When starting out on Steem/Steemit/DTube/Partiko or any of the other various portals, engagement of others works is very important to help build your social network.

Without first making the connections with authors on the chain it is most likely your posts will be overlooked, lost in the sea of minnows and plankton.

Learn How To Comment

First of all when trying to build that network through commenting and engaging people it is expected that you leave personal or at least thoughtful comments, actually engage them!

It feels ridiculous to me needing to explain this but I want to be certain you understand! We must first realize what to do and what not to do when using services to promote our engagement while also maximizing returns. Otherwise you very well may get yourself into some hot water with either the services or various Steem abuse projects.

The Do Not’s:

• Do not make spam comments of the same or nearly same thing on multiple posts. Things like “Nice Post, Upvoted & Resteemed” should not be considered a good comment to leave!
• The comment should have something to do with the post, add further ideas/insights or elaborate on the content of post. Authors want to know you have consumed their creations otherwise they would not be publishing them.
• Do not leave links asking for votes, many will send their vote upside down!
• Do not leave multiple comments on one post, try get it right the first time or edit your previous if you forgot something.
• Do not vote your own comments!!!

The Do’s:

• Do get the authors attention with a mention for statements directed at them.
• Do be precise and clear in what message you wish to convey, if your not a native English speaker take the extra moment and check grammar not just spelling.
• Do comment on others comments engage not only the author but the authors following, it’s not just conversations between the author and one user and many users will appreciate being acknowledged!
• Be Personal, the more you share of yourself the more others will feel inclined to share also which builds that relationship. Also they will be more inclined to look into what you are doing.

Now that is covered you must understand I have a comment minimum for what I consider a “good” comment. First of all it is speaking to me in some way or mentioning someone else to view what I have created. The comment is relevant to the post that the comment is left on. Has a minimum of 13 words, doesn’t seem like much but many do not meet this criteria. Has not self voted their comment as your VP should be used to support others and improve your network. Is well written and worded and I can clearly understand the point trying to be made even if grammar is terrible.

The Three Services I Use

I have started using three different services in tandem for votes on my comments raising visibility while also increasing returns. Returns come in the form of account reputation which also helps how your account is viewed by other and the obvious Steem from the upvotes.

Terms That Need To Be Understood

Dust - lost rewards due to not meeting minimum payout.
Scrapping - receiving a vote on day 5-6 just for the sake of receiving the payout from a comment.
Minimum Payout - $0.022 anything below will not be paid!

@DustBunny

This is a “free” or by donation dust scrapping service and as the name implies they scrap dust that would be lost via not reaching payout minimum. They operate from a manual account verification system and do ask for a small donation of SP to help ensure your comments make it into queue but not mandatory. Self comment votes need not bother applying and this service is at a complete profit with only cost being a small no risk delegation.

Please refer to their blog and or discord for further information, do your due diligence and understand the rules for participating and criteria required.

@DustSweeper

This is a “paid” dust scrapping service like the one above with the only difference being you must load your account by sending Steem to receive the scraping of dust. The profit from this service comes from the scraped rewards that would have been lost due to being below the minimum payout. I am not certain if votes come at a profit or simply just break even.

Fairly straight forward just send some Steem to them and you will receive votes on your comments at the 5-6 day window to help break payout minimums.

As always do your own research and understand what it is your getting involved with including rules for use of the service check their blog and or discord for further information.

@MinnowBooster

This is a “paid” voting service, I use the comment votes which roll in after the 15 min curation window. This helps to gain visibility raising your comment up the list while also being at a small profit.

Using this service in tandem with the dust scrapping services is very beneficial ensuring you receive complete payout from any dusty votes you may receive.

Goto their webpage minnowbooster.net and you may load your account with them right from site. Once signed in and loaded the comment options can be found at the bottom of the edit info screen.

Be certain to read and fully understand the rules for use of this service as privileges may be taken away for use on spam comments.

How I Do It!

My plan was to see if I could use @MinnowBooster to trigger a .01 SBD upvote and have those backed up by @DustSweeper and @DustBunny. I decided to piggyback the dust scraping services to ensure my .01 SBD paid votes do not goto waist.

• Step One get verified with @dustbunny, never have to think about it again!

• Step Two load @dustsweeper with Steem, starting with 1 Steem is sufficient to test and you will be notified when running low via comments.

• Step Three load @minnowbooster with SBD and turn on comment voting. I use 0.01 SBD auto promotion on all comments.

• Step Four comment comment comment

That’s It Your Done

Now we wait for those votes to roll in!

The returns you will see are very small but do add up quick and for a newer account the real benefit is the added rep and visibility from votes on your comments.

That’s it, simple and easy, pretty well set and forget, just have remember to check your @minnowbooster balance now and again 💪

PS I am in recharge mode testing the trails I am apart of so my comment votes are at 1% only. You could go set yourself up with the dust scrapping service then come back and leave a comment, I will vote you, after 5 days you can see how the dust scrapers work out 💪

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