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RE: why is upvoting important.
That makes sense. This is really a platform about making money, not reading or writing anything of value. While there may be some philanthropy by the whales, the majority are only going to upvote posts they think will be popular, and by their upvotes they make them popular because there are bots and followers who want to jump on that bandwagon and get heavy upvotes as well.
I really appreciate this information. It clarifies a lot for me. If you've visited my blog, you'll note in my banner I claim to be a fool. I truly am. My criteria for writing is far different from most of the bloggers here.
- I tend to upvote 100 percent whenever I read and comment on a post.
- I do have a couple of people I follow and upvote, but not that many simply because I'm only going to support what I feel is quality information, not fluff.
- My upvote potential seldom falls below 80 percent since there isn't much quality on Steemit to upvote IMHO.
- Often the people I follow have ideas diametrically opposed to mine. I don't troll, but I try to get people to think about the things they are saying, not just reacting from their conditioning or regurgitation what they've been told. That makes for interesting conversations. They don't often upvote me in return since I'm rubbing their noses in polemic.
- I agree to disagree. If I only followed people I agreed with I would learn nothing. I'm kind of like an ant at a picnic, not real popular.
Given your above exposé, I now understand why I'm not gaining much traction here. This has been very enlightening. Thank you.
This platform has only been going maybe a couple of years and the orriginals who came to it first have alot staked in this community, it would be nice for the whales to up vote minnows stuff, and in all fairness I have seen it happen.
I too only upvote the stuff that means something to me, I look at peoples posts and if i see something i like I give it an upvote.
I have been upvoting following and resteeming new peoples post who to me seem to be the ones who right now have took the time to write about them selves and why they have come to steemit.
if any off the people i follow start to wonder of track and post items that are copy write, i will stop the up voting and seace to follow them, as this goes for everything I stand for.
like i said before, if you find 10 people who are interested in the same thing as you, and you guys upvote each other, you would inturn make money from your posts, instead of having to rely on the odd up vote here and there, if you get me.
I like to have followers, but it seems that the big hitters on here have 1000's of followers and there posts get the massive upvotes, where i don't have that kind of following and i get pence.
its all about who you know not what you know. :)