Everyone who posts wants readers to upvote their posts--who doesn't want that? However, posts need to be worth the upvote. Person A may like my post, but Persons B & C may hate my post; am I supposed to force B & C to give me an upvote?
Also, upvoting is an unpredictable thing. I've written posts which I thought would get lots of upvotes because similar posts got lots of upvotes, but for some reason or other that specific post got minimal upvotes or none. We can't predict these things, so the best we can do is write the best post we can as best as we can and leave it up to the readers. If it looks like we didn't make an effort to write our content, why should people take time to read it and give it an upvote?
When we write our posts, we have to give readers a reason to read them. Usually it's giving the readers something new, something they hadn't seen elsewhere. If readers know you for giving them something they like, you have to give them what they like. What's our "claim to fame" tha gives people a reason to read out posts and then upvote them? This is different for each of us, and each of us has to discover that answer.
Usually people who upvote an author know enough about the author to feel good about giving the upvote. It's not enough for people to learn about us based on the posts we write. We need to comment on other people's posts. Engagement goes both ways, and the comments we leave other people help them decide if they want to engage with us in the future.
Post size (or even comment size) is no guarantee of content being read (never mind upvoted). Some 8,000-word posts are crap, and some 80-word posts are useful to many people and get upvoted as a result. It goes back to giving readers what they want.
As long as we do these things, we will get upvotes:
- Give readers content they want to read, especially if it's new to them.
- Engage with authors on their posts.
- Write our posts as best as we can to the point whee people can say we did that.
No one is obligated to read our content. The people who read our content aren't obligated to upvote our content. People who read our content aren't obligated to comment or reply. All we can do is publish our posts; the rest is out of our hands.
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Yea, I think that pretty much covers it :)
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