RE: Is Steemit Rigged? How Do You Make Money On Steemit?
Hi @jameslparis. I, like so many others, are also rather new here. I joined beginning of March, and don't have an established history of successful publications or sustainable followers behind me. Steemit is actually the first place I've ever blogged on. I've never seen any real value in it, or perhaps not how I could contribute value to any site.
After being unemployed for over 6 months, I started looking into crypto and especially the opportunities of making money online. Living in a country where high speed uncapped internet is really expensive, I am limited in my capability to produce high quality content on a regular basis, especially video material.
Judging from this and other posts you've shared, I can tell that you have good experience in blogging and also you seem a pretty decent writer as well. You can have a look at my profile and you'll see that I have only a few posts that resemble good quality blogging, as I am still learning as I go. One thing I want you to focus on however, is my comments and votes tabs. You'll see that I spend quite some time purposefully and transparently to other people's posts. This is like networking really, and it creates opportunity for conversation and ultimately, relationship building happens as a result. In the famous wise words of @unknowntemplar, Is getting help from a whale any different than getting a big name author et cetera to endorse your work?
While I can respect you as an author and contributor to society, as far as Steemit etiquette goes, your profile is bereft of any real attempt to encourage others to post as you seem to only comment on your own work, and this leaves a bland taste in the mouth similar to an unknown contributor in any form of content production. You will just remain the passed-by poster, as you don't engage with others but rather you just stand on the corner and play your instrument hoping that someone will throw coin at you. As an example of your inactive commenting to others, you did not respond once to any of the users which posted here: @whatsup, @greer184, @edy01, @unknowntemplar or @evernoticethat. And as a test to (hopefully) prove my point, see how many of them will comment to this comment!
Apologies if this came out offensive; it was not my intention but all of this is true, in my opinion, if you want to make it out here. Alternatively, yes you do need to be stacked big time and buy your way in.
Blessings
spot on. interaction with commenters is essential. Comments build active followers which in long term can create good results.
Thank you @mateen. It's seems to be the only way that slowly fills the cup of blessing 🏆
Thanks, and good point @cngrobler I wonder if that's a byproduct of him being new? When I complete a new post, I always engage with anyone leaving a "real" comment. If it's good and I have enough VP, I upvote it as well.
I had a friend that started out with me on Steemit and noticed that once he passed me in SP, he stopped interacting with me and now only chases Whales. It's a toe-sucking charm offensive that is very obvious to me. Everything he does is about himself and what "you" can do for him. Having not heard from him in months, I was surprised when he dumped a link to me about his latest post in Steemit Chat. Just the link, nothing else.
If you have a high number next to your name he will be all over you remarking how valuable you are. How he really loves your content. It's so plastic-sounding, but it's worked with at least one Whale who upvotes everything he does. But if there's a (25) next to your name? forget about it. I wonder when they will start noticing the slavish praise? I swear he must have copy/paste phrases at the ready. Whales can tell the difference between an authentic compliment and a self-serving one.
It is sad to hear about your experience with your 'friend' @evernoticethat. Guess that's another good thing about Steemit - it reveals your colors 😯 Equally as good are whales' ability to spot insincerity then! And that's what I probably enjoy the most about Steemit so far - the opportunity to be sincere and discover more of yourself is so big because there is something of real value at stake.
But yeah likely that @jameslparis isn't used to the new way of how Steemit works, because c'mon bro, even after I sort of challenged you to comment on the people paying some sort of attention to you, you still neglect to do so. Perhaps it's just that you are busy? Although I see you have at least responded to some other comments. Steemit is definitely more than just about making money. It's opportunities and capabilities far surpass that I believe.
This is great information, but I have a hard time finding things to comment on. I have music industry, song writing, music recording and live sound experience that I wouldn't mind sharing, especially with the young artists coming up, but it sure is a chore to find them! If anyone has any tips for how I do that I would really appreciate it! Also, for what it's worth, what social media platform DOESN'T have the Whales problem? It's a huge problem on Twitter, plagues Facebook even ranking on GOOGLE generally involves getting authority sites to link to your web site to some degree. Perhaps some sort of system where people with a certain area of expertise could be rewarded for reading and commenting on posts in such a way that the reader would not know who wrote the article, or their ranking info etc. That way each post could be judged on it's own merit rather than by the reputation of the author? Just an idea. If anyone decides to do something like this I'm in.
Interesting concept @zedessex! WHo knows maybe someone will take up that challenge! Perhaps it's something you need to pursue and grow at least on the social awareness level. But remains a good idea in my mind.
Funny enough, I have 10 years experience in Live Event Technicals (Sound, lights, visuals blah blah blah), and I acutally never thought about using this platform as a teaching hub for that. I am so intrigued with crypto of late that I have forgotten my roots..so thanks for the inspirational reminder! Albeit again, if you want to build a following, one good way is to be active with other people. Also be sure to link your posts to FB and Twitter etc. (link-button on the bottom of post-edit window). Tag me if you have made a post and I will resteem it!
@zedessex i do a lot of recording as well as writing and composing id sure like to hear your thoughts on my work when you have the time.... also new here btw
It would surprise me if there weren’t any Discord channels set up music-related communities... That should make it easier to find the posts you’re interested in...
You wrote a very detailed and helpful comment, which is also useful to the new members. Thanks!
Thanks for joining in on the discussion and making your voice heard @anikoonline! Best of luck to you!
Thank you!
Well for sure to say
I try to comment regularly but sometimes your comments gets overlooked
Even if it is good content
Please what do we do when this happens
Am also new here thanks
Well @fantomcee one way to draw attention to your comment (sneakingly) is to tag the poster, or someone else that also posted. Be sure to always look at someone's rep level (number in brackets after prof name). They will then have a notification under the "Mentions" tab (if they have the Steemplus extension installed - you should too) of their name being mentioned and they might likely go check it out. BUT, if you want to draw attention be sure you make it worth the big player's time. Don't come to a gunfight with a knife, or something like that :)
Check out @steem-plus
I’m looking forward to seeing your blog
It also seems to be the more commenting you do on posts the more your going to be successful too.
Great comment. I didn’t even think of checking how his interaction was...
Networking is one of the most important factors on SteemIt - if not the most important (except for money, of course)
Personally, I spend so much time commenting that it happens that I simply don’t have any time left to post.
I don’t know if you already heard of @abh12345’s curation and engagement league? The engagement league is all set up to reward people for engaging. It’s kind of a motivational contest to see how you’re doing when it comes to engagement, and how you’re improving every week. It’s really fun, and as I can see you think high of engagement, it might be right up your alley :0)
You can check it here:
The Curation and Engagement Leagues