RE: Minnow Tip: The Simple CURE to Your Upvote Shortage
Good advice but also I think we don't live in a perfect world, so all good content and meaningful comments might still not get me to where I make more than a few bucks per post whereas when my whale friends vote on my posts despite its quality I can cash in a few hundreds per day. That's just the way it is. In this game the people who came in early have a major advantage. So I personally are on here for fun because I don't make money but I have met some amazing people and communities here.
The question of content or comment first? I personally don't just follow someone who has made a nice comment. I look what kind of stuff he posts because I hate when my feed is full of stuff that is totally boring or irrelevant to me. And also not posting your best work in the beginning? That sounds as if everyone has an archive of prewritten posts sitting there?
I blog whatever happens to come up in my life so I can't decide if there will be better things coming up to blog about or not. Who knows?
Ah. We have the reverse "problem", you and I. Instead of having to create content good enough to attract attention, we invest in making good posts to justify our whale's support and still be able to look at ourselves in the mirror. I totally get it.
I accidentally ran a little experiment. SteemVoter was down, and so was steempty's trail on me. I ran a failed livestream of a Hearthstone game and it was so bad (by my standards) that I didn't even self upvote it. It payed out a couple of days ago.
My results: $60 in payout. $27 out of that was a whale who sometimes upvotes my things manually and I honestly wish it was someone I knew and could speak to, maybe teach him how to set up a trail so he can "use" my curation abilities like steempty does, to earn curation rewards by trailing me.
Second biggest vote is the interesting one. - + dlive 3% ≈ 23.82$. That's not a whale friend, and an upvote ANYONE running a dlive can get. So without my friend whales and with one random whale, I got $60 on a post that I wish I declined rewards on.
Conclusions: if you're after the money, services like dtube, dlive and utopian have their own chubby accounts that will pay you regardless of size or whale friends as long as your content is what they're looking for.
If you're after the engagement - engage. And never stop experimenting. I also had an unreasonable payout on a meme I made on dmania a while back. Most of it was from the dmania account, and I felt ashamed for the shitposting and tempted to create a stealth user for dmania alone so my account doesn't end up a dumpster.
Sure, I can post 10 times a day and be a little heijin all by myself. But what would that give me? What would that contribute to the community? Exactly nothing. I am not greedy. As long as I am making enough to live comfortably, the blockchain will remain my primary source of income. I am not here to rape the reward pool, just create and contribute while still paying the bills.
Uh, oh, the part with the whale friends was more a theoretical statement, sadly no whale ever upvoted me and I don't pay any bills with Steemit. 😊
luv u already lol hehe