Since creating my first web site in the Spring of 1995 I have taken part and been witness to many publishing platforms.
In some ways the current state of the platform reminds me of the early web. There is little content but the user base shows a keen enthusiasm.
Whether a post's author is a newbie minnow or the most popular of writers the amount of up-voting and commenting is astounding in relation to its number of viewers.
This leads to a monetization of the content which is really significant.
Unfortunately this is balanced by the platform's main weakness which is ...
As a new minnow, with two weeks of activity, my posts are viewed by 5 to 8 readers, rarely more. This is the case with my current 30+ followers.
Even the most popular authors get rarely more than a few hundred readers.
In my opinion the coders behind Steemit should focus on addressing this inherent weakness.
I do wonder whether the viewership stats are accurate at all. Please let me know how these examples below could be:
This makes no sense to me.
In any case it seems the critical factor in getting traction on this platform is to increase one's number of genuine followers.
Am I missing something? What do you think?
