I think the reason people are not writing as much because, well, to put it bluntly, unless you write about Steem or hammer out a 5,000 word essay, your post probably won't be recognized by the people with the most influence. After your #introduceyourself post makes a couple bucks, or a couple thousand, your options are pretty slim. Either write about Steem and get lucky, or write about what you want and no one will see it.

The #1 hashtag is steemit, by a longshot, and of course introduceyourself is also in the top 5.

![Screenshotfrom2016-08-041018411afbb.png](https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/04/Screenshotfrom2016-08-041018411afbb.png)

The most popular posts are all about Steem:

![Screenshotfrom2016-08-041017586037a.png](https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/04/Screenshotfrom2016-08-041017586037a.png)

And most days, the trending section is mostly centered around Steemit. Today there is a little more diversity, but it is the exception not the rule. Most people don't go to Reddit to post about Reddit. People don't login to Facebook to talk about Facebook. The things that are retweeted the most aren't really things that are related to Twitter.

I think you will see more posts when Steemit decides to branch out into different communities. When the trending page is full of diverse content, not just centered around a few of the same topics. When anyone, part of any community, has a chance to go trending even if their content isn't necessarily original, but is useful or entertaining, or brings any value what-so-ever *to that specific community*. Think about how a new user coming to Steemit feels... they see these huge essays and probably think they need to do that to bring value to the community. So instead of a short, but useful post in a topic they love, they crank out 2,000 words about Steem and then make $0.02 because no one has time to read 1,000,000 words per day and their post got missed.

The people with the most influence seem to upvote the content that is full of depth, but in all honesty, even if the content is good, I'm just not interested in reading a 5,000 word essay on the trending page. It's daunting. I just want to see good content, even if it's just someone sharing a link to another source, it's worth it if they discovered it and I was entertained by it. I don't think *everything* on Steemit needs to be original content, just like *everything* on Reddit is not original, just as *everything* on Facebook is not original, and *everything* on Twitter is not original. Some of it is, some of it isn't. But, at the end of the day, who am I to say what should be upvoted? I'm just a little guy. That's up to the people with the most SP. But I truly believe that there needs to be more power spread in every community. Whether its sports, gaming, memes, food, photography, art, beer, literature, technology, finance, whatever is interesting to you—it needs to be established as a community. All the little communities together will make Steemit interesting, and more people will post because the content is diverse—not because it's original and wordy.

I, for one, am going to do my best in establishing worth in #gaming, and #ps4, and I might jump into some #nhl posts. They won't get noticed right now, I'm sure of that... but that's what I like, so that's what I'll post. I just hope eventually a small community could be established with useful content someday.

My $0.005.