Weekend Rambles

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If you missed my previous post, there were many interesting answers to the question I tried to find answer to: What Do You Think Are the Top 3 Most Difficult to Understand or Adjust to Elements of Steem(it) for Beginners?

I appreciate every single one of them! They were all valuable and reflect in most part personal evolution on Steem and Steemit of the commenters.

It also cements my conviction that, despite being numerous guides and tutorials on Steemit, there's an avid need of fresh ones. In an era of contextual help and AI assistants, most people will not search for answers if everything seems to work fine. And they might not be aware they're missing out on important stuff or that they have a problem, until a very long time has passed.

That means I will continue to write informative posts about Steem and its apps, every once in a while, because it's obviously needed.

But, I said this is weekend rumbles, so here I am jumping from one topic to another.

Yesterday I blew a perfectly nice streak of daily posts, because I was offline most of the day.

When I got back, I actually had the intention to make a post to enter a contest. The post would have been ready in 5-10 minutes tops, the potential prize very enticing, but very unlikely (more like a lottery).

I would have actually done it, you know, despite being low effort, low quality stuff to post. I just wanted to continue the nice daily streak.

What stopped me were the rules. They required a resteem (which I rarely do, and if I do, it probably is a good reason for that) and a mention of the contest in the post, and its own tag and its own title. They aren't asking for too much, lol!

Now, here's the deal, this contest aside.

Rather than a resteem I think one would do much better with an endorsement.

Resteems are easy. Push of a button and it' s done. They can also be annoying to the following.

Endorsements, on the other hand, require some work. You gotta write your own post and make it so you give credit for an idea, a project, for general activity, for a certain post or even for organizing a contest. Including a link, of course.

Endorsement tells your audience the context. Why do you endorse the project, the community, the person, the article, the idea. What caught your attention. Resteem tells them nothing, except that you pushed a button. Which can be only for curation reasons (nothing wrong with that).

There is a good counter-argument. When someone clicks on the resteemed post, it goes directly to it. All upvotes, comments, follows are on the account of the poster being resteemed.
If you write an endorsement, not as many people will click the link to go to the account or post that you endorse, some will just read your post and engage with you and ignore the linked post.

I think it all depends on how you trained your following to act. Expect a resteem or an endorsement?

What do you think about resteems and endorsements? Do you have a preference? Why (or when)?