The simple answer is just making your own curation group, buy stake and setup the curation criteria just as how you want to run it, thus has been done by other curation groups and ocd isn't the only one you'd try to fish for votes.
The second part sounds like crying for an audience. Earn it and make content that grabs who you're writing for, you know, like a real content creator, or just make a lot of friends to scratch your back and make you feel good about posting.
I do not try "fish for votes", nor "crying for an audience".
I am just stating a fact based on years of personal experience. Look around.
I should have wrote the second part with a general description. Most of the Hive blockchain posts are ignored, not just/only mine. But my posts does not even count. I mostly gave up putting work and effort into my posts, because it is not worth it. People usually ignore it. And sometimes, when I write a short post, they tell me to write long posts, but when I write long posts, they tell me to write short posts, so nothing is good. With a few exceptions.
You certainly are making new records now.
Sounds exactly the kind of thinking what everyone else is doing. You're confusing scribble posting vs content creating. When someone says their content is something they worked hard on, I go look to see and then see stuff evident on why things aren't working out for the account and it's not really content alone that dictates why votes come from.
Even content creation is a targeted conscious effort to be consistent at a focus niche target. When I look at someone posting multiple interests on a single blogging account, I just see scribble posting, bunch ideas tossed here and there that aren't necessarily bad by themselves but it makes a less cohesive blog to look at as a content creator.
The hard truth is that most people aren't wired to think like content creators but rather content consumers. If you care more about the rewards and less of the comments your targeted posts are receiving, reconsider where you're lacking in effort and that's self marketing.
Thank you. Spin it. :D
Ah, okay. That completely explains the lack of interaction in general on the Hive blockchain, sometimes even on posts with more than 100 upvotes.
Oh wait, it does not.
Dunno, started using the blockchain years back and the first week was enough to tell me it's all bots running the digits. There was a feature to display how many organic views a post gained and it showed how many people are really interested in what others are posting. Take a good guess why that counter was removed.
Point is when you're making a post that isn't niche targeted your chances of getting some traction is less compared to some general feel good life is great post people still attempt once in a while.
Going to ask you a serious question, do you think of yourself as a content creator? and if so, what kind?
Probably that feature lasted less than a year. I registered on the Steem blockchain on 2017.05.17, but I have not even heard about that feature.
My "good guess" would be "to make this thing business based".
Yes. The kind, who nowadays post random content. What I like (or what comes in my mind) at the moment. I have tried to post specific content in the past, but that did not went well. Nowadays not much people are interested in amateur radio. That is one of my hobbies.
Maybe, or it was just pathetic to see a trending post with less than 10 views because some few accounts with stake get to decide which posts to take to trending sort of thing. It's a shame to see a post trending with only few views and lack of commenting but that's what the norm was and still a persisting norm today.
Don't misunderstand me if I sound indifferent but I get where you're coming from. I had that same mindset on pursing a type of content and it wasn't paying off, then I just said fuck it I'll go with posting the hell I want which happens to be the same line of content I got and with some effort to consume other people's content and get involved with what goes on the blockchain, I gained some following and friends.
I don't think my content is all that. I just happen to be lucky in building relationships and etc. Just made me realize that content isn't the only driver for votes and it's mostly just getting interested on what's out there. Now I just spend less time creating and more time interacting. Get interested in people and they may get interested in you too. That's the basic currency of this platform, attention and content becomes secondary. To me it works that way.