I remember how invisible and frustrated I felt in my early days. I got off on the wrong foot, because for privacy reasons I didn't want to publish the tasks given to beginners.

Perhaps due to past abuses, they thought it was a good idea to force new users to post a photo of their face while holding a handwritten note with their username and the date. I found it bizarre.

And also, I posted my introductory post on my blog, another mistake. I think the first person who noticed me was @wakeupkitty, who commented on a post in the new community.

Because of the emptiness, I left the platform for many months. Then I returned and had better luck, as I found a community where I could publish creative writing.

I honestly started because I wanted to earn something for the future, but as you say, this shouldn't be considered a job. Now I see it as a way to exercise my mind through writing.

Fortunately, I also found some people with whom I could have frank exchanges of opinions, which is hard to find on social media, making it worthwhile to be here.

Regarding visibility, I can't complain, but to be honest, I know that the number of votes isn't usually correlated with quality or even effort. But that's society.

Now, I confess that I don't dedicate time to discovering new users, and I think I should change that, considering that I was also - am - new, and that we need to think about how important that first vote is.