How Not to Behave In A Library, Or On Steemit.
It doesn't take long, even just lurking on the sidelines of the Minnow Support Discord Channel before someone new shows up and asks, "how do i make money on steemit?".
Well, there are (at least) 2 sure-fire ways.
One way is to bring a shitpot full of money, load up on SP and, you'll suddenly be surrounded by people wanting to "share upvotes". This is where you upvote their posts & comments and they upvote your posts & comments and you all make a buttload of money from shitty selfie posts and "great post" comments.
It is also known as "Circle-Jerking" and is no different, in my humble opinion, than the scumbag politicians who campaign to "represent" you and your interests, only to arrive in Washington D.C. and immediately start stuffing their pockets with other people's money and picking fights on the other side of the planet.
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"Constituents, why I've never heard of that word. What does it mean?"
It is the worst example of what human beings bring to this planet.
I guess we can take some comfort in the fact that the Steemit Circle-Jerks can't start wars and then ask for volunteers to go fight it.
The other way to make money is to engage with people, join in and help grow a community of like-minded people with similar interests and values and then, once you've built a community, produce quality content that is appreciated and rewarded by that community.
This takes time and work, but it doesn't require that shitpot full of money to get started.
Steemit will even front you some SP to get started.
It's that SP in your wallet that has the brackets around it. --------------------------------->
Did I mention that the FREE Method requires you to work?
You know, reading interesting posts, digesting them and coming up with constructive comments that add to the dialogue.
Which brings me to title of this post.
I'm going to give you 2 different scenarios and let you choose which one you would follow.
Scenario One:
You walk into a Library, for you millennials, that's a public building that has a few public-access internet terminals and a huge collection of "books".
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They're kind of like what you can download onto your smarthpone but they don't have any of the cool tools.
The upside is that if you drop one in the toilet, it still works, oh, and the battery never needs recharging.
So, you walk into a Library and you notice this absolutely beautiful, non-gender-specific human.
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Nice clothes, expensive watch & an iPhone that hasn't even been released to the public yet!
You saunter over and, since you want to cut right to the chase, you shout in the loudest voice you can muster,
"I WANT BE YOU. TAKE ME TO YOU HOUSE WHERE WE FUCK AND YOU GIVE ME ALL YOU MONEY!"
If you can't picture how that would be a bad thing to do, stop reading, now, just go follow-beg some whales.
Scenario Two:
You walk into a Library and proceed to walk around, noticing the books that people are reading.
"Oh" you whisper to the person reading a Danielle Steele novel, "A Perfect Life"
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"I absolutely loved Property of a Noblewoman, have you had the chance to read it?"
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You strike up a conversation and find a new friend.
You continue this exact, same, process for a few months, building relationships with an ever growing group of friends and acquaintances at the Library.
It gives you a warm feeling inside when you walk into the Library and you're greeted by a group of people, with varying interests, who are all glad to see you.
One day, that absolutely beautiful, non-gender-specific human that I talked about in Scenario One walks right up to you and says, in a dark and sultry voice,
"Hi, my name is Danielle Steele and I've been hearing very nice things about you."
And you live happily ever after, having stimulating discussions at the Library with other, like-minded people and then returning to your mansion to make sweet-passionate love with Danielle Steele.
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There's another way that's similar to the "circle-jerk"... Pick a whale, or two or three and start writing about how wonderful they are... How they're a credit to Steemit and the human race, for that matter. How these particular whales are going to save the world because there's just nobody so wonderful. If it doesn't work, pick a couple of others and get to work... sooner or later- you'll hit paydirt!
Yeah, I covered them in a post yesterday or the day before.
I've had my fill of brown nosers already. I'm just going to try and ignore them.
This platform is full of them. There was a guy I was interacting with until he found Gold blowing smoke up whales asses! Makes me sick- he's hitting $250 a post now!!!
If you get picked up by the right curation trail the sky's the limit for earning potential.
Doesn't look like any of them are interested by my stories.
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So, when you can hardly make your way through a blog post because you keep chuckling and trying to choke back the outbursts of laughter...because you're in a library...I guess that is the sign of a quality post then?
And then when when you go back to read it again and it's just as funny as it was the first time...? Yeah.
Dude. You're killing me with that picture of McStain.
I followed you a while back. Can't remember why. You can follow me back if you want, if you haven't already. I really don't care one way or the other. Just tell me you won't lose this dry humor when you grow up into whaleness. I need a good laugh now and then.
I don't have any aspirations to whale-hood. I've got a pretty good track record of working my way to the middle, only to screw myself back to the bottom with my mouth. You wouldn't be the first person to see that and be amused by it.
OK, so I just had to go look up haz palinka mester. Really? Wow. That's pretty far down the rabbit hole. Made a run down to my cupboard to make sure - would it be an insult to toast you with some E&J VS? I don't want to offend.
No offence at all.
Solid advice as always. Would like to see more people sayign true words like this.
Good, let me know when you post your words of truth.
I'll be more than happy to slap my 0.13 upvote all over it.
The feeling is mutual. I very much enjoy your work. ^_^ I do wish people would realize this isn't a get rich quick scheme but we can all succeed. My vote is only worth 0.11 or whatever as well but I'm more then happy to share it with good quality content. People need to spend time finding not only big whale stuff, but good stuff like this and upvoting it. Spreading the votes around to the lesser known people. That's how we all end up succeeding. Voting power is low right now but guarntee I'll be voting on some of your stuff again once I recharge it. I spread the love a little to much and ran myself down to twenty percent. Lol.
I love the fact that we have to remind ourselves that the younger generation my be unfamiliar with the purpose of a library. Funny stuff. Sad but true.
FOLLOW ME & UPVOTE NOW MY SHIT ACCOUNT MAKES NO MONEY WITH GREAT WORK!
I'm already following you.
Sadly, I've accepted the fact that anything I post right now is for my own peace of mind. I'm not going to make any money with it. Commenting is the only thing my tiny voice can do to get any rewards.
I know and I appreciate that you follow my account, that last line was a joke.
I feel the same sometimes. I'm going to keep cranking out some content and see if anything takes off.
Balance it out too, comment the shit out of good posts.
A guy's gotta eat.
I definitely interact on good posts. nom nom.
So a lady walks into the library, goes up to the circulation desk and says in a loud voice, I'd like to order a pizza to go.
The librarian puts her fingers to her lips and replies, I'm sorry, this is a library.
Oh, the lady whispers, I'd like to order a pizza to go.
I like scenario 2.
Actually this whole post is wonderful and maybe there should be a minnow circle jerk session where we can all up vote one another because this post should be work a couple hundred :)
Happy Thursday!
Thank you.
I'm trying to post helpful info rather than something to gratuitously increase my own rewards.
@aggroed started the #minnowsupportproject and there are bots available to upvote where members can upvote 1 post once every 12 hours.
Thank you for the info.
Well you write awesome posts and they deserve the credit :)
Thank you.
I am a little concerned at the Danielle Steele in your bookcase...
I'm not dumb enough to keep them here, the Library has the entire collection. ;-)