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AskLeo - Are You a "Quality Blogger"?

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I should probably blame the cold for my almost endless Steem era flashbacks, because I sure got a lot of them lately. I am close to four years on the chain and I've been posting a lot of content in here. Nothing fancy or to be proud of, but yeah, it's my legacy.

The world of Steem was so stiff, you know... You had to fit some "draconian patterns" to be labeled as a quality blogger/hiver. From what I remember, back then, only @berniesanders was not walking this tight path. Some of us around here were actually having college thesis as blog posts.

It should be informative. That was one of the musts so your post would enter the quality ones category and for that sake we were kind of squeezing our brains out searching for "informative stuff" non stop. It didn't matter how much fun the whole story was, but definitely had to be informative.

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The longer the better. I still remember that bozzo, I forgot his name, as he just came, paid thousands of STEEM for paid votes, to educate us on social media and blogging and left before he became a success. He had very long posts with tons of shitty pics and was always promoting his Instagram account.

Anyway, the idea was that short posts weren't of any quality and that was imo one of the dumbest "mass produced quality criteria of Steem". @trumpman is living proof that "the shorter, the better". It's what you say, not how many thousands of words you use to say that.

Good grammar, format and tons of pics were also a defining criteria for good quality content. That's where I fail a lot lately... English grammar is not really my cup of tea, I'm no native English speaker/writer and even when I have long posts, I don't often load many pics to them...

If there's anything I didn't like the most about "quality bloggers" were the gizmos they had... It was like some of them had some so damn long footers that the footer was making for almost 30% of the post. Man, don't you think it's annoying posting that shit over and over again every damn day...

Bottom line, I was never a quality blogger and probably never will. I'm always more focused on "getting there" and having a message than how my content "looks and feels". What about you?

Thanks for attention, Adrian

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