What have I started? Actually I am happy to be part of this and I want the whole community to help out. Every vote counts and we can make a lot more minnows if people send their votes to those who really need it and not just those on trending (who really does that?). Let's make Steem great (again?).
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This is reassuring to see. I'm far from meeting the criteria for this operation but will be cheering from the sidelines. I'm roughly 330 sp from minnow life, which would require over 30 sp a month or 1.11 sp avg gain daily to make it into the 10k school class of 2019.
All I can do is continue to be engaging or annoying depending on your perspective and make my contributions. Organic growth is my goal, buying my way in is something I could consider after a year of being here.. For purposes of pride and using myself as a measuring stick I intend to just keep redfishing my way through the steem seas..
Around one Steem per day could well be possible. It looks like you can make a couple of Steem on each post, so just keep doing what works. I see you use @Partiko and @Actifit who may give you some votes. Did you see that you can buy extra Actifit votes using their tokens? I would say exploit these offers, but I would not resort to voting bots too much. Some are more ethical than others, so it is your choice. I hope to see you get to minnow well before the end of the year.
Thanks for the info and well wishes. I was unaware I could utilise actifit tokens. I can't see myself doing actifit more than once a week, and i can't help but be satirical on the days I don't actifat..
Personally I'm anti voting bots, I desire a real audience that will say "right on" or "go to hell" more than I do the upvotes or status labels.
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Just keep working away and interacting where you can. We all started at the bottom and once you start to grow it gets easier. It's all about being consistant and being smart with your work. Using the apps and partiko can also get you a few higher votes.
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Thx @niallon11 I can bide my time at the bottom.. The interactions I'm getting are great distractions from the existence of factions and fractions that can ignite my explosive reactions.. 🤑
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Keep an eye on it going forward anyway. I know that you are a long way off minnow at the moment but i would hope to get all of the active accounts there before the end of the year. I will probably put together some helpful posts to show where you can grow your account faster and where you can earn more SP as we move forward with tenkminnows. You might only be starting off but it is very manageable within the year.
I like your attitude :)
I love your attitued too
Hahaha I think people send votes to trending posts hoping for a return of the favor.....which, Im guessing, never comes.
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Exactly! People should really ignore the trending page and find stuff that really interests them. Build communities around what you are into and Steem will be more fun. You will get more responses from people who are not just into the money aspect.
Maybe another reason behind this could be that the default view is the trending page.
You click on a tag, and Steemit automatically takes you to the trending page of the tag.
But to be honest, most of the people are interested in money.
Probably almost no one would use Steemit and the Steem blockchain without the money earning opportunity. People are ignoring the posts of accounts with low amount of Steem Power. Like my (and many other people's) account.
Just like I said in this comment: "The dropping number of the active users is like an avalanche, and to be honest, I am not surprised.
Why would anyone want to be active on a platform, where their content is getting ignored?
A lot of people's content are ignored, and the real, human comments are rare.
The problem with the Steem blockchain (or at least with Steemit) is the fact that most of the people are posting blog posts, but only a few of them are care about other people's posts.
This leads to a lot of (thousands of) (or even hundreds of thousands of) disappointed and eventually inactive users."
I wouldn't say that it is ignored but I would agree that it might not be seen. There is still an issue on the chain with getting the best content seen by the most people. A few of the interfaces are working on a fix for that problem as we speak and i'm sure that they will have a better system going forward to get your posts noticed.
Everything here is under development so there are still a lot of things that need improvement. What I would say is that a lot of the users here are very active on the site and if you put in the effort to connect with them and get involved it will help you a lot in the long run. I found that the best way to get noticed was by engaging with more people and growing my circle. If you can grow your active followers and post good content then the votes will follow.
Of course we all like to earn money and i love to grow my SP but for me that is an extra benefit from enjoying what i do on here. If I don't enjoy it then there is no point in spending my time on the blockchain. I already have one job to make me miserable so my activities outside that need to be fun.
Did you ever written an article where you have invested more than one hour of writing?
This is the problem people write no articles at all. They make posts but no articles.
lol I have to laugh, I tend to do analysis posts, these could take 8-12 hours, sometimes I have spent a few days lol. we do have posts, they are just hard to find, thats why steemit.com is not the best interface, there are others that are more focused.
as @steevc said some are not bothered about curation rewards at all...and this is great that you put in more, than you get out. Know that feeling, Steemit is a net-loss when you write scientific posts. Even though #steemstem is doing a great job.
But what I addressed with my reply was @xplosive
maybe he/she should consider that it is not enaugh effort and as you both have proven...maybe steemians should consider that it is not about the curation at all. At least not now. Well, obviously it is not. Only a masochist puts in hours for a few dollars.
"Only a masochist puts in hours for a few dollars."
Then I am certainly/definitely a masochist.
A very big masochist.
There were times in the past (months ago), when I put hours of work and effort into my blog posts, but I earned only a few cents. Not a few dollars, but a few cents.
Nowadays I don't write articles, because I realised/realized that it is not worth it.
Almost no one cares about my Steemit/Busy posts, no matter what I write about.
Nowadays I put up polls with dPoll (poll dApp on the Steem blockchain).
I am still earning a few cents (not a few dollars), but at least I don't put hours of work and effort into the posts.
Some of mine take a while and I see plenty that took some serious effort. People need to be giving rewards where they are earned. Some of us are not bothered about curation rewards.
I've long thought that having trending as the default was a bad idea. A lot of people are here for the long term and they want to make it work. Those are the people I'm interested in. If we can build it up enough so that it has the same level of engagement as other platforms then it will be attractive as a social site, but with the added attraction of earning something. Some people also like the freedom they have here. I think it's worth trying to make it better.
human comments are rare beacause we have more creators then consumers. we need a big drive to get consumers. lets get this project over the line first :-)
I am really happy to be working as a team together on this, I hope it really kickstarts what you have started and leave a long lasting result. this is going to be amazing, the good will alone will spread such positivity.
It's already spreading. I think we can do this between us.