>  it’s very hard to accurately predict what gets people going.
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Ass, can work :)

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> One day I’m super super excited about my latest self portrait set that I think is interesting, good quality and one of the best I’ve done, but the only comment I get is from @tts. What a bummer! The next day I throw out a fast phone selfie and write about my boring ass day, and the comments come flooding in!

Something about community over content.  Those still grinding here want to know about their friends/fellow faithful Steemians :)

I do agree, in particular with your last paragraph.
We have to keep this thing running!

Definitely last paragraph is the ultimate goal.

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Steem is still light years away from any other blockchain based social media – and what a diversified bunch we are! Not just a group of computer science nerds. You know, when Steem had/has its problems, people right away started to look for the greener pastures. Spoiler alert: that greener pasture doesn't exist, because Steem is the motherfucking trailblazer in its own area. And building that is gonna take a long ass time with no guarantees, but that's the risk one has to pay as an early adopter. What's so cool about Steem is that it is probably one of the most inclusive early adopter platforms that have ever existed: start mining Steem with your brain and you can become an owner on the platform by powering your earnings up. That Steem tap is going to close in the coming years though as the inflation starts to drop, so we have a truly unique opportunity, one just has to see the opportunity that is being laid before us.

What a rambly Steem comment, I can hear the anti-Steemcontent crowd jumping in: _"I'M SICK OF HEARING ABOUT STEEM THIS AND THAT, WHERE IS THE REAL CONTENT???!!!"_

Ok, moving on, I wanted to comment on the following also:

>One day I’m super super excited about my latest self portrait set that I think is interesting, good quality and one of the best I’ve done, but the only comment I get is from @tts. What a bummer! The next day I throw out a fast phone selfie and write about my boring ass day, and the comments come flooding in! Who would have known something I said was so interesting!?

Fine photographs/self portraits are like fine wine; you need to have a taste – not necessarily to enjoy it, but at least to be able to articulate it and add on it. To give something thoughtful is going to be more rare the harder a post falls under a specific niche. Simpler posts are usually easier to engage with because then there's usually just more people who can relate and add on it. That's my theory anyway.

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Lol, It has become bone dry here I can tell by the fact that even my trash posts are getting curated and I've never bothered to really try to get much attention. I think that we kind of had this injection of users that inflated our perception of the project and spaces growth in 2017 and everyone was losing their minds trying to frantically get a piece of it. 

Now doing actually hard growth isn't easy, we are getting new users every day and each day is an opportunity to grow and bring new people here.

I'll keep posting because I like it here and I don't like traditional social media, besides my comments, get way more love or hate her than it does on other sites so I have that going for me which is nice lol

I remember the days when I would post and in less than 24 hrs (you only had 24 hrs to get your reward) I would get $30 worth of votes. And it was only like 6 votes! Of course I had no idea what I was doing back then and kept everything in savings or SBD, and never powered up. I missed the train on that one lol.

I'm hoping with #newsteem things might get back a little closer to those "good old days". Since I know what I am doing now. 

Well put friend! We all are responsible on keeping the Steem going! <3

> the only comment I get is from @tts

It would be great if @tts would customize the voice based on the content or maybe just the tags... 

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Based on my comment, it's obvious that depending on what folks are doing/feeling when they read determines which piece of data they latch on to.    I happened to latch on to the @tts sentence.  It made me smile/laugh.  That's all I wanted from my read today.   (Of course the photo was the original draw to the post  ;-))

The water is very clean I like it and when I see your booty it was interesting

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>your post slips between the cracks and goes unnoticed

Joo tiiän tunteen. Niinku stringialushousut. Kamalat. Tosin mulla mukavuus kyllä voittaa muodin. Että ehkä en kuitenkaan enää tiiä tunnetta.

Aiku hei, tossa kappaleessa oli muutakin!

>Sometimes it’s just a slow day or you happen to post at a time where your post slips between the cracks and goes unnoticed. Other times it seems everyone is online at the same time and comments flow, no matter what it is that you post.

Näin se menee. Kaikkialla missä kaivataan asiakkaita. Uskollisimmat tulee, mutta sitten loput on niitä jotka ei tule koska: flunssa, juhlat, paha päivä, hyvä päivä, kissanristiäiset, matka, masennus, en muistanut että olet olemassa, en löytänyt vaatteita, lapsi oksentaa, perheessä on täitä, isovanhemmat kyläilee, jalka poikki, pää hukassa, olen niin kiireinen etten kerkee tekemään mitään...

Kaikki on kuultu.

>Worst thing you can do is to procrastinate about what you are going to post

Uh. Mä oon tää. "Luin, vastaan ihan kohta, ei mutta silitänpä kissaa, pitää syyäkin jotain, eikun kahvia ensin, pyörittelen käsiäni päämääräämättömästi, pesenpä pyykkiä, ei helvetti, pitää lähtee töihin!"

Kuinka monta äätä on sanassa päämäärääättömäääästi? Hitto, suomi on vaikea kieli.