Let's start from an idea: Steemit is somehow a lottery, or a fishing game.
I mean that you have to be lucky to catch a whale vote in the few seconds your post is more visible, otherwise it will be ignored forever.
This brings us to think:
is it really intelligent working some hours to create a great, well written, documented post
or maybe
is better to create small, average posts but to publish many of them, frequently?
Like the fishing game, doesn't matter to have an high quality lure if you fish for a few minutes a day, it's better to have ordinary lure but to spend more time fishing, isn't it right?
As a consequence, is not the quality of posts that is rewarded more, but the frequency of them (of course very low quality posts will get low rewards).
So i think all the reward system should me somehow revised, trying to reward the hard work to create a really high quality post.
Welcome to steemit.
I think the starting idea is incorrect. It is not a lottery or a fishing game. Whales rarely vote for things right away, just check the new section regularly, you won't see too many posts with a single $50 vote for them. And if you do, they're usually really good, or fit a specific criteria, ie useful things for steemit or cute girls doing cool things with well put together posts.
Frequently posting, actually reduces your reward, I think once every 6 hours is what you can do without it negatively affecting your payout.
I would suggest working really hard because the rewards can be worth it, like thousands of dollars for a single article, whereas hundreds of shitposts won't add up to much.
I hope this helps, it's good to get involved thinking about how steemit works.
I said "let's start from an idea" and it doesn't mean I think Steemit is a lottery or a fishing game.
It's a starting point, not necessarily true, to elaborate a possible behavior.
I may even post every 12 hours, spending 15 minutes to write a post and having a good risk/reward ratio.
Or i may post every 6 hours, spending 4 hours, as I did, to create a single great post that may be totally ignored.
What would be the best choice in this situation?
Thank you for the useful explanation anyway, I understand what you mean.
In that case, your conclusion
Follows from "an idea" which is not what you think, and I contend is false, and is therefore not what you think, and, I contend, false.
It's just an hypothesis.
And you didn't answer to my two questions:
I may even post every 12 hours, spending 15 minutes to write a post and having a good risk/reward ratio.
Or i may post every 6 hours, spending 4 hours, as I did, to create a single great post that may be totally ignored.
What would be the best choice in this situation?
In most cases the more SP you've got, the better. Though I've seen "silly" posts from newcomers with barely 4 SP getting thousands of dollars (i.e. lasvegasgirl) but I think at that point it's just a matter of luck.
IMO it worth the effort, just look at those trending posts man! they ain't lying. If your subject is good and pretty original, be sure you'll end up receiving good money sooner or later. Be proactive and cooperate with the community as many as you can, that way you can find some friends/followers here. I think that's the key.
Fully agree @toxichan
With the update posting a lot of posts in a day is considered spam.
That's good, they're trying to improve the mechanism :)
Unfortunately I am not able to delete this post, it was written late at night and English is not my own language. Blame Steemit for this :)