Interview With A Whale

Here on Steemit, like in the wild, Whales are animals with a certain mystique surrounding them. In the wild people seek them out for their beauty or to be wowed by their incredible size. Here on Steemit people seek them out for the upvotes.

I thought it would be fun to get a peek inside the mind of a while as well as get some of their background such as how long have they been on Steemit. How did they become a Whale, are they incredibly tech saavy and run 100 accounts with bots, or are they just an average dude who was fortunate enough to get in early and was just consistant on the platform?

What are their voting habits like? What kind of content do they seek out? What makes them upvote a post? How to get their attention?

I'd like to interview a Whale, or even better yet several whales. I realize some Whales may not want their voting habits connected to their Steemit account as to not have people chasing them around trying to play into their mentality for votes, so any Whales who want to participate can answer the questionaire below and e-mail it to me from a throwaway e-mail as to have no connection to their Steemit account.

Below are my questions, however if you guys have a question feel free to post it in the comments section below and maybe our Whale or Whales will be kind enough to answer your questions as well. If you'd like to know this info please upvote and re-steem this post for visibility so we can get some Whales to participate.

Interview

1. How did you first find out about Steemit, and roughly when did you get on the platform?

2. Do you have a tech background ie are you running bots on multiple accounts or are you just an average person who got in early and stuck with it?

3. How do you use Steemit? ie. How often do you go on? How do you consume content ie Steemit, Busy.Org, DTube, DMania, Steepshot?

4. How do you find content and interact with content? ie. Do you just check people you follow? Do you use the trending, new, hot or promoted tabs? Are you interested in a specific niche ie cryptocurrency, crafts, beer blogs, etc?

5. What types of posts do you upvote? What in a post will make you give a strong upvote? Is it posts that are honest and authentic? Posts with a lot of media? Posts about a topic your passionate about? Long format vs shorter format?

6. What advice would you give to newer Steemit users trying to grow their account?

7. What are 3 positives about Steemit and 3 negatives about Steemit?

8. How do you view Steemit ie what type of platform is it? What other social media sites would you compare it to? What type of content is Steemit geared towards? What are some Steemit best practices ie should people do all origional content or is it okay to repost or curate, etc, etc, etc?

9. How has Steemit changed for the better or worse since you got started?

10. Where do you see Steemit in 5 years? Is it even around? Has it changed?

I greatly appreciate any Whale who decides to participate. You can answer the above questions and e-mail them to me with a throwaway e-mail to [email protected]. I'll be doing a follow up post sharing the interviews. I think many people would love a look inside the mind of a Whale.