SteemVoter is down, Time for some manual Curation!
I want to challenge everyone who was using Steemvoter to focus your curation powers on good and helping new users and those outside your normal circle.
SteemVoter is down!
In case you didn't notice, steemvoter is down it sounds like it could be for almost a week. This means all your favorite authors and friends aren't going to be getting there votes, so if you wish be sure to head over and support them all, but I challenge you to seek out some new users to support, take some extra time to search through some tags you enjoy and help out a few struggling minnows. They are the future and the more we can increase the active user base on steemit the better it is going to be for us all in the long term.
Of course if you do want to cast auto votes you could always use SteemAuto. I'm not familiar with it but just a couple days ago a friend here on steemit offered this great review of the service. It looks pretty robust and actually has a few more features and no paid premium service.
I hate change so I'm more than happy to wait for steemvoter to come back online and enjoy this chance to do some manual curation.
Manual Curation
My challenge to everyone reading is that you take this week while steemvoter is down to give some manual curation a try, and not just manually curating your same circle. Make some new friends and help out some new users. I'm sure it will put a smile on there faces and really encourage them to be more active here on steemit. I know your friends are probably going to miss your votes, heck I'm likely even one of them if your reading this, but I'm sure they'll understand just for this week.
I've found great benefit and satisfaction recently with actively trying to upvote and support new users. See how you feel after the end of the week, maybe you'll have some warm and fuzzy's and feel good about the good deed you have done. There's nothing I don't like more than hitting someone new with a 100% upvote and watching there reputation rise a few points. I can't wait till my 100% upvote is finally worth a full $1. There'll be a lot of 100% votes to new users and fresh posts that day!
Give it a try, find some new users to Curate
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I didn't realize how many people had me on steemvoter! As soon as it went down, my upvotes went quiet. On one hand, I'm honored that people trust me to make good posts that they do not mind upvoting without curating. On the other hand, now I can see who is upvoting because they READ my post and appreciated it. Either way, manual curating is something everyone should be doing anyway, in addition to steemvoter.
BTW, I received my package on Friday, much appreciated! Excellent service, smooth as silk. That CANADA 150 is really nice. @ironshield
Glad you like the round man. I wish I had more time to check out more posts and do more manual voting. I'm just going to need to get more voting power so it stretches farther.
Good idea mate, I haven't done in on new users in a while. Having Steem Vote down has allowed my voting power to increase though ;)
I just gave this an UP Vote and I also gave an UP Vote to everyone that was on here that had commented before I did. STEEMIT is about being kind to others. I am trying to Live the Golden Rule................
Auto voting is lame anyway
haha, it can be a bit soulless at times, but effective when we are busy, etc ... it's a way of not forgetting those we support or just to keep our STEEM producing more ching-a-ling
I personally never vote for anything I didn't read.
The sea of new users is wide and deep. Content is usually good. Come in and do some manual curating, the water is fine. I've been doing this since I started here six months ago and I have found new friends and great content.
Yeah, your definitely a master new user finder. I've found some great users from your resteems.
Thank you, @phelimint!
oh wow. I didn't even know that autovoting happened. This is a really great idea to give newbies an incentive to create more content and get themselves noticed. It's pretty chilly, those first few days. You were one of the first to give me a leg-up and it was always appreciated.
I'm waiting for my voting power to return (tomorrow) and will then upvote. thanks Phelimint :)
Yeah, it's a slow start for newbies, but just keep at it!
Venture outside my circle 😣 as I probably won't do that I have helped 5 guys sign up this week 😎 Steemsilvergold goin up! 📈
I noticed, master recruiter, keep it up. I barely recruited one guy in six months...lol.
A great challenge and a super idea. We have a mini-lab opportunity to see what we can do as a broad community. Looking forward to participating even as I normally do, through this time frame. Thank you very much for proffering this information and challenge. Best of luck, be well.
I 100% agree with you @phelimint. As a new user I was delighted that my intro post gained nearly 100 views and quite a few upvotes. It is challenging when you are new here and trying to build a follower base so you can make some posts that are going to be seen.
I'm not across SteemVoter and manually like posts but I will continue to like new users and content.
Great post
Oh yeah, those first few months can be pretty hard and lonely, just keep at it and you'll start getting noticed.
I know quite a few people are not so thrilled about it being down but I am for one welcome the change. Steemit starts to get very interesting when the humans are left alone to their own device and not being overshadowed by automation.
I only have one person I even had auto voted on anymore. I just prefer manual curation as I love to leave comments anyways. Some days I swear I upvote comments more than I do blogs.
Yeah, I cut mine down considerable recently, but still never seam to have enough voting power.