Advice for the smallest, youngest minnows!
First of all, treasure your youth. As an old timer at six whole months old, I have the wisdom that comes with age. It all goes so fast.
Ha.
No, why this post? I posted a few days ago to correct some maths that folks have been using to erroneously recommend voting strategies.
You can find it here. https://steemit.com/steemit/@improv/math-and-steemit-voting-power
Then a very kind reader (@gillianpearce) asked for advice, and after I had given it, she thought it was so good, I should make it a post. I must give the people what they want.
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So! First, strategy-wise, who knows? The best "strategy" for new members is really to find the contests (@mariannewest shares a bunch of them in her daily #freewrite posts) and win them. Many of the contests, especially the newer contests that offer small-ish prizes, have very few entrants. If you really give them your all, you have a good chance of winning a few SBD or Steem.
My second piece of advice is to not worry about voting strategy at all. Your influence at this point is worth $0.01 and less (you're still giving some even when the number doesn't change, but because it's less than a penny, it doesn't change the number. Don't worry all those fractions of a cent don't get lost. If a lot of people give fractions of a penny, it still adds them together.). Ultimately, just enjoy Steemit. Use it as a site to entertain and be entertained. The point of this post was, yes, to tell people not to worry so much about how they're voting. It's always "fair", i.e. those who carefully monitor their voting power and those who "overvote" are both allocating exactly as much as their steem power will allow, regardless of their "strategy". Now, if you want to give away 10 $0.01 votes instead of 20 $0.005 penny votes, then sure, pay close attention. But it's $0.10 either way.
Their mathematical proofs are why I'm posting this, because they all seem to miss a bit of math here or there in their calculations that make it seem like voting one way or another would change the overall weight of their votes. Yes, I'm saying they're wrong... but as politely as I can.
In conclusion, I recommend you pursue your goal by
a) posting good (or at least original) content at least once a day
b) reading content that you think you'll enjoy anyways, and if you do, upvoting it without concern for Voting Power, and leaving a comment on it that is unique and that let's the reader of your comment know that you're not a spambot (avoid entirely the phrases, "I upvoted you, follow back?" and "great post."... though feel free to make your own unique memes that say great post, like this one I proudly made - and that I hereby give you permission to use if you want ;) .)
c) finding contests that you'd enjoy. One of my first big payouts came from https://steemit.com/steemit/@lepton/join-the-worst-steemit-contest-first-contest-where-loosers-win
I also recommend you follow, read, and interact with @papa-pepper. He just seems like a really nice fella.
that was my advice.
Do you have advice for newbies? I'll bet someone will mention a discord channel in the comments! Will it be you?
Psst. As long as we're talking money... feel free to use my invitation links to sign up for
- coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/join/5929c0788331aa072d9e347e
and - robinhood: http://share.robinhood.com/brendaw92
I'm shameless. And if you're still feeling like you haven't rewarded me enough. Ask me for a wallet address, and I won't hesitate to let you send me crypto currencies. ;P
Re-reading this, I am very perturbed by my inattention to grammar. Missing a comma there that would help with readability... that should be "lets", not "let's"...
Oof. My apologies to the blockchain.
(Upvoting this comment just to get it visible earlier if you're reading this post. I pledge not to regularly upvote my own comments.)
Great post! Follow me, I follow you?
LOL!
Seriously good advice though. I JUST got my slider bar, and it came at just the right time... I was starting to really understand what my vote did and did not do, and how its weight worked when I finally hit the magic number to get that tool. And yes, the contests, and papa-pepper, both EXCELLENT places for newbies to get started!
Right? I do enjoy the slider. Mostly so I can upvote EVERYTHING. I send a 1% upvote to even the most inane comments as long as they aren't spam. Like a "thanks" is fine. Sometimes all you have to say is "thanks", and that's okay.
Congratulations! This post has been randomly Resteemed! To join the ResteemSupport network and be entered into the lottery please upvote this post and see the following rules.
Randomly? Then why would anyone follow you? If your feed is random, why would anybody think they'll like the content you curate?
beep boop. we are in beta! Next phase will to be to resteem high quality posts!
We do currently resteem a lot of content - I understand that you may not want to follow and have your feed spammed!
Let me know when you get to omega! or even pi, really.
That's a rhetorical question to Mr.ResteemSupport right ? ;-P Imagine if he replied and upvoted?
Indeed, though if the human behind the bot had a clarification for me, I wouldn't take it amiss!
BOO!
OMFG! IT'S ALIVE!!!!
Or UNDEAD
AAAAAAA Run! It's a robot ghost!
OMG ITS BOTH!!
(This Steemit production needs to happen...Steemit: Attack of the BotS)
We need someone to put together some funding
I'll let you know what Santa brings tomorrow. I told him it was perfectly fine not to put any gifts under the tree this year.
"No Santa, a $100K plus wire directly to my bank account isn't tacky at all. But if it makes you uncomfortable, feel free to box it up and wrap it under the tree..."
Will keep you posted!