Second Month on Steemit! A little rant about SteemIt and some tips for complete newbies

Wow! Time flies by so quickly. I can't believe I have been here on SteemIt for two months now. If you have been following me for over a month now you'd already know that my first two-three weeks here was very hard. As what you would expect from someone with no connections or friends in this platform, It was very hard for me to interact with the people in here. You read that one right, "interact". While it is easy to write some mumbo-jumbo comments on other peoples post. It's hard to be taken seriously when you have a very low reputation and SP. I know some of you would probably say "How about you try to write insightful and heartfelt comments?" Believe me I tried, either it wasn't insightful enough that it ends up being ignored or people here prefer to interact more with people who have a decent reputation and SP. To make matters worse, I have seen authors who did reply to my comments but they'd followed it by an upvote on their own reply. I'm not really seeking for an upvote(but it would be nice to get one), but when authors reply to comments and they upvote their own reply, It kind of leaves a very bitter feeling to me. XD

Of course I am not generalizing everyone. There are also some nice people here on SteemIt. The problem is that they are not easily found. You have to dig deeper and explore to find them. Don't stay too much on the 'Trending' section. Authors there are busy people and they receive lots of comments, so if you're new to this platform you might end up disappointed from being ignored there. If you want to find someone with similar interests, use the tag section.

I believe the reason why the retention rate here is very low is because after the 'introductory post', newbies just don't know what to do next and they feel being left out and ignored. I know it's very hard to think and write something interesting, but my advice for complete newbies who are reading this, is to make it a goal to post at least once a day. Don't aim for a bigger audience, just write what you love to talk about. When I first started writing stuffs, it was all about 'CTF's'. I was fully aware that only a few people would be interested about it. At first I got only $1-$5 from it, until I got enough $ to use some upvote bots, I've got to admit that I am still relying on bots for some visibility atm. But hey, at least I got some real followers out of it. Right now, I am writing 'Anime' stuffs which let's be honest, only a few people here are interested in. But that's still not stopping me from writing about it, because eventually you will find someone with similar interests here. XD

Anyway, enough about my rant. Here are some of my achievements for the past 2 months taken from the steemitboard. As you can see below, My posts have already been upvoted 1000+ times and got a reply of over 100. Currently I have about 250+ followers, a reputation of 52 and a natural SP of 41, without investing anything. Not bad for two months right? XD

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank some people, some communities and even bots for helping me upto this point. First off, @techslut , for believing in me and being there when I literally was nothing and have nothing to offer. I will be forever thankful for all your help. Also, expect this to be a monthly thing XD. To the @qurator community for accepting me as one of their members. That was a very well spent 2 SBD , I should have registered sooner XDv More power to this awesome community. And lastly to the @minnowsupport bot which was the very first one I have used. Again, Thank you everyone! :)