SO Many Steemit Posts — Where Do They All End Up?

Earlier this afternoon, I found myself thinking about the fact that I have written more than 2,100 blog posts in my years on Steemit!

That's an awful lot of writing! Whereas I know it's all out there, I sometimes find myself wondering where it goes. We write all this stuff, publish it, and it's highly relevant to us for the first seven days of its life and then it ends up somewhere in the great filing cabinet that is the Steem blockchain.

I tend to write about a wide variety of subjects, ranging from psychology, to trips I go on, to musings about life, to nature photography posts, to posts about our cats to gardening posts and beyond.

Some of the stuff I've written here has actually been quite good, and I vaguely remember writing it but I doubt I would actually be able to locate it anywhere.

Many years ago — back when I still only had posts that numbered in the hundreds — I considered creating a post that could serve as nothing but an index to the different categories of writing that I do. There's a part of me that wishes had actually followed through with the threat to create such a post, but I think the reason I put it off was that — at the time — there was no such thing as being able to edit our posts.

I considered the idea one more time when the old SteemPeak was still around, and part of that user interface allowed us to keep drafts. That meant I could keep a draft for my own purpose with links to each article I had written within each category, as defined by me.

Of course nothing ever came of it because I got busy with other things, and each time I sat down to even think about beginning it I realized what an enormously time consuming project it would be and I couldn't actually find a good reason why I would do this. After all, being able to point people to old posts about some particular topic satisfied what, exactly?

Which sort of brings me to the realization I also had this afternoon, which is that it doesn't really matter what we write — or how ever green we might try to make it — since what we write here does have a tendency to become of relatively little relevance once that initial seven day period has passed.

It wasn't always so. I was actually here at a time when posts had two payout periods, one after seven days and another one after 30 days.

I don't suppose it's really relevant anymore, because news across pretty much all media out there — not just Steemit and our blockchain — tends to have a very short shelf life. Our entire culture seems to suffer from ADHD, and we lose interest in stuff almost as soon as we finished reading it.

It's late at night here where I live, so I'm just rambling a bit as I think about those 2,100 articles, and how all that effort and time was spent, and the tangible manifestation of all that time essentially will spend the rest of its days in the equivalent of a virtual filing cabinet.

And with that thought, it's time for me to head off to bed and perhaps get a little rest.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great week ahead!

How about you? Have you ever considered making an "index post" of everything you've written here? Does your writing MATTER to you, once it has been published? Leave a comment if you feel so inclined — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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