RE: why is upvoting important.
Thanks for the reply.
I have two wales that follow my other account and that took some doing, I met them in person and put time and effort into getting to know them. I didn't do it for the upvotes even though reading what I have just put now sounds like I did it for that reason.
I went to steem fest and met some amazing people and thats were I met them, if I had not talked to them then i don't think i would get the upvotes I need.
While I was talking to them, they dropped me some inside information,
- make friends with people and have your own circle on here, only upvote these people as they will up vote you back
- always take in more people, bait them with a little bit of up-votes as they will remember you and later they will up vote you big and every pennie adds up.
- don't give up, there are plenty of people on this platform. and the key is to make a chain.
this thing to do with not upvoting your own posts is a good rule to follow, but some people ie myself need to power up my steem to help new users, this way with this account I can go that step further and offer bigger pay outs to newbies.
I still read through alot and up vote things that I find interesting, but this account is all about upvoting and following new users to give them a better chance.
the points I make at the top are just narrowed down from the conversation i had with them, and that does not mean that every whale does this nor am i saying they do this either, it was just implied.
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.
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. :)