Fondling Whale Balls- A Primer for Minnows on Talking to Whales
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There are 3.5 billion men. Each day it seems one of them is successful with the line "Hey, baby wanna fuck?" This is bad for all of humanity. The people involved regret their actions. Men think that they have a fighting chance with that line so it continues. Women slut shame the fuck out of each other. It's shitty and we all lose when it happens.
Similarly, when someone walks up to my steemit chat and posts hey F4F, as in follow for follow, I want to grab them by their balls or lady bits and toss them off a roof. Yes, I started a Minnow Support Project for people that want to grow as a community, but those people want to work. They respect that it takes time and effort to grow an account here. These F4F people when it's from a minnow to a non-minnow don't have any respect for the work that it took to get here. Maybe it actually works with larger accounts sometimes... but that makes me want to follower-shame the whale/dolphin that accepted the proposition. Seriously, you're just encouraging this kinda shit.
How should it be done?
First, if you're just starting out... you probably shouldn't talk to anyone other than another minnow. Maybe that's too harsh, but it's better to be on the safe side. Just watch and chill for a bit. See how this community works. When I start a new job I try not to say or do anything for 2 weeks. Start getting a sense of the culture. Things are probably done a certain way for a reason. Just because you can't see the reason your first day there doesn't mean you should run your mouth. Also, day 2 isn't the day to storm the boss's office declaring your manifesto for your new working environment.
Second it's kinda like courtship
I'm in sales and I use a dating analogy for sales all the time. For the genx-ers it's kinda like a man approaching a woman that's a little out of your league. For the millennials, it's sorta like a vegan gender fluid pansexual fair trade shopper who self identifies as a hampster talking to an amorophous asexual hermphoditdic zombie self identifying as a dino fluffy. You just don't walk up and say, "hey would you like to drop acid and molly in this cuddle puddle while we roll around stimulating genitals" while you're in a shopping mall dressed as people.
So, you have to be polite, be kind, and build a relationship. If you start with hey can you upvote my post or something like that they'll likely ignore you. If you have 2000 followers or 50k SP swingin' around maybe they'll take the call, but if you're looking for a handout with a person in a much stronger starting position I suggest something different.
Find out what interests them
Don't come onto my wall and start posting how much you love the USG. Don't tell me how you think we should invade more than the 7 coutries we're actively at war with or the many others we're occupying with military force. It won't be well received. I like Peace, Abundance, and Liberty. I spend my time growing active minnow posters. If you read that and have something to offer in that arena if you if you don't have a lot of SP or followers I might entertain your stuff then.
Say hi first, don't spam your shit, and figure out the rules by reading them somewhere
Everyone is welcome in the PALnet Discord channel. It's a public channel run by 6 publicly elected witnesses. We'd love to have you come in and say hi and get ot know us, but if you hop on link your post and ask for shit without anything else it's just kinda rude. It's like interuptting a conversation among a set of girls and asking which one of them might care to blow you first. It's rude. Don't do it.
If you want some attention start by following and commenting
Top posters are obsessive comment hounds. We build relationships. That's how we'e grown, and it's usually best done in the comments section. So, hop in a comment and drop a thoughtful something or a funny gif/meme. Do that a couple times and then try to interact with us in a more direct way on steemitchat or discord.
Breaking down the post name
Whale = rich person on Steemit
Whale balls= high SP
fondle playing with or gently accessing.
Attempting to get gentle access to a large SP account through friendly interaction.
Great suggestions. It's awesome to see how you're sticking with this support of growing accounts. What are your thoughts on linking a recent (and relevant) post in the comments of posts you like?
OMG my vote actually gives more than 0.01 now
my tributes for whale ball fondling are worth more now!! take my money @aggroed
LOL
Lol I felt the same thing it was awesome 😍
i followed you
now follow me @nnnhh
Wow .. good picture that you show in this steemit,Very interesting, I've never seen pictures like this, I'm sure many people love and vote this photo, plus more background photos, very interesting photo frames, really amazing, the picture quality is very okay, how do you think @yoes
So, I'm relatively new here. This may be inappropriate, but I really want to know how @miky gets 13 upvotes and $4.25 for this comment. It doesn't seem to be related to the post ("very interesting photo frames"???). It doesn't add anything to the conversation. Who is upvoting it? Why is it rewarded in the 90th %ile for comments?
@beriberi if you use the eSteem app, you are randomly given these upvotes on your comments. It appears to occur mostly on replies that are longer than one line but I could be wrong. It doesn't seem fair but I think they're trying to encourage the adoption of their mobile app. Hope this helped.
Thanks for some clarification. I don't use the app. But if I did, I could write crap on popular posts and get $$?
I suppose you could, but I'd really hope that you would try to add some value.
I actually got rewarded by it in my last comment to you.
Don't forget, to prevent abuse, comments can also get downvoted/flagged if they are clearly spam.
i followed you
now follow me @elliotjgardner
C'mon, you don't think "picture is very OK" deserves at least 4.25? I'm upvoting it. I think it's worth $10 easily. :-)
And now 14 upvotes! "I've never seen pictures like this!"
Yes i agree with you i am in second week and i am learning how to use this site because i did vote for vote and its not help me and one of mu friend explained me how to use vote because if we vote all post and all comments then steem power decrease and nlt able to vote or post. Now i am just vote those whom i like to give and day by day learn things here. I like your post as its helpful to me as well as new user too.thank you for sharing.
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The best analogies I have ever read :)
Well said
All you have to do is feed the whales with whale babies.. I think that's how it works!
Superb word picture - you nailed it!
Thank you very much for that @aggroed. In fact what you said is simple to be implemented. Being nice, polite, making your blog an interesting one (and when I say interesting one, is posting what you like doing in life as Steemit is supposed to be a blog, so blogs are open books in my humble opinion) and not bothering anyone with aggressiveness would be a good start. I was a lot lost in the beginning, didn't have a North to follow, but time passed and I began realizing it is my blog I am talking about and sooner or later people will come (and go, as there is always two sides of the coin).
Sorry if it is not clear in English, as it is not my mother language, but all I wanted to say is that I agree and my formula is: post nicely, be nice to others, upvote if there is a feeling to do so, cheer up, help, give your hand for support and don't be (or stay away from) a hater.
Wish you a great day @aggroed! I will be checking the PAL when time allows, too much work these days, which is good!
You did great. Glad to have you here! Thanks for reading!
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