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RE: 🏆 The Curation and Engagement Leagues 🏆 - STEEM prizes available! 🎁
Congratulations for making the Top 20%!
You're experience making the list and mine are pretty similar. I found out the first week that what I was doing wasn't nearly enough to get to the top.
I have no idea how much anyone else is spending each week. Most are spending less than me, though, because of a whole host of reasons—work and family responsibilities being chief among them. My guess would be the majority of those in the Top 25 are at it between 3-6 hours a day. In my case, I'm on probably 12-14 hours a day, six days a week, because I have the time right now to dedicate that much.
Hey @glenalbrethsen
12 to 14! Wow, that's impressive. I use my PC and my phone so I'm always checking in but I'm not on that long on a consistent basis. 8 to 10 for me but work fluctuates, so sometimes less.
I also find that I get in to a grove with checking out others work and making comments and then not spending so much time creating my own stuff, or vise versa. It would be good to figure out a balance.
The top 20 still feels a world away but just getting on the table in the first place is a start.
I'm sure our efforts will be worth it.
Gaz
I'd say that's true. I've already seen an uptick in activity on my own posts and this is like week No. 12 for me? Something like that.
It's hard. I'm still working on the balance. In fact, I've got two posts I was planning to put out today, but might only get to one. That's kind of the way it goes. The good thing is, there's generally lulls where you can find time to fit some of your own work in.
Well, I would say with the time you have, you should be able to get up higher. No pressure, right, but time spent each day is one big factor and then what's being done during that time.
I thought I was doing as much as I could before I started the leagues, then saw what everyone else was doing and realized that I needed to do more. So, I worked on that. I'm taking breaks, eating, running errands and so on throughout the day, but otherwise, there's a lot of running down other people's stuff to read and potentially upvote or comment on. And a lot of that doesn't show up in the numbers because I either don't upvote or I don't comment for one reason or another. I try to keep those instances down to a minimum, but it's not always easy to. :)
That's the thing I'm an English second language tutor and a football coach and most of my work is late afternoon, early evening. I do have the time to commit to it and I'm willing to increase that if need be.
Trawling through posts can get a bit laborious. There is a lot of content that doesn't interest me. I'm also aware of giving new stuff a chance as well though.
How many times do you vote per day? I'm sticking with 10 at the moment so they recharge but I'm not using the slider yet. This feels limiting because I only comment on posts I upvote. So when my voting power goes that's my new comments done for the day. How can I get around this?
It varies from day to day. I'm probably where I should stop voting now, but will probably try to continue. :) Like today I'm around 60 upvotes, but tomorrow, it will probably be more like 40, depending on what there is to read. I have the same problem. Not a lot interests me. :)
With the price of STEEM lower, it's tough, because that decreases what you might have otherwise to try and spread around. And at the lower SP, there's only so much you can do.
You could use busy.org if you wanted to. It does have a slider available from the very beginning. I used it for a period of time until I got the Steemit slider. The problem, though, is there's only so many ways to split the vote and then you're out.
It looks like, though, based on your SP that you could probably leave $0.01 at 30-50% voting power if you used the busy slider and then be able to upvote 2-3 times more.
Otherwise, the only way I know to make votes last longer is have higher SP, and the only way to get it quickly that I know of, is through an investment, which most people can't do.
I'm tempted to add more Steem so that I have more options. I've noticed that my vote has slipped under the .02 threshold so if I upvote comments individually it gets wasted which is really frustrating. I'm getting so many one cent votes coming my way which are useless unless I vote them too, which I try to avoid. Do you know what the cut off is for the threshold? I've read somewhere it is .022 or something. I guess adding a little bit more Steem will at least give me some voting power on comments.
Are you recovering daily from those votes? 40 -60 is a lot but I guess you're using the slider. I have just noticed that Steem is at $1.87 on Bittrex. It might be time for me to get the wallet out!! 😁
I am using the slider, and so it depends on the size of the votes. I usually upvote most comments (a practice I may change, but haven't yet), along with all the posts that I comment on or feel should get my upvote. So, it depends on how high the percentage is. When STEEM is low like this, it gets harder to do. When STEEM was up around $3, I had $0.30 as a maximum vote. Now, it's down to $0.17. So I've lost nearly half with STEEM dropping a little over a $1.
Now would be a pretty good time to buy. I've been thinking about it. It was down to $1.70 something yesterday, but I thought, nah, I'll wait to see if it goes down anymore. Then it rebounded. :)
Well, the threshold has a variance, I believe, and it depends on what STEEM is doing. I've read that it could be as low as .012-0.19, but as I said, I think that's depending on the price of STEEM. $0.022 would be a safer bet. I've been dropping at least $0.03 as much as I can just to avoid any more potential variance.
It's obvious that there's a lot of new folks that aren't aware there is a threshold, even though there was a big deal made of it about three or four weeks ago now. That's probably when you heard about it. I know it made the circles I run in quite a bit. But anyone coming in after that, plus those who didn't catch it the first go around are out there leaving $0.01 or less.
I'm on the fence about it still, but there is something called dustsweeper that you might want to check out. It would be good to learn more about it at the very least. It's a bot that's set up to raise upvotes above the threshold on the last day of voting. That way, the votes aren't wasted. It has its own account, so you'd just need to throw the @ sign in front of the name.
I have just checked out the dust sweeper. What a great idea. As soon as I gather the sbd I'll send one over. I really dislike upvoting my own comments and it counts against us in the league table.
You're right, it was about 4 weeks ago that I was told about the .02 cents threshold. Did nobody know about it before this? Seems weird. I didn't know that it fluctuates with the value of Steem though. That makes sense but it would be good if people were aware so they could avoid wastage.
There's me bitching about going from 3 cents to 1 and you have dropped 13! Wow. Not nice. I'm definitely going to add a bit more. I'm at 125 so I need to figure out the next decent level that will make a difference. Whatever that is?
re: next decent level
Well, you can check that out by going to penguinpablo's steemnow.com, as it is one of the places you can find an upvote calculator. Just plug in some numbers in the Steem Power window and see if you can find what makes a difference to you.
re: dropped 13!
Yeah, it's kind of a pain, but it's far worse when you don't have much to begin with, so no worries. I can still do some spreading, just not as much, and it is annoying. :)
re: nobody know about it?
I think the knowledge is around. Tim Cliff, who is a witness, is the one who ignited this last round of posts and comments simply because he was trying to find a solution for spammers. However, it involved raising the dust vote threshold and since the vast majority of us are now newbies, it obviously didn't sit very well. Dustsweeper pretty much came out of that.
The problem is, the information on this and other topics aren't really centrally located unless it shows up in either white or blue papers. I haven't been back through either to see if it is or not, but people said it wasn't there.
I'm sure someone has written about it, or it's appeared in a steemitblog update of some kind, but it would have been over six months and more ago when most of us weren't here.