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RE: Posts That Never Made It! - Let's discuss things and make it viral! -A second chance of exposure!
The worst part about Steemit right now is that I don't know if my posts just aren't good, or if they get lost in the stream. With over 40,000 users and no easy way to sort things by categories I'd imagine it's really easy for things to get overlooked. I'd love to post a link to my latest post that has some photos and something of a story about my desire for a simpler life just to see if it was simply overlooked or if people feel it just isn't worth upvoting. https://steemit.com/photography/@robsteady/a-lazy-sunday-afternoon-have-some-images-from-my-collection
I appreciate any feedback, especially negative. At least I'd have a better idea why I don't seem to have any feedback on the actual post.
Hi @robsteady
I don't think there is something specifically "wrong" about your post that caused it to do poorly, and when I looked at it I gave it a vote because it seems like the kind of original content that Steemit desperately needs more of.
However, the current rewards climate on Steemit is heavily weighted toward posts that are about promoting Steem and Steemit, and the power users with enough voting weight to make posts start trending aren't spending a lot of time trawling through secondary content (which I'm defining as any content posted by someone who is not already an influential user) looking for hidden gems.
None of my posts have done well in the financial sense, but I don't take it personally and it hasn't caused me to judge them as being poor content. If you believe your content has value and keep posting, at some point, someone with voting weight will notice, and then more users will pile on. If you look through the posting history of people who have created popular content, you'll see that there aren't many "one-hit-wonders" there. Once a user creates a popular post, all their future posts tend to do much better than average. It's getting over that initial hump that can be extremely difficult.
That may not be the answer you're looking for, but it's what I think is currently true. Or maybe I'm just a poor judge of quality, including the quality of my own work. I guess you'll have to be the judge.
Nah, I totally get what you're saying. I have faith that things will balance out eventually, it just gets me frustrated because I'm not a very patient person anyway so despite my efforts at trying to help other people here, it just feels like it's not effective enough. I'm trying to just keep on keepin' on, but it gets tiring to even go through the stream and look for things I'm interested in let alone expecting any of my content to get to the right audience. I really believe the stream/following by category will be one of the most important things to straighten out as time goes on.
One thing I will say is that while large files look good, it kills me on mobile browsing becoming glitchy on phone/tablet. I might suggest taking a screen shot of the original pic and cropping it to size and thus greatly reducing the size. I myself wonder about length. People aren't going to watch half hour videos or read 20 pages, but what do you see as a good benchmark for optimal length(obviously depending on content it can be flexible)
I like that outlook and we should get together and support and critique each other's work. Applaud the good and suggest future changes to the bad. We shouldn't simply upvote ppl just because we like them, but because the content is good. If someone gets lazy and starts posting average content that once was a very interesting poster, they should be called out.
Yes! Until people can start following users and see their content in one feed, we are all missing out. I know I miss a lot jumping from one user to another and forgetting the name of one I like. Curation is pretty worthless for upvoting on content but not comments. And we need more support and spam filters. I feel people with a certain level of steem power should be limited in the amount of posts they can make per day. It is clogging up the new feed and I can't imagine finding content when the user base grows to 1 million. Limiting new user posts would prevent the prevalence of meme and copy paste posts. I want steemit to be about unique content I can't find other places. If I can copy and paste the exact same thing someone else does, it probably isn't that valuable. Some changes need to be made but I am optimistic