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RE: My Week on SteemFollower - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Yeah you learned how to be a dick and spam your referral link so little fish can catch it.
That's not exactlly the way to get ahead here on steemit my dear fellow steemian.
Be true.
If you're really interested in making free publicity to SF just link them to the actual link without your referral.
If you do post it, be a pal and specify so that people can know you get a percentage from every vote.
It's pretty obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that those are referral links, m8. I found SteemFollower through an affiliate link myself and gladly signed up using it. I'm happy to give 5% to the person who referenced me to the service - that's a value-add. This article was an attempt at bringing to light an interesting service while maintaining an objective viewpoint - you disagree with the tactic of affiliate links, fine. But there's no need to be such a douche about it.
It's not as though this is a glowing review of SteemFollower, after all.
Y'know, I was a geopolitical blogger and a purist for the past few years. I refused to put advertisements of any kind on my website, insisting that the content was free and anyone who found value in it should donate instead. I watched as my work became somewhat popular, being resyndicated by some bigger alternative media outlets who were making money shoving ads into my content selling survival seeds, freeze-dried food and discount precious metals. But the message was more important than the money to me, so I kept on with my original "anti-business" model.
In fact, my work became so widely reblogged that Cheetah and other "anti-piracy" bots would routinely flag my posts well after confirming that my blog was indeed my own work. To add insult to injury, all of my content is licensed under Creative Commons and is free to anyone to republish, so long as they don't profit from it commercially and credit me properly. So much for being a "good Steemian."
I still feel that way about inherently ideological content - that the message is corrupted in a sense by financial incentive - and have kept my deep political blog free of such things specifically for that reason. But I also understand that linking people to valuable products and services, ones that I have used personally, not just random horse shit to make a dime, is one of the few ethical ways to monetize content in the 21st Century.
Hell, look at the blog and podcast component to this Steemit account - CryptoHero.info. Those articles have a few odd affiliate links to hardware wallets and bitcoin-based services throughout, but I take great care to remove them before posting them to Steemit specifically BECAUSE I don't want unnecessary affiliate garbage everywhere. The only reason SteemFollower was linked is because it's a Steem-specific service and totally relevant to the post.
So while I somewhat appreciate your passive-aggressive sage wisdom and will take it to heart, this ain't my first time at the rodeo, cowboy.
This post was almost more interesting than the article. With reference to steemfollower, I am doing the same trials and coming to the same conclusions as yours. I don't know if I really want to keep posting honestly, it's time consuming with little to no result, despite the search for quality.
I was thinking about involving my friends, but none of them is really taken from this platform due to the effort and dedication you need to give.. Anyway, I'm following and keeping an eye on your good work!
Haha, well I'm glad someone finds value in my peeved rants! >__<
Steemit is a tough egg to crack, honestly. I love the concept of blockchain-based social media, I love that your work is the product and not corporate ads, but you're totally right: It's hard to gain any traction, especially when taking the time to produce quality, original content.
The highest-value accounts I follow are ones that already had a large following pre-Steemit, like @corbettreport and @dollarvigilante. Then you come across accounts that are raking in the dough doing nothing more than reposting YouTube videos because Cheetah isn't smart enough to recognize that as "duplicate content."
For the time being, I'm treating Steemit as pretty much a blockchain-hardened backup of my blog(s) moreso than an avenue for earning.
Thanks for the follow, @f3nix, and I am likewise following you! I see you resteemed a post about MinnowBooster - have you used the service yet? I'm considering giving it a shot.
I agree with the way you're dealing with steemit..it's good especially for someone that already has some content to publish. It can enhance the communication channels, leverage them. Minnowbooster seems interesting, with the delegated Steem Power (SP) leasing..i think i should try to send 1 steem and make an experiment. Another one i'm trying to apply for is qrator.