Steemit Engagement Challenge 4 | STEEM GROWTH CONTEST - Theme : How many hours have you spent on steemit in the last week by @srrebullient

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Hello everyone,

I am glad to be taking part in this engagement challenge with the topic that says "How many hours have you spent on Steemit in the last week".

INTRODUCTION

Steemit has grown to become more than just a decentralized social media platform for me. It is now more like a home, a work place and also a place of fun for me.

Previously, I do wake up checking my WhatsApp for new messages and all but in the past months Steemit has taken that spot as It has become the first place I visit whenever I pick up my phone in the morning and the last place I visit before I drop my phone for the night.

Currently, Nigerian students in public universities have been off school due to the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU). This has led many undergraduates into getting involved in various things in other to either improve their knowledge or their finance.

Considering the above, Steemit happened to be the perfect place to be because it offers both valuable knowledge and financial improvements which explains why I have been so actively participating on the platform.

In addition, I also have a set goal of SP to achieve within this period of no formal school acitivities but the current downturn in the entire cryptocurrency market which saw the debt ratio to Steem and SBD drastically rise to 28% thus leading to a zero printing of SBD last week came as a hurdle but regardless, I chose to increase my acitivity level instead of waiting for things to come back to normal and that happened to be a great decision as SBD is already back although not fully but things are almost back to normal and my activity level keeps increasing.

TIME SPENT IN PAST WEEK

Below I will be mapping out how I spent my time on Steemit in the past week by separating them into morning, afternoon, and evening hours.

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Morning🌅

The first thing I do every morning I wake up is to navigate through various communities and make quality comments on new posts. That helps me to stay very active, popular and relevant in those communities.

• See below

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After making those comments, I go about my minor morning chores which usually take only about 30 minutes to complete and when I am done, I come back to Steemit and track my curation activities in other to know which type of post I will be making for the day because some curation teams do not vote more than 3 posts per user in a week. Most times before I come up with something of quality and really educative, it's already almost noon thus making my daily post mostly done in the afternoon.

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Afternoon🌞

I usually spend my afternoon hours writing on Steemit and my posts are usually based on #fintech, #learnwithsteem, and #steemgrowth. After writing, I go about using various markdown styles in other to make it appear attractive and easy to read.

After which I proof-read in other to correct grammatical errors. I don't usually scan for plagiarism because I do normally write from my head so I believe there wouldn't be any rather I use that time to make use of grammerly which efficiently correct some of my grammers thus making my post fluent enough for curators and other authors to read.

Evening/Night🌃

Evening/night hours are usually time for more engagements such as replying to various comments on the posts I already made in the afternoon and also replying the replies I got from the other comments I already made in the morning although sometimes I do reply to them immedately depending on the level of my activity.

During the interaction process I often get inspiration on what next to write thus leading me into making another posts during the evening/night although this doesn't happen all the time.

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In summary, I spend like 3 hours in the morning on Steemit, 4 hours in the afternoon, and roughly 5 hours in the evening/night making it about 12 hours daily.

Spending all the hours on Steemit, I have been able to make 10 posts in the last 7 days and below are the links.

Link 1

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Link 3

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Link 7

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Link 9

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Link 10

My Opinion about the benefits of the Steemit Engagement Challenge

No doubt, the Steemit engagement challenge is a really nice initiative which has brought live to the entire Steemit platform.

Through this engagement challenge, a lot of us have made new friends and have been able to discover talented authors who interact more closely with more influencial persons on the platform.

This engagement has also allowed every Steemain to be a participant with just a minimum of club5050 status as criteria.

I must confess, it's really nice seeing users of different reputation commenting on your posts and encouraging your efforts with upvotes which spurs one into being more active and making more quality entries as one has seen that one's efforts are being recognized.

My Suggestions to improve this challenge in the next period.

The only challenge that most users encounter is the fact that votes are not guaranteed as no one would love to see their time and efforts not being appreciated.

It was clearly stated that votes ain't guaranteed which I myself I attest to that but there are cases whereby some users tend not to get no votes on multiple entries while others are very much lucky to get votes on almost all entries.

Sometimes it doesn't really depend on post quality but timing and luck which some persons usually don't get right thus leaving them with no votes.

This uncertainty of votes had led most users into abandoning the engagement contest and focusing more on numerous other communities where they feel their efforts has a higher probability of being appreciated while some who do not want to engage with communities are left with the option of quitting Steemit entirely.

• My suggestion

My little suggestion is that at least a $5 vote should be distributed to all entries that got the minimum requirements but failed to get any major votes from 01 or 02. At least will serve to encourage them in other to keep participating.

This will make users to keep engaging hard with more confidence that even if they miss out on major support, at least they will be compensated for their time and efforts.

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Thank you so much for reading..

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