Allow me to offer a bit of insight into how I "steem." If I upvote your post, it improves your reputation score, which you will come to see is quite important. Some days, my vote power gets run down so I may only upvote you at 1%, which gives you not much financially but helps your rep. The payout on your post, as the author, will be split between you and the authors of all the comments on your post, so you will actually take in about maybe half the "author rewards" on the post. When you comment, my upvote goes solely to you. Don't mistake the amount of my upvote as an equation to what I consider the actual "value" of the input. I try to make it as financially advantageous for you as I can, too.
I can't say it enough, COMMENT. It is the key, if you can do nothing else, spend 20 minutes a day and find something (me, @longsilver and @warpedweaver will all upvote your work consistently so start with us) to upvote and comment on. It takes perseverence above all. Don't throw your best content up early, just make some connections. This is a really exciting thing happening here, and it makes me want to cry a little to have you here... Love you! Happy Valentine's to you and that lovely bride of yours!
Allow me to offer a bit of insight into how I "steem." If I upvote your post, it improves your reputation score, which you will come to see is quite important. Some days, my vote power gets run down so I may only upvote you at 1%, which gives you not much financially but helps your rep. The payout on your post, as the author, will be split between you and the authors of all the comments on your post, so you will actually take in about maybe half the "author rewards" on the post. When you comment, my upvote goes solely to you. Don't mistake the amount of my upvote as an equation to what I consider the actual "value" of the input. I try to make it as financially advantageous for you as I can, too.
I can't say it enough, COMMENT. It is the key, if you can do nothing else, spend 20 minutes a day and find something (me, @longsilver and @warpedweaver will all upvote your work consistently so start with us) to upvote and comment on. It takes perseverence above all. Don't throw your best content up early, just make some connections. This is a really exciting thing happening here, and it makes me want to cry a little to have you here... Love you! Happy Valentine's to you and that lovely bride of yours!
What she said. :)