RE: ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ It's my Steemit Anniversary: 1 year on Steemit! ๐๐ฅ๐ฐ๐
Congratulations Mrs Pandorasbox on your one year anniversary/birthday/whatever!
I'm glad that I'm newer to Steem than you are, as it is I see way too much pro-Steem sentiment here. I'm not saying it's bad, I'd just like to see the uninformed fans be more realistic and not elevating Steemit to god status! (Especially Steemit with it's many problems, the Steem blockchain itself is really good.)
Talking about Steemit problems...
So we have you to blame for the badly behaved bratty monster that haejin has become! ๐ Oh well, I guess we all make mistakes!
Decluttering a feed is important and I strongly recommend it. I only follow 21 Steemians, which is enough for me. Some of them hardly ever post. Quality over quantity! Which brings me to...
Thank you for your blog posts. I have not been following you for long, but I can assure you that your posts are a cut above the rest. I encourage you to keep up the good work and to know that it is appreciated! I also know very well how frustrating it is to spend hours every night blogging for a few SBD, only to see some other moron make $500 with five line posts and kindergarten TA five times a day. Your posts are quality posts, and that means a lot, even it it doesn't translate into the rewards that it should.
Looking forward to your second year of posting. Best of luck!
Thanks!!
Haha, yes, in part I may be to blame a little bit for Haejin getting out of control.... a tiny bit only though! The rest of the blame I pass on to those whales up massively upvote him!
If you think the fake positivity is a big thing now, it used to be a lot worse. I think it's because people think that negativity gets you no upvotes, and you can always find somebody to go 'Yeah! Steemit rocks!' when you post about Steemit.
I would recommend you to do a little experiment of your own, since you're a bit newer than me. Steemit hosts a variety of subcommunities where people are overtly enthusiastic. I have noticed that if you post about Bitshares, Steemit (=awesome) or EOS that on average you will get more upvotes than with other subjects, as long as you are positively praising the projects. At least it seemed that way for me..
Thanks for the compliments about my blog! Even though you're newer on the platform, I've been pretty impressed by your writing too so far. I'm actually considering putting you on auto-vote through steemvoter since most of your content is quality enough... maybe make our own little circle of quality crypto-Steemians who support eachother. Why not?
Now you've just taught me something. Do you have a link to this auto-voter? It's the first that I hear of it. I would be happy to return the favour to to your quality blog.
www.steemvoter.com
I actually just added you to my list, then got back to Steemit and saw your comment here :)
There is one catch to using it though: I think they use (or at least reserve the right to) use one of your upvotes each day for their own purposes.
The advantages are that you can set an auto-vote and forget about it and it will come in consistently at the time you specified which helps with curation rewards.
Thanks. I'll check it out tomorrow.
I've got another tip for you by the way: @qurator
I'm not sure if it's still as economically viable as when I joined up (prices changes, so did upvotes) but the basic gist of it is that they only accept people who post original content. They offer several things: automatic upvote once every 24 hours (you make your investment back after a short while), an honest upvote bot, and a chat channel where you can drop links once a day as long as you also read/upvote/comment on somebody else's post there - since it's original content you can usually find something there
Thank you. I read a post or two there quickly. I have bookmarked it for now and may consider it later. At the moment I don't want to spread my vote too thin. I already belong to ShadowBot - partly as an experiment, partly to get votes. Though I've been there a few months already, I have yet to get a single cent out of them :) But I acknowledge that it's not designed to be a short-term plan, the longer you belong, the better your chances of votes/payouts. https://steemit.com/bots/@bitbrain/give-the-bots-a-chance
I am against bots in principle, but I do see the potential value in them. Honestly I wish that Steem would just ban them.
I hadn't heard of ShadowBot before. In any case, @qurator is not so automated. People still choose who they upvote, and it's not netting me much but the daily $0.05 or so upvote is nice. Back in december it was up to $0.35 a day, which meant I could recoup the buy-in cost pretty quick.
I don't like bots either but unfortunately in the beginning there is not much else you can do to get some visibility. It makes a world of difference if your post makes $0.03 or $1.00 even if you paid $0.97 of that yourself - at least the latter one will get some views and hopefully a follower or two.
Sad but true