On my medium blog I never really had other readers than the ones I personally sent over. The good thing with Steemit is, that people get rewarded to interact and most of them try to write useful comments - some of them may even read your whole article! 😀
I guess, one of the best ways to get your content seen - besides the useful tips you already gave - is to comment and discuss with people on their posts. Pretty much what you have done too so far. Thanks for your article and I always love to read more from you!
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Yes, thanks for highlighting that. There are incentives on this platform that aren't found on other blogging platforms, such as to interact with new people and to also be positive. No one wants to get downvoted, so it becomes a very different vibe than someplace like FB where people seem to take delight in leaving comments that piss people off.
I always thought, that negative comments were a thing I only experience in German (fun fact: I'm Austrian ;)) on FB. I didn't know, that this is also happening in English. I haven't experienced this here very often though. Yes, downvoting and flag wars are an issue, but mostly because of whales playing the "power game". I'm very annoyed by people like Bernie Sanders, who claim to be the Robin Hoods of the reward pool, while "raping" it themselves from the backdoor through useless flame posts and paying upvote bots with horrendous amounts to promote their one line "F*** all!* posts. Also people don't dare to speak up against these people, because they have so much SP (and in case of the BS guy) also several fake accounts and bots, that will downvote your hard earned money to 0, if you dare to speak up. This is pure censorship and I sometimes wonder, why so many people celebrate the BS guy as a Robin Hood and not seeing, how he is damaging this platform in so many harmful ways.
I didn't know you were from Austria! I love learning new fun facts about you atmosblack, my first Steemit friend! Also I'm disappointed to hear about BS. Is that really him or someone using his name? Seems so weird.
No, BS ist just some grumpy guy who behaves like any schoolyard bully. He managed to attract some followers who believe in his mission and threatens everyone with an opposing point of view with flags - which unfortunately is quite successful, since he and his downvote-bots can do lots of damage.
His reputation is already -20 or so, which is totally justified, but reputation has no meaning inside the system. I would like to see the reputation have an effect on the voting power and in rare cases where people really have a negative reputation reducing the voting power to zero, so that they can't do harm - but he still has bots and many fake accounts - so we are talking about a full time bully here...
Are we talking about the BS who ran for president in the US a couple years ago? He is doing all this, or someone using his name?
Also, I read something in the Welcome files when I joined that said that someone with less reputation than you can downvote you, but it will have no effect on your reputation. Only someone with a higher rep than you can harm your reputation with their downvotes. I'll see if I can find the exact article to link to later.
Yes, most likely someone using his name and therefore being fake...
Right, it won't hurt your reputation, but if you would earn 100$ with let's say 50 upvotes from people and a single vote from a bully is worth 100$, he can reduce your earning to zero with one click - even if his reputation in in the negative...
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