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Man, the key is not the effort you put in but the resulting quality and the visibility of your content. You can't measure quality if you don't know your audience. A post with lots of views and just a few upvotes means that your audience is not like your post. You don't have an audience without making connections, so make steemit friends, learn about their interests & schedules for reading, write posts easy for them to enjoy, grab feedback about why your writing sucks, improve your writing,... just keep looping this cycle :) And yes, I said your writing sucks, yet you got talent for writing a lot! It is not your syntax, nor your very particular style, it is just that your text is hard to skim and the introductory text is long enough to miss what the topic was in the first place. Example: "Let me explain.", you use that expression alone, when skimming it looks like a title, then I notice it is not in bold and it has a closing period, my mind was freaking out!! Maybe you should use "...", or "elaborate" instead of "explain". Also, one is supposed to use that expression in a conversation or talk, not in a blog post or an article. Hope you understand that skimming is step number one before deciding to actually read an article or even just give it an straight upvote, so... -- @develcuy
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I hear ya.. Really. Based on what you said I feel i had covered those basis. I mean. I had lots of post make less than $1sbd. I never complained or bothered, it hurt, sure. But not until i realized what was really going on. It's not that my post made little, it's that my post made little after getting picked up by curation trails. The trails that claim to be here to help are really only helping selected authors **not really representing what their mission statement is claiming.** That is my issue. See, Steemit is not really moderated or controlled by any individual. Anyone can make a Cheetah bot. Any one can be an organized voting trail. Really. But the trails in power today make it near impossible for a new, powerful trail to emerge. The trails in power today can easily take advantage because most people are stuck thinking like FB and Twit will babysit and hold the platform to a certain ideal Steemit is not like that. ANYONE can take control with enough SteemPower and change the tide. You could start a guild with enough combined SP to control the votes. yes You. Steem Power = Owning Shares. More share. power you have the more shots you can call. That's fair. I don't like getting picked up by trail and not make rewards while others get picked up by a trail and more hundreds. For me getting picked up by trail is like a death sentence. Thanks for reading. I do appreciate all feedback. I really doubt I will be be writing here anymore for the above stated reasons. Steemit is not a bad place, its a great place, if you're in the whale and curation bot favour.
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Guess you are focusing too much on trails and maybe you have a short/mid term strategy. I wrote about this here: https://steemit.com/usesteem/@develcuy/the-1-secret-to-succeed-in-your-steemit-career-and-any-other-long-term-investment Don't waste your hard earned status and earnings! -- @develcuy
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