Does Steemit really reward quality content?
Or merely quick and topical content?
PREMISE 1
Steemit posts are ethereal when posted. You are seen and recognized as a quality post early, or you are doomed to languor at the bottom of the New page or your follower's Home feed. There seems to be very little middle ground, and very little opportunity for additional discovery.
PREMISE 2
Steemit topics are highly focused. Below is a chart that highlights the current skew of post number, comments, and ultimate payout. For your highest change of success, you are either blogging within this spectrum, or you are being ignored. If you are not talking about Steemit, Steem, Introducing yourself, Travel, Bitcoin or Blog, you are out of the major loop.
Steemit really likes talking about only a small amount of topics, primarily itself. Even Love and Beauty are only found in the long-tail. This topic myopia only encourages posters to limit themselves to try and get some level of attention on this platform.
CONCLUSION
Posts are treated as quick and disposable. Posts need to be topical down to a very small amount of ideas. Neither of these forces align themselves with authors taking the time to make quality content in areas of expertise.
So, Steemit, I ask, Does Steemit really care about quality content?
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