RE: Creating "Evergreen" Content in an Instant Gratification World
Firstly, screw you as as there goes a post I have been working a couple hours on.
Secondly, good post and I agree when it comes to the instant gratification clan of the world. It has been a long and arduous brainwashing to achieve it so don't mess it up for all if the governments and organisations that worked hard for it. Of course, the clan think they are awake and will feel it is out of efficiency and freewill.
For me, I am lucky to get a couple people reading and commenting. Without being too biased, I don't think the general quality is that low but not many people seem to read what may be valuable over a lifetime. They want quick results that taste good. Not what I offer in shop perhaps.
I don't know what the solution is for me personally but there is always the beckoning to join the clan and take short gains.
Desperation is shortsighted and I think that in the many desperate attempts at fulfilling a growing list of desires, the big picture has been lost to most.
I may not be the best at it, but I am trying to help find it. To do so, I cross many genre boundaries and even attach thoughts to my photo posts. Honestly, there is not enough feedback to give a good indication of how they are received. If it is eyeballs on, not well. If it is reward, not great but this platform keeps saying it is content based and if all the content is shortgame, who will stay for the longrun? It becomes just another news and gossip site filled with reposts of other's work, youtube videos, news stories and images of meals. The market differentiation is left to the blockchain. Easy enough to replicate by a large organisation with a massive user base already.
Quality content is much harder to replicate. Especially, as the creator pool dwindles down.
Great minds, yadda, yadda...
I guess part of the "acid test" for me is to consider whether some random person might find a measure of value in what I put out there... next month, next year, or whatever. If I can't see a reasonable purpose for the writing to exist-- beyond my temporary amusement in this minute-- then it probably doesn't get written...
I am going forward on the assumption that "quality matters" here on Steemit, but I am also aware that there will be all sorts of things here. Whereas the rewards are nice, I'm not going to sacrifice my fundamental approach to make a few more dollars.
This is a good approach to have I think even if the quality gets lost in the system perhaps it gets found again and helps someone in the future.
There definitely is going to be a growing quality divide moving forward as more join. It is only natural I guess. Well, socially engineered, but you know what I mean.
We can but wait and see.
I am feeling mildly hopeful that when the hordes of "general money-for-nothing seekers" make their entry, the community will take the time and effort to flag/downvote plagiarism, copy paste comments and comment spam to keep them from having a rewarding experience here.