RE: Small fish in the Steem sea
No old, experienced hand goes the "usual" way to search for good articles anymore...
It's a lesson learned - just part of the learning curve here on Steem. I bet every one of us has tasted the garbage at some point in our journey 😄Steemit's default feed is definitely a big turn-off.
It seems like the majority are just here to produce content for the sake of producing content. Unfortunately, the masses love it. They’re mostly the successful ones. Well, sellouts attract sellouts...
I think any sort of substantive value isn’t easy to come by. Meaningful connections aren’t created overnight. So, yes - patience and time... and common sense?
But if you surround yourself with the right people, Steemit can still be fun!
I still find it fun, though. Although, just a few days ago, it nearly wasn’t!
There's just one path you should not take: "Follow The Money!
Well, that would be too easy. I’m probably a masochist because I prefer slow-burn progress. To fare hard in this rigged system and still push through feels much more rewarding to me 🙂
I think I wrote an entire, astonished article about it just three weeks after it appeared on this platform. Surprised? No, because after just a few days, nothing surprised me anymore – I recognized the disaster of greed and power struggles pretty quickly and was simply disgusted.
Instead of leaving immediately, I invested. This was in the megalomaniacal belief that I would make everything better. After all, blockchain had potential.
Haha... We say "Hope dies last." But that's already died, all that's left is habit.
And fun, of course. Fun with a handful, maybe even a dozen... ;-)
And that was one of the smaller crises that we experience here from time to time...
You are a knight... ;-)
0.00 SBD,
0.54 STEEM,
0.54 SP
I tried searching for the article but ended up binge-reading posts about sheep - and you even named them all! ;-D I wonder how your new babies are doing...
Nein. Hope is very much alive, juggling both word games and mind games at the same time! Fun is merely the fuel - but perhaps, for this generation, fun has become the new hope. I don’t know; this could just be another megalomaniacal belief.
0.00 SBD,
1.07 STEEM,
1.07 SP
Yes!!! And that is their (and my) great luck.
You know, every now and then (rarely) I like to eat a good piece of lamb chop. But I definitely can't have Manni, not Balboa, not Muck, not Elton... on my plate... 🥰
They are also not that easy to find. They are seven years old, I was only active on the Steem for six weeks.
Although you can actually find anything with this tool:
https://moecki.online/
What @the-gorilla has already advised you to do is to be curious right from the start and to maintain this curiosity. I was also completely new and didn't know anyone on the platform at first. I didn't imagine that I was a great author and didn't immediately start blurting out what I could. I observed. And asked. Above all, I questioned.
To be honest, these four articles were ‘my breakthrough’. It was a mixture of ‘cheekiness’ (how dare a newbie...?) and really good copywriting like research. I got quite a few users on their toes with them. Of course, it didn't change their behaviour, but I was noticed and I actually had a bit more influence because of what I said.
Hey, the articles are very long. And they're in German in my own style (auto-translators don't always get on so well with that). I name users who are no longer here (or who have changed a lot, like steemcleaners). But if you really want to (after all, the problems are EXACTLY the same, just a bit more, since you couldn't write content with AI back then...):
# 1
# 2
# 3
# 4
0.00 SBD,
0.68 STEEM,
0.68 SP
There's a traditional dish in Scandinavian cuisine that you might like called lammskav (thin-sliced lamb meat sautéed with onions, mushrooms, and cream) but I remember you’re not a fan of pure lamb meat. :-))
Glad to hear the honorable mentions were spared, especially Elton, who clearly has more sex appeal than I do.
This is very helpful. Much better. 👍
I sneak around in the comment sections sometimes. Always more interesting than I expect. There's so much that I wanted to say but I had to give it time because maybe the problem is me.
So, it has taken me this long to respond. I read all 4 articles and their comments - it's surprising that you could learn a lot more about the author than the post.
Like you said, the problems are exactly the same and you pretty much covered everything. It's good thing you shared it - I'd probably have ended up blurting out the same stuff if you hadn't.
Posting for the sake of posting - posting once or twice a day can help one become better at writing but it also encourages mediocre content. So, what to do... reading posts from the same user everyday tends to be boring. I think posting once or twice a week is acceptable. It keeps you within the threshold of consistency without overwhelming your audience.
yes, but what can I do? I still like it, I learn bits of german words every now and then. Once I'm done with japanese, I'll probably consider german next. Probably (it's very difficult) :-))