Steemit Motivation Rant
I know a few people want more Black chapters, and I appreciate - and you'll get them.
I just want to vent about how low my Steemit motivation has been. It's been declining for a long time now, but I've really reached the point of questioning why I'm even here.
Mind you, I always arrive to the same answer, which is the few people here who like and support me.
But there's just no winning. I lost yet another whale follower recently. I don't know why, I just did. I guess people want to distance themselves from me because I'm so negative, and I don't have Steemit tattooed on my chest.
This has nothing to do with the price, either. Obviously, the amount of STEEM made per post is still the same. It's just that I'm seeing no growth here. No matter what I do.
My posts become invisible after 30 minutes. I have almost no active followers, so my posts get lost in the new feed - never to be seen again.
It's difficult to justify writing 5,000 words, doing demanding mental work, for three views and a dollar.
And don't get me wrong, I appreciate the couple of views I get. And it's unfair for me to complain about this because it seems as if I don't appreciate them.
I do.
It's just that I'd like to see some growth.
And I'd really like to scream off the top of my lungs from the top of a hill:
WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO POST ABOUT TO GET SOME FUCKING SUPPORT HERE?!
Do you want funny stuff? I can do funny. Crypto stuff? Sure, I can do crypto.
Zebras' copulational habits? Probably, yeah. For a whale vote, sure.
Just fucking tell me.
The only thing I can't do is turn into an idiotic thot who takes off her clothes and posts silly stories about "From Rags to Riches on Steemit", which gets upvoted by Steemit's chronic masturbators. That I can't do.
But anything else, I'm open for it.
We all know that's a rhetorical question, though. The content doesn't matter. It was never the main thing, but it's even less so today.
That kinda brings me to the main issue at hand, like I said.
Why keep doing this when there's zero chance of success? Might as well power down what little STEEM I have left and move my writings elsewhere.
I'm not doing that, though. I did some writing earlier, but ran into a wall, thinking about the pointlessness of it. I still love the feedback aspect of it all. That I enjoy very much. And please do keep reading and leaving comments and all that whenever I do post those chapters.
So I dunno, man.
I've been getting into Twitch and YouTube stuff recently, and at least that's "fair" in the sense that you produce good stuff, you gain followers, and all followers are equal.
You don't have a group of 13 that you need to try and please in order to get anywhere.
And if they dislike you, good luck, you're dead.
Honestly, from time to time I entertain the idea of just making a new account and abandoning this one. I see some of the stuff that gets those Curie votes, and it clearly doesn't take much.
Maybe that's the way forward.
- Make a new account, milk Curie;
- Your account gets too big, create a new one;
- Repeat
There's no other way these days.
I've lamented the 'quality content doesn't get noticed' thing off and on for a while now. Writing a quality story takes a lot of time, but the rewards are random and typically minimal.
I could say a person should just be writing for the love of writing, and the dollars (pennies?) are just a bonus, but that's not practical or realistic. We all want to be recognized, and be paid, especially compared to what we see others getting.
It's really only a few people that are winning with organic upvotes; but even they (and everyone else) are getting most of their votes as part of someone else's auto upvote or curation trail.
Nobody's really reading the content. There's too much content already on steemit, but we're forced to just keeping pumping out more so the witnesses stay in business.
It's a mad system.
Yeah, and it's not just the money, per se. It's the algorithm that makes only heavily rewarded content even visible.
I don't get a lot in Autovotes anymore either at the current price a couple of dollars.
I admit during this phase it is hard to me to feel motivated also. I think many people who used to be active must feel the same way. My feed is slow, but overall traffic remains about the same. I think we've lost some active users to delegation or other reasons.
No advice here, it just seems that many have quit engaging on the site.
For me, it's not the price. I just compare myself to others and feel bad. Honestly. And that's regardless of price.
Yeah, my comment wasn't about the price, although I could see how you would take it that way, I also meant the number of votes and who is voting.
