With low effort posts, you will undermine yourself as an author
Every morning, I'm surfing through the latest Hive posts in search for one post that should be featured within the 
Quality is great but...
There is this mantra on Hive that we should all create quality content. The problem is that quality content comes in many different forms and is quite difficult to define. It should be of a certain size, word wise It should have a nice formatting with pictures that have the source mentioned. It should have subtitles. It should be written with few spelling and grammar mistakes. Last but not least it should be interesting. I think that this last point is where things get subjective.
We need more creativity and more original ideas
As an author, I know that it's not always easy to come up with great ideas for a post and if you want to build your hive account, you need to produce content. Many of us fall into the trap to do easy posts by using previous content and dressing them slightly differently. It's what I call low effort content.
When I look for a post that people should read, the only thing I actually care about is whether the content is interesting. Do I learn something from it? Is it funny to read? May another person be thankful to discover this content? This is what really matters for me. Unfortunately, it is sometimes very difficult to find such posts.
Does Hive discourage creativity?
When somebody creates a daily giveaway where he changes a couple of sentences every day, he actually earns probably as much as somebody who writes a very creative post that brings added value to the reader. Well, we could argue that the giveaway also brings value to the people participating because they can win the prize. However, the effort put in is totally different.
I don't really think that Hive discourages creativity but it doesn't really encourage it either. I believe that by running projects like
Hive is all about creating content but why do we create so much content that we know nobody is really interested in? Because most of us get auto upvotes and curation trail votes whatever content we post. This means that even without effort, people get a little income. So why should we put in the effort?
With low effort posts you will undermine yourself
When I see authors that create a lot of such low effort posts, I simply tend to skip them. Why should I waste time to read stuff that offers no added value to me? I unfollow these authors and also lift the autovotes. The problem is that such an author is maybe capable of creating some good content but if there is too much low effort content around that good content, it won't be visible anymore.
Your content will finally define you as an author. If you post low effort content, you will become a low quality author.
If you want to build something on hive and want to have nice post payouts, I encourage you to skip these low effort posts. Simply don't do them. They will undermine you as an author and you will never end up on the auto votes of the bigger accounts. Create content less often but create content that is interesting to read.
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