5 Steemit Stage Every New User Should Know
I am lately seeing a whole lot of new users over steemit. Is it just me? or do you see the same?
I am not a Facebook user but I've read that steemit is being advertised on Facebook, therefore Facebookers moved into steemit. I have this concern that I don't want steemit to be like Facebook. I am here because it offered me things that all those social media don't which is the freedom of speech. I don't know what's your reasons but I am happy to share several things just so we won't make this place like facebook. What I've written here is based on my personal experience which I hope you can learn from my mistake and to not repeat what I did.
There is of course freedom of speech, You can say whatever you want and truly responsible for it. However, I don't support hate speech and personal attack. In addition, there are no set of rules of how one should post and what not.Yet again, you would want your content to reach greater audience right? and you would want to excel in the platform and whatever your reasons are.It's a learning curve and I'd say survival for the fittest.
First Stage
At first everyone is welcoming you as a new user and then you'd feel accepted and ready to start your journey. One not so secret tips for me if you're new.
If you post under introduceyourself tag, most likely they are bots, therefore don't answer that. You'd realize later on it was silly
However, there are human for sure who would willing to really greet you. Appreciate them, answer their comment as they could be potential friend.Also, mostly likely you'd make quite a few $$ which will inspire you to do more and more. But stick in and be consistent with what you love to share and care about.
Second Stage
You write more but you don't have any connection, friends and is still learning about the whole system and whole lot of new terms. What I can truly suggest is go out there, read more content, go to steemit general chat or simply find discord community which suits you and soak in.
The key is " reading and ask"
This is the stage when your post will most likely making less than 1$ and you'd see the trending or hot page which make hundreds and you start comparing yourself.
You're then looking for a way to do so by understanding that there are bots who will make your dream comes true. if you already know about bot, what I truly advice you is never abuse the power that it has or else something really scary could happen to you and result in ruining what you're currently building.
Third Stage
You're starting to get follower either you're doing " follow for follow" and spam every user you come across or simply by generating new follower through genuine interaction. I advise to truly go out there and engage with people instead of just spamming them with follow for follow.
Also, Please don't be so desperate by not reading what they've written and simply say ' nice post' and ' follow me'.
Third stage depends on how you make your way out during the second stage where you start making a connection.
Fourth Stage
You'd understand that there's little drama underneath and you just came across them to read. It's okay, things happen for sure. You'd probably notice there's some sort of ' watch police' who will determine whether you're a plagiarizer or original person.
You'd understand that there are some sort of tags which will generate more income and you start considering doing it because you see your content barely makes 1$.
You'd also make friends each day and if you're doing it cause money you'll grow some kind of resentment because you really make less than 'meme ' and ' pictures' or whatever you're comparing yourself to.
What I can say is do what you love,write what you're passionate about and don't compare yourself. Just keep on grinding until you see the result with your own eyes.
Fifth Stage
You slowly understand about the whole system and you start considering either to leave or to stay.
I believe we all have different experience in this platform which most of them either good or bad. It's a community place where you are responsible of what you're saying and how others will like and support you. What I was saying might not be your experience but could be a consideration on making your way here.
There's no shortcut to build things, even Rome wasn't build in a day so hang in there with your cents and learn how to trade. It could be truly useful for the long run.
If you have any question just feel free to ask me. I can share a thing or two.
What drama are you talking about? Can you redirect us?
Also, can you provide which tags make mroe profit?
It's one thing to write an article making stipulations and expect people not to read it and comment something like @OriginalWorks or follow me or nice post. It is another thing to interact with those that barely read your post XD
Anyways, I hope you can share a third thing1
Enjoy steem!
@jpederson96 What drama am I talking about? Well it varies, It could be among your peers, differences in opinion, whatever you think that serves as a drama :D or maybe ' flag wars?'
which tags make more profit?? try cn, kr, or any language apart from english because well you'd definitely reach greater audience who probably doesn't speak English. It's as simple as that :)
RIght on! just type @originalworks to people who barely read our posts :D I gotta say I won't be reading all of people who I follow because either they don't make a post or they simply re-steem another post or I missed their post in my feeds. But could be true, just maybe nice article or great article but I myself wouldn't reply those :D probably I would but I'd just say ' ok' ' thanks'
Enjoy steem and great day!
XD Just followed, hope you enjoy your day too!
I hear you and agree with most of your points. What county are you from?
Thank you ! @cryptobk. I am still a minnow myself. I've been here only 62 days but I've been reading here and there. I am coming from la la land :D
Ha! Got it. All the best.
Now, where am I? Im surely not about to quit but Ive not posted anything for a long while.:(
@st3llar, that's roughly in fourth stage. I've been there too. I stopped posting for a long while, by that I mean like 3-4 days because I was simply writing too much which drained my ideas for sure. You could always back writing again but it feels like the world is moving and we're left behind :D and we gotta run a little faster to catch up.
My last post was 12 days ago.lol
@st3llar, then probably you'd want to share a thing or two :p if not maybe just a picture?
I guess I'm between 4-5 stages but there is much to learn everyday:-) This is a great post and guideline. I think many people that expect Facebook gets a bit disappointed, cause it's not. But I like Steemit a lot and thinks it's a lot nicer than Facebook.
@kerlund74, There are so much to learn everyday and recently there's a trend on a wave of new users which coming from Facebook.
I do agree with you that people who except Steemit could be their next facebook would feel slight disappointed because it's not just a simple one sentence or simply share ' meme' stuff. I do love steemit more than any social media I've been too. Because I get to explore different reads whilst also learning something new each time I read a post from different users.
Have a great day ! see you around :)
Nice... would really help new users i will resteem it :)
@danzy, Thank you dude :) I hope you'll succeed in this platform.
have a great day !
True that! I came to Steemit for the freedom of speech and for people whose same likes with mine.
@jennifersuralta, That's my reason too :) and so far I've found similar people like myself who like the same thing
have a great day girl !
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Fourth Stage :) And still learning this new world
@grazz, way to go and believe me if you constantly reading and engaging, two months will make you truly understand being a steemian and potential which it has to offer. Learn to trade also, this could be useful skill :)
Good luck with your learning !
Yesss! I am very much interested learning that trading stuff. :)
I am kind of at stage 5 and decided to stay, not that I understand the dynamics fully but I have a fairly decent idea about the platform and the expectations. But then again, when I look at stage 4, I am still not aware of the tags that generate more upvotes (income). So I guess I am at 4.5 :D I am curious as to know which tags are those. Anyone?
Thanks for sharing, with us, these 5 stages you crafted for minnows.
@mehdibca there's like CN , KR tag those tag with language apart from english :p you could try that ! if you speak the language. I found some user effortlessly using those tag by simply using google translate without knowing the essence of what they've written:)
Wish you a great day @mehdibca, thanks for dropping by !
Thanks for the info. I do not speak those languages unfortunately hahaha so I wont be getting near those tags. Have a good day also thanks.
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