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RE: Can AI be trained to assist with moral decision making?
The more minnows see my posts the more votes I tend to get. Votes from minnows don't count for as much but they do add up. What it represents is, a lot of minnows like my post and that I'm becoming skilled at marketing my posts to minnows. It doesn't mean I'm as skilled as some others because as you said, often my posts get lots of votes but not a lot of Steem.
If you just want to get a lot of votes from a lot of people then you can use clickbait titles, with clickbait photos, and you'll get votes. If you want to also engage your audience then you have to choose a deep enough topic to generate a meaningful discussion.
aha, thank you for explanation!
It seems to me your reputation and SP play a great role in this case, because if a minnow make a great post with an engaging discussion (a topic for it), it can easily be missed by all the rest, and just be invisible for others because nodoby is interested in voting for him (he isn't profitable in voting in reply).
Without any doubt, you create high quality content, and all your votes are logical and fair, but sometimes I see posts about nothing but from dolphins or whales and they always get great payments and much attention.
you're an experiences Steemian, and you know it better than me, I think:) but it's just a little copy of real life.
It doesn't seem to be the case. I may get a lot of votes but I don't get a lot of Steem. Some minnows are earning more per week in Steem Dollars and SP than I do on a per post basis.
I would say some of my upvotes come from my followers who read my content regularly. This may be around 100 people at the most and you are included as one of my regular readers. Then there are new people who see my posts, read it, and then find the discussion and join it. So depending on the topic you can get a lot of interest.
To get a lot of SBD payment per post is not really something I have any control over so I don't focus on that so much. I focus on getting as many upvotes as I can, getting as many followers as I can, engaging the readers, and providing value with content.
If a whale sees one of my popular posts I might get a big upvote. If not then the post may get a lot of upvotes from minnows, a lot of engagement, and I might end up getting a lot of followers rather than the big payout. As long as I see progress toward my goal of 10,000 followers it's fine.
At 10,000 followers I might decide to quit blogging and move on.
to quit? but 10,000 will be very soon! I'm sad bbecause I have so few friends (or people to talk with) here, and I don't want to lose one of them..
why exactly 10,000? a magic number?:)
blogging and steemit has much in comon with addicton, or maybe passion, and if you spend a lot of months here, you just can't stop, because it's a part of your life. and income means much too, of course.
you don't feel such passion here? or maybe you just want to spend money you have earned here at last?:)
The funny thing is, when my posts were getting reasonable payouts from the whales, a few minnows complained about it. They said it wasn't fair, so the whales who were using bots to upvote my posts stopped doing that.
At the same time, if they do not do that then some of my readers might think it's not fair that some of my better posts receive such small payouts.
Honestly there is no making everybody happy. I post and I get the payout I get. I never complain about how small or how large the payout is. I don't concern myself with the payouts others get. Maybe they are better at it than I am and nothing is wrong with that.
yeah, it's maybe the best position that can be: just don't worry about payouts. I try to follow this rule as well, and just write something what I'm personally interested in. Earlier I tried to follow main trends and chose topics that I supposed would be paid but I never had the right variant - payouts didn't come, or come for the posts I didn't even expect to be paid at all.