Lol, that's the position I found myself in quite a lot of the time. Having been badgered to look at someone's quality content, I would give in. Then when I wouldn't upvote it, they would rage at me. Why the hell not, is there something wrong with it!? Etc. And the thing is, I know quality is subjective but it's also find really apparent when you are looking at a turd that is a turd!!
I can only imagine that as a curator for Curie you got it in spades!!!
Funnily enough, the people who generally produce good content area not the ones running around trying to get votes for it!!
Ha ha, yeah I agree about the turd thing. Tbh though, I'm not sure about quality being subjective. I think what people enjoy is completely subjective, like some people on steem legitimately don't like reading written posts but do like video content. That's fine and I get it. And you can tell a vlog that's actually took skill in editing etc. But when i look at a piece of writing I know if it's well written, interesting and stylistically solid. For example, the difference in style between fiction and travel writing, which are the two main areas I curate for curie. You can tell when they're well written and fit with the genre. Like you said, a turd is what it is and it's hard to polish 😂
Yeah, during my first 6 months on here, before I started working in a few discord communities, I kept it secret that I worked for curie just to avoid the hassle. The constant DMs used to annoy the sht out of me so much that I eventually produced stock messages along the lines of 'if you're not getting curie votes organically you need to up your game.' Problem being they'd then be like 'teach me'. And I'd be like 'come to one of the workshops at promo-mentors' and half of them would be really rude once at the workshop when I offered constructive criticism. I really was trying to help by giving back to the community the skills I learned at uni.
Some people didn't seem to realize that there was a tone of curators trawling through everything on steem 24/7 and submitting the posts that were good enough and which fullfil the guidelines. I used to get DM with post links begging and 90% of them I'd already seen, read the first paragraph and moved on. I used to be an editor for my university creative writing journal and that's just what you have to learn, how to assess decent writing quickly. I have to say that on steem when using something like steemlookup, there is a hell of a lot of posts that don't make it past the first paragraph.
But it wasn't all bad. There were many reasonable writers who came to promo-mentors workshops, particularly from the Philippines and other places, that improved massively through the workshop process. I was super happy to see them develop and to submit them to curie.
To be honest, the fact that the link dropping shit posters are returning is probably a good sign for steem being on the up and up. Fck, just wait until we hit over a dollar again 😂
It's true actually, what people enjoy is subjective, often the problem that arises from that is people classing stuff they don't enjoy as non quality!
It is a good sign that they are returning, like reverse canary's in the mine!!