Quote from: lizardbtc on January 09, 2018, 03:50:41 PM

Quote from: Avelache on January 06, 2018, 10:39:47 PM

Anyone active on steem? What are your general experiences?
For example, how difficult is it to write something that gains up votes?
Do you read a lot of interesting articles? Or a lot of crap?
How much do you earn on a monthly basis in usd?

Don't limit yourself and look at just the profit what you could earn out from steemit. I think that it is much more better to focus on your content to be original and to simply outpreform others. Profit will raise slowly when you get attention from people. Anyway you can simply go through first page there and see that some people are getting 500$+ per post and if you look their posts and that they post frequently, you can also check out their wallets. It will take effort to start and earn like some best people do outhere. But don't discourage when yo ustart and when you get slow attention, be patient, start small and bring good quality content. Honestly I read most voted posts mostly since thats what community is telling me that they are not crap and so far my experience as a reader are great there.

Thanks for all your replies so far!

I understand that I should not only go there for the profits. It actually also draw my attention because quite some people say you can read interesting posts about crypto currency.
About the profits, I think the majority of people doesn't earn anything. either because they only read or they post lousy content. So I'm aware of the fact that I might also become part of the majority.

At this moment there are still a few things I don't understand about the way the Steem system works. Atm I have the following questions:
1. Who's paying? I mean there is a bunch of users that earns tokens for writing content. But if someone earns $1.000, there is also someone that has to pay that amount.
2. What happens when the maximum number of Steem is in circulation?
3. To earn money user 1 could upvote the post of user 2 and vice versa. If you do that with 100+ users they could all earn some money, correct?
(In relation to question 3, I know that if only users with very less Steem power do these upvotes, it won't have much impact. But the basic idea could work)