I typically hit dobartim’s “make one selfie” posts with a 50% vote just because they make me laugh, but his poetry I give 100%. I can’t write poetry myself, but as someone who writes fiction, I appreciate creative writing in that form.

I read every post I vote on and despite the great developments on STEEM like @appics, I still tend to think of Steemit as a long form platform. There may be a few exceptions but typically, I only give out big votes for posts that I feel took some real effort.

To your point, though, I admit I’ve become more habitual than I used to be with finding new creators and artists. I used to dig in to the Steemit underbelly under the “new” category of tags. I need to get back to that, and help incentive new artists to stay here. I know communities will make discoverability 100x’s easier @pharesim

BTW, I literally just watched you level up to a (70). Congratulations.