A lot of people have started to try to support new users, which is good, but those votes have to come from somewhere. In addition many of us around 2 years in are getting burned out and bored. :)
That is true
I follow for good posts about things where even if I disagree, it appears that there's always room for an open discussion. And MMX stuff ofc!
Also, I personally use STEEM for money/investment/preservation. With the way centralized media works, I like having my stuff mirrored as much as possible. Think of it more like a blog and maybe it'll feel less like annoying?
Fabulous one!!!
Lol. Dick.
I wish I could say I have some good advice or a magic formula, but I don't... but I appreciate your frustration.
The other day, I had to remind myself why I was here... and I remembered that (a) I really like blogging a lot better than posting lame sauce one-liners to Farcebook, (b) the reason I started here in the first place was the petty arguments and trolling over there and (c) the interaction here IS generally more intelligent and meaningful than most venues.
I never expected to make a goddamn cent when I signed up. I still think it's a small miracle when I get a few bucks. My expectation of ANY site that supposedly "pays for content" is that I will get an email tomorrow morning that says "We're sorry, but we can no longer pay contributors. But please keep sending in your stuff, because it'll look great on your resumé!"
How's THAT for a positive attitude?
My frustration stems from the fact that I was one of the popular kids. But then I was too critical. And people stopped supporting me.
I guess because people supporting them told them to stay away from me, or else. So my account died. Had I always made $0, it wouldn't bother me.
But these days, I'm woefully regretting ever opening my mouth about Steemit.
I should have just acted like a fanboy and I'd be fine.
I might even have some tasty delegation like the other fanboys. But no. It's my own fault. Absolutely my own fault. I didn't play the game right.
Shoulda.
You shouldn't censor yourself for money or fame. I censored myself for years and always felt terrible, so even if I make 75% less income, I feel much better about myself and thus am happier. Be you, bud.
I was way happier when I made triple digits on autovotes, trust me. :D
Surface level happiness <<<<<< true happiness tbh
Meh. Your integrity is worth more than what a whale can afford. True, you would most certainly make more here had you played the Steemit Fanboy Gametm from the beginning, but I wouldn't be following you then; think of how horrible that would be.
I'm starting to doubt that.
But you following me is my favorite thing on Steemit, so there's that.
At one time I had hopes that Steemit would be different, but this is just another microcosmic metaphor for greater life.
Staying in authenticity is rarely a commercially viable endeavor. People want to hear about how pretty the emperor's new clothes are, and where they can buy them... not that the emperor is, in fact, wearing no clothes. That fucks with too many people's paradigms, and too many people with big investments in the "profit paradigm" that requires conformity among all the Fanboys™.
Have you tried to do something which could make your posts more attractive?
Like, mention byteballs and airdrop?
It's not really about that, though. Voting arrangements are done in the chat, on Discord, wherever. The content has never been the deciding factor.
It's just that it used to be at least to a point. It wasn't the main thing even at the beginning, but it was a thing.
Never before has it mattered less.
True, but I think it can and will degenerate even further. In ancient Rome there were several steps after sycophantry, patronage, clientelism, and vote buying and selling had been accepted as the normal state of things. I actually found it interesting to watch unfold here, but it just tires me now.
I have noticed it tires quite many.
Imagine how depressing it would be that the content actually does matter - and that's why you are not getting large votes (and neither am I) ;)
I mean, it's possible.
I just stopped writing long, well-researched posts after I figured they were earning shit, and I started writing short ones instead, that take only a bit of effort to put together. I still try to make them as best as I can, but I clock them under half an hour, so I'm not that disappointed by the low financial return.
If someone has a better idea what to do in this day and age on steemit, I'll gladly listen.
Finally, someone talks about what's real. Have you heard about ONO social? It aims to be direct competition to Steemit, I recommend you read their whitepaper since the main different characteristic is that content posted in that social network doesn't expire, it can continue earning money as long as it's posted. It'll be interesting to see if Steemit reacts in some way to that competition.
P.S. I really like your Megaman speed runs.
@javo1096
Yeah, its so sad that some contents are having poor votes, though the votes seem so many