Dear Steemians,
Yesterday I was promoting my mediocre post on discord. I kind of spammed it and one of the admins got annoyed. He looked at the post, amd realized that I took a photo from the internet and posted it here, as my content. Therefore he flagged my post from plagiarism. So I lost the hard owned 2 $ from spamming my mediocre post on a couple of chat channels.
At first I thought it was ridiculous, that he has done that because I was rude on the chat, but actually he has teached me a great lession.
Think about this: you will always get the amount of value that you offer. If you don't invest enough time and effort into your posts, you will have little results. People like great, original content, not posts with a link to a youtube video/ internet image with second hand jokes. If you want to succeed, you got to stand out.
I still dislike the posts with a couple of photos of some muffins and donuts that get thousands of dollars. But you don't have to be the same, you must show your own blueprint, create extraordinary, interesting and useful posts that can bring value to other human beings. I decided I don't want to be common, I want to be unique. From now on, I don't want to take content I like from the Internet and post it here, but to create great, new, outstanding posts thar I am proud of. I want to inspire, motivate, help people.
I want to invent jokes that I find funny and that I think others will find funny too. I want to put a smile on someone's face, make the day of someone better, make people happy, entertain. And if I can't think of a good joke some day, I will post other useful information, motivational inspirational entertaining interesting helpful information. And if somehow I can't compile a good post someday, I'll just post a piece of sht. But at least it will be my piece of sht, my own creation. I won't, however, take anything from the internet and post it as my own content and if/when I will I will turn off the rewards. I will still take photos from the internet but just to describe the situation from my post and to help the reader understand the post on a deeper level.
This post is already long, but that's what I wanted to say. Steemians, this is my message to you:
Don't make mediocre content, don't take other people's stuff and just post it in here and spam it in the chat or do upvote for upvote or follow for follow. Make original, outstanding interesting entertaining helpful content and others will appreciate it, reward it and engage with it. People with lots of steem power will reward you according to your effort. Everyone likes quality posts, nobody likes boring muffin articles.
If you found this post helpful, please resteem to spread the message against mediocrity and plagiarism to other little steemians. Don't be same. Be better. Be best.
This was my post, Yours sincerely,
Johnny Da Baus