Why it PAYS to comment! Helping you with incentives
Hello Steemmates! Not feeling the Steem power yet like old Wade Wilson here? Well I wanted to share my thoughts to some new Steemoners that may help you with your incentives..... COMMENTING! Commenting will help drive your Steem and Steem dollars. I notice mostly all new Steemians just like to vote on the first thing in trending and keep it moving, but this is going against Steemit payout distribution goals which are To Produce The Best Discussions on The Internet. So to Reward you for this Steemits payout distribution allows you to take advantage of just that.
"Good discussion requires back and forth posting. When you reply to someone else, they get 50% of any payout you receive in that thread. This rule applies up to 6 levels deep. Starting a big discussion greatly rewards the parent poster.
Failure to properly nest your posts in the discussion is a good way to get down voted.
This incentive structure motivates people to contribute in a way that motivates others to get involved. It encourages people to ask good questions so that others can provide valuable answers.
Payouts
When a post receives a payout it takes the form of 50% SMD and 50% SP. The Steem Power give the user increased voting and transaction power while the SMD gives the user an immediate benefit in a stable currency. As we’ve already discussed at length, both SP and SMD are designed to encourage long-term holding rather than short-term selling." via Steemit white paper
This will help a lot of you new Steem users as you try to get going, this is a great alternative to just voting which since the number of times you can vote is limited you can still get rewards by contributing in discussions.
I can attest to the majority of my incentives have come from blogging rewards which I have been able to make a few dollars from just having a good old fashion discussion with people! Which I then converted to Steem power. So get out of the robotic mind set and interact with your Steemmates and drive your wallet and Steemit in the process.
Oh btw im tired of using the same steemit terms can someone contribute more names please? Thanks https://steemit.com/steem/@bjones/how-many-terms-or-demonyms-can-you-come-up-with-involving-steem
Cool thx mate!
You are very welcome, now watch in a few days time you will receive an incentive :) good luck!
so it is better for the both of you to continue the conversation this way and not replying to the op, is this right ?
That's a good question, I would also like to know.
It gets very technical with curating and unfortunately I don't have much of that knowledge, it's based of an algorithm that's to the 6th power or something. I'm not sure if we have an entire back and forth if it makes a huge difference or not
I've tried to tell this to my friends, that voting and commenting is as big of a part as submitting, yet they continue to give it a "shot" at submitting random irrelevant submissions hoping to hit gold.
I'd rather comment and vote, and see my SP grow over time instead of spikes now and then.
In reading my post make sure they pay attention to the number of times they vote. Since you are limited, voting too many times will dilute your voting power. But I have not seen anything about commenting being limited. Thanks for your reply
Thanks for the good post! We really need more quality posts!
i appreciate you and taking the time.
Well, it's not a mystery as to who down voted you. All votes are clearly visible by clicking on the down-arrow next to "votes." It would be nice if Steemians that down vote had the courtesy to at least comment as to why they voted as so.
Right...or maybe have a dialog first and if my response isn't adequate or if I come off as a prick then it's justified. Thanks for your input I didn't think to check that.
Thank you for teaching new users like how to catch up fast. Keep going!
Thank you for this, really helps me as I'm trying to unravel the "mystery" of how this all works.
So if I just want to create content, is that cool? I'm excited to engage with more than my own posts, but also curious about the triggers and limits.