Steem Pope Short Sermon: Resteeming
Resteeming is sharing a post by another Steemian in your blog. Those who follow your posts will also see what you have resteemed. This feature serves many useful, beneficial, and downright fun purposes. If you resteem something that later gets a lot of upvotes, you get a small curator reward bonus. If you share posts that other people might find worthwhile, you help the community make new connections and grow. And when people you follow resteem something good, you meet new people and learn new things!
However, I would like to offer some tips to keep in mind.
First, a suggestion: Don't resteem more than you post yourself. More than a 50/50 mix of resteems to original content may make it more difficult for others to see what you create yourself, and this reduces the odds that you will find community support for your own material. This is by no means a hard and fast rule, but it is definitely a good guideline for beginners who are getting a feel for Steemit.
Second, you don't need to ask for permission to resteem something. In fact, asking to resteem something is seen as spammy behavior. You should definitely upvote anything you resteem though, and consider leaving a substantive, constructive comment.
Third, don't beg for resteems. Begging for upvotes and followers is not cool, and begging for resteems wouldn't be cool either. I haven't really seen much of this yet, but it seems like something that should be said anyway.
Fourth, remember that people who ask you to pay them for resteeming your posts are probably scam artists. Track your account on steemdb.com to find out who resteems your posts, though, and you might find new people who share your interests!
I’ve always recommend to people don’t post/resteem more than 4 times total a day. There gets to a point where who manage their feeds very well to see what is going on will start getting annoyed. Once in a while there are expectations but for most part it’s really hard to put out that many high quality posts or find something so amazing you have to share it.
I myself tend to be more on the greedy side and don’t resteem often. When I do I like to leave a comment first so people understand why I did so in the first place. Nothing worse than seeing a resteem and no comment by person who did it. Makes you even wonder if they read it in the first place.
I’ve noticed there is a growing number of people who go around spamming that they have resteem trying to just get upvotes. I usually don’t say anything at all on rare chances I do unless I’m entering a content or something and it states there a bonus entry for doing so. Then I might as well make it known.
Agreed. Focus on quality instead of quantity, and don't burn yourself out trying to generate content.
I've noticed an alarming amount of burnout posts as of late. Seems people have been to focus on profit making and pushing things out in a daily grind then taking care of themselves, having fun, and keeping a longer term approach to steemit.
Thank you "the Pope" for more good suggestions,
Thank you for this! Being still somewhat new, I didn't know all the details to re-steeming. I do know that when I am looking at a person's profile, I like to be able to see their posts, and if there are too many resteems then I don't feel like I'm getting to know the individual. Because of that I tend to now resteem much myself. Perhaps I will when I have more power and can help others more.
Btw, it was so nice meeting you tonight! You have a gift with your jewelry making skills! Both my girls loved their gifts, thank you.
I see you're a librarian! Cool! Having 4 homeschooled kids means we spend lots of time at the library. When I was in school, I loved volunteering at the library! The Dewey decimal system was, and still is fun for me! I LOVED shelving books!
We have a lot of homeschoolers in my library. We always have a good idea what subjects some families are covering based on the books they request from around the network. "Looks like the H... family is on Roman history today... oh, and the P... kids are doing a robotics unit."
As always, spiritual wisdom is behind his sermons. Thank you very much Steem Pope!
Good set of guidelines for noobs... :D
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I have seen both sides of the resteeming argument! Thanks for your suggestion. As for me I did not do a lot of resteeming lately but I have started to again, not everything but a few posts!