RE: Reality Check, the Game & Crowd Behavior - My Analysis and Proposed Solution to My Dear Followers
Funny, I was thinking about writing something similar today.
I would see myself as a mix of an investor and a rambler.
I have started steemit as a dolphin but without any following or experience how to create one.
I think most of my posts make around 1$ (if I extract the investment for randwhale and minnowbooster and my own vote). But I had some luck a few times and got a whale vote and after that my post recieved way more attention, even my posts arent really that well written or thought through. ( I am writting longer on this comment now as on many posts)
And yes you are absolutly right you need votes with some SP behind it to make it into hot and/or the bots.
So my opinion as an investor: I want to make SBD and SP. That means
a) I make 10 posts interact with no one and just upvote myself
b) only curate
c)do a mix of both (this is what I am doing atm)
Option c) brings me some fun. It brings me connections and hopfully upvotes, comments for my posts. I enjoy reading other peoples posts and reward them for it and I also gain from this.
I think going for the Dolphins is the way to go. They dont have so many followers yet and they can still interact with you. If you show conintues support they will give back. I havent really done that yet but I think this is a good approach to make money here.
That doesnt mean you can write shit and hope for votes but you get noticed quicker by the Doplhins. At least this is what I think. ( this is no advertising for me)
But as you said steemit is not a get rich quick scheme. It provides a good oppurtunity for your investmant but nothing comes free. Give and you shall recieve. Make friends and work and grow together and have some patience.
I like you still use Steemit-Friend ;-)
on another note I have seen that people use the source for their images more often. Is this advised to do? Could there be legal issues otherwise?
Oh I forgot to mention one more upside of the bots is that they boost your reputation also.
I agree @flipstar and I was about to ask you about investing in steem power just like you and my few steemit friends here. I'm not gonna mention their names or some spammers will flood their posts. But I'll probably do some sp investment too later...
For now, I'll just do some power ups on my post. I invest in bots some money like sometimes more than 10 SBD to booster, so now I only post 1x a day but it must be super good and super quality. I will put money on my post if I believe that it will really attract some attention or followers. It's a gamble maybe, it also depends on my judgment. The return will be more my SP, new followers and increasing rep. Not bad! So yeah, I learned!
Like you, in the future if I get to invest some money and acquire more sp through writing, I will not just upvote myself. It is nice to interact, it's lonely talking to ourselves out there. Besides the psychology of happiness, you become happier if you help others/make others happy. The return will be 10 fold to you.
This is the first time I've read a long comment from you lol. I will upvote this later, I'm still regenerating.
In the end, it's only gonna be just us supporting each other here. So forget about the rest, the trending page etc.., it's about us trying to give ourselves hopefully a better future here?
Not sure what you mean, but you know me, I usually use my own images but some posts like this, I'm not gonna put my photos on the beach all the time lol.
Put the image source always to be safe. There are free images that can be used according to FAQ, put the source links on the post. Sometimes I use free wallpapers too as images on my posts and put the source links. Anyway, the images are free to use.
are you on the steemit chat? we can have a talk there if you like?
Ok, I'll just finish my lunch... If you are still there.