I've been on Steemit for 30 days!
I have been on Steemit for 30 days. I've tried to visit, contribute, comment and upvote each and every day (not always successfully) but most of those 30 days I've been here. Most of my time is on reading about STEEMIT and how it works and how I can fit into the community.
This is what I learned:
First goal is to learn the system as much as possible. But just reading about the community is confusing at best. You get lost easily if you don't PARTICIPATE. So while you are learning, participate as much as possible. (I will tell you below the best way to participate).
Use tools like Steemd.com, which gives you STATS about your account. The most important STATS your Voting Weight, your Voting Power and your BANDWIDTH. If you have no BANDWIDTH or Voting Power, you can do very little on Steemit. But I did learn that if you have no BANDWIDTH (at one point I was at negative bandwidth) or no Voting Power, you can still READ posts and Follow people.
Follow people and some of them will follow you back! If you do nothing else, get a following. One way to do that is to follow people and they may decide to follow you back. Or put up good content/posts and people may follow you. You can also gain followers by joining groups or bringing people over form your other social media platforms.
If you wait a couple of days and do no upvoting or content creation . . . you can get up to 100% Voting Power back. This makes your upvotes stronger and gives more STEEM to each upvote you give out.
Commenting gets your STEEM payout as well as posting. I would recommend doing at least one post every other day and comment, comment, comment.
People like videos. But people like travel posts (with pictures) too.
Try to answer all comments on your blog or upvote all comments (this is hard to do when you are a minnow so don't beat yourself up about it. You only have so much power and then it's all gone so at first, you may have to be stingy with the upvotes).
My steemit account is only worth $14.00 after 30 days of work. But it's fun going to other people's wallets and seeing how much their accounts are worth after 6, 9, 12 months of constant attention. It gives one hope.
There it is folks. Some of the things I have learned about Steemit after 30 days. If you have any recommendations or tips for me for the next 30 days, I and minnows like me would be very appreciative for the advice.
I may start using steemd more to check my bandwidth cause I am unaware of that and I have been doing Steemit for a few months now. But I just became a lot more active with it this month and see my value at over $16 so its not too bad coming back. :) Keep it up, best things are yet to come for you! :)
Thanks for this. I'm still a little confused by voting power, but little by little I hope to gain more insight. At steemd and steemdb it shows voting power, yet on steemdb it also shows my upvotes are at 100%, so this is definitely confusing.
Have you discovered any insight into that?
When we first start off, all our votes are at 100% Power. Which means the WEIGHT of your vote is at the maximum each time you vote. As you get alittle more STEEM POWER and aren't quite a little fish anymore, if you hold your mouse over the UPVOTE (green) button, it gives you a slider. This slider allows you to adjust your voting power from 1% to 100%.
Let's just say you have enough VOTING POWER that each of your votes are worth $1 each time you upvote. Each time you upvote, the slider let's you adjust the power of that $1. So if you adjust your vote to only 5% of power, you are giving that person .05 cents of STEEM. If the article is really good and you want to give it ALL the power you would adjust it to 100% which will give it $1.00.
The only problem with giving 100% voting power to an upvote is that it drains your OVERALL VOTING POWER and you can only give like 9 other FULL POWER votes in a 24 hour period.
Not sure if I explained that clearly. Hope I did.
The upvote slider, looks like this
Oh, thank you for that. That is perfect. So I've been giving all my votes up to now 100% of the vote, but my power is only 80% (for instance). This helps allot.
Yes, you got it. Happy I could explain it okay.
Remember, you only get the slider option after you have enough voting power that your upvote is worth more than 0.01 cent.
Oh, thanks, again. I need to slow down upvotes for a bit. :D Too new.
Hello Rosalind. Good post. I appreciate your straightforward manner. I am new as well. Participating is the biggest take-away. I've looked through some of your previous posts and it is obvious that you are putting effort into the platform. Would you agree that in the beginning a new person should just have fun?
You have to have fun. I have no idea how long a person can do this without having fun. $14.00 after 30 days of activity is not going to hold someone who is NOT having fun.