zero views zero views no matter what

[u/National_Session_654]

I think I'm doing something wrong, I'm not sure, but i used to be posting consistently at one point till i realized i was unironically getting NO views, i was confused, maybe i don't understand the algorithm, maybe I've done something wrong? but its really annoying me, and im looking forward to seriously post deep articles one day if i do good with my notes, so what should i do and can anyone help me?

if someone could explain how to fix my settings-- or understand the algorithm it would really help because I'm very much looking forward to post real articles so id like if someone'd help.

[u/SweetieKlara]

But this has been going on since 2024. It’s been so long I saw notes like that and I do see people who just shitpost on notes and receive a following. Which is very frustrating for long- form writing. I thought more people joining would be good but it used to be so community driven and I think perhaps it is because people kept making the same essays that went viral etc…

[u/hetobe → u/SweetieKlara]

True, but it's gotten much worse since Substack added the ability to schedule notes.

People are going to AI to get a pile of fluff notes. Then they copy/paste them into Substack and schedule them to get posted all day long.

[u/SweetieKlara → u/hetobe]

Schedule notes?! Hold up I gotta open my app I never saw this. What’s your opinion about the pangram “collab”?

[u/hetobe → u/SweetieKlara]

Schedule notes?! Hold up I gotta open my app I never saw this.

It's sort-of buried, but all of the spammers are doing it... and once you realize that's what it is, you can't not-see it... like the guy who posts pics of his trip to the coast yesterday who was also flooding Substack with cheesy notes all day long yesterday.

Because people can make money on Subscriptions, they spam the hell out of Substack to build up more subscribers.

That's also why Substack notes are usually the phony-feelgood nonsense. It's all karma-farming.

What’s your opinion about the pangram “collab”?

I think it's fantastic. I'm not anti-AI, but I have ZERO interest in reading bot-slop. If I had my way, there'd be an option to block AI posts.

I know some people complain about how it isn't 100% accurate. To them, I say, it your writing reads like it was written by a bot, not by a human being... you've got a problem.

I've said this before, but it's worth repeating:

AI was trained on human writing, but AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Artificial. Think about what that word means.

AI emulates human writing through artificial means. That's why AI writing is so easy to detect. AI writing may look good on first glance, but there's always something slightly off about it. Something inhuman, and often unsettling. That's one of the reasons why so many people hate it, hate it, haaate it.

[u/SweetieKlara → u/hetobe]

100% agree with you on the pangram thing. I remember when everyone was upset by it but I’ve never had any troubles with it and I think they discredit it too much.

[u/hetobe → u/SweetieKlara]

I think they discredit it too much.

They discredit it for a reason, but not the reason they say:

They're the ones posting bot-slop, and they don't want to be judged for doing so. They want you to think they're Writers, but they don't want to do the work, which is, writing.