Yes, I know why I joined here and partly still do it but I lost a lot of motivation after the last HF22. I never earned much but now it is so less I ask myself why I am still posting and investing in this ghost town.
I am not rich enough that my vote counts, my wifi are for too slow to be a great curator (my SP too less to be the first in the right minute)./I mainly write to join contests to earn so I can give it to those who join the contests I am hosting. Most of the time I need to remind people to join. It all takes a lot of time and keeps me away from what I like to do/write most.
I slowly leave to other places, read and post there, esp the place I started before I came here and where what I wrote was appreciated.
I believe you can learn everywhere and agree with you that what the crowd upvotes is not what is vulnerable for Steem. I hope the engagement will stay, this can by commenting but I noticed commenting is hardly done after the HF22.
I wish you luck with whatever you write or choose. Excel is not what I believe I will ever use on my mobile phone. I admire those who can work with it. Who knows I pass by to have a look.
I wish you a great Fridday and weekend.💕
I am sorry to hear HF22 hit you so hard. I actually stopped running the power-up leagues before the HF because steem was getting like a ghost town. its really hard to grow an audience when there are no people. where were you writing before and what sort of stuff were you doing?
I was at Yoo.rs a Dutch platform that pays for views till eternity, you can earn extra by up voting and I mainly joined the writers group and writing contests.
There were no prizes but many who hosted one, writers who published, posted it on their sites or Facebook as well.
The plus of that is you can also be found on Facebook. The payout is good/fast and the plan is to add a translator and all languages. The past month there were many changes and the site was hard to reach. All bugs are still not out of it but I started posting there again.
Writers/Authors are not appreciated here. Steem has nothing to do with good content and to be honest I think it is a waste of your time (days of writing) to get no comment or downvotes by people who hardly read and write.
Here it all has to go fast for the earnings and it is on to the next platform.
Partly I see it as a game too but not if I am the only one writing and it is mainly what I do not like to write. Actually everything I write is a rewrite. It pops up in my mind and I write it down but these are not the stories I like to write or want to leave behind. I am slowing changing it.
Many left, I think more will or perhaps they just join one tribe that feels better?
You are right, we all should write what feels good for us, what we are good at. Sooner or later that will pay back (and if this is not the place we have to look further).
Happy day 💕
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