We are here to enable free knowledge sharing
Steemit brings the huge benefit to support creators of great content at no personal cost. It's our responsibility to act on that and help the people who spend hours every week helping us for free. We are the one who can make a difference and create an economy where good content and honest help is rewarded. A world where we stand for quality over quantity and free knowledge over expensive tuition.
Yet, from the 271 people who follow me, less than 3% actually vote on my posts. Despite me creating new tutorials every 3 days of the last months. To be honest, that shines a very bad light on the Steemit community and their values. This is problematic because it drives content creators away from Steemit and back into the hands of big corporations and Fiat money. More people on Patreon are willing to give me a tiny bit of their hard earned cash than people on steemit are willing to spend a single free click on my posts. How is that? What kind of signal does that send? Is that Steemit?
It's not just a single case
I know way more people who create high-quality content and get almost no upvotes than I know people actually benefiting from what they are giving to the community. That is a very problematic situation for Steemit, STEEM, and the SBD. Because if honest and upright content creators feel used and left alone, what is left for Steemit? What happens to a platform when the people who put in the most work get nothing out of it, while people who post memes and stolen content rape the rewards? It ends in being an empty shell with a worthless currency.
Spend fewer votes on posts that are just raping the reward pool by spamming memes and posts that cost them 2 minutes to post and spend MORE upvotes on people who put hours into each post to provide quality content.
I'm looking for the door
I also write this, because I am considering to stop sharing my tutorials here. To be honest, it's an emotional strain and a frustration to see that people can't even give me a free click, where on the classic platforms people are happy to spend their own money to HELP me. I'm not doing it for the money. I said that often enough. But for me, it's a sign of respect. It's a pad on the back and a "Thank you, we see you and we appreciate your help". And for me, it is double as hard to see that it cost you literally nothing to show me your appreciation and still YOU decided to not care and not click. Why is that? And why should I keep on helping you, when I could just as well spend that time in the park, drinking a soda and having leisure time? Yes, it is true, that help is only honest if you ask for nothing in return. But it is just as true that respect and appreciation go a long way. A well will dry up eventually if you don't even consider giving it some shade.
Make rewarding good content a HABIT
So, in your own interest, as much as in the interest of free information and free learning I want to encourage you to CONSIDER UPVOTING good content.