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RE: How Not To Succeed On Steemit: A Non Tutorial
Resteemed because yes. So much yes.
Another annoyance: mass tags. I use Ginabot so I get TONS of notifications from people tagging me in posts begging for upvotes. I flag them all to death, as do the other good people tagged.
I used to rarely flag spam posts and comments just because I don't like using my voting power that way, you know? I'd rather use it positively. But things are getting out of hand. Every other post of mine now has a stupid worthless comment that's usually begging for a vote or follow. So now I've changed my tune. I'll be much more quick to flag now.
I want steemit to be a community. I don't want to have to wade through all these users begging for votes while offering nothing of value.
You know @techslut, I beg to differ. My worry is that bloggers are forming a holier than thou attitude with people who are new to steemit. If someone is mass tagging, with a bot, then that deserves a flag, I'll grant you that. I found the original post to be too preachy, cliche, and overdone to deserve an upvote, much a less a resteem.
If someone begs for an upvote, then correct their behavior with a comment and move on.
But IMO, blog posts like this have become too common and overdone and it's starting to get to the point where the complainers are worse than the offenders. Either correct the person with a comment or ignore it, but do we need another blog post complaining about people misusing Steemit? I think not.
It's like the band who has nothing to sing about, so they sing about being famous and stuck in airports all the time.
Yes and no. Are there too many posts like this one on steemit? Yes. Does is stop these votebeggers and scammers? No.
Correcting a behavior once or twice is fine. But how many hours a day am I expected to sit there and explain things to people who really refuse to understand, and reply to bloody bots tagging me because my upvote has value? Oh and then there's the discord votebeggers. I answer, explain, then block if they insist and ignore what I am saying altogether.
This type of spammy user behavior is an annoyance. We're allowed to complain every day, all day. You don't have to upvote or resteem a complaint post if you've seen enough of these. No one will judge you. I sure won't.
P.S. If you think @didic is a "band with nothing to sing about" you obviously haven't looked at his profile.
Well every individual case is its own. But I will remind everyone that the biggest barrier to entry for Steemit is the learning curve. If the site is flooded with “complaint blogs” it creates a negative atmosphere and will demoralize new users, which is worse than the beggars etc.
You know, there’s also a lot of very good “how to succeed on steemit” and “my first month recap and what I Learned” and other helpful posts on steemit. I think maybe you’re a bit too focused on the complain posts and they stick out to you because they annoy you. Which is understandable, and I don’t blame you. But are you actually seeing all the great positive “help and encouragement” ones that pop up regularly too? :)
I don’t think it’s quite as bad or detrimental as you make it out to be.
Besides, with every new wave of steemit users that pass 1 month, 2 months, 3 months etc and are slowly building steam (pun intended) you also have a new wave of steemians who still have the patience to gently remind upvote and resteem beggars that they will not get very far with that behavior (I still do a lot).
I think people like @techslut who are getting flooded with that crap and are sick of explaining the same shit for about the 100th million time to seemingly no avail are completely entitled to draw a harder line at some point. They’ve earned the right to sit back a bit and let others do the gentle explaining.
I think we’re all “paying our dues” helping out and gently explaining stuff to super noobs (like we all once we) on “our way up” the steemit ladder.
Don’t underestimate the amount of patience people still have when they’re still “on the way” to where people like techslut already are.
I believe it’s a cycle and as long as we nurture it, things will stay more or less balanced out. :D
But that’s just my personal opinion :P
Yeah I'm for the positive ones. Those ones are good for steemit.