My favorite quote:
Once an author is discovered as having consistently good content, the upvotes start to slowly increase with time. Eventually, more people realize the author is posting consistently good content. Rewards go up a little bit more.
The best statement from this post that everyone who wants to be successful on STEEM needs to read and understand, IMO this could also be the TL;DR, (although we don't really need the TL;DR mentality on STEEM honestly..):
In short, if you put yourself out there on the Steem blockchain by engaging in various discord channels, telegram channels, commenting on other posts, curating other authors, finding ways to support the overall blockchain and most importantly: consistently putting out good content… then you will find your niche and eventually, your rewards will consistently go up.
This also helps to weed out the users who we don't really need in the eco-system as they will hopefully disable their miners:
I believe that the mining difficulty on STEEM (in terms of PoB) has gotten easier as it is now a competition to build a brand and post good content consistently rather than a competition purely for resources to arbitrage your account with self-votes and bid-bots.
I agree, I am definitely loving this #newsteem and I am a Red Fish, so that debunks the negativity that the small accounts are harbouring, as so many of them are whining about their lack of rewards due to a curve.. It's just that before they did not have to do very much for their rewards.. It was like using a crypto faucet.. Come on STEEM, click a few buttons and that was that, no need for reading other's posts or proof-reading your own posts for that matter...
Now one actually needs to do work to get anything substantial. Need to work harder on creating your content and need to work at discovering other's content. Also I feel like the most work that needs to be done, at least for me, is networking and creating content consistently. - In my own personal case the meaning of consistently is in regards to keeping up a good posting schedule to remain relevent and in the minds of would-be/soon-to-be/already loyal followers.
I'm tackling the #blogtober challenge this year (as usual, I came in late xP) where I'll be attempting to post 31 posts consecutively on a daily schedule.
Wish me luck!
*When I use the term you in my commentary I am using it in the general/overall context, not you personally