Voting Apathy and Your Unloved Blogs

We’ve all been there and most of us still do. Our blogs don’t get the attention we think they deserve. You can spend hours coming up with good content but there’s no guarantee it would get upvoted. Unless you are in some dolphin or whale’s upvoting list, there’s not much you can do but rely on the generosity of random steemians that come by your post.

(Naghirap kayo sa post niyo. Binigyan niyo ng maraming panahon para maka isip ng magandang ipopost. Pero wala talaga. Besh ang saklap na walang siguradong magmamahal nito. Pabebe nalang kayo sa mga balyena para may kasiguraduhan. Pwede naman umasa sa limos ng kapwa.)

Voting apathy happens when people don’t feel compelled to upvote your blog. Even if they are entertained by it, there’s not much umpf in their system to motivate them to click that sweet upvote. That feeling when you see a post you somewhat like for a moment but then never bother leaving a comment or upvote.

(Kawalang paki sa pag boto ng blog kahit nagustuhan nila post mo. Hirap ma kumbinse ang madla para ma click lang yung post mo. Nangyayari rin ito sa lahat paminsan minsan. Aminin mo nalang kasi na kahit kaibigan or kamaganak mo yan, hindi ka kumbinsido sa mema post niya.)

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If you’re not guilty of this and actually do upvote or comment, good for you, we need more people like you in the platform. However, for the mainstream masses that have the “me, me, me” attitude, these types rule dominate the population. You can blame it partly to the system in place.

(Kelangan natin ng maraming taong galante mag boto dahil puro makasarili yung pag iisip ng karamihan. Pera pera lang besh at isisi natin yan sa sistema.)

There’s little incentive to upvoting others especially when money is a main motivator.

(Uulitin ko, pera pera lang)

If you’re only thinking about your own upvote’s worth, there’s more reward to be obtained when you upvote yourself than someone else’s post. You get to keep 100% of the payout compared to sharing that 25% curation rewards on someone else’s post.

(Totoo naman na mas malaki pa yung balik sayo at solo mo ba yung reward kesa mag upvote kapa ng iba.)

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5 Basic Reasons Why People Upvote a Post

• They like your post
• Returning a favor
• They happen to be on a trail.
• Combat a downvote.
• Random upvoting spree

This applies for manual voting only.

Voting apathy is a serious obstacle a steemian needs to overcome when they want to be somebody in the platform. However, this can be circumvented by just buying more steem power and love will follow. It kills an author’s motivation to post.

(Gusto mo sumikat? Bili ka ng maraming SP, parang langaw lang ang pagsidatiingan ng followers. Pwede kana magsimula ng kulto mo pag ganon.)

So how can one overcome voting apathy?

There’s quick fix to this. It all boils down to how much you are willing to invest building relationships with the people in the platform. Understand that people are more emotionally inclined to upvote a post compared being rational about it. Most would just upvote because they like you and not because they would agree with your content. There’s also automated upvotes just to prevent people from bugging you with notifications “Hey I made a post”.

(Hindi naman nag uupvote ang karamihan dahil quality hanap nila eh. Basta bestpren, kakilala, or kamag-anak, may upvote yan yung post pampafeelgood para lang di kulitin. Basta mema post lang ok na.)

Chat on discord servers especially with people revolving around your chosen niche. Make friends by curating, upvoting, and commenting on posts without expecting anything grand in return. There’s no guarantee the favor would be return but the gesture is always appreciated.

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You see, people count their blessing in the platform.

Authors that earn less count the number of people that upvote their posts and note them down. Believe in the power of reciprocity that people are more likely compelled to return the favor when you did something good for them.

(Aminin mo nalang na sa umpisa ganito ka kasipag mag bilang ng followers na nag bibigay ng upvote sayo. Sundan mo ako dahil susundan rin kita. Besh, supportahan natin isat-isa.)

How much time you are willing to spend engaging with other authors will be proportionate to how much you would earn. Unless you are filthy rich and bought a lot of steem power to print your own money from upvotes, you’d have to settle for better PR practices.

I have yet to meet a steemian that invested nothing but talent and time in the platform that has no meaningful connections with other steemians.

(Pano ka sisikat kung hindi ka makikipag usap sa ibang steemians. Kahit mag post ka ng maganda diyan, kung walang engagement, pabebe, or pasipsip hindi ka uunlad. Siguraduhin mo lang na hindi peke yung pinapakita mo para sulit naman pag upvote sayo.)

It’s a cliche advise but that’s how this platform mostly operates. If everyone went for upvoting only quality content, then we’d have less shitposts being upvoted. Skill in creating posts helps put rational reason to a person’s upvote but it’s mostly about emotional bias.This isn’t the case all the time but it happens most of the time.

(Wag mag reklamo sa mga balyenang nag uupvote ng malaki sa mga mema post ng iba kung mismo ikaw nag uupvote sa mema post ng kapitbahay mo.)

Still have difficulty grasping the advice?

How much time have your spent talking to people around your chosen niche? Do you even have a chosen niche for you blogs or are you just shooting random topics here and there? Do you even know your intended audience?

Don’t expect greater rewards when you don’t know your audience. If you’re a musician blogging about music, you’d laser focus on trying to create blogs the music enthusiasts would prefer reading. A niche market works for a reason.

When you’re just shooting random topics on your blogs and not engaged with the community, you’re going to have a bad time. Think about the quality of interactions you had recently and explore more communities that are tuned with your interests. Adapt your blogs to your readers in the platform or at the very least, just be more engaging with other Steemians.

_{Note: Tagalog Translation is not accurate.}

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This article was written for @BestofPH by @Adamada

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