This post will address two concerns I have been noticing amongst new steemers and steemians who are discouraged about their earnings. These two groups are often inclusive but not always.
Expressing your are jealous of another's success is off putting and ultimately makes you appear like a bitter person. Therefore being jealous isn't doing you any favors and will limit your success on here.
Also, we may not understand another person's success when, oh, we just created a kick ass article ourselves. There are a few reasons you might find it hard to understand why oh why your content isn't being noticed:
- You may be using the wrong tags
- Your new and don't have much of a reputation in the community yet
- Your formatting is off
- don't use large blocks of text
- break up topics/paragraphs/ideas with a visual
- Your topic doesn't actually contribute to the community. This one is important. Others in this amazing community will notice if your content isn't contributory
There are probably more reasons but, I as a new steemian myself, have recognized the above as reason enough this far. There are other considerations to be made:
- Those with moderate to whale like success on here likely ARE NOT new users. Go to these peoples accounts. You'll see alot of them have been on here for a year or even a few months. Check our their following. Check out their reputation score (the number in the circle right next to their name)
- there are of course the rare exceptions, where you will see a pretty much brand new steemian with tremendous success in a short time. You def shouldn't be jealous of that! Good for them! A simple peak at their blogs will probably answer all your questions.
- You didn't do an introductory post in introduceyourself! Don't worry, I forgot about this too ( had already made like two blogs or something before I did)
- you didn't read or you skimmed through the FAQ
I personally have read the ENTIRE long FAQ even the sections I already knew. In fact I have read through it more than once. You must read through it! It is imperative you understand what steem is all about
In summary, don't be discouraged or jealous. You can learn from these people who are doing very well. In fact I've learned through personal interactions with some of them that they're ALL very nice people, patient to a fault (if that's possible) ( @timcliff jumps quickly to mind but he's not the only one). The point is expressing jealousy over someone's success is just not productive at all.
And if you're just discouraged, that's okay, but keep it short lived! Learn from other, be contributory in both your comments and posts. You can also just spend some time flat out curating with thoughtful, contributory responses which will aide in letting others get to know you and attain a following!
Image source 1: https://talesandreviews.blogspot.com/2017/03/jealousy-is-jeopardy-of-joy.html?m=1
Image source 2: https://www.askideas.com/jealousy-is-a-disease-get-well-soon-2/
Image source 3: https://www.google.com/amp/slodive.com/inspiration/18-stunning-sunset-pictures/amp/