Dear Netizens, unleash your creativity on your OWN blog or site rather than helping popular social media platforms with more traffic

There is a large inequality and imbalance on the Internet today. Popular social platforms like Quora, Facebook, Twitter and Medium are getting a lot more glory and advertising revenue than they deserve, and this comes at the expense of the authors who use those platforms to create invaluable content by posting articles and comments there.

And what do the authors get in return? Instead of getting a portion of that revenue that they rightfully deserve (for its content that drives traffic to a website primarily), they get notices like these when they try to promote their own website even in a rightful and relevant context:

The author who received this notice is a regular and quite popular on Quora who has hundreds of followers including me. You see the dichotomy here? As long as the author was posting valuable content for Quora, he was a nice guy but as soon as he posted a link to his own site in an answer, he suddenly becomes a villain!

In my humble opinion, people should be using more and more flexible platforms like Google's Blogger.com or your own hosted website, so that you can monetize your content and earn advertising revenue from it, rather than Quora making all the bucks. Ask yourself, as a content creator, why let Quora have all the glory when its you who is running the show by posting content?

An added benefit you get by posting content on your own site is that there is nobody to ban your content and suppress your freedom of expression! On platforms like Quora, there is always the risk of getting banned, so you need to be extremely careful about what you write, lest your posts hurt any political interests on those platforms who are always ready to report your posts in masses if you post anything even slightly critical of them.

The only thing that's helping the popular platforms today is this artificial "perception" or "reputation" factor which doesn't really make any sense. Why should a user trust a website called "Tech Tudor" any less than the one called "Quora" as long as the quality of content is similar on both sites? On the contrary, a netizen on the internet should help his fellow netizen by contributing on their site for he/she is just like you - just another netizen! You help by contributing on a fellow netizen's site and the netizen will help you, in turn, by contributing on your site - the middle man (Quora, the MNC) is simply out of the picture! And no, don't mistake me as a socialist for saying this, this is based purely on common sense and fair income distribution logic.