May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day One: How Did You Get On Steemit?
For @dragosroua 30 Days Writing Challenge
Well, I honestly don't remember who actually pointed me to Steemit 10 months ago. In my introduction post, I don't make any mention of why or who pointed me in the way of Steemit.
I do recall that I had heard about Steemit months before I started posting. But, as also my recollection with BitCoin itself, I took a glance but didn't really do enough about it. I guess, if I had been more awake about things, I would be one of the Whales here and probably a BitCoin Lamborghini driving fool. But, alas, I'm just a regular guy humping out articles here on Steemit.
My initial goal for joining Steemit was to promote my chat show called Politically Correct. Something that points to the technology of today. I had not met Rick nor Mike before agreeing to do the show. In fact, the first time we met was at PrepperCamp last year, which we ended up being the main act due to an illness of the scheduled speaker.
I see from my first sudo monthly update, that I am still following most of my same advice.
Make good comments that deal with the article you are commenting on.
Don't worry about getting followers, they will come.
I used the free upvote bots and I did a couple of the bid upvote bots. Then I realized that the upvote bots do nothing and the bid upvote bots actually hurt the system and do almost nothing for the people bidding on them. I also learned about bots used to automatically upvote people in a list and then came the comment and article bots.
I have become anti-bot.
I believe that with hard work and effort, you can make it here on Steemit. The odds are stacked against you, but it is possible. For new Steemians, I gave this advice over 9 months ago and it still holds true.
- Don't ask people to follow or upvote you. Earn those.
- Write as much original content as possible. Even if you post a video of something, provide your own commentary.
- Look at the New, Trending and Hot...browse around. Read other posts, find posts that you like and follow those people.
- Comment on other people's posts with a nice related comment. They might follow you after seeing it. They might even upvote it.
- Limit your upvoting to 10-15 per 24 hours. It takes time to rebuild your voting power. You can vote more when you are bigger fish.
- Go write a introducemyself post and use the hashtag. Make sure you write about what you want out of STEEMit and what you think you might post.
@dragosroua has plenty of topics for the 30 Days Writing Challenge, so I don't want to cover something that will be covered in a future post. But, again, I say to the new Steemians, it is a hard road and it isn't fair, but if you put effort behind it, you will be rewarded. Good Luck!
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Great post Dean and i am glad to see that you enroll in 30 Days Writing Challenge by @dragosroua.
If you don't invest from your pocket as a new Steemian the road is a very difficult one and requires not only quality posts but a lot, a lot of patience as well.
But i think the key is to have fun and enjoy the time on this great platform and all the rest will follow... as well you gave some great advices!
And don't worry time will come when you will be a whale as well!
Slowly, but surely.
Nice tips, but the road is not unfair.
The platform is available to all. Have a steady formula of commenting and writing quality articles and you will thrive.
Yes, the platform is available to all.
Just do a search on my "steemit is unfair" articles and you'll understand what I mean.
ex. You can write an article with a ton of information about something. Then someone else can write an article with a link to what you wrote about and post it days or even weeks later. Your article gets 0.10 and their gets 10.00. It's just how things are.
To me it’s kind of like saying - everybody gets free food. But some get more than others.
Is it really unfair if you are still getting free (high quality) food?
I know we are still working and not just showing up, but the effort that people put into steemit is effort that goes into other platforms with no pay off.
I bring it up as less of a complaint, but more of a reality check for newbies. Anyone who comes onto the platform shouldn't expect great success and they should expect that someone who does exactly the same as they do might just get better rewards because the right person gave them an upvote.