The struggle between showing my face to the 100k+ SP holders, and giving votes out to the content I enjoy (and sometimes don't even enjoy but I respect the time/effort/quality) is real.
I need to 'look up' to get noticed and not make my efforts financially fruitless, and I need to look down to try to pull people up, keep them engaged, and wanting to stay around a while.
Can't say it any better, Asher. How do we conduct ourselves and not cross the line of being snobbish while still gain favor and (more importantly) big fat upvotes is a pain to anyone trying to be the "best all-round" Steemian.
The only time I've powered down was for Steemfest and meeting the amazing people of Steem. But I thought the whole point of bringing value to Steem is to be able buy a cup of coffee (or hopefully a house) to show people that steem let's one do that so that they in turn will be interested and sign up to use Steem?
I do believe that more curation initiatives is needed to better scan the blockchain for capable authors needing that bump to push them.
However I believe a large part of "breaking out" in Steem is to put oneself out there and not rely on curation guild for every post. Sure, a bump from a whale delegated curator helps, but that ain't sustainable without the author him/herself working in the comment trenches.
I don't think it's anyone's "fault" that good authors don't get noticed. In the real world, even the best product fail without marketing. So it's only natural that the same applies on here the steem ecosystem.
But I do agree that we need more curators.. I do the best I can with @bitrocker2020 to bring up the authors in Malaysia through the #TeamMalaysia effort. So I'd like to think I do have a contribution to steem, however small it may be.
Thank you @awesomianist for the super response.
I agree with what you say about the required time in the 'comment trenches', and feel that hardly anyone is safe from not commenting to further their progress.
What I worry about is good content producers giving up too soon having been missed by @curie etc for not quite reaching their standard.
A push to improve their work with small amendments could be all their need to be able to stand on their own in time - we need to find them all, together.
Cheers!
yep, no denying that! Tho at the current state Steem is, being so young. People are naturally still skeptical to the whole "scheme".
I actually do have met with exceptional writers (bloggers/crypto influencer) that told me they left steem because "its not worth the effort". that was in the early days i believe before there are other curation guilds than @curie.
Any "active" steemians must be a curator one way or another regardless of their level of engagement to Steem. either that, or as you suggested, delegate or at least set a trail pointed towards curators such as yourself. hehe