If you have noticed I am spending less and less time on Steemit, and I see the same phenomena happening with my subscribers too. I used to post 3-4 articles a day, and now I am only posting 1 a day or 1 in 2 days, and yes I am more busy these weeks, but I am also not very incentivized to post here.
Don't get me wrong, I like Steemit and I will continue post to my loyal followers when I have spare time or as a hobby, but I just don't feel I am motivated to post, and I have plenty of topic to write about.
The truth is that I barely get rewarded for my articles, I sometimes spend 4-5 hours on compiling and researching an article to only get a lousy 0.50$ on it? Really? I am not a spammer, and I do post very original content, well researched, but for what, a lousy 0.50$ that I cant even buy bread with?
And I don't want to sound like a Marxist, I get that valuation is subjective, I know how it works, I cannot compel people to reward me for something they might not like, but then why should I spend 4 hours of my time to get nothing in return?
It's a free market, the value of my content is subjective, yes, and if I only get 0.50$ for it? Then I won't waste 4 hours doing it, whereas I could have done more productive work with that time. Even the sweat shop slaves in 3rld world countries earn more than that, so I feel like I am wasting my talent here.
There is something really wrong with Steemit, and I bet many of you feel the same thing, this is some people that used to post regularly here, quit after a while. I see 30-40% of my followers are pretty inactive at this moment, while the only content producers around are those that get paid 100-1000$ / post.
It's really sad that it's this way, and again I'm not an SJW here to whine about it, but I just feel this is a fair criticism that the reward system is broken. There is a lot of good content around here, that don't even get 10 upvotes, and this will seriously disincentivize people, and they will abandon Steemit eventually.
I feel that if this continues Steemit will become like Reddit, full of spam pet animal posts and trendy nonsense, instead of useful educational information articles from all domains.
Hey it's just my opinion, and people are free to vote for whatever they want, I won't tell people what to do.
But if people don't reward quality content, they they should not expect quality content from Steemit.
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