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Are You Posting Because You Think Your Stuff Is Interesting?

NoNamesLeftToUse@nonameslefttouse (77)2614d

Or are you just posting to collect tokens?

^{Where do you fit in here? Have you ever asked yourself that?}

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Steemit, Palnet

^{That's where you go to find variety.}

Let's pretend for a moment. Feel like using some of that imagination stuff?

No? Okay, fine, whatever. Just scroll down, vote, carry on.

So if you've made it this far, good, that means you're ready for the rest of article.

Close your eyes.

^{Wait. No! Don't close your eyes! You'll need those for reading.}

Picture this:

STEEM, is a magazine rack. Steemit, Palnet, other tribes and communities; those are magazines.

You can also find videos and music on this magazine rack known as STEEM. It's a rack. The rack is full of entertainment. Whatever. There's no need to be overly technical here.

So you picked up a magazine just now. You opened it up and here I am rambling away about nothing. Is this interesting? Am I at least trying? Does this look like one of the hundreds of other posts you saw today about the changes in Steemit's UI?

Is this a post about the things said in the featured post from steemitblog; the one nearly everyone can see? Is this a post to say, "Hello. Captain Obvious here again. I'm sure you already noticed but in case you haven't, once I'm done writing I'm sure you'll notice but just in case you don't, the comment section looks different today. Thanks. Now pay me."

I was browsing the new sports community tribe thing today. On the trending page there, I saw a post about Steemit's UI changes.

Clearly, that author is simply writing drivel so he can collect tokens. That article serves no purpose. It's old news. It's obvious news. Clearly the author has no self awareness. Doesn't realize if I'm flipping through pages in a sports magazine, and come across an article about flowers, I'm turning the goddamn page. I might even become annoyed and put the magazine down.

Which was exactly what happened.

^{As soon as I saw that post, I put the sports magazine down.}

I picked up the Palnet magazine. I expect to see variety here. It's like grabbing a handful of magazines off the rack and flipping pages. Steemit is much like grabbing an even larger stack and flipping through pages. Anything that looks like it exists only for token stacking, I skip. It's just spam.

For instance, and no offense to those who do it, but those fitness report cards. Why use the palnet tag for that as well? Have I ever voted for your fitness report card on Steemit? It's great that you're active, and I approve of that behavior. I work out as well; but I don't vote for content that's only there to pull rewards out of the pool, especially when I see the tags of numerous communities being applied to that sort of material.

I saw one dude actually buy votes for one of those report cards! Why push that material closer to the front of the magazine? People will still flip the page. Besides, that stuff is more like the card that falls out of the magazine.

Why clutter up the feeds and make it more difficult for people to find stuff, then complain about how difficult it is to find stuff here?

So anyway...

^{Back to the Steemit material on the sports trending page.}

I looked him up on Steemit. He had produced eight posts within 24 hours! Minimal effort; dipping into as many reward pools as he possibly can. I don't want to mention his name though. The name isn't important. Paying attention to what you vote for is important.

After everything we've learned from Steemit's mistakes, mistakes that are hopefully, finally, after all this time, maybe getting fixed, ask yourself:

Is it good for my business if I cater to those who offer the least amount of effort so they can gain the most profit?

Do you allow your employees to take ten dollar bills out of the cash register on their days off? ^{If you caught them doing that, would you give them a raise, or fire them?}

Right now,

^{I'm a content producer.}

When I'm finished here, I'll be a content consumer. I know what I want. If I go to a sports group, I want to see sports, not the spammy guy talking about Steemit's UI.

If I'm on Steemit, sure! I'll gladly skip over the 1588 low effort posts about Steemit's UI change today. Some of my good reliable sources for all things STEEM might have something to say about it, and I'll most likely pay attention to them, but the rest of those authors are shit out of luck.

