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RE: Vote Bots and Most Auto-Voting is a SCAM
I've fallen for the vote-bot thing. It makes me feel dirty. I honestly am at a loss. I know my material has gotten better, I have nearly 1000 followers and I can barely get an upvote.
I'm not crying in my beer, but those stats make one ponder where this is all going. I would prefer to put in the work, be consistent, but I can barely justify the time it takes me to put in the time for these articles I write.
I know I'm just stealing from yesterday to pay for tomorrow with the vote-bots, but I can hardly stand watching two hours worth of work generate a nickel.
If networking means sitting in a chat room, I doubt I will succeed on the platform.
I have that same issue. Glad to know not the only one. But it will change. Stay optimistic.
I'll stop being such a pessimist. Yet, I believe the noobs are being taught that 10 votes a day should be their max. It's jamming up the culture of the platform. Being vote and comment stingy takes the community out of the community.
I agree. I came in before that and you either have people saying noobs vote for everything which is bad, so I held off voting . Then I see an article daming newbies for not voting. Lol I said fuck it, if I like what you write I'll vote for it
Any comment of value, attached to a comment or post, that I write, receives a 25% or better upvote from me. That's how I drain the rewards pool.
@jpinka, for that comment, I am now following you. My new focus is to engage with people that are into engaging. I'm struggling with the concept that I will cross the 1K follower barrier this week and maybe, 40 or 50 of those people ever interact with my account. It feels pretty hollow.
I am looking for active steemians that are of similar mindsets and want to find success thru the platform, on a personal and financial level. I think steemit can happen on a grander scale, but the spam and dead accounts need to be purged.
Hell, it doesn't cost you anything.
@wakeupsheeps
I agree, I am surprised that out on hundreds of people 4 people upvote. Now, I don't complain because I know it will pay off pretty soon I might complain that I have to respond to too many comments lol.
Voting for what you actually like is what everyone is supposed to do. The problem with the 'voting for everything' was that some users were just upvoting everything whether they liked it or not, just to get in on the curation reward.
The ten votes thing is about voting at full power, and probably isn't aimed at newbies, since newbie votes aren't worth much anyway, and you need 500SP (I think) to get the slider bar to adjust voting percentage. At 25% you can vote 40x at full power like you used to be able to.
500 SP 😓 I have like 30 I think lol
Nearly 34 now! So long as you don't power down, it will keep rising. SP is stored in a currency called VESTS. VESTS are fixed to increase in value compared to STEEM slowly over time. Plus you will earn more VESTS from your posts and comments.
I remember it took me months to get to 100 followers at first. I started going on other peoples post and engaging in their content and I never asked people to check out my content and linked my post on theirs and all that garbage. If you actually talk to other people and they know you have a similar mindset and share similar content they are naturally going to start following you, if not then stop engaging them and don't promote them. I try to vote on people that vote for my stuff regularly to return the favor, but most of my voting power goes towards promoting new users until they develop a following. The fastest way to get me to stop voting on your content is to pay a whale to do it. It's just making my job harder and not helping anyone.
I can see now that I am breaking clear of the pay-for-play crowd. I will see how that approach works.
I engage any post that I find interesting, so that would count towards networking.
In reality, I need to keep a list of accounts to check and make sure I'm not missing too many posts from people I already know. That has been a failing of mine.
It happens to me all the time, but usually when I explain to people that it isn't like I stopped caring about your content, I just keep moving on to the next people that need my help more, they are pretty understanding. Plus the other problem of trying to keep up with 800+ people, and I regularly unfollow people that spam garbage or start to, it gets to be a lot. I always enjoy your post though when I have time to catch one!
Your last sentence is the type of reinforcement that brings me back.
Me too. I appreciate your presence on the platform. I try to wrap back around and catch all the people who have impressed me with their writing in the past. It's hard but you start to see that relationships are two ways, even on steemit. It's not just I'll scratch my back if you scratch mine, it's like "oh fuck, I forgot to check his posts, he was cool".
I am trying to pull together all the people who are for creating and curating quality content and a sense of community and believe that making bucks should come from such things and not from pyramid schemes and bot armies. It's not a formal initiative but rather just a 2 degrees of separation thing because I'm informal and because I want the power to be fluid and flow easily between people and taking on a leadership role stifles that a bit.
This was part of my reason for starting the Be Awesome chat. You are on my list of people who I'd like to get in there. @clayboyn is there already. It's not that busy but it keeps growing slowly.
I know, it's hard to keep up with all the people that have impressed you along the way. I am keeping a "friends" journal, starting today, to help me get in a habit of checking out the cool cats.
Where is Be Awesome hosted? I'm not much of one for chat rooms, but I'd be happy to check it out.
I link it in 95% of my posts. Discord. That's just as easy a second my finding a link and linking it here X-D