RE: 1KSP: Pathway to Freedom For Many On STEEM? Please Share Your Thoughts On This Idea
After almost 7 years of trying to make fat people thin on the internet, I'm not too much for group efforts. But I definitely do my part to help the minnows below me and I really want them to succeed. I am 100% on your page about the power of a few small/medium sized fish who vote appropriately.
For me - the most important thing is to convince minnows that:
- they need to keep their power up
- they need to grow their sp over 500 asap
- they need to vote for good content that will make reasonable rewards.
My focus is to contact minnows when I can and relentlessly give this advice which is also found in this post I'm sure you have already seen.
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I and many others live on almost no money in the 3rd world. $50 a month is a game changer for some. $300 a month is a job. $500 a month is a good job. So we do not need to make thousands to succeed and prosper.
I get many, many votes a week from minnows voting under 50% power. I am getting ready to contact all of them and try to get them to focus on that side of it. This will take time - I will look at profiles so I'm not going after lost causes.
I regularly run into people over rep 50 who vote under 50%. Just fixing them would be more rewards for all.
You can easily see your votes come in with steemnow and then go to your posts and click to those low power voters. I actually think this would help a lot.
Just ideas and I'm glad to connect and help your idea as I can.
Boy I'd be so well off with 500 a month!
That's not a very high goal for this place so go for it. If you have the content and the network, you can do it.
I could use some advice or mentoring if you can spare some, :-P
Glad to! Start with my post I sent you above and work with the ideas that seem to be good for you and your skills. In the beginning the most important things are:
That's about as far along as I am now, but since I started focusing on rewards - things got better for me. Good luck and ask me questions on that old post or on any post and I will be happy to help.
I'm not sure how long it will take, but are you really serious re 500SP ?
at 0.001 x 1 or 2 votes per post?
"Visicalc => Lotus123=>Excel" I was there too!
Yes, I am serious about the 500 sp - just having a vote of anything over 1 cent is a lot.
I think it's more like a 90% failure rate to get to rep 45, sadly.
I will not be surprised with failure here ar eall and question my sanity at times. It's the Alexa that keeps me and now we have people over to bust which is a reduction on the alexa here!
I agree - It's not about me - I tell that to people constantly here - look at the bigger picture of sustaining steemit. Few care and will tell me, "I'm getting mine while I can." It's really an interesting jungle here.
I'm at 159 SP at just over two months. I just recently learned about not voting down so much (I'm currently sitting at about 75% so I'm stopping upvoting for a while to rebuild). I'm at rep 55.
It's possible, you just have to work at it. I haven't had any dollars to invest in Steem because poverty, my posts are all set to 50/50 rewards. In another few months, barring any unforeseen attention from whales or something, I could conceivably be at 500 SP.
Thanks for reply & info.
Have you thought of leasing sp with the sbd you have? It's helping me a lot. I'm up to around 1200 total sp, and my 10 cent vote is big down here! And by having the extra power - my actual sp is growing faster.
Huh, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip. :)
It's one of the tips for making money here in the post I linked above. There is a lot we can do even if we are small :)
At 500 sp your vote i s 5 or 6 cents which actually ranks you pretty good on post payouts and then you start earning more on each one. You have to get over the hump of all the tiny minnows and be a bit bigger. It's like watching paint dry in a way.
Thanks.
It's just a "post crap/pic/BS" & get votes from mates (other whales). a self fulfilling downward spiral IMHO
Also look at the steemiteducation tag and steemstem - both have very good posts to vote on. I find great kr posts all the time. They have amazing technical abilities and such unique points of view from my perspective.
Communities will kill the place. We only have about 5K in real actual members. Separate them out, slice and dice, and hide them somewhere in little hives and the "lobby" dies. The tiny fish swimming in will die at 100% instead of 90%. It will be a blood bath if they do it. Communities is for a platform with millions of users - not a few thousand. So I hope it does not happen any time soon.
The kr posts I tend to vote on are just "squiggles" I can't read them.
I just "pattern match" what I think are winners based on profiles etc.
It's actually 7000 on this post that just came out. Lots of interesting stats and lots of interesting comments.
https://steemit.com/statistics/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20171122-en
thanks bookmarked/followed
Thank you - so glad to connect!
Thank you for such an in depth answer. I can agree with you about the weight loss. However when it comes to money, people have a different view. The US is known for people sacrificing their healthy for wealth. There are so many who have fat banks accounts and a fat waistline. I am not sure many set out to become rich diabetics but that is often the result. Of course, then they spend all their money trying to get some of their health back.
You bring up valid points about the voting and running it down. It seems there are two extremes...those who vote everything and end up with no voting power or those who do not vote enough.
As for the money in different parts of the world, I understand and hear you. I use the figure I did since it encompasses the entire world. I can believe that in many areas, a lot less is required. That said, there is no reason if someone in the US or England can pull in $20 a post, that you cant either. The internet known no geography. You content is just as good as someone from one of the first world countries and your compensation can reflect that....sure it might go a lot further in your country which is good for you.
Well, I'm not speaking for me as much as for the broader group of minnows I'm part of. You can see another answer to this post where the person would be well off on $500 a month. I know a fb friend here in Bangkok who pays $50 rent a month out by the airport and he's happy.
I hope I can help the people around me to do better and that's what I focus on - the ones that actually upvote me with 8% power. I found one guy posting great photos from korea so you never know. If I boost him and he becomes popular, he might remember me when.
I get good traffic from here and wonderful connections, so I'm with both feet for now.