RE: Sister post to "The BEAST" - Community Engagement Challenge housekeeping
@merej99, thanks for doing this follow-up-- makes for a MUCH easier reading list than the original "beast!" My laptop was starting to "protest" loading a comment stream quite so long... I was getting close to just creating a separate bookmarks folder for the participants.
An observation for everyone: As part of community engagement and a gift "pay it forward" economy, don't be shy about upvoting worthy comments on your posts! As we've all seen, these days there are a lot of people getting all wrapped up in "self-upvoting" and I'd love to see us be the "antidote" to that. I realize that if you have less than 500SP you may not be able to adjust your voting power... but for anyone who can even a 3% upvote is a nice "thank you" for an engaging comment, and it will not eat up your voting power.
right now inability to setup a less that 100% vote power is major Steemit problem overall. without constant checking my voting power I fell to less than 10% my VP one week ago and I still try to recover it
Just an opinion of mine, but as a minnow I would probably be down to 0%, upvoting everyone who caught my interest in order to grow my account and earn that slider. I'm not saying follow for follow (yuk!) but to engage people. Sure, at 0% vote strength your votes aren't going to be worth anything but your upvote/show of support could mean a lot to someone. Let's call them token gestures.
When I was a minnow my 100% upvotes were worth $0.001 <<<not a typo.
I know, before I leased SP my upvote costed 0.01 for 100%. Now with a current Steem rate it would worth a half from 1 cent.
I try to upvote every post which I like with 1-6 % of SP
Hey, @allfabeta - have you been posting your challenge links under a different post? I'd hate to bump you because we misplaced them! Let me know!
^ THIS 100% ^
Yeah, okay, I voted it 50% but you know what I mean. @denmarkguy makes an excellent point. I have always considered Steemit a bridge to the "gift economy". For transparency, I give my post 100% upvotes but I never upvote my own comments. Those are reserved for everyone else.
I can't wait for my slider bar. The 10 votes deal is killing my voting power. I want to be able to give more $ value to posts I like and I get spread thin way too fast.
@steempowerpics according to @nba05 if you use esteem app you can use slider even though you don't see it yet on steemit. You might want to give it a try? :)
Perfect! I didn't know that was up and running, been a while since I heard about esteem but no info on features at that time. Honestly forgot about it. Thank you for thinking to pass that info. New toys - yay! :-)
You are welcome! I know the pc version is still being worked on, but the mobile app is available. I am still getting acquainted myself, but have used it a few times for scheduled posts. That is an awesome feature esteem app has. Yes more toys! LOL
I gave it a try (android phone) gives me invalid value errors when I try to upvote. Looks nice though. Maybe needs more time to get the bugs worked out. I will try the PC version and see how that goes. Thanks again.
When I was new I couldn't wait for it either. Once I got it, I hated it because I gave everyone 100% upvotes anyway so what's the point of it? Then comes HF19 and screws up my 100% happy place. GRUMP. GRUMP.
Honestly from what I have been reading from the witness folk, all the upvoting on everything, every post, every comment, etc -regardless of if it is truly "good content" is a big factor in the reward pool drain, then being compounded by the drop in crypto prices. It's the facebook/instagram "like" mentality from how I understand it. I'm still trying to dig deeper into the minds of the witnesses to figure it out.
interesting...now I can't give my pennies away, like they were...pennies?
lol...not like I was bribing people...seems they like to see that upvote to me.
need to rethink the surfing plan...well I think most people prefer to see someone take the time to comment...than not. I think this challenge proves it. To me anyway.
I LOVE MAKING MONEY. I would be lying if I said I didn't like to watch the earnings grow on my posts but what gets me excited is seeing someone stop by with a comment. I've always pushed for at least a 4:1 upvote to comment ratio as a testament to engagement within the community. When I see 100+ upvotes and like 2 comments then I have to wonder exactly how many bots is following that person and what is their version of value? Everyone has their reason for creating content on Steemit. It's up to them to figure out WHY they stay. Hell, if I was here solely for making money, I sure as hell wouldn't be donating 150+ SBD for a challenge!
So true, nothing wrong with wanting to make money...just don't get those trail things. I have joined PAL and registered 'n all. Just haven't used it for upvotes...yet., and certainly not during this challenge.
Don't get me wrong...the MSP does much more than upvoting for members...and that I support. Just not my tribe so...not flying their banner.//know what I mean Jean? ;)
When Streemian came on line I was very happy to find a way to earn curation without actually curating. Hell, I didn't know what that meant at the time. But I've been a pretty active curator and soon realized that my SP was GONE.
So I quit all trails, started my own for the heck of it, and started using SteemVoter with strict guidelines on who gets an auto vote, but after HF19, I've shut that down too.
I might just turn it on when I do a #payitforward initiative, which would direct my 100% votes to that person or cause. I don't know. I haven't wrapped my head around how I'm going to bounce with this HF.
A cautionary tale to be sure. How was your SP gone?
I've since learned even without SP I've managed to earn just as much curating as I have posting...so...hmmmm. So glad I don't have your troubles.<3
When you've got it figured out please share because I haven't a clue. :o/
Will do. Side note @aggroed made it to a top 50 witness today. One of the 3 witness accounts I have voted for so far.
Congratulations to @aggroed
I've been meaning to re-evaluate my witness list but also need to hammer out time to research them again. I think I may have one or two votes left. I'd love to hear your thoughts on your witness selections...maybe that might be a future post for you? It would definitely benefit the community to know the WHYS.
It's tough, but yes a bigger discussion for later. I'm trying to learn as I go and find those would are not just in it for fame and fortune, but for the long-term greater good of the community. If I plan to be in Steemit for the long-haul, I need to know the witness plans to keep it stable.
** so once we vote for 30, that's it forever? no unvoting later?
You have a total of 30 witnesses that you can vote for. You can unvote them at any time. You might see a lot of them drop in rank if they post unfavorable opinions and stuff. A lot of that crap is politicking. I try to focus on the more community oriented people and a few heavy hitters that have solid witness nodes and redundancies in place so they don't miss their blocks.
Great observation @denmarkguy! It's true...votes have become rare! I like to upvote even at small percentages to show you read the comment and it's a good comment. Thank you for bringing that up!