New To Steemit? Follow Begging Will DESTROY You: DO - NOT - DO - IT! Here's Why...
STOP
FOLLOW
BEGGING.
If you are new to Steemit and you are going into the comment section of other people's blogs posting things like this:
Nice Post! I followed you, you should follow me back!
Stop it now!
You are on borrowed time -- literally!
As a new member of our community, you have probably wondered about what I'm going to show you:
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(Screenshot of @clevercreator wallet because her article brought this to my attention)
That number is a "loan" from Steemit that allows you to have a larger influence than you would normally have for your first 30 days.
If, by the end of those 30 days, you are unable to get your Steem Power above 50, you will be unable to use your account until that balance goes above 50. Which, at that point, can be done either by another account transferring the SP or by purchasing Steem Power directly.
What does this have to do with follow begging?
This is my comments section when I get a bunch of follow beggars.
It's all about your reputation.
When you follow beg, you risk being flagged as a spammer, because when you copy & paste follow begging replies in the comments sections of dozens of blogs, that's what you are -- a spammer.
Stop doing this. Now.
Follow begging will get you flagged for SPAM
You cannot afford to have this happen.
When you are flagged, your reputation decreases, which means your payouts go bye-bye.
Is that what you want?
I thought you were trying to increase your SP, not make it impossible to get.
So why would you do ANYTHING that would risk you being seen as someone that the Steemit community doesn't want?
Steemit is an anarchic system
Not anarchy in the destructive sense, but in the Amish sense, meaning: SHUNNING
Flagging is a way for the community to decide who they think is a contributing member and what they think is edifying content, and for the users and content that are considered abusive to Steemit by the flagging system, well... those things slowly disappear.
And you don't want to disappear from Steemit, right?
No, you want to be a member who is embraced by the community, so you can play a part in this wonderful experiment.
Begging for followers is a fatal flaw
If you're doing it, stop doing it right now.
Instead, listen to what I say here:
If you follow the EXTREMELY SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE TIPS I lay out here, you will easily have hundreds of followers and more than enough SP in your first 30 days, all without begging for a single upvote or follow.
SO DO THAT!
Tell me what you think
So, how about this whole Steemit "loan" thing?
Are you follow begging? Now that you know how dangerous it is, do you PROMISE to stop???
I like to add, that it also destroys your fun here if your newsfeed is full of posts you are not interested in. Also you have no relationship with your followers and it is likely they are not really interested in your content. Meaning you dont give upvotes and you dont recieve upvotes.
A genuine connection with your followers and the people you follow will be way more benfical in the long run.
Relationships with followers are very important. I think you've just inspired a new post :D
looking forward to read it.
Great article but your comment was definitely missing so thanks for adding that! :]
thx a lot
Absolutely!
Totally agree with you 👍👍👍
Very informative post. Saved.
First I'd heard about the loan thing.
I agree about 'follow-beg'
It annoys me.
I try to avoid that which annoys me.
or stamp it out.
Agree everittdmickey ! I'm turned off by any kind of e-begging.
some is in good taste.
if you like what I am doing you might consider a donation
in a tasteful manner.
but none of the
IN YOUR FACE
stuff.
no whining.
Well I agreed (for awhile). Now it seems a lot channels spend more time asking for follow this, follow that, support me here, support me there, than the main video. Some just put it in the description, which is cool.
understated is the name of the game.
get in my face and it's strike three and you're OUT.
Exactly. Steemit is a social media with consequences. A lot of people are risking their reputation by not being authentic.
Being Interesting is important.
...some of the people I follow annoy the hell out of me.
we fight like cats and dogs.
but they are interesting.
To be interesting is to be unconventional, which is fertile ground for conflict!
But whoever said conflict was a bad thing?!
I don't think it is.
I'm still going around sharing your other article with newer steemians as they keep doing this, perhaps because Puss 'n Boots is just so compelling I hope he helps better get the message across! lol
Link: Steemit Tips: How NOT To Behave On Steemit -- Follow-Begging
As for thoughts on the "loan" thing, it may be easier to refer you to @timcliff's post, and our comment thread therein on the subject that starts with this:
Link: New Accounts Don't Have Enough SP to Fully Interact with the Blockchain. Should witnesses update the Max Block Size? (Discussion)
I appreciate your dedication in helping to relieve Steemit of the abhorrent practice of follow begging!
:D
it's really one of those things that (I believe like for you, and others as well), just really gets under my skin! lol
Even as a little minnow I dislike the few comments I get that are follow begging. I can't imagine being someone that gets 100's of comments and 20 to 30 of them are people follow or ypvote begging. I feel like my 120 followers (which I am so proud of, thank you all!) is evidence that you don't need to beg for followers. Really, all I have done is comment and post what I feel is quality content. That's all it really takes, that and patience :)
The appreciation you show towards your followers is the thing that will make you succeed!!!
That, and following tips from vets like you ;)
@shayne :) I upvoted and Re-steemed
your Resteem is how I saw this :)
Yay Happy it is working :)
Appreciate you and the affect of your account to bring me another view in @topnetworkeral
I am happy to help :)
If you have a bunch of things in your blog that you are not interested in, then 9 times out 10 your followers are not interested in them either. You will loose followers and steem. A no win situation.
Great post! I am however going to follow you, and you can't stop me...also I am going to up vote this thing because that is my steemit given right! And now that I have done that I will continue to point out the obvious. Because thats what captains do!
Too true I do not follow anyone who asks for it, I only follow people that genuinely have interested me. And that's what everyone should do!
Indeed. If people want me to follow them, then they should be active on my blog and the blogs of the people I follow. If they are interesting and/or helpful, I will eventually check out their blogs and probably end up following when I'm inclined to do so. It's pretty simple. Nobody needs to ask, and asking will actually make it certain that it WON'T happen lol
Oh God do I hate the ones that ask! That's an immediate no from me!
Shayne, thank you for this post. I learned something new here. I was not aware if I did not have over 50 steem after 30 days I could not use my account. That is something most people probably have no idea about.
I think I will be ok luckily from some great whales helping with some of my posts.
I'm learning as I go along, realizing that I don't completely know what's going on with this platform either. If anything, posts like this will start a conversation where the truth can come to light.
Awesome! There are some great whales on Steemit.
I have a question about those numbers, too. I've been on Steemit for over 30 days, only have ~13 SP at the moment, and still am at +145?