Fair points man.
I had no followers elsewhere, so the grind it has been and will continue to be for me. I actually prefer it this way, because it makes me feel that I earned them by working hard - not just because I might slap a nice vote on them.
What's worse in my opinion is if you only use Steem as a way to post your material and not even engage with the community yourself - remember that Steem is a pretty new platform and the first impressions will matter a lot.
This is a real bug-bearer of mine. And it's not exclusive to whales/orcas's. Even the smaller accounts are not engaging in the the replies to their blogs. And mainly, it's the ones that have the auto-vote support in place already.
This is disappointing as it's where the new users will head, and then see 40/50/60 comments without a reply. What are they going to think to that?!
Cheers!
Yeah, it should be important to know that even as a big influencer you should put in some "grind" time into Steem.
If you can't reply to all comments, a small vote on good ones that shows you read and acknowledged them goes a long way!
I am trying to promot the STEEM around me, but I think we need some extra attractive contents on youTube vs. I hope the community will grow more soon
@racoo
Yeah a vote is certainly a show of engagement on the worthwhile comments.
If you have a popular blog, e.g. Yours 😁 You can't be expected to reply to everyone, but I think you are likely to gain support if there are replies (and votes) to anything worthwhile.
Cheers!
I've always had a policy of replying to everyone, no matter what they say (unless it's truly hateful trolling) on ALL platforms I use. It's a lot of work, but if you batch it up it's really not that bad and you learn so much about people! You're a great example of the hustle n' grind dude :)
~ Kevin
A sound policy to have, for the reasons mentioned above.
And thanks man, if you ain't got talent, there's always hustle n grind to fall back on! Cheers!
A lot of people don’t seem to understand the power of manual curation or the power of engagement via comments.
Both take time and effort. Neither USA get rich quick scheme. But slow and steady wins the race.
Absolutely.
We are slowing winning the race just by talking about slow and steady winning the race :D
Cheers!
I know!! I have been teaching people to respond to comments in their posts but these new folks complain that it is too much work.
Engagement is work. To build a relationship demands that two of you communicate and respond. Especially if they provide a good counterpoint or add to your post then reward that by acknowledging it.
I don't want followers I want engagers that not necessarily need to upvote me but if they do thanks. I need them to comment, to discuss to argue even but I want a reaction. Even a resteem would be nice rather than nothing.
Sure I have my been celebrating the numbers of followers I got but more than that I celebrate looking at my numbers and see 32 % engagement. I'm a nobody but that number is good for me.
32% engagement, how is that calculated if you don't mind me asking?
Well I am pretty new to Steemit analytics and have not used the more complex ones that you use.
The 32% is only a 7 day info on the posts I generate and from the social insights from steem.supply.
Data may be an anomaly this week since this is the first time i have attempted to analyze my data because of a curated post but it is amazing what kind of information is out there.
Yeah, I'm pretty new here. I spent many many years almost exclusively on reddit and don't really care about followers. Don't get me wrong, if the followers are genuinely interested in one another and are looking to connect for more reasons than just to have a network of people to upvote their content then I'm all in.
I was just really hoping to find a place that had quality content and an engaging community. While I find a lot of the content pretty interesting I just don't feel the sense of community here. I hope I'm wrong, but like the old saying goes, whatever you incentivize is what you're going to get. It just seems like the reward system is so much of the focus here that engaging in a community gets deemphasized. That's a good recipe for a place that gets real boring real fast.
I'm still hopeful and I'm going to try to adapt to the way things are done here. I just hope that something with more depth grows out of this.
For now, the community built around a key posters blogs. E.g. @acidyo's fantasy football league, or on (too) many discord channels.
There is hope this will change with a 'community' style update to the UI here, but until I see it I'm unsure how it will pan out.
Cheers!
And cheers to you as well!
I'll be keeping an eye out for your posts. You'll see me in your comments, I'll be the guy behind the walls of text, lol. A reddit habit that I'm going to have to break so I don't look so out of place here😜