Experimenting with Upvoting Technique to Mutually Benefit Followers and Supporters
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with voting methods to mutually benefit my followers and supporters.
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Followers and Supporters
My followers and supporters are those who follow my blog posts and provide comments.
Upvoting Technique for My Blog Posts and Comments
I do not automatically upvote my blog posts and comments when they are posted. I typically upvote them 3 to 5 days after they are posted. Rewards on posts are distributed 75% to the author and 25% to curators. A curator's percentage of the reward is based on their voting order and weight of their vote. By voting well after the majority of my followers and supporters have had a chance to vote on my post, I deliberating increase the total rewards for the post and share a greater percentage with those who upvoted before me.
Upvoting Replies
I appreciate feedback on my posts. To reward those who provide comments to my post, I have been upvoting their replies typically 3-5 days after the replies are posted.
Additional Rewards
Milestones
I typically do not make a blog post simply stating I have achieved a milestone on SteemIt (i.e., number of followers = X). I have directly transferred rewards to those who helped to achieve the reward. For example, not long ago I rewarded my 500th follower with a transfer of STEEM dollars.
First Upvote and First Reblog (Re-Steem) of a Blog Post
Occassionally I will reward the first person to upvote or reblog my posts by visiting their blog to upvote what I believe is quality content blog posts that are still in the rewards window.
New Posts
From time to time I will scan the list of newly created posts. I strongly encourage everyone to do so and upvote quality content. There are a lot of new people joining SteemIt and producing quality content, they deserve our upvotes and encouragement.
Why?
I am doing this because I believe in the SteemIt concept, the SteemIt platform, and the SteemIt community. I feel very fortunate to have found SteemIt and very appreciative to those who have supported my blog posts.
I am a capitalist, but do not consider myself to be a capitalist pig. I hope my upvoting actions spreads the wealth and encourages more interaction. I want to encourage quality content and encourage people to use SteemIt.
My Voting Power and Voting Technique
I have learned to manage my voting power. For this reason the percentage of my voting power (using the upvote slider) will vary based on number of upvotes and quality of content. I do not want to blindly encourage just any content but what I consider to be quality content.
If future hard forks evolve the rewards system, then I will adjust my voting technique for our mutual benefit when possible.
Very informative and time saving post for other stemians.
Just trying to be mutually beneficial for my followers and supporters.
Now that your posted comment is more than 30 minutes old, please upvote your comment. When I upvote it 3-5 days from now you will get both author and curator rewards.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
Wow! Earning while learning!!
Thank you for taking the time to share this information with the community. Some of this may help me out a bit.
You are welcome!
Now that your post is more than 30 minutes old, please upvote your posted comment. When I come along 3-5 days from now and upvote it, you will get both author and curator rewards.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
Thanks!
It's really awesome of you to help everyone else learn the system.
Do you have any tips for content? I have a few essays I'd like to post (some on writing) but I'm not exactly sure if it's worth it.
Could you please give me some advice for making myself more visible?
Here are a few tips I have learned:
** It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Remember that some Steemians may not speak your language and pictures help.
** But do not go overboard with pictures.
** I view many posts where I do not understand the language, but the pictures are what capture my attention and my upvote.
** Formatting a post is important.
** It makes the post easier to read and holds the readers attention.
** The longer you hold a readers attention, the more likely you will get an upvote.
That's a few simple rules. There are many artisans on SteemIt that are far better than I.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
Thank you for the tips!
thanks for clearyfying me some things... like upvoting my post. obviously I was doing contrary :) Cheers!
It means that you are doing curation manually, without using voting bot and it is worthy of respect.
I also periodically check the feed of new posts, and I'm sad to see that the posts of new authors, sometimes even very quality, gets only 0,01-0,1 reward while the whales posts get hundreds of dollars largely due to voting bots.
Human approach must be more important than money.
Yes, I am doing my curation manually. And even more than that, I try to view and read every post I upvote.
Now that more than 30 minutes have past, please upvote your comment. When I upvote it after 3-5 days your rewards will be for both author and curator.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
Well done on figuring out the self-up-vote technique. With my influence pretty useless but if there are no changes to the system I will eventually transit into it! Who knows…maybe with the project of mine that time might come sooner rather than later :). Thanks for the info anyway and have a nice day.
Thank you!
Now that your comment is more than 30 minutes old, please upvote your comment! When I upvote it after 3-5 days, then you will reap more reward as both author and curator.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
Good info. Thanks Mike.
You are a very nice person by allowing others to get more earnings! well done sir
Thank you! Just trying to give back to the SteemIt community in a small way.
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
This post has been ranked within the top 80 most undervalued posts in the first half of May 22. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $14.36 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.
See the full rankings and details in The Daily Tribune: May 22 - Part I. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in our initial post.
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