RE: Steem For Beginners: Why Steem
I wasn't going to log in anymore tonight, but saw your comment and was humbled to have a gesture with you. I am going to write a post on some of this (was supposed to do it today actually), but feel I need to give you a few of the tips here now.
I took a quick peek at your account on Steemworld.
https://steemworld.org/@toyimika
I urge you to save that link for your future reference. I use it daily.
The first thing you simply have to stop doing is voting so much. Because of the little SP you have to begin with, your votes are what is called dust. Which means in many cases when you cast a vote it gives nothing back to you, and often nothing to the person you cast it on. Right now, until you grow your Steem Power, only vote on posts, never comments.
When voting on posts, it is Crucial that you try to get in your vote when the post is about 11 minutes or so old if possible. You will give up a little bit of reward once you grow your account using this strategy, but for now you simply must try to get your votes in before the majority of votes hit a post.
I see that your voting power is at 54.93%. Never let your voting power go below 80%. Train yourself not to. And do not vote again after reading this until you have let it recharge somewhere in the 99% range. If you adhere to this, you will maximize the power of your vote and rewards not only for yourself, but those you show appreciation for by voting.
You need to try posting and commenting more. I understand that since the last hardfork that there is a hard limit placed on you due to the lack of resource credits. I will share something I recently shared with another and will be going into my next post.
There are several communities that are focused on helping new members grow their accounts here. They are:
Another great project is ran by @thedarkhorse. He has been delegating to people, and also runs the payitforward weekly competition.
You can find his competition here: https://steemit.com/@pifc
@thedarkhorse is one you simply must begin following. If you can get a delegation for a month from him it will get you the much needed resource credits to make more comments and posts to grow your account.
This is enough for now, as you desperately need to recharge your votes and can't really do much for a couple days anyway.
My post coming tomorrow will deal with other important topics that will help you, such as using tags to help visibility, how to understand building your community here etc.
Oh, and one last thing. I remember that you had been posting others work and pictures. In your last post 4 days ago you did this again. I urge you not to do that, as I did before. You can't build your community, which will grow votes here for you over time, if others don't know who you are. Share of yourself, share on others posts of like mind and you will grow a community of like minded folks of similar heart and mind to yourself. Make your hustle be one of strong character where you demonstrate what make toyimika a blessing to the world. All of us have that within us, and there are surely many here waiting for you to share with them.
Thanks for taking time to put me through, but i still have things that are still not clear.
People keep saying one should try and build a community by sticking to a style of writing, is that even possible? To be honest, i am not a writer by nature, i am lazy and i feel if i write some of my inner feelings, i won't get the required attention. I posted something i came up with myself and there was no single vote on it, i weighed me down real hard.
About me posting other peoples work, the last post i made was composed by a friend and the picture i used has the source attached to it, i didn't plagarise anybody's work.Correct me if i am wrong, I feel it is my blog and i should be able to post things that i feel are worth posting.
I meant it when i said you are a source of motivation and i wouldn't mind you being my mentor on this platform if you don't mind.
It's ok not to be a writer, but the lazy part will be a decision you will need to make for yourself as to whether it is worth it.
There are many here who are not much in the way of writing, but they were able to build communities to participate in by being themselves and interacting with others of like mind, whether it be:
hobbies
investments
religion
news
weed even
There are people of all walks of life here, and if you look for the ones you identify with you can begin building your community by focusing more on their blog posts, and interacting with others on the comment sections of those posts. Comments that you make here are treated the same as posts in the way voting rewards work. This will help you begin forging bonds with others, and letting others know you are here.
Your posts get no votes because those who may be interested in things you could write that interest you don't know you exist. The burden for that is on you to let them know you are here and based on common interests are someone they would like and get along with.
I can give you tips, although I have said most of what to do. I will be writing a post very soon on how to best utilize this site for optimal growth in the coming days. Between it and this one it will be all you need to get things moving along quite well. Of course, if you have any questions I will be glad to answer.