What? Did you really think that was it? That I expected you to give my post a full vote just because I am me, and because I took 10 minutes out of my precious time to post, time that Icould've used to brainlessly browse my Instagram Feed?

Well no. I've shitposted before, not much - at least according to my standards - perhaps no more than 5 shitposts in my whole Steem life, but I try not to do it too often. I avoid shitposting due to several reasons: I have some automatic votes; some people vote for the person and not the content; I have a reputation to mantain - lol? -; I know that people won't care about opening my posts if I constantly post low quality crap.

Oh but hey, quality is subjective, right? Who am I to tell you if your post is good enough or not. I can only judge myself and the quality of my posts, right? Well, wrong. We are in a social media platform where your posts are put out there to be judged by everyone who cares enough to check out what you have to say and then, after a biased judgement, decide if you/me/him deserve a full vote on our posts.

But let's be honest about this. I believe we can all agree on the subjective topic that is high quality. Yeah, it is subjective but I dare saying 99% of the users of any social media, can agree on determining if a post is at least good or if it's a shitty one. On Steem, you have curators. People who are supposedly - I say supposedly to not generalize, not because I doubt on the quality of other curators out there - experienced on determining the quality of a post on an unbiased, impartial way and thus, deciding if any given post deserves high rewards.

I guess my whole point here is: At the moment, there is a lot of Steem Power available to manually curate; the bid bots are almost dead and everyone became a curator now. I am manually curating with arguably one of the accounts that hold the most Steem Power at the moment and all I can tell you is Please, if you are posting to get engagement on your posts, receive middle to high tier rewards and getting better at this social media game called Steem, stop making posts like the one I made today.

If you are looking to get attention from whales, curators or big time engagers, this is not the way to do it.

Why am I saying this? Because I've spent a lot of time reading posts saying that Steem is rigged, the small user has no chance, the big players are the only ones earning through post payouts and more arguments around this line. Who's saying this? You guessed correctly: Shitposters.

Well, if you are looking to get rewards, engagement votes and followers. Don't be like me. Don't post a meh picture with 4-5 lines of text and expect the big bucks.

If on the contrary, you use Steem as a diary or a nice hobby - which is totally fine - and you don't care about the rewards or the engagement because all you want is to store your thoughts on the blockchain for your grandkids, then that's perfect, please be my guest and post however the hell you want to. I know we won't be reading your rants about how NewSteem is still like the OldSteem and the voting behaviour is still bullshit.

I have news for you. If you are not getting votes now, exactly now that the available voting power for curation is at an all time high... you are making shitty content.

Steem changed, manual curation is a thing again, it's just that your shitty content stayed back at old steem. Your content needs an extreme makeover.