RE: Up to $75 vote from me if you encourage newbies. Newbies can also get same for a good blog. Closes 26 December.
Great initiative!
I myself find that searching for newbies' posts to be one of the most rewarding tools anyway. Both because you can help them out, and because newcomers to platforms are looking to make connections. When you post on someone with 5,000 followers, even if you leave a couple of high quality comments, they're quite unlikely to respond. Not so the case with newcomers.
I hadn't had much time in the last 5 days to check newcomers' posts, but I do plan to do so in a concentrated manner at least once a week. I also resteemed your post because I've been a believer in this sort of behaviour anyway.
A very interesting newbie I've come across is @joalex check this post for instance - https://steemit.com/life/@joalex/off-grid-living-diary-1-one-month-in
I've left 2 comments in this thread, and 6 "thoughtful" ones on other posts of hers, such as also this one:
https://steemit.com/life/@joalex/off-grid-living-diary-2-the-solitude
I too am a newbie, and you should thank @techslut for getting me here, though indirectly, as she introduced @poet who's been a good friend of mine for about a decade. But I definitely thank @techslut for all the support.
I have some interesting topics, and I aim for long-form and well-thought content.
@techslut already linked to https://steemit.com/anime/@geekorner/so-you-want-to-watch-anime-here-are-ten-shows-to-help-you-get-started which unlike most such lists isn't just listing my top shows, but considers others' best interest first, and took over 20 hours to write, research, and edit.
https://steemit.com/politics/@geekorner/thoughts-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-and-peace-process This post is likely going to be too late for you to upvote, as it closes in a couple of hours, but this post is capital-I Important, a more well rounded and encompassing view on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
And well, most of my thoughts are quality content. I try to not post what I won't be proud of later.
A couple more examples:
Poetry piece, my last poetry piece written, and one of the two I am historically proudest of:
https://steemit.com/poetry/@geekorner/gabriel-existential-prose
And an editorial that uses a specific anime as its jumping off point, but like all good reviews and editorials is more about life and humans than the show itself:
https://steemit.com/anime/@geekorner/shirobako-on-cynical-optimism
There's nothing on steemit that pleases me more than seeing quality bloggers and authors like you join. I think you're going to pass my rep and SP in 2 months tops. <3
I don't bank on it, but if I do, your help will have been invaluable getting there :)
I adore kindness to newbs and all positive uses of the word ‘slut’ and the emoji <3. You could soon be my new hero xo
Great you were a real hero. Lots of newbie interraction. Thanks for your help.
I voted you as above - a good 50% power.
Checkout my latest idea to get people involved - especially newbies. A resteem would be great if you support it. Write a story in less than 300 words
Done. Not as payment, but because I think it's a good idea ;-)
Also shared on a writing-focused Discord channel for Steemians.
And thanks for the upvotes :)
BTW, the pie-chart at the bottom of the opening post is posted twice, for some reason.