To Resteem Or Not To Resteem?

Everyone loves to share content they like. It's natural to want to share with our friends and family things we are interested in, that's a common thing whether it's something we manually do ourselves as we see content, or it's a planned algorithm running through our likes, populating our follower's newsfeeds. While these automated suggestions that pop up are within reasonable means, we can often get carried away and overshare instead of being thoughtful of what we're distributing.

For the most part, bot accounts and those with associated with automation will almost always share other people's content and not their own. Whether people choose to follow them or not is their choice. Typically people choose to follow someone because they like original content. The content is reflective of that person. It's something you resonate with, or rather something that interests you, including something you disagree with. No one likes an echo chamber right?

On Steemit things are different. People love original content. That's what makes curation rewards go around. While curating quality content is valuable as well as important/interesting, it is also frowned upon when over stimulated. It's a sign of no original content or value. Your audience becomes aware that you have nothing to offer yourself and have no voice. Much like overposting, you want to be mindful of what your audience/following are willing to bare to see on their timeline. Even the best of them, for example, @jerrybanfield will post a maximum of 3 times a day. Even then he is spacing them out throughout the day so it's not overwhelming. The same can be said for resteems.

In case you haven't noticed, Steemit doesn't really have algorithms. It just loads everything that comes in from your follow list. That also includes every resteem! So be thoughtful about how much content you're putting out in addition to resteems as all this appears on people's feed. Make it quality and make it count! If people see an overkill of resteems they are likely to just mute you or unfollow entirely. Also, take into account what type of social media are you running? Is it a hub for certain interests? People? Are you a business? If that is the case then your follow list is specifically wanting this and you're all ok.

Unlike Twitter, there's no option yet on Steemit to turn off resteems. So one has to be considerate, planning what they are distributing. With that said let's factor in other areas on Planet Steemit. People that use @zappl will present many short posts in addition to @steepshot. While all these will offer different and varied content, over posting tons of photos and "tweets" may not be in tune with your audience unless it's quality or specific.

So I hope this presents an overview of how resteeming and posting can affect your follow list. Assuming that is something you're striving for. Having an engaged follow list is important. Your long-term goal on Steemit is to gain organic upvotes, not just paid.

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Written by @greatestjourney
Image: Geralt
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