Three days ago, I created a tutorial about a topic I thought would be useful to many people. In my opinion, it was a high quality article - easy to read and to reach the tutorial's goal very fast, step by step.
After it didn't get any reception at all, I made a reddit post in the twitch subreddit, linking to my article. To promote it and also to see the impact on votes and views.
I'm quite new to reddit so I first tried to post a link only, which was not allowed by the subreddit's rules. So I just took the introduction lines from my steemit article - very little effort - and posted it. Not being familiar with reddit's features, I also did not select the correct Flair, which is an optical categorization I guess, and left it at the default value.
So the reddit post was far from optimal and certainly didn't reach my steemit article's quality.
But still, it quickly became the most popular post of the subreddit with most upvotes and views by far for several hours, staying on the first page for another day or so.
It now has almost 5000 views on reddit with 93% positive votes and 22 comments.
Sadly, it seems that none of those reddit users own a steemit account.
I think that explains the steemit article's relatively high number of views (almost 500) in relation to the low numbers of comments and upvotes (1 comment, 3 votes - none of them came from reddit).
What could that observation imply?
- Are there 10 times as many people in the twitch subreddit as on steemit? (or to be fair, compare it with the dlive tag only)
- Is the system rigged and newcomers have no chance getting seen, no matter the quality of their content?
- Illuminati, Aliens, conspiracy...? ;-)
I don't want to come across as ungrateful after being on steemit for less than two weeks - I'm not. I just want to know how things work, like everywhere else in life.
Let me know what you think in the comments below. Discuss please :-)
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