whales who are established and have much more of a following than someone newer who finds the exact same thing and posts it miles ahead of said whale posting. There's definitely a power dynamic that's been established, like with any new community or organization. As more people come in, the dynamics may shift.
Also notice the way the headline was structured on this post... including the use of caps and the qualifier of "HUGE NEWS". It seems like OP has experience with grabbing a lot of people's attention with just a headline. Details matter.
I think it's just doing what it needs to be doing at the moment. The site is pretty new & when money is involved, it's like a whole different game. I didn't even know about this site until someone told me "Hey upvote my steemit post so I can make money, and if it ends up blowing up you'll make money too". That was yesterday. I'm still getting a handle on how all of this works.
Definitely a learning curve here and not as easy as it seems.
Good Luck with your future posts!