STEEMIT, FOLLOWERSHIP AND REPUTATION: THE VEXATIONS OF A BUDDING STEEMIAN

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I am at it once again. I am writing on what I would refer to as ills within the steemit blockchain. This stems from my conversation with those who have started out and made it big within the community. You know what I am talking about, yeah I mean the whales and those who are closer to being whales.

Joining the steemit community like I have said before has been quite a splendid, orgasmic and wonderful experience. Friends are being made on a daily count, confidence in ones writing abilities is built overtime by responsive comments on ones blog and overall useful information are being passed to others through the presentation of quality posts. This leads to the all round development of 'a steemian'.

I write here today to express some dislike for the way some persons try to scare away newbies by telling them that the only way to make it here on steemit is to write quality post. Yeah! You guys might wonder as to if I am against the writing of quality posts. The answer to this question is a capital NO!. This sounds funny in relation to my rejection of those who scare newbies with the mere talk of quality post. I would do better to explain my points to you so that a proper understanding of what I put forth here would be had.

Quality post is not the only basis upon which steemit is built. Steemit is built in such a fashion that socializing is the key to success here and not even quality post. For me if quality post is to be of any help towards ones success here, it does not take more than twenty to twenty-five percent of the success stories on steemit if at all quality post leads to success in the first place. Success here has to be built on your abilities to enthral your audience not just through your quality posts, but through your abilities to captivate them through purposeful comment and chatting through social media platforms.

What brings about success on steemit from what I have seen is based on a social relations with persons who are ahead of you. This is such that they upvote you with their large steempower which causes you to level up and have a robust post payout. Most of those who actually tell others that quality post are what really is needed are far from telling the truth. They do this in order to make no one come to ask for upvote because of the fear that their post would be rejected as being substandard. They do this forgetting that they also passed through the same stage and that what built them is the social network that was created in order that they benefit. They forget that to a very large extent more than half of their posts are not quality enough, they are quite substandard if compared with some newbies that they critique. You may not agree with me on this, but this is what I believe from facts and findings from personal experience and those of others who are happy to tell me their stories.

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I was elated when I read through this work and I saw the gifted hands of a romance writer. I then looked towards the post payout and I was like is this for real. There are many more posts like this and I think there should be an intensified encouragement of newbies.

Here, again I might be mistaken on what I put out in the last paragraph. I say once again that I am not done until my views are made explicit for readers consumption and understanding. I am not of the opinion that critiques are not for the best, if not I would not make mention of the fact that being critiqued through comments brings out the best writer in you that was buried deep down. I am of the opinion that there should be constructive criticism. Criticism for what it is and not as a means to an end. Criticism should not be to scare away persons who come to one for upvotes for the sake of not wanting them to come back. The road to glory is not a smooth one so there is no gainsaying the fact that one should be guided in ones relations with others. This is especially for those that are in a higher position.

What guides steemit is the relations that is made through commenting positively and constructively on Whales and the bigwigs posts around and not some quality post shit. Have you ever asked yourself why some newbies quit steemit? Checkout some of their posts and you would be left wanting some more. You would be left in awe at the prowess of such writers to capture your attention. Yet checkout their post payout and all you see is a piece of shit as a reward for their beautiful piece. Yeah! Some newbies posts might actually be substandard, but I still think we should show love to those who are beneath us to leverage them towards success on the steemit blockchain.

This is my view about the workings of steemit. I am very much open to other persons views on this issue that I feel needs to be addressed with love and care and not some piece of shitty quality. I would entertain beautiful comments on this post to know what you all feel like on this issue.