Fair Warning

^{Plenty of communities will spring up soon, everywhere.}

And there will be plenty of those spammy authors writing one sentence about how they played a video game that day, they'll include a picture, and use the gaming community tag. Then they'll write a sentence about what they ate, include a picture, and use the foodie community tag. Then they'll write a sentence about a news story they read, include a link, and use the news community tag. Then they'll say, "And I'm about to golfing! See you later!" There's that sports community tag. Then they'll slap on a Palnet tag for good measure. Then there you have it. The shit post heard all around the world.

Then to add insult to injury, they'll shoot for that glorious free money offered by team ROI and the rest of the robot family.

No community can benefit from those bogus content creators who are only churning out junk so they can collect tokens.

I used to say, "That trending page on Steemit turns new people away." I assumed, based upon the condition it was in and some experience in the biz, that conclusion was the only logical conclusion. I don't know if I was right or wrong, but I was a new guy today, and a trending page turned me away.

I don't want to be gone forever though, so I write this. Sure, I might sound like an asshole, but my intention is to help.

If people have to work for our attention. Make them work for your tokens.

Keep the aisles clean and free of debris.

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Credits:

All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.

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^{"If I want to see shit, I'll pick up the shit magazine."}

Comments · 29

@creativecrypto(79)· 2611d
Hello @nonameslefttouse, thank you for sharing this creative work! We just stopped by to say that you've been upvoted by the @creativecrypto magazine. The Creative Crypto is all about art on the blockchain and learning from creatives like you. Looking forward to crossing paths again soon. Steem on!
@isaria(78)· 2612d
I post because my cat tells me to.... 👀

I hear what you're saying about the actifit stuff... "I don't vote for content that's only there to pull rewards out of the pool, especially when I see the tags of numerous communities being applied to that sort of material." Yes Yes Yes My cat says yes too
@freddio(60)· 2612d
In my opinion everyone should post about what there like. If there want to post about there garden or dog, sure there should do.

Look Instagram and co, do you see there any quality?

If you see a shitpost and you dont like, simple push downvote. I dont say a picture of a dog is woth any coin( maybe dogcoin :D).

If you want a Community about 1 Topic, maybe we have in the future some more about Tech or whatever with stricter rules.
@arcange(79)· 2613d
Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
- Comments - Ranked 5 with 86 comments
@dline(56)· 2613d
You're one of the most readable content creators on Steem. While that doesn't negate the flood of the minimal effort/multi-community tag/botter types, it does give us some content worth discovering.
@enjar(79)· 2613d
Wut there are even more coins to collect?!?! Puts down the magazine.

Turns to my motherfucking manager.

Dave!!!! We are not collecting enough coins triple dipping my sausage is not good enough anymore.

I ain’t no scardey cat I even let my content go outside. Would you look at that funnel. GOD DAM FUCKING GORGEOUS is what it is linking back to my steemit stuff. Shame I can’t have my Steem blog looking like that. Make things easier for those browsing the magazine isle.
@rahul.stan(65)· 2613d

but those fitness report cards. Why use the palnet tag for that as well?

Maybe a way to mute tags in here would do good.

I hope what I write is even remotely interesting. I usually write only when I feel a strong urge to do so. It is as if I need to be emotionally ready to sit down and write something. But if I put myself in the viewer's shoe, my blog would probably look very confusing due to the multitude of different kinds of topics I write on. I don't write very often, but whenever I do, I enjoy it and try to make it enjoyable for my readers(that is, if I even get any).
@kansuze(69)· 2614d
I'm so glad you said that about the actifit posts. Between those and the ones about Steem and Steemit, I skip over a lot. Now yours, I read the post and all the comments.
@mrnightmare89(74)· 2614d
indeed, if other people didn't understand about your post they'll found it offensive. We knew that reality hurts, because you're correct. About the tagging, about their kind of post. Especially when you said about the foos their eating. Well no one should be blame because we have freedom. But the thing is, it doesn't make sense I think. That's what I think, if people jusge me like an ass. Well they don't know what's inside my mind also and I'm talking about freedom of speech. That's why I'm talking about my freedom of expression.

But anyway, great post. Look forward for another meaningful post from you. Have a great day...

