RE: Upvoted and resteemed. Oh, have you really? Let’s check shall we?
Good job. I'm with you on this too! I don't know what's going on in Steemit.
I have had a batch of people not voting but coming around to comment to make author rewards. ?? I don't understand this thinking.
I patiently talked to one new person about it to find out where she learned this. I sort of "mentored" her for a bit. But she continued commenting and not up-voting anyone but herself. She also complained that her steem power was too low. Isn't that true for all of us?
We all had to start and start out slowly. We can't have it all at once. I still have to budget my steem power. When it's low, I stop voting and commenting until it goes up.
I finally put it in black and white for her, nicely of course.
She openly admits to "piggy backing" on higher rep posts so she gets upvoted by them - she said she makes more money that way. She believed her comments were adding "value" to posts ... I asked what that meant to her? Where is the value for me??or other posters? Ugh.
I was kind and tried to explain how to succeed on Steemit. She took my words as harsh criticism and went around for a week bad mouthing me to a lot of people.
It bothered me for days. I felt like writing a post to expose her — I don't want her mooching off my friends.
Then, the grown up me stood up and said, that's enough. I muted her so I didn't have to see the comments complaining about me.
Rant.....that's all I did for a couple of days. I was frustrated with Steemit. Frustrated that I am repeating myself 10 x a day to sometimes the same people. @steemcleaners can't keep up with comment spam, plagiarizers, scammers, etc.
I hope someone practicing this learns from what you wrote and also from my experience.
I too check before I upvote anyone on my post and if they ask me to look at their post, I don't even answer anymore.
As a newbie, I was trying to learn the ropes with commenting and upvoting, but was then told to keep my % over 80% or else, I wasn't really helping anyone. I was frustrated and wrote this post and got a variety of responses. I believe there are times when I've received a valuable comment without an upvote and I'm ok with that. I equate it to working as a bartender. Tips are nice, but I don't expect them. That being said, if they're upvoting only their own, then that says something about their priorities. But, if they've been busy reading and commenting and maybe they're about to sign off and notice a very striking title, and click on it to find the article was engaging enough to warrant a well organized response. Isn't that response worth something? Are we just here for the upvotes, or for the community? I mean no disrespect, this topic just sits on a fine line in my opinion.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment @crowbarkids. I know starting out can be frustrating in that you want to comment and upvote everyone and everything that's interesting to you - you want to contribute. And yes, your contribution is small but it's still a contribution. It's how Steemit grows.
I started Steemit in 2016. And I never once commented without upvoting. It's not that I was looking for big payouts it's just how I learned that each upvote made a difference in the over all payout for everyone. Once my voting power went down - and sometimes my vote was 0, I just waited until it went up again. I had a lot of help from dolphins and whales at that time and this is how and what I learned.
You likened up-voting to getting tips as a bartender. Up-voting isn't a tip though. It's part of the larger scope of Steemit rewards and investments. I found a really great post by @snbox - he's put together a toolbox of sorts with all kinds of interesting helps not just for new people but for everyone.
I get a lot of people on my posts who comment only sometimes and that's fine, I know their steem power is low at times.
But when I am investing in their blogs and it's never reciprocated, after a time I begin to see a trend - why? because I upvote comments on my blog. When I noticed a comment from one of these people on another blog saying she has started commenting more than posting because she was making more SBD from upvotes on her comments than from her own posts. I was shocked. It's not only mooching it's not helpful to herself. She needs to upvote others in order to increase her voting power.
We are here to build an investment and for the community. Otherwise we'd be on FB still, right?
I understand where you are coming from and appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
If you are interested in a further look at what up-votes are and how it all works I recommend this article by @sndbox. what is a Steemit Upvote?
So that's why they are doing it. I never would have thought of doing that.
I have a cunning plan forming........ hehehehehe
What's really interesting is I have another comment just now, and I checked, and they HAD resteemed me!
So maybe it's working already ;-)
I have his comment a full upvote for that.
Ooo....I can't wait to hear what your plan might entail.
I hope it works for you. It's just plain annoyingly annoying.
If it works I'll let you know ;-)