Reviving @newbieresteemday - You Can Help!
The @newbieresteemday initiative was set up to help newcomers get more exposure for their posts. After being dormant for 6 months, I'm going to try to bring it back to life.
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Re-Introduction
The #newbiereteemday initiative was the brainchild of @mudcat36 and @davemccoy. Both wrote an introduction post to present their idea in January 2018.
The account @newbieresteemday was created a couple of months later.
The basic idea behind the initiative was to get the community to actively support newcomers.
In @mudcat36's initial post you can read;
(..) The Steemit Newbie Resteem Initiative would like to pay the help we have all received forward to new users by devoting a collective effort to finding newbies and resteeming them. If you are at a ranking of 40 or over you may be a minnow, but your far from inexperienced on Steemit, that experience can be brought forward to help strengthen the platform by assisting new users and helping them to stick with Steemit in the early days of their experience here.
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A Personal Note
My Own Journey
Before I go on, I want to share with you the important role the @newbieresteemday initiative has played in my journey here on SteemIt.
I started on this platform in October or November 2017. Since I was used to flying solo, I didn't know any better, and tried to grasp the entire concept of the platform on my own.
I guess I don't need to say that wasn't such a big success.
At the time, I was mainly into website flipping and internet/affiliate marketing, and I initially saw this platform as an opportunity to promote my affiliate links. Boy, was I wrong... After the first week, I was already flagged down to rep 11. The community did not like affiliate links in posts, back then. I guess you could say a whole lot has changed since that time. :0)
But I didn't give up. It wasn't easy, because I had never written blog posts before, but somehow I managed to get my reputation score back up to 51.
But then I realized I would never get any traction with the username I had at the time. After misspelling it myself for the 10th time, I decided to create a new account with an easy to remember and hard to misspell username... this account.
When I look back now, it was a smart decision, but creating a new account meant I had to start all over again. I went from being a minnow back to being a redfish with a rep score of 25.
So, that happened in January 2018.
Fortunately, I had met @davemccoy a couple of weeks earlier, and he invited me to join the @newbieresteemday team. I accepted the invitation, and I'm glad I did. Joining the initiative was the smartest move I ever made. Without it, I would have been long gone by now.
A Bunch Of Redfish
By joining NRD, I suddenly met a truckload of people. If I remember correctly, we were all fairly new to the platform. Just a bunch of redfish supporting each other and other redfish with everything we had. Maybe some of us were minnows already, but I'm pretty sure most weren't - except for our sponsors @abh12345 and @coolguy123, and our partners @danielsaori and @goldendawne.
We were a happy bunch and I learned what it was like to engage with others. And something I had absolutely not expected, happened: a lot of these people became my friends. I never thought it would be possible to become friends with people you never met in real life, but obviously, I was wrong.
We laughed together, we cried together, we spilled our guts and we had fights. But in the end, we were more than just a team. At least, in my experience.
Meanwhile, a lot of the people have left the platform - either temporary or permanent. And some of them, I still miss every single day.
@amariespeaks, @terminallyill, @charisma777, @jan23com, @smylie2005, @gracefavour, @royaleagle, @deliberator, @jorlauski, @wanderlass, @gracefavour, @plushzilla... How often do I wonder how you guys are doing and if you will ever return...
Others are still around, and even though @newbieresteemday was put on hold more than 6 months ago, I still consider these people as my friends, and I engage with them regularly. They'll always have a special place in my heart, because of everything we've been through together. People like @davemccoy, @mudcat36 (I'm glad you decided to become more active again), @beeyou, @bashadow, @cryptkeeper17, @abh12345, @lynncoyle1, @themanwithnoname (and everyone I'm forgetting to list right now) are still a part of my life on SteemIt.
It's thanks to all of these people that I am where and who I am today.
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But let's get on with it...
Support Is Needed
Since HF20 happened last September, newcomers are struggling to survive. The limitations set by the Resource Credits system are making it very hard for them to post and/or engage. They need the help of the community more than ever.
I'm not going to go into the matter again, since I have been repeating myself over and over again these last couple of weeks, trying to raise awareness about the fact that newcomers are treated in a very unfair way, and that we need to unite in order to support them.
These last couple of weeks, I've been working with people like @xcountytravelers, @brittandjosie, @thekittygirl, @swedishdragon, @thedarkhorse, @akomoajong and others, trying to help newcomers out by handing out delegations, providing answers to their questions and trying to get more eyes on their posts.
In spite of all the effort everyone is putting in, it feels like we're fighting a running battle. For days, I have been thinking of a way to get more people involved.
A Lot Of Promises, But...
Yesterday, the @newbieresteemday initiative came to mind. The project and the account have been dormant for more than 6 months, but I thought it would be worth a shot.