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@ginnyannette(69)· 2614d
So those featured posts - that stuff at the top of the feed - is it just me or do you also find yourself staring at their faces and wanting to blink? Two of those guys on there do it to me. A face that is too friendly, features that are strangely pointed...

Anyway, I frquently question whether anything I write, which is always of a personal nature, is interesting, but sometimes you just have to write and just go with it. Words just beg to be typed sometimes...kind of like those faces on the pinned posts. Look deep into my eyes, that's right, good girl. Watch the spirals, don't blink...
@meesterboom(81)· 2614d
You know this is really spot on. It's exactly what people are doing but you have summed it up exactly. A post about rewards, a post about the Steemitblog post, a post about etc etc. It's too stack tokens. They used to be outweighed by the genuine creations but not so much now..
@anneke(70)· 2614d
I can sit here and say O no I am here for the love of writing, but I am not a liar. I do educational stuff and since teaching is in my blood, I hope that some parent or kid can benefit from it, but I do not LOVE writing, but I know I can teach and then I would love to make money and in the near future retire and only write on Steemit......... that is a dream which I do not think will come true unless a huge whale spots me and takes me under his fin and the price of sbd skyrockets hahaha
@minismallholding(75)· 2614d
I'm not entirely sure if what I post is interesting. Maybe to some... perhaps I'm doing it wrong. Should I be taking some photos of my food? I had a jacket potato for lunch! 😁

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@metametheus(66)· 2614d
Maybe because the PAL community is so diverse, with diverse interests... it could be seen as a microcosm of Steem.

But with the more niche tribes like sports, steem-monsters, etc... well, they are more nuanced and specific. It'll be obvious who the spammers-n-scammers are, and I believe part of the functionalities of these SCOT/steem-engine tribes is that there is a way of muting 'offenders'.

Maybe that functionality hasn't been dropped into palnet yet?

This is an issue I'm trying to wrap my head around, as a community I am part of would love to get a 'tribe' project up and running, and take it out to the world of our niche... but its the opportunists I'm worried about who will ruin it for any newcomers to the site.

As for my content, I honestly write for my own enjoyment. For some reason, I get more authentic, organic audience on Steem than anywhere else. I guess its how I've found myself in the community I was talking about... "found my audience" you might say.

And I get a wee bit of imaginary money for it at the same time. I've got a well-paying job I love, so I'm certainly not doing this to buy a Lambo ;-) LOL.
@galenkp(84)· 2614d
Interesting post and one that makes me question whether my posts quality as the shit you refer to...I guess it makes no difference if there's one line of shit or 500+ words on each post as mine tend to be...Shit is shit right?

I enjoy writing though and so I continue to write about my travels, shooting and guns, some lifestyle stuff, philosophical and other observations, my life in general... I hope it's not seen as shit by those who may come past it but I guess some will.

I'm hoping HF21 will sort out some of the issues here next week (I think it's due in a week or so) and that I find a little more engagement on my posts that I mostly put a reasonable degree of effort into. Will I make more return on them? I don't know but still, I enjoy the engagement and the process of sharing my thoughts, some of my life and my ideas.

Nice post though @nonnameslefttouse the way you get your message across I mean.

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@ryivhnn(73)· 2614d
Totally for the magical internet money, I totally have not been posting elsewhere for no tokens for the last...freaking ages elsewhere XD

My stuff is interesting for me to do. If other people find it interesting to look at I'm happy enough :)

I dislike tag spammers.

Don't be gone forever. Unless/until you want to I guess :)
@egbujorvictor(56)· 2614d
Please@nonameslefttouse how can I link my steem account with Twitter.
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2614d
I gotta check out these communities. This post is food for thought, so you should have tagged 'food'.

Name and Shame as a warning. After the shots are fired, start a flag war.

