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RE: Are you a Steem 1 percenter? Do you know who is?
This is one of the reasons why I talk to the helpienauts weekly, attempting to preach the importance of powering up, of thinking long term and not so much of the now.
As you say, so many get a curie... make a post or two after that with little success and then, they power down sell it all and call it done.
This little experiment of ours is not for everyone, I get that, but I tend to think that its also a lack of culture, meaning the right culture. The community culture, the "we are in this together" ethos that "real life" seems to have lost.
But... this is good, good message to put out there and if it offends someone, then that someone needs to get off the internet. I hear its full of opinions.
That's it right there and something I know has been discussed on the Curie discord:
As someone who has been Curied twice so far it is great. It's a rewarding jolt and certainly does motivate you to continue writing great content. But after the Curie you have to use bots to get more eyes on your posts.
People are more focused on creating content and few actually go out and support other writers. I think we need more Curie like groups backed by some whales or middle class accounts that continually curate the content, reward great posts and inspire more writers to step up the quality of their posts.
That's my uneducated opinion anyway.
This is a social platform, it isn't good enough to just write great content. I know, that is what I tried for the first 8 months (not saying my content is great but it isn't the worst at least). What helped me was learning about the system and building/joining a network of people looking long. I am not the biggest or fastest growing but, I have been consistent.
I have always wondered why more people don't post in a social way on Steemit like they do on facebook as it would be a lot easier to develop a following of friends and family who would certainly upvote your postings on a consistent basis. I have found that it is difficult to develop a "following" unless you have an area of expertise that people who you don't know find of value. It seems as though the blogs/vlogs/comments on Steemit are either very good or totally useless. Your rant today was a very good one as I have enjoyed reading all of the comments/discussions that it has generated.
The reason is that unless ypur friends and family buy in, they have very little value and the content on Facebook isn't seen as hlding a high value so attracting voters willing to consistently support it is hard.
Everyone has unique perspectives on things, use yours.
re: friends and family
I can see your point in that it would probably be fairly hard to get family and friends to buy in as the crypto exchanges can be somewhat intimidating as well as doing transactions in something other than dollars can be confusing at best. Then you would have to convince them to buy at least 100-200 sp just to have a 2-4 cent upvote, yeah I can see why it's not likely to happen. Most of them already think that I'm not very smart for investing in the crypto's as it is (clearly I don't have that same opinion, I like to think of it as being an early mover for once in my life).
re: unique perspectives on things, use yours.
Thanks. I currently have settled in on posting about things going on in my life and if people find some of my postings interesting/entertaining/of value and upvote occasionally, hey great. At first I got discouraged as you would put a lot of work into a posting and no one would upvote it or you would only get a penny or two. I've since then learned not to worry about it. I was having a discussion yesterday with @glenalbrethsen in regards to his post "RE: Want To Grow? Make Meaningful Comments And More Of Them" and he made a very pertinent comment to this... "The bottom line is, the more you get out there, the more people see you interacting, the more people you will get to know and the more likely some of them will follow, autovote, or consistently engage with you." Seems like pretty sound advise to me.
On a separate note, how do you copy and paste in other people's comments the way you do. I like it.
I take the same view. I have 'waited to see' too many times.
You mean the quotes like this?
(>)arrow right + text
just remove the ( ) brackets and it looks like this:
Ha, got it, thanks :)
might help also:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@taraz/i-wish-i-was-a-little-bit-shorter
Yep, if they aren't powering some up, they aren't thinking long. everyone who earns here can power up a little...
I am going to change my approach to it all and start really thinking long and doing what I can to grow and support other long thinkers.
I power up not by selling SBD in the market but by recycling the SBD in bots - from say 100SBD of bot voting I get maybe 60 SBD back and 20 SP. With the 60 SBD I can promote a subsequent post
Sob! Never got a @curie. I wrote so many posts and all they found to say was that "I'm not properly sourcing my images" ... :(
I would not sweat it my friend, you've done very good for yourself anyways. I think i got it once or twice... its like finding a $20 in an old pair of jeans, but its not a salary!!
:)
It's not about the money. It's about the pride and recognition. I'm a vain person, I long for public displays of respect and admiration!
:-)
OOOhhh!! I get it now!! In that case... I will raise the pitchfork with you my friend... lets go!!!
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