What Do You Really Want Out Of Steemit?
Thought Provoking Comparison
There is always talk of community on steemit and indeed it is and always has been for me anyways a VERY friendly and encouraging platform! We are all busy with life and barely have time to make post, but somehow each of us find the time to upvote and comment and interact with the friends and acquaintances we have made here on steemit.
A while back I made a post talking about community and what seems to be a new trend of upvoting only and not resteeming. I'll post it here Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? The post was well received and we had some great comments and thoughtful reasons why we as a community thought this was happening and everyone that posted all agreed that we all needed to start resteeming more to help the community and steemit grow and advance all of our steemit pocket books..
After the Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? post, I did a simple SBD giveaway post in which to be eligible for the SBD you had to resteem the post. Here is the post Take My SBD Please!.
The Is The Button Broken?!? Or Is It Just Us?!? post received 2 resteems while the Take My SBD Please! post received 31 resteems.
Whats the easiest way for us to all succeed? As a community? A supportive group working toward a valuable and productive steemit income together?
Or as an Individual spending our "online" time promoting and lifting up ourselves because none else will do it for us.
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That is very thought provoking. I think it is a combination. Alone no one can succeed, we need the community but if you are just in the community and do no work you are dead weight and drag the whole community down. Think we all need to put in the individual effort to support the community because the stronger the community the more potential we all will have.
@bowentroyer I agree that we should be putting in what we see to be effort, but that is only determined by what we hope to get out of it. Some people view this as simply a social media to meet amd talk with people. Some people treat it like a MLM scheme to make money. I think there is a pressure to join a community. You have people who would enjoy reading and commenting and occasionally posting start feeling pressured to join a community and then support that community and everyone in that community. I have seen this often.
Wow @freedompoint, I have never ever seen that at all. I have people asking me daily how to join homesteadersonline what the goldenAmbassadors are or steemUSA is etc etc. I see people running toward community not only wanting its support but offering their support.
I have seen those people who want the support of community and all the benefits of the community, but then want to set back and not return the support. They tank and never give back. Those kind of people will always be around though. Just the way it is.
I can see your point. I agree. I think you get what you put into it.
No ''work'' equals no post so there wouldnt be anything to upvote or resteem and by the same token fluff post or just outright bad post get sorted out in the long run. I do agree we have to all do our part for the community, and for the most part I really do think that is being done. As @goldendawne stated I also agree that upvoting and commenting especially seem to be at a all time high from what I am experiencing anyways.
Thank you,
No work is equal to the weakest link in my mind. I know people who are floaters and will sit back and let others do the work but as soon as recognition is being announced, they spin into action.
I have always enjoyed the homesteading community and try to make all involved feel welcome, give guidance and support as well as helping them find their way. Without the HSO community and group I'm not sure where I would be on steemit right now.
What do you mean by do the work? I am not sure what that would mean. If we don't do anything there can't be recognition for anything.
I was referring to when I worked in an office and we had projects with deadlines. Some people just showed up for work and did little to aid the project at hand. I suppose I should have clarified that in my previous comment.
I had been thinking about team work.
I can even remember one time in high school; during science/biology class and we were partnered up with another person the teacher choose. At the time it didn't click in my head but some people were complaining about how their partner wasn't doing any of the work but took the grade/recognition.
Nice! That makes sense!
I myself used to resteem a lot and I noticed my own posts were hard to find as they were buried in my feed with all the resteems, I read somewhere well a few somewheres people recommending to only resteem maximum one or two other posts between your posts so your feed is more orderly and your own posts are easier to find
as for the difference between the two posts, when there is a chance to win something and it insist you must resteem your more likely to get rreesteems I think
f I have already done a resteem or two since my last post I actually will skip entering or try to remember to do it later rather than adding another resteem to my feed, but this post will give me some thought about my resteeming pattern
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See now resteeming two or so post in between your own post is about right in my opinion. I dont think most are doing that here as of late anyways.
Yes I must admit when I get short on time sometimes I may be a bit slack but I try
I have also noticed resteeming not really increasing instant value for others posts on my pagr, however I myself have clicked on other posts because of a Resteem and have followed them at times. I think it really should be intentional and selective. For instance, lifting up a really great post that would have got lost, or helping a newer person get a little attraction as they put out their first posts. This makes me put some thought into it, thanks!
