Why I Don't Upvote Comments
Hello Steemit,
I feel a special kind of giddy whenever I receive a comment on a post. It reminds me of notes being passed around when I was in high school. Getting a note passed to me during class, or finding a note in my locker made me feel special, and comments make me feel a similar way.
But I still don't upvote comments on my posts. Why? Because as a little fishy with less than 500SP it doesn't make any sense for me to upvote comments on my posts. I only get 10-11 votes per day before my $0.03 starts to waver and become $0.02, and if the internal median price of steem goes down, my cents become smaller and smaller, sometimes even disappearing.
My first few months on steemit, I diligently upvoted all comments on my posts. It wasn't until later that I found that my $0.01, and $0.02 upvotes sometimes evaporated into nothing. Why? Because the weight of their worth, wasn't large enough to register on the blockchain, so they just disappeared.
I prefer to invest my upvotes differently. Instead of upvoting on comments, I respond to the comment, and then pay the commenters blog a visit. I read through their posts and familiarize myself with their work, and upvote a recent post or one that I particularly like.
By using this strategy, my upvote gathered with all the other votes on their post becomes something more tangible for their wallet. I also receive bigger curation rewards. Although the size of my curation rewards are small, they are intensely bigger than any interest rate I have ever received from any bank.
This also helps me to develop a circle of readers, as newbie writers like to build networks by reading each other work.
Do you have any similar steemit strategies? I would love it if you shared in the comments.
I can't say I agree with you completely but it makes a lot of sense. I upvote comments I like anyway because I just feel the money will come eventually as a newbie.
Yes, the money will come eventually.
It’s my thought that circling and giving your readers attention as writers and then contributing to their posts is more valuable, than simply upvoting a comment.
A lot of us learn the hard way. Its really cool to get upvotes from larger accounts. You can make some decent rewards if you connect with the right accounts that share your passions and want to give you a leg up!
I haven’t had any “large accounts” upvote and help my posts along, but I’ve found that an army of minnows helps as well.
Thanks for stopping by.
Your welcome. Not sure if this will help or not but here is some top comment voters.
https://steemit.com/bisteemit/@paulag/voting-habits-of-the-top-50-witnesses-steemit-business-intelligence
Great post @metzli, I operate a similar system, you have to when you have 77SP :o) But I do occasional upvote a really good comment, or if I am short on time, and have close to 100% voting power, I upvote some comments from my followers... I cant wait for the day I get my slider, but I suspect that will not be for a long time yet, my target is by the end of this year... You've got to have a target!! :o)
You can get one quicker by leasing delegated sp. I wrote this old post about the idea :)
Minnow tip - Lease Delegated SP ASAP Now is a Good Time
I’ve leased SP too - it’s relatively cheap sometimes.
Thanks so much for sharing that post with me, I have read it, and leasing some SP certainly sounds like a good idea.... I am going to look into.. Thanks again.. Hope all good with you :o)
I look forward to my slider too. 77SP was more fun just a few months ago.
Good luck getting to 500!
Thanks a mil
I totally agree with you @metzli. Don't worry the time is coming that you will be up voting people anyway you like.
Thank you. I’m looking forward to that day. I think it will make the platform that much more fun.
That's a good strategy, thanks for sharing. I'm still fairly new in Steemit and though I've been trying to get posts out everyday there are still a lot of things that I'm not familiar with. Really need to sit down and study how things work sometime soon. Cheers! 😊
There’s so much to learn...
But writing (and reading/commenting) is the most important part of steem. If you do those, there’s growth coming no matter what your strategy.
Honestly I see your point, because if you with that reputation is still having dwindling comment upvote then mine will just disappear immediately I click the comment upvote, however I hope to up vote when my reputation increases. The thing is I like to upvote what I really appreciate, so if its a comment and I go to upvote a post instead the steemian doesn't get to know that I actually did that because of his or her comment unless I tell them . So later on I hope to up vote comments.
I don’t think it has to do with reputation as much as it has to do with SP.
I hope to upvote comments later too.
I check my stats: who commented, who upvotes, etc at www.steemworld.org/@metzli you can see your own if you replace the @metzli with your handle.
Alright cool, will do. Thanks.
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'Although the size of my curation rewards are small, they are intensely bigger than any interest rate I have ever received from any bank.'
Lol :)
I still try to gain the natural way without buy-up-surgery, hopefully the trend of buy much receive much ain't the only road to success in here...
I hope it’s not the only road to success.
But if I’m going to go for a walk, I’m gonna put my walking shoes on.
Heels will get me there too - but walking shoes...
Many roads lead to Rome. Even more lead somewhere else...
❤️❤️Hey that’s a great one.
We aren’t all going the same place.
;)
This is a good idea in some ways. I usually upvote my comments at a small percentage, but visiting their blog and finding a post you like and there upvoting it is a good idea! Sometimes I have lots of comments and it would take a long time to visit. Most of the time, my commenters are people I visit anyway. :) If you are a redfish still and don't have a slide voter, you can download a script that enables you to have it. This post talks all about it. It's great and enables me to at least give a tiny upvote to a handful of pepole. ;)
Sometimes it does take me a long time to circle back. Today will probably be one of those days... I enjoy it though :)
I'm a comment upvoter, but I do have a bigger vote - I lease delegated steem through @minnowbooster for that purpose. I get 100 sp every so often and I think that is better than powering up directly. I've been doing this since about 2 months here and I don't think I will stop.
I get your point and I think you are right about the curation reward. If you are not there already - check out the curation league by @abh12345. He's got good people over there and it helps a lot to see how you are doing and to get tips from others. There are some good ideas you might not think of otherwise.
Are you going to the SD meetup tomorrow? @mariannewest is organizing it and @bxlphabet is going. I will look on from Thailand :)
I look forward to the slider...
Thanks for commenting, I’m not in SoCal this time :(