Moral upvoting - Careful with your power
No matter how small you are, your upvote counts!
Maybe you noticed that I gave upvotes with lesser percentage on the slider.
That's only because I want to recover my voting power so this will not last for long. As I check my "battery" on https://steemstats.com/ every day, I can't not to think about quality of posts that I upvote.
My methods are old, I do it with my fingers on my mouse ;).
I have always avoided to give automatic upvotes and support something that I don't know what. Well, everybody does that, the most of the users don't even check what they upvote. I must say that I don't upvote a user. I upvote a post and user's good or bad history on this network has nothing to do with that.
Many of early adopters noticed and wrote about new generation of spammers and their copy/paste "I follow you/you follow me" concept of comments and we were all mad about it!
But if you stop and think for a second, we all upvote and support the same people all the time! And those same people follow, upvote and support us for longer than a year! Isn't that the same like "I follow you/you follow me" concept?
It's nice to have regular supporters on daily basis and we are all regular supporters to some other users that we have chosen.
Until when?
Until someone get's angry because she/he had a bad day and snaps on his followers and says some bad things? Until that someone doesn't show her/his bad side? And you will not even notice that! Because you will see familiar name on the list and you will upvote without even checking!
There are so many posts rewarded more than 30$ and those who gave them such a reward didn't even check the content!
I'm pretty sure that the number of views depends on minnows! For example, the one who get's 50$ every day, receives 5$ reward from those who opened the post and 45$ from those who didn't. There is no any data or numbers to confirm my theory, but I have spoken with many "Steem powerful" users about their methods of upvoting and I'm pretty sure that 90% of reward on your post came from those who never opened your post.
Otherwise, we have a lot of those who will open the post, support you in the comments and they will not upvote you!
Especially the recent generation of so-called minnows. Many of them will write the comment like "great story, thanks for sharing" they won't upvote you, then you have to remind them. And they answer that they don't upvote because their votes don't have any value.
Well, that's wrong!
If your upvote doesn't give any cents or dollars to others, why not to upvote posts that you like because of support and how can you expect to be supported if you don't really support anyone?
Every vote counts!
I remember a year ago, my upvote didn't worth anything and I didn't have slider to choose the percentage of my impact. So I simply upvoted all that I liked. I didn't care about my voting power because I didn't need it! The whole battery recovers for five days and it can take for months for some new users to get enough Steem power for the slider! So, don't keep your upvotes for better days, upvote people, be a supporter and you will be supported. This is like back to "I follow you/you follow me" concept but less rude!
I'm hired as a temporary curator for #whalepower, a movement founded by @bullionstackers.
Honestly, I'm not happy with the most post that I can find under that tag because some people think that they can upload a photo or a spam, hire @randowhale or @booster, then expect upvote from #whalepower crew! That's not how this goes, we are looking for hidden gems! And the rest of the crew are stronger than I am and it doesn't have to mean that the rest of the crew will upvote what I support!
Thanks for understanding!
@dumar022
I see my name have been mentioned.
Dumar is currently on Training to be a curator for #whalepower, We need different curators from perspective views on posts. Every Curators will have different kind of likes especially thru their Reading.
I am currently very busy setting up the Discord Channel for #whalepower Community.
Paul is currently on leave. I may get another curator in to help out.
And also invested significant amount of SP into my account , Thanks to Paul again.
Good luck, my friend:)
Check this
https://steemit.com/steemit/@rups/steemit-upvoting-technic#@bullionstackers/re-rups-steemit-upvoting-technic-20170817t160239759z
Thanks for reinforcing the concept of upvoting content and not people. I am finding lots of content every day with more than $10 in value that does not seem fair. I also appreciate your efforts to curate and upvotes real hidden gems and not just whoever uses your tag on their posts. Your job would lose its integrity if you did. I am still finding it difficult to believe in the fairness of this site but people like yourself and many others who work hard to value excellent content is what keeps me here.
Thank you:)
There are many ways to vote and I don't think there is wrong or good in any way possible. However, I do see your point! I vote manually and I am in a guild because I don't always have enough time on my hands and that way my votes are still going out. This might not be the best way but not voting is even more bad in my eyes.
What I do agree on 100% is the fact that most post are not even opened to see what is in it making some post go really high in ranks while the better posts stay low.
I also agree on the fact that every vote counts no matter how strong the vote is! It feels good to wake up and find votes on your posts may they give to money or not! And waking up with a good feeling makes that your day will go better as well!
I think in the future things will start to change a lot here on this platform, some for the better others might cause some panic. For now, all I can say is that I love Steemit 100% even when I get no votes at all!
Your comment deserves a vote and I totally agree with everything you said. And a follower too!
Aww Thank you :D You made me smile, blush and giggle all at the same time!
Wow, what did I do? Bearing in mind that you have thanked and even voted me ... I hope I did not say anything wrong!
Your words touched me. You gave me a happy feeling through a screen and I see that as magic! BTW... I am following you now so you found yourself a stalking snake! Don't worry I don't bite! :D
Thanks for all! I'm glad to meet a friendly snake.
Thank you, I am glad that you understood this right way
You are more than welcome!
I hear you loud and clear and agree. I stopped all automatic upvoting accept to a very few select people. I think it's 4 people. And its time to end that too. And although my followers are a small group as i am new. I like that many comment with genuine comments who have read what I wrote. That means more to me than anything. It has made me stop and think more about what I am posting. Trying to add more meaningful content. Thanks for your hard work.
Are you still using @treeplanter? What's your feeling on upvote bots?
My thinking is that there are just too many content creators for such a tiny relative % of curators with large voting power. I have come to believe that whales and larger account holders should delegate SP to a much, much wider pool of potential curators.
That is, better to have 20 people looking for good content to upvote with 5,000SP each, than 5 people with 20,000SP each. There's such an influx of new users and an absolute deluge of low quality posts that we need more people upvoting the good stuff and indeed more people downvoting the plagiarism/low effort/shit posts.
What do you reckon?
I am also against auto voting, for the same reason.
And that's the only right way to STEEM ON :)
By reading each post and making a judgement on the quality and originality before you cast your vote. You build quality posts into the steemit concept.
The numbers are just too high for that to be feasible though. You are absolutely right that it SHOULD be this way, but I don't believe it's practical. Check my comment on @tim-rumfords comment here - would be interested to hear what you think.
Thanks, that's what I want to say!
Excellent post, RESTEEM!
Thanks, bro!
I think the upvote power should not drop or at least not so fast ... I run out of steem long before I run out of very good interesting things to read here ...such as your post right here ... but cannot give you anything for it as my steem was used up hours ago ... and the thought that the more you use it in a day the less its worth just does not compute ... the harder you work and the more you do to support the platform in a day should at least have a steem bonus....
Great 👍👍
Thanks