Yes using resteems to help new people is a must in my opinion.
You know, I haven't really spent any time thinking about why I'm pretty stingy with my resteems. I remember reading a few posts before I joined and started posting on Steemit and I remember being warned several times about not resteeming too much and not wanting to have your feed so full of resteems that followers couldn't find your own original content. I think I just filed that away in the back of my mind and followed the advice on auto pilot. I typically tend to have at least one resteem for every post I make, but I always think about will this be valuable for the people that follow me. Occasionally I like to look for new steemians with great content and resteem them just to ensure they get some views for their hard work as well. Thanks for forcing me to think it through, perhaps I'll be doing a lot more resteems.
Thats all I was trying to do. Thank you,
I think working as a community and supporting others is so important. No matter how small the gesture is. I see people all over steemit mentoring, delegating, commenting more than I normally saw in the past. All these things add up to a successful platform and positive result.
Some people may be hesitant to resteem too often as to not clutter their own pages, while others are just not resteemers in general.
On my end, I do resteem, but have cut back quite a bit in the last two months or so. Still just finding my way here and deciding what I need to do to get to the next level; or how to improve my blogging/writing platform.
Good post and gave me some food for thought; definitely.
Thank you @goldendawne. I agree about filling your feed full of everyone's post, but your own daily. I tend to resteem several people when I first get on then do my posting afterwards as to give both myself and others room on my feed. You still resteem more then most people by far.
I probably do. Most of what I share has categories:
Every post I resteem has a purpose I guess.
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Very interesting question. Here is the little experiment I ran on resteeming... I looked and saw how many upvotes the post had before I resteemed it and then checked an hour or so later. It is far from scientific, but I found that resteeming did not really do any good. That may be just me, I do not seem to be really making friends here. I have been considering delegating half my SP to my husband so he can give me a bigger upvote as he is really the only person who consistently does so. I tried joining discord groups, I got into thealliance and qurator, I started posting less... I make more money if I throw up a picture than if I actually work on a post. It is right in my face, too. I pour time and effort into a post, make a quarter. My roommate throws up a fuzzy picture and a couple sentences on the same topic, people love it. When MY cow had a calf, she made more telling people about it than I made with the video documentation. Hard not to take it personally, and if it is personal than my husband is the only upvote I will ever get... Rambling, sorry.
You have a very respectable reputation and over a thousand followers, You must be doing something right!
Persistence. I don't quit. But I get discouraged some days... Thanks for letting me vent a little.
Quite honestly, a lot of people are rather short sighted; or, at least, they have a very short time frame of reference. The whole notion of a gift economy and paying it forward and helping each other is more of a long term thing. The benefits of building an authentic and loyal following through genuine engagement means that you're planning for (possible) SBD that will come three months for now, rather than tomorrow.
We tend to be a very impatient society; we want results NOW. I would consider myself an exception, so I can only advise to stick to our own plans and not compare too much to those who look like they are "succeeding" because the 10 biggest votes on their post are purchased self-upvotes.
As for re-steeming, seems like it is most helpful to do at least 12 hours after an original post at which time is has dropped out of most people's feeds.
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Absolutely!
Well said, Thank you!
I was advised not to resteem unless it is something the entire community could benefit from like a heads up to spammers etc. I had folks muting me because they viewed it as spam because I was resteeming. Now I just tweet out for a select few.
What benefit does tweeting post offer do you think? Is It reaching other steemians that tweet? Or some other advantage?
It shares the post to others outside of steemit. Not everybody that follows me are tied to yt or homesteaders etc so it gives them another opportunity to gain subscribers/followers.
Gotcha. Thank you,
I think resteeming is a good idea. I haven't done too much, but I am starting to more. For me it is about the big picture. I think our interactions should be organic. Not a knee jerk reaction because a person belongs to a certain club or because we feel it is our duty. When we see a post that we feel somehow...boom, a resteem. That is how the "quality" gets sorted and passed along. I have yet to follow someone that I felt every post needed a resteem, comment or even an upvote.
What’s the big picture for you? Or in your opinion?
My issue with the platform is similar to @tattoodjay posted about the resteem showing in my blog with no way to filter or show only original posts.