I can understand your point of view, @rubellitefae. Not easy to write something good and not seeing it rewarded enough. What I perceive here is that the demands are high. It is obviously not enough to give content of quality but also to be engaged in the numerous communities here and to network a lot.

In fact, what I observed is that people who are not such skilled writers often get voted because of their engagement and networking skills, which seems to be more of value. I can be wrong though, but that is how it looks like.

When I think about what I am doing here actually I come to the conclusion that the efforts in the "real business world" would probably be higher or even with what one must do here.

Ten years ago I was maintaining a single theme blog and got a quite relevant amount of readers and followers. I haven't foreseen back then - if I have worked on it more and consequently - that it could have been one column of income for me.

When I compare my work I also get frustrated as I thought often enough that some trending page articles weren't showing the quality one is used to find out of steemit, not to speak of those one can take into comparison in this blockchain.

At days it leaves me with the impression that people produce content for the sake of producing content. If that is or is becoming a standard one has to search for the 5% pearls anyway.

And I ask myself if I myself fit into those 5 % or whether I am even close. Here, you hardly find feedback in the form of constructive one. It's often either praise or opinion differing, but almost no open questions to be discussed with curiosity and a broad mind.

Professional feedback is rare to find. Actually, one has to pay people for good advice and being authentic in their responses. :) Maybe THAT is a business model here on the blockchain. In order to receive honest and professional feedback one must be ready to deal with hurt feelings but to accept that this is the only way to mature into ones profession. It's quite a skill to feed back and encouraging people at the same time.

Sorry, I got carried away.

Good chat you have here with @alexander.alexis