How do you feel about taking steemit advice from a newbie? maybe we can all relate.

This can't always be a straight answer like many of us would have thought right away by just reading the title of this post.
You know it's not all or nothing, black or white in this situation, there is that shade of gray as we are going see below in this article.
Before we go any further i want each of us to confess what content they are most likely to read on steemit.
I can witness most of us go to the hot and trending pages of steemit. What does that mean? Not yet.
Why do we look at the reputation of someone before we commit ourselves to reading their articles?
Why do we take every advice given to us by those people who have high steem power?
Why don't most newbies comment on fellow newbies posts?
Why don't newbies upvote fellow newbies?
Why do most whales only are decisive on reading fellow whale's posts?
I can give you a simple answer.

it's to save time, right?

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Not really, but sort of.
You see, it's kinda like it, but not wholly it.
I once read a post by @therealwolf where he came up with a new way of sorting the comments under his posts. In busy it's possible to sort comments by reputation. So he decided to always sort his comments by the reputation. It was easy to understand him. Literally by sorting the comments by reputation he would be able to reach the valuable comments fast as those with high reputation have gotten that through providing value. Looks like a good way of avoiding spammy comments.

And it can be tiresome reading all posts all over steemit just to look for good content

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You can toil the whole day and trust me it's more tiresome than you think.
So what do most people do?
They filter by experience and exposure of these steemit users. The more any of these a person has the easier their content are found and read.

But this ain't just bread and butter through out. We can sometimes find posts that don't give us as much value from these reputable members of steemit.
So what do we do?

So back to our question.

How do you always feel investing your time into reading steemit advice articles from newbies

Sincerely it sometimes feels worth it depending on topic.
I once came across a struggling newbie who was giving advice on how to earn alot of steem and followers in just a month.
It was had to believe him despite his knowledge. The very first thing that put me off was his performance himself. His knowledge might have been so valuable to me but unfortunately i was biased already by his reputation and his stay on the steemit platform.
Can relate steemit to real life?
Of course steemit just is like life itself, we can't deny it.
Have you read the book Influence by Robert cialdini?
Maybe you should check it out.
There one of the key aspects of influencing people and one that applies here is called authority.

Authority

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This is sort of psychology, am not a psychologist but this is pretty easy to understand.
You see we tend to take any advice from people who seem to have authority regardless of the value and how helpful that advice is to us.
It's the brain's efficient way of filtering out good information from bad information and suprisingly steemit ain't even slightly different.
Who are those people with authority?
Experienced personels.
Successful personels.
Exposed and established personels.
And just as we can all relate, here on steemit some people fall into those categories and that's why we read their content on a daily basis.
Those statements maynot be true for all but for as long as they appear to be one of those personels we shall always give them first priority.

So let me answer the question I asked.
How i would feel about taking steemit advice from a newbie
Regardless of the value of their advice, i would have mixed feelings about their advice.
So i would most likely not take it seriously.
And most of you, would feel or do just about the same thing.

Sometimes we might be wrong or miss out on good advice but that's just it.

As always thanks for passing by.
@tesaganewton
See you.