RE: Steemit Strategies - Making the Most of Comments
Thanks for stopping by! I am very excited that you have visited. I'm a big baseball geek and poker fan also, but hadn't found you yet on Steemit (my fault).
Here is what I would answer to that -
First, I can order my comments (and I get quite a few, nothing like the whales, of course) in 4 different ways - trending, value, age, reputation. I can also hide comments I don't want to look at.
Second, my suggestion to "posters" is to upvote ALL their good commenters to encourage return visits.
My suggestion to "commenters" is to upvote responses to their comments to show appreciation and build rapport if they have the VP and if they believe that it will get to .03 (otherwise it is wasted).
I do upvote my own comments, but only after 3 days have passed. I do this for both selfish and altruistic reasons. I make more money using some of my VP to upvote my comments (100% of the reward in many cases). I also do it so that the hundreds of small fish that I curate over the week (upvoting their content) will actually get a curation reward for upvoting my comment at .001 or whatever it is. My upvote coming in after theirs boosts their curation reward as I demonstrated with @krusper in the post.
3rd - Most of my readers on this post have very little VP and their upvotes of their own comments often don't even reach .01 so they don't advance up the comment tree anyways. When I look at big payout posts like you have, most posters don't really even care about who is upvoting their own comments. Case in point - Your Avengers post's top comment is from Bitcoinandcoffee. They upvoted their own comment to .18, but never even upvoted your post. (I have visited, read, commented and upvoted it by the way - very cool recap of events)
Long story short - (although I've rambled here, sorry)
You and I have more flexibility because we have much more SP than most of the readers here. If they get flagged for upvoting their own comment, what does that really amount to? Less than a few cents maximum. If they are making quality comments just like anyone else, those will be appreciated regardless of the upvotes.
Lastly, I sincerely do appreciate you stopping by and I'm glad I found your blog because I like your post ideas. You got a follow from me. Wish you all the best.
I don't mind that as much, since typically any discussion has passed. Though I would point out that you make plenty of comments on your own posts to use all of your voting power if that's what you want. I'm also a lot more willing to let it go on quality comments, which you usually make, though it will generally lose you my upvote on them.
Turns out it isn't anymore.
Yeah I don't care if a plankton does it. The guy who came into the minnowbooster whitelist post to demand an invite and upvoted himself to $2.40 can get bent though.
Besides, anybody who self-upvotes below $0.02 is just wasting their voting power anyway. That comment won't pay out unless somebody else comes along and helps them. Plankton by and large shouldn't be upvoting comments at all, but sticking to posts, where their vote will matter.
I love this!
I don't get too many people visiting me with $2.40 upvotes. lol I hope to have these problems in the not too distant future. lol
Yes, I saw that you handled bitcoinandcoffee pretty quickly.
I don't use ALL my voting power. According to Steemworld, I'm using a little more than 1/2 my voting power on self-votes. I think that is a good range. To be honest, I'd like to be at 60%.
I post good articles that are 100% original so I fear very little in any backlash from the community.
Of course, if I could ever get an invite to the Minnowbooster whitelist, I would probably change my strategies on upvoting considerably. I'm on the Smartsteem whitelist and that helps, but availability there has been a little inconsistent at times. It would be nice to have both in my pocket.
I've gotten a little confused over which people I followed because I was evaluating them. I must have had some other reason to follow you. Next time I get one - probably later today sometime - you can have it.
Wow! That would be fantastic. You would do that for a Royals fan? lol
Thanks for considering me.
Royals fans should have something to look forward to.
You've been invited.
Thanks bud! I can't thank you enough. My fingers are crossed. ;)
And you already have your five votes. Admin review is taking a while right now but with votes arriving that fast I think you don't have much to worry about.
Very cool. How will I know when they decide?