1000 followers! Yay! Or not?
I have 1031 followers, the interface says. A truly joyous number, that deserves upvotes from you all, as per tradition. Best do that first, before you read on, as I run the risk of losing followers by writing this next bit.
Of these 1031 followers, 107 haven't posted or voted in over a month (you can look up your own numbers here).
This leaves 924 followers. On a very good day, a posting by me gets 90 upvotes, and a little less views. It looks like, but I'm not sure, that these viewers and upvoters are often the same people. To these people I say: Thank you for following me!
I do wonder, however, why those other 90% are following me, if they don't look at or vote for my content. I don't expect a vote from all my followers on every posting I make, far from it, but these percentages are ridiculous.
If they don't care about my content, fair enough, but why are they following me then?
This isn't a post-HF thing either, I have seen similar percentages before that too.
Maybe I can persuade @mynameisbrian, who made the dead-follower tool, to include an option to see a list of all followers who haven't voted for any of my content in over a month.
Maybe I shouldn't think about these things too much, but I am curious by nature, I suppose, so:
- What are your stats like?
- Any ideas on what, if anything, is going on here? Am I not handsome enough?
Gratuitous photo of a cute piglet as thanks for reading all the way down:
Photo by me
I like your posts and try not to miss nothing. If someone don't like them, why follow? You ask a good question.
I have similar stats: more than 300 followers and only 10-15 upvotes from real people. Sometimes voting bots are very active so I can get even 40 votes...
Thanks.
The Mysterious Case of the Followers Who Aren't 8-).
Of course I congratulate You, too! And let the number of Your followers increases every day. But, yesterday I was interested in this same question about dozens of dead followers. My stats: Total followers-409; Dead followers - 24; True followers - 385. Of these 385 vote for post of 10-12 people. And I always thank them for it. Sad for me that I don't understand why such a low rating votes for my posts. Perhaps it is the quality of my content, bad photos or bad language. What is the real reason, then it can be corrected in a better way. I always read my followers. I signed up for a small number of people. Only those who are interesting to me. Yes, I think You, too, so a lot of people on this platform. What is the point of having a few thousand if you will not be able to read or just scroll through their posts. I'm not even talking about getting them all to comment on. Disappointing more that in recent times there were comments with requests as you are me and I you, if you vote for me, I will vote for you. Or more persistent requests to vote and links...links...links. And if you don't vote for him, then this message comes again. Yesterday I was terribly upset, hands down. Want to shut everything down and disable...But, Oh well!. I'm very happy for You. Go ahead and continue with even greater success. I am very grateful for Your continued support. I wish you all the best for You @ocrdu
Thank you.
It is probably best to ignore all that, not get upset, and post on for those who look at your content. I don't think the quality of your content is a problem 8-).
Time will tell :) I wish You a good day!
Hey! Congratulations! I've recently reached 500 subscribers, but as you note, most are not active - or rather - engaged.
Here's my reply from our previous discussion, if someone cares to read:
The mid May spike in the price of Steem attracted a lot of people, looking for a quick buck. They realize they need a lot of followers to make a lot of cash, so they hope the traditional follow-for-follow strategy would work here (while copy pasting articles from the net, hoping to get upvotes).
The problem is that Steemit doesn't notify anyone of new followers, so this strategy doesn't really work. So they now follow hundreds of people, but won't bother unfollowing them - first, because unfollowing so many people is a very slow and time consuming process, but mostly because they don't use their Home feed in the first place (they don't care about people's content, they care about cash).
Instead they stalk the New feed, for articles with a big (SBD wise) upvote. Not only will they get more cash as curators from these posts, but the rich authors often upvote any comments on their posts, bringing in more profits to the ever hungry minnows. That's why rich authors are more popular - even though they often post low quality content.
This whole thing would've ended with Steem's price falling back down again, with WannaCrypt's slow decline in number of infected computers (and related Bitcoin laundering), were it not for yesterday's news of a new ransomware, named Petya.
If it is successful, expect the events from mid May to repeat themselves.
p.s. I've gotten good at typing on my phone! But my fingerprints are now gone.
There could be something in that. It all sounds very facebookish to me, can't they just unfollow?
You sure are handsome enough and deserve an upvote :) Congratulations on the 1000 !!
Thanks!
With all the new folks, and the resteeming going on, I don't even see a tiny fraction of the posts by people that I have been enjoying for months. I can't count on my feed as the efficient way to see posts by the people I am following. And I don't even follow that many people! I have to figure out a different way.
Voting has gone way down. I'm sure I'm part of that, too, because the cognitive overhead of the voting percentage is so high. It's worse than tipping, which the Steemit whitepaper dismissed as an option for this platform, for that reason.
I have to figure out a better approach to voting, too, because I used to heave out votes everywhere and I liked that, because the people I follow have good content! I think I'm just going to go back to that and sit there are 3% vote power, which is still worth more than it used to be. But it does shortchange good posts and overcompensate most comments. Aarggh. Drives me nuts!
I don't put much stock in the number of followers. I saw some recent tool that I've since lost track of, that showed the growth and loss of your followers, by name and over time. I could see so many of the followers are people that will never look at my posts. They are people just following to build up numbers in some hope of something. And then there are people that constantly follow and unfollow, over and over.
I value the people that are my repeat supporters and my vests in Steemit more than numbers of followers. I just went from a fat minnow to a baby dolphin, so I have a milestone party going on. But I won't do anything special for the number of followers.
Awwww i read your stuff dude!!! here is an upvote ;)
Thanks!
i would'nt spend too much time worrying about followers, but i do agree engagement is the key, maybe ask more questions, like this one, will garner more interactions. for me, someone who got in early in twitter in 2006 and ended up with 10,000 followers but only 3,000 engaged people i learned very quickly that it's the engagement that really matters when connecting across the internet.
True that. And I'm not worried, just curious. Can't help it 8-).
curious is good, curious will save us all.
Run out of my upvote quota for the day! - And that may be why more people aren't upvoting you. But still, like you say, the percentages are ridiculous.
And nice to learn about the dead follower tool! Will be using it in the future I guess.
Before I answer: is that a picture of you at the end?
I never do selfies. Always photography away from yourself, I say.
Congratz man!
Thanks!
The more you hard work the more you gain , this example is set on you totally , its the reward of your hardwork dear keep it up may God give you more n more here on steemit
Thank you.
pleasure