Firstly, I want to thank everyone involved in @steemstem. You guys have done an amazing job creating such a large community and encouraging people to write hundreds of thousands of amazing STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) posts on Steem. Recently, steemSTEM has being experiencing a lot of issues, where people are complaining that some really good steemSTEM posts aren't earning much. In this post I will talk about 2 ways that we can fix this problem.
Encourage the Community to Engage More
When I started on Steemit, I made the mistake of not engaging in any communities. For 2 months, I wrote posts that were in the STEM niche, and since I never used the steemSTEM tag, these posts didn't really do well at all. I carried on writing simply because, I love writing about the things that I love reading about. However, if you look at the posts I wrote when I just started on Steem and the posts I wrote after finding steemSTEM, there isn't a lot to differentiate between then and now. If steemSTEM don't curate my post, the amount that I earn is just as low as when I started on Steem, and the amount of comments is low whether steemSTEM curate or not. This is a clear sign that, aside from the curators, there's not a lot more people that read steemSTEM posts. So how do we solve this? Well unfortunately, the community seems to only be encouraged by money. People tend to only read posts when they know that they will get a good upvote for a good comment. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. If SteemSTEM curators upvote good comments on posts that they have curated, I believe that the community will then be sure to read more steemSTEM posts and this would ensure that steemSTEM posts that didn't get curated, would earn more than they do now.
Moderators to Help Curators
Another problem that steemSTEM encounter, is that there is 19 curators that have to read about 1000 posts a day. This is a ridiculous amount of work for people that have full time jobs. My suggestion here, is for steemSTEM to hire moderators that will go through steemSTEM posts and look if the posts comply with steemSTEM rules. From there, they will accept or reject posts. This will make the curators jobs a lot easier, all they would need to do is read accepted posts. This will also help eliminate plagiarism.
This is just my opinion on how steemSTEM can progress, I would love to hear everyone else's ideas. If you agree with my ideas, upvote this post, even though I'm declining payout, so that others can see it.
Thanks for reading!
