I write this post because now it is almost two years that I am on steemit, I love it for many things and for others it makes me angry, I love the fact that it is an international and heterogeneous community and that you can publish content on almost anything and find as many as you want to read , about many subjects : art, history, books, photos...
And here is the topic that I want to address, the contents.
Pros and cons.
Steemit is a social platform and it is well known that friendships, like a small mafia, sometimes count here like in real life.
Why do I say a small mafia?
Let's go back to the contents, some of us are committed to creating new and original content, of greater or lesser quality but always original content, whether drawings, stories, reviews, stories, photographs, travel reports etc.
Others no.
But they earn pretty much the same even if they write maybe just two silly words.
Why?
Good contacts, bought votes and fans with a good portfolio evidently.
And so high quality content risks going unnoticed and not deserving the right emphasis.
This is something that I've known for a long time, sometimes I read some very beautiful and intelligent posts and I see that nobody or almost votes them or are voted very little.
So how can we encourage users to create quality posts if they are ignored?
In favor of post less cared for but written by someone who is more sympathetic to others, a sort of virtual nepotism.
I have seen fortunately that there are many groups that still support quality posts by careful and strong curation, fighting plagiarism and copies.
And this is very commendable, I do not understand why joining a platform as a steemit that gives opportunities and gives you the chance to earn money by writing, if you do not like to write.
But this is another problem, return to content, sometimes some users, including me, feel demotivated to lose hours behind a post, look for the right photos, write a lot and for us not native English is not easy, translate or write in a language not simple to us for hours and then to have a visibility of zero, overtaken by 'friend of' friend or the one who has the mega wallet and buy the super vote, sometimes I find this system very unfair and totally not right .
Because it does not grow in quality, which is not always rewarded, but the desire for easy, fast earnings and the progress of not only those who commit themselves but also only those who have good powerful friends but post with poor quality contents.
In short, the world of steemit is strange and sometimes I do not understand it and I regret it.
However, despite some things that I find strange and unequal , i like steemit and i will continue to write, to seek the motivation to write good post and original ones and to try to reach visibility and interact with other users / friends.
Create network in the midst of chaos no?