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@steemmatt(71)· 2614d
I'd love to hear your rants with your voice. You're a master of written inflection, so I think a dsound reading would be quite entertaining. Almost all of my post themes are genuine and intended to grow readership/awareness/respect, and entertain. Rewards are great if people find them valuable. My punchline jokes are always funny to me and I laugh when making them, but they're for a niche audience who appreciates that stuff. It can look like I'm just doing the bare minimum for votes, but that's really not the case. I try to put a strong effort into those little zingers.
@joshman(74)· 2614d
I'm enjoying curating the 80k+ photos I've taken over the last decade. To write about them, I often have to a lot of research to determine what I was looking at. That's a journey I probably would never have started if it wasn't for wanting to participate on this platform. Earning is nice, but quantity or quality of upvotes isn't really a priority. Frankly, the opportunity cost is pretty high, but I'm enjoying the journey.

I tried out that actifit thing for a little while, I never really got into it. It fell into the same category as Drug Wars battle results for me. I think part of the issue is that front ends on this blockchain are poor filters. Almost everybody here is crying out for diverse use of this blockchain. If that happens, every post cannot be a 1000-word APA formatted essay. More crap is going to pass through your feed as the blockchain use cases grow. We need better filtering?
@mrme1984(67)· 2614d
I Just try to get some money :)
@tarazkp(86)· 2614d

Keep the aisles clean and free of debris.

As one of the UI-write-abouty-guys, this is the key to the upcoming changes that is important for content creators.

Stacking tokens is fine. Trying to stack through offering useless and uninteresting crap is fine - rewarding it though?

#sports
@edicted(83)· 2614d
Did Steemit change the UI?

Hey, can I sign your yearbook?
@oldtimer(76)· 2614d
I don't like that just the use of a tag gives you extra reward. It's too easy to game the system.
@abh12345(80)· 2614d
Indeed.

Folks used to be quite on the ball with tag 'abuse', but that seemingly went out the window with most other good behaviours a long time ago.

Palnet hasn't imposed any rules on the type of content they'd like to see, but as more racks/windows/isles appear, I do hope that the owners of these displays manage their shop to display the most relevant stuff first.

I was checking a certain daily post by bidbot last night which lists blacklisted users each day. I cannot for the life of me work out why that post is tagged with #palnet, particularly as the bought votes have 0 affect to the post on palnet (the bot has no vested PAL). My conclusion, token grabbing greed.

If I flagged that post at present, the vote would land on steem and palnet - I'd like the ability to show disapproval on palnet, and leave the content alone on steem.
@ocrdu(71)· 2614d
My upvote bot upvoted this; I hope for you some downvote bot doesn't downvote it, but at least I didn't have to read it.

^{I did, of course, read it. I found it amidst the jetsam and flotsam, lagan and derilict of robot-generated or robot-supported shit. I wiped it off first, hope you don't mind. Can I keep it?}
@blewitt(76)· 2614d
I don’t necessarily know if my stuff is interesting but I enjoy writing. Be it about comic books, some new art I obtained, how to cash in on a hot collectible, my family, my dogs, trips, my battles with my own demons.

My blog is kinda all over the place and a mess when I think about it. I just post whatever I feel, but I do put thought and my soul into it which makes me happy.

Of course I’d love what I pop up to perform well but at this point I’m not stressing. Gonna pop up a quick piece in a few about my dogs as something simple just made me happy and I figured I’d share. Not sure if that’s worthy content or not but I’m sure I’ll chat a bit with a fellow pup lover.

Post. Sleep. Then respond to a bunch of comments that I’ve slacked on the past couple days. That’s how the next 10 hours are going to go. Lol

Good question you pose here though as I often look at somethings some folks post here and wonder...

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@michealb(67)· 2614d
exceptional!
@coininstant(69)· 2614d
I actually agree with you on this post. I read it, it makes me mad when I see users abuse the weedcash tag. They are all greedy and don't care about anything but money. They take flags way too personally and would kill ya in real life for it if they could. Not you, but in general. Yea PAL is like a mini STEEMIT, ridiculous now! We need separation of Pal & Steemit! As for my posts, I don't think they are interesting, everybody hates them and tells me so on a daily basis. That is just my magazine column, sorry if I'm so rotten!

Best line:

"Besides, that stuff is more like the card that falls out of the magazine."