There are many inspiring posts on steemit, on various areas of skills that steemians have.
All the amazing creators here post what they are good at and what they enjoy creating.
But many-many others are just not able to catch up with them.
Why?
I could find three glaring issues
1. Inconsistency kills
One thing, which is most observable, is that most people are not consistent enough. That group includes me as well.
Be it because of the hectic jobs that we do that doesn't allow us much time to spend on steemit.
Or be it the any other reason such as struggle with writing.
For whatever reasons, if you are not consistently posting, liking and commenting to build your following/community, you won't succeed here.
2. Lack of understanding of the Audience
Second thing, I feel, that results in failure is the lack of understanding of audience on steemit.
Why would I care about the politics or any related news in your country?
Almost all the countries have stupid national media and terrible politicians. They all resort to fear mongering and unnecessary sensationalization at absolutely irrational level.
Facebook posts are filled with all that stupidity.
Steemit, on the other hand, has an international audience searching for a quality post relevant to them.
Oblige them I say.
3. Steemit’s curse
But what if you are creating good posts and still not getting much attention.
There is one of the things I noticed -
Many people blindly, and selfishly, only vote on the posts made by individuals with higher power.
Because the person with higher power will definitely get more likes on his posts.
So, in hopes to gather curation rewards, and probably poster's attention, people vote on the basis of Power rankings. Sometimes without even reading the post!
Such actions result in many good posts from minnows getting lost in the hope of likes.
While the posts by dolphins and whales get all the gifts (with due respect to the dolphins and whales as they deserve every bit for their efforts)
I think such actions are inspired by one of the very few unfavorable motivations that Steemit as a platform breeds.
But I believe that it is a part of the evolution of steemit.
It will be challenged and changed when the time comes.
What do yo you think are the reasons of failure on steemit?
Tell me in the comments below 😊
Keep creating!