RE: Blogging About What You Want To Focus On Or Just Maximizing Profits?
Thanks @brianphobos !! Im new here and have been a Content Creator online for 10 years. Just my knee jerk reaction when I first came here : I was astounded by the number of blog posts that are centered around crypt currency and how to buy and sell it, whats the future, time to buy, high, lows etc..etc.. I think if Steemit is going to succeed long term it has to be about a diverse array of subjects.
It still blows my mind there is not a main tag for 'make money online'. I'm a full time IMer and came here not even knowing it was a platform based on crypto . I had been told it was a platform that pays money for quality content. That's all. So all this stuff is new to me. Anyway again thanks for the post. It wasn't just a rant . You provided some really good insight !!
Thanks for your comment. Back in 2016 when the platform was new the large stake holders "whales" tried to focus on upvoting all kinds of content and would ignore crypto currency related posts. This was a double edge sword. They wanted the platform to be the killer app that would bring the masses to crypto currency. It worked to some extent but once the reward structure changed this past summer a lot of the user base that had power were more interested in blogging about crypto currency and looking at the content. That is a hot topic now everywhere so it sort of makes sense that those posts do well.
I agree that overtime it has to get more diverse but oftentimes the people who are coming in with other interests who are new to crypto currency don't have any or as much STEEM power as the people who have been in the crypto world for a couple of years. So it makes it harder for them to gain traction.