@walkingkeys I am a newbie too having posted about 10 blogs or so out of which a majority are some random photographs. I did use randowhale only once. that was previous to my present blog up there.
I tried it out of curiosity as everyone appear to be doing it. But then I stopped it. somehow I am not comfortable buying a vote for myself. it is like liking my own post in FB. It did not seem right. I even stopped upvoting myself during posting the blog. I dont believe in upvoting my own blog first thing when it is published.
I also dont ask anyone to follow me, I dont resteem, I dont upvote because someone asked me. If I like a content, I upvote it, If I really like the author, I will follow him.
I want to keep my page clutter free. So I dont resteem.
I want my feed to be clutter free. So I follow very few whom I select carefully.
I want my followers to follow me because of my blogs, not because I ask them. so I dont ask them to follow me. if they like my blog they follow,, else they wont. simple.
I want to keep it as simple as possible.
all I am trying to do here is try to write some quality blog ( difficult as I am a first time blogger with absolutely no idea about blogging) and then engage my readers as much as possible. rest I leave it to destiny :)
First, thanks for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate your point of view. I agree never to ask for followers and I am very picky about what I resteem too. Never when people ask, lol. I don't feel like voting for my content when I put it out there is bad though, because I believe in it. Facebook is different, it isn't like liking your own post. If anything, it is like voting on a comment you post as a reply. I think it is ok to upvote your blog though. Remember that, upvoting gets it on the hot and trending lists. The upvote serves a purpose more than money, it gets it noticed. The more votes, the more popular it is on the site and featured more prominently under your keywords. That is the main reason I use Randowhale. Not for the money, because it is almost always a wash, but to help the content I believe in get noticed by more people. The more people that see it, can engage with it and I can pick up more natural followers that like my content.
I agree with what you are saying, and it is admirable for sure. I see things a little different and want to get my stuff seen by more people. Thank you so much for taking the time to give an honest reply and you picked up a new follower in the process.
I really like this philosophy, @topdog.