Its a shame that fiction never really got a decent shot on Steemit, but to be brutally honest, a lot of it is really shit.
I've read a handful of decent stories that make you stop and think, but the reason people are publishing on this platform is because nowhere else will take them.
For fiction to do well in such a community, it would have to be killer short form stories. This is hard to do repetitively. No one wants to read chapter 14 of some fantasy/dystopian pastiche.
I appreciate the effort of curators like the Writer's Block, as the competitions have been generally interesting, and there are a few writers with a unique voice.
The voting patterns on Steemit platform is partly to blame, and also the fact that such a platform doesnt lend itself to longer form fiction. However, lets not pretend those writing on Steemit are undiscovered literary masters.
This is what my folks will call 'true talk'. Sometimes, I wonder if I haven't fallen in with the lot claiming to be potential writers, but posting watery stories filled with dead lucre.