I have changed my mind, I have always said that quality content is one of the ingredients towards a succesful journey on STEEM, but the truth is, that quality content doesn't even exist on STEEM. At least according to some Steemians we have here. I could've called them authors, just like I have done in the past, but that will probably have to change...
You might be a writer of some sort, but I can't allow myself to call you an author, in case you don't show me evidence of a published book you've written. That's a real author, according to me. Someone who writes and publish books. Format doesn't matter, as long as it is a book. A writer is someone, according to me, that writes articles or some type of document, but it has nothing to do with being the author of a published book.
I am obviously wrong here, because if you type in: "what is an author" on google, you'll see this: "a writer of a book, article, or document."
However, I have figured that it doesn't matter what it says on google, because somewhere, I've also seen that "quality is in the eye of the beholder", and that doesn't seem to be a good sentence to use whenever you're trying to describe "quality content" on STEEM.
So with this new knowledge, I can either ignore to curate content on STEEM, or curate whatever content I want. No matter the "quality". That doesn't necessarily mean that I'll start to upvote each shitpost I see, well, excuse me, post of shit I see. But there is in fact a high probability for that to happen. Not that I am into "shit", but fucked up things are often amusing in some way... So I might even start to post piles of shit too...
I mean, I spend hours on my posts. I do anything from making original cover images, using dividers I've made myself, edit, change, tweak, think of headlines, spend time on google translate, edit some more, change this or that, and spend some more time on a half-bad title.
I know, I'm stupid. I probably spend about 2 hours on average on my articles. That has been going on since I joined in July 2016... And I'm still here, equally stupid as when I arrived.
I get it, 95% of the people here doesn't give a damn about my articles. I bet that about 10, if that many, out of my 3.5K followers reads the stuff I write. I get auto votes and a handful of comments. I love the support I get and comments are truly something I value greatly... But still.
Why the fuck do I spend 2 hours on each article I share, when I earn a dollar here or there, get only a handful comments and haven't had a decent whale vote in more than 2 years?
- I haven't seen OCD, Curie or any of those "curation groups" either.
Oh, now I get it...
I am the proud "author" of low quality content? - Thanks!
- Fuck you.
That's the only thing I have to say about that.
I am not native in English, I am not an orca or a whale... I have carried my own ass up these "Steem-stairs" since july 2016... And I still don't get recognition or support from any of those guys. So, based on some of the things I've read recently, my content is of piss-poor quality.
- Fuck that.
It's not about quality. It's not even about content. It's about "likeability". It's about sucking cock and bending over for the rich. It's about pleasing the upper & wealthy classes as much as possible. If you're good, you'll get paid. So, in reality, you're nothing but a prostitute...
- And I'm not even good at that.
No, I wasn't serious above, even though part of that is accurate... Quality content to me, is content I like. I don't care about others in this scenario. I curate stuff I want to curate, for whatever reason I might have... But, I would never reward piss-poor quality, spam or copy pasted articles. I don't endorse that type of behaviour either.
So, let's talk about "piss-poor quality". You know what it means... No matter what type of content you like. We can all see when and where someone have put in effort into articles they publish. That is quality according to me.
Not necessarily time spent on articles, as a meme can be funny as hell, and we all know that doesn't take much time. But, if you're spending time on your articles, you're doing research or trying to educate people... Whatever. I would call that high quality, even if I didn't like the subject. I would probably reward you for it, even if I didn't agree with what you've said in your article too, because I can see the effort.
I don't like Actifit posts for instance (talking about Actifit because others have too), and I rarely upvote any of them, as long as the "writer" isn't on my autolist. But that has nothing to do with quality or effort. You obviously put in effort to reach "10k+ activity count", but it's rarely anything more than that. It's like Facebook and someone shared a photo of their breakfast. I couldn't care less and I never pressed that "like" button on those photos... I didn't like those photos even if I liked what they ate.
- It does not give me anything of value. Nothing at all.
So even if you are my BFF on STEEM, and even if I turned into a whale somehow, I wouldn't reward that content. I wouldn't reward that sort of content if you were my brother, my sister, mother, partner, lover or my kid either.
However, in case you were good at sucking c***, I'd probably give you a 100% vote, because that "activity count" would likely have been the results of the time we spent together.
- And there you have it. Quality.