If it works out, great! If it doesn't, at least I will have tried :0)
For now, I'm using the account to resteem some quality posts made by newcomers, trying to give them some more exposure.
A lot of them leave, because of lack of attention. Pretty often, their 'Introduce Yourself' post gets a ridiculous amount of automated ánd human comments, and sometimes reaches a post payout that's worth more than I ever made on any of my posts. Some posts get upvotes worth +$40... I guess you could say our initial welcoming system is working pretty good.
But then they face reality. They post a second, a third, a fourth post... and the only upvotes and comments that come in are the ones from @steemitboard and other services. No matter the quality of the post, it simply gets lost in the neverending stream of posts that are published here each day.
I can imagine this is pretty demotivating... I don't know how long I would be able to keep that up myself.
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You Can Help!
It would mean a great deal to these newcomers if they would actually get a little human engagement.
Knowing that they're not spending time and effort to write posts no one ever sees, would be a motivation to keep going.
And that's where you come in.
It would be awesome if you would be prepared to follow the @newbieresteemday account, and leave a message on a couple of posts every now and then. This doesn't have to take up a lot of your precious time... just a couple of words would already mean the world to them.
And if you need an extra incentive, I can give you one: for every comment you make - no matter the length of it - you might gain a new follower for life.
Future
The idea is to reinstate the actual idea of the @newbieresteemday initiative again, but I'm taking this one step at a time. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
So, for now, I'm asking for nothing more than to visit the account's feed every now and then, and spend 10 minutes of your time giving our newcomers a little TLC.
That's not unreasonable, right?
Soon, I'll let you know how you can help even more if you want to... no obligations, no strings attached.
But I thought we could already start small, so at least something is happening while I'm thinking about the future of @newbieresteemday again.
So, I guess I can only say: "Stay tuned!"
If you come across a post of a newcomer (rep score below 53) of which you think it deserves a little more exposure, feel free to leave a link to it in the comments section below!
I won't be able to handle this on my own, so I'm inviting the people that actively work with newcomers, like @xcountytravelers, @thekittygirl, @brittandjosie and the other members of Steem Terminal, @hitmeasap and @swedishdragon - or anyone else who comes across newcomers' posts often - to use the @newbieresteemday account to resteem quality posts and give them a little more exposure. Just send me a DM on Discord if you're interested (@simplymike#5957)
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I was reading this and thinking, but how can we hello with comments when its so hard to find newcomers? Then I got to the end and thought, genius!
It doesn't always work. I sometimes wonder if some newcomers don't know how to check for comments on their posts. So often I've seen lots of comments and the author hasn't replied to anyone. Let's hope this helps some of them, though.
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You don't get far when you only have 5 or 15SP. If you take into consideration how many comments an introduction post gets, it is almost impossible for a newcomer to reply to all of them. They will run out of RC every couple of comments, then have to wait until RC has recharged before they can comment again. This will leave no RC to spend on a post. It's a tricky situation that scares most people away.
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Hmm, yes that is off putting. It's incredibly frustrating how overwhelming and off putting some aspects of Steem are.
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Yep, I don't know what STINC was thinking when implementing the RC system and keeping it up. Imo, they're simply killing the platform with it :0(
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Good Job. I've only just come back.
It's tough these days......I'll be following and giving input!!
It's bloody hard to get real people to read and comment on any post now days.
There's a truckload of content published every day. And the more DApps will be created, the more posts will be published.
It's not easy to get noticed...
Thanks for the support 👍
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What a great idea! Starting this week I'm resuming my duties as judge at the @pifc contest, and if all goes well, I'll find the time to help out here as well 😊
I've missed you too 😊❤️
Since you're resuming your jury duties, I assume you gus are still fully enjoying paradise?
Good to here from you again. I really miss the neverending fun in the comments sections we used to have 💜
Yep, life is definitely ok here! ...all things considered 😊
Always nice to see you too!
First I want to say I love the fact you love new accounts just as much as I do , and as much as my steemterminal friends do! The NRD account I missed because I didn’t enter the platform yet at that time and I am glad you did the CPR on this account ! So YES I WILL ! I have a lot steemstuff going on but I will do my best and combine all things together. I followed you now and I even saw that there are a few people I helped when NRD was still active. I will sent you the ones I think need extra exposure and offcourse we at steemterminal and @heyhaveyamet will stay active for the new accounts aswell. If people need us we are available in discord.
Gr Britt
That reminds me, I will add a link to teem terminal to the comment I leave when I resteem with NRD! 👍
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That’s great dear thanx
Very cool initiative... I am also missing a contest I used to participate. Maybe I should take over it, since the previous host seems to have left the Steem camp...?
What do you mean with 'a contest I used to participate in'?
