RE: Is Self Upvoting Wrong? What's my Strategy?
Hello @gmichelbkk,
This is one of those hot button topics ongoing on Steemit as we clear the dust of this universe, there's plenty debate over what's right, what's wrong, posting etiquette and so forth. As most of us here are probably coming from Facebook, much of what goes on here is similar; we share details about ourselves, our lives, and our thoughts with the world. Here, aside from our friends and perhaps few family members, this global network links people from all countries and backgrounds, so there's plenty of new ideas and images we can invest our attention and grow.
When I joined Steemit, back in October 2017, a friend recommended me to share my artwork with the world here and earn rightfully an income worthy of its value. Not to mention, I believe that cryptocurrency (read: Blockchain technology) has the potential to change everything about what's not working (considering the value of labor) for billions of people around the world. I found the @Earthnation Guild, a group of devoted creators seeking peace and prosperity to all humanity, and they've enlightened me to the inner workings of Steemit in my short time here. In their former membership, the Guild supported its members by means of a voting bot, a combination service of resteeming and upvotes that the guild members' funded with their post content value. This is how I discovered @SteemBasicIncome, a project with a goal as titled; a universal basic income for all Steemians posting valuable content. The system is simple; as someone has to elect to sponsor your account or invest shares in an account, each share adds to a collective automated voting pool that positively generates STEEM and SBD by the post frequency of its invested members. The more you invest, the more you post, the more potential earnings each post can make. Sounds like Steemit could integrate a system like this one to increase rewards across all SP levels for everyone, forever. Imagine the first 100 users online Facebook or the first 5000 employees of Microsoft who were early adopters and hold a seminal position in the company that they've essential built. We Steemians, too, are all shareholders in Steemit and set the value of its currencies abroad.
Well, since the major market tumble a couple of months ago, the Earthnation Guild on Steemit has since gone defunct, however, SBI is still going strong as well as other similar services like @SteemAuto and @SmartSteem I've since incorporated into my account activity. I've ceased paying for bid bots as a part of the guild's collapse because the value of SBD fell so much, it wasn't worth the cost, so now I'm mostly self-powered. Occasionally, the automatic voting mechanisms set in by @SteemAuto and @SteemBasicIncome finds my posts and upvotes my own content, but often I have but two or three manual votes daily to offer my most favorite Steemians (other fellow artists like myself; @haedre is one of them.) Of course, I've followed your account because of awesome content like this, I usually comment first, before then resteeming, seldom I'd simply upvote other comment replies or posts because I'd overrun my voting power.
Here's to the future, see you at the top!
Thank you very much @craigahamilton for your long comment explaining how you started on Steem and that I will have to read again later has it has a lot of information in it. I upvoted your comment 100%, thank you for showing your graph and the resteem.