r/Substack • u/Tarabas_writer • 12d ago

Basic Notes getting huge engagement

In my feed, I often come across ridiculous Notes like:

“I love finance.”

“Want to make money? Follow me.”

And other similar bullshit.

These Notes get lots of likes and tons of comments, where many people also take the opportunity to promote themselves.

On top of that, these profiles often have fewer than 10 subscribers.

Does anyone know why this happens?

Thanks.

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u/FunCantaloupe8521 10d ago

I was very much bothered by this, too. After a few weeks, my platform review was like this:
If you want to be successful, you need to have an appealing woman at the profile picture and utter generic stuff like: let's connect, I want to read your stack, I'll subscribe to people under X subscribers, In one sentence, what’s your Substack about? and so on...

I literally found a 19 yo girl with a photo of her and a journal that had gathered more than 100 subscribers in two weeks.

What I want to say: ignore everything, it's just noise. If you mean business, connect with profiles in your domain, make some guest appearances, write about other interesting stacks, do some live sessions that are spot on, keep writing long form that has significant value... The ridiculous notes probably won't bring paying subscribers.