Love this @simplymike. Personally I've also been a bit slack on the platform these days due to life commitments, but still my posts struggle to get exposure and I have been around for a year now, today actually! Just got the notification from @steemitboard.
Just thought of a cool idea. Might be cool to work with a adoptee group. Pair up Steemians on different levels that have similar interests (so they can actually connect) and let them interact for a month. For example, A newbie, seasoned redfish, minnow and a dolphin maybe. I'm sure there are plenty of active users who would be keen. But I have to stress that the group must have similar interests, i have been in a similar group before and it felt very forced. No connectivity and a few of the users were just there for the upvotes and did not bother participating!
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Congrats on your first anniversary!!
I must admit that it had been a long time since I had seen one of your posts. I rarely look at my feed. I opened up busy.org to publish my post, and purely by incident, it was right there in front of me. I would have found it through the @pifc post, though.
I have been thinking about an adoptee plan a while ago, but it requires a lot of commitment from every party. There were a few people who had such a program running individually (there still are, like @hitmeasap and @johndoer123), and there used to be a tag, but I thought it would be awesome to scale it.
However, I'm super-chaotic, and I'm not the person to set up a system like that.
If I remember correctly, there was also a Discord community (I don't remember the name, only that it was an all-girl community and that I got kicked out because I wasn't following all the rules) who had such a program set up.
It would definitely make things easier for newbies, but the bigger accounts are so busy already... In a perfect world, it would be an ideal solution, but in the real world... I don't know if it is doable....
Thanks!! It's been a crazy ride!! But I'm still here!!
Yeah, I birthed a kid back in December and it just all kinda went mental. Been back at work since she was 2 months already as well so time is my only issue. So won't be the best person to chair this either!! I actually haven't even been on discord since December.
If I can manage to post an actifit post a day it's at least something. But feel a bit bad using time to blog here while I could be writing for my company blog. But making time here and there!! So hopefully you'll see some more of my posts soon!!
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Great initiative! I think these things are never easy to get off the ground due to inertia. But it's such a good idea. We need fresh blood and new faces! I will resteem this for awareness and as a reminder to help whenever I can.
Thanks for the support.
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I remember receiving help from this initiative too when I just started out myself.
Pretty cool seeing you are trying to revive the account/initiative @simplymike.
It's just an attempt. I'm not the real 'organizing-type' - too chaotic for that.
But I've been following up on newcomers, and I wanted to give them some more exposure. To be honest, I did't want to clutter my personal blog with those resteems, so I started using an alt account. But that account doesn't have a lot of followers, so it wouldn't be very effective.
Then I remembered the @newbieresteemday account. I have no idea how many of the 1400 followers are still active today...we'll have to see about that.
The initial idea of @newbieresteemday was that everyone schedules a 'newbieresteemday' every once in a while. I'm going to try to bring that back... it doesn't require a lot of organization skills, since people do it individually - so I might be able to pull it off... maybe.
Everything depends on the goodwill of the community.
One thing I'm sure of: it's an experiment. I do not want to experience the pressure I experienced when I was running @newbiegames. I'm only presenting an idea, it's up to the community to make it work
Oops! I commented with the wrong account. A perfect example of how organized I am, lol
Stellar idea @simplymike. Tell your sponsored newbies that it would be smart for them to comment on one of my most recent posts(save their votes). Thanks for bringing this back it was an amazing program that created and kept a ton of us around on here. Thanks also for the mention that was very kind.
After all, you were part of it, right?
I really miss the NRD days sometimes... often, actually.
For this post, I went to look up who was actually part of it, and it was shocking to see how few of us are left. Also, I was surprised to see some were still here, but I had completely missed that 😂
It's all very basic at the moment - don't want to get into the same situation I got in when I was running @newbiegames... 😉
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Awesome @simplymike! I'm super thrilled you are doing this :)
And let me know if you need my help with anything... I will try to get some SP so I can delegate a little to the account too. I haven't been posting much, but I'm sure I can up participation on Steemit in order to earn some to help such a good cause!
Oh, Dave, there is indeed something you can do for me. Could you please change the bio of the account. It now displays the Discord link. But it is as good as dead, for all I can see. Maybe you could add a link to this post instead?
Yes I will be happy to... I will add this post as the link for sure!!!
Thanks, Dave.
I'll see how this goes, and then I might reinstate the request to create a newbieresteemday every once in a while.
But taking it one step at a time. No more @newbiegames-like stress situations, 😂 I'm busy enough as it is.
@coolguy123 never took back his delegation to NRD, so there was still 200SP in the account. I've added another 200SP. I think that should be enough to cover it for now. I'll be offering to give the people from Steem Terminal the posting key too, so they won't have to go through me all the time
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yes no pressure whatsoever, there was nothing happening... so anything you do is a plus! And thanks for all you do in every aspect for everyone :)