STEEM SCHOOL EP 4 - REPUTATION AND HOW IT AFFECTS UPVOTES
Does reputation matter when it comes to upvotes or not? It took me a couple of weeks to understand how my reputation affects my upvotes.
First of all, what is your reputation on Steem? Your reputation on Steem is the small number next to your Steemit username!
You find that number when you click on your posts and take a look at below the title where you see the spot that I marked for you in the picture below.
You can also see your reputation on your blog page which is always Steemit.com/@YourUsername but to see that, you need to install the app "Steemit more Info" which offers even more than just displaying your reputation.
That app also shows you who voted for you, who you voted or both and same for your mentions. It also displays the current worth of your upvote and the worth of the upvotes that you received on your post a blog history & more!
I highly recommend installing "Steemit More Info" which you can download here: Steemit More Info.
Below is a screenshot of the blog page of my friend @Snook displaying some of the features of "Steemit More Info" which I mentioned above (See how she posts every day!).
How to Increase Your Reputation Quickly
To increase your reputation you have to receive upvotes, the higher the upvotes on your posts are the faster your reputation will climb. The higher your reputation is the higher the upvotes need to be to reach a higher reputation!
To increase your reputation as fast as possible you have to create very high-quality posts and boost them with bots immediately after you have published them.
Using bots to boost low-quality trash posts will get you a lot of enemies & hopefully you feel guilty about it!
With bots, you can boost your hopefully high-quality posts into trending and even make a good profit out of that investment.
You make more cash, get more followers and hopefully, the big guys here on Steem don't hate you for boosting that post, it is the highest priority to only boost the best posts otherwise the gods of cash will punish you for that.
I will write a post on how to use bots in the future, writing about that subject here would distract from the topic, till then you can educate yourself here with the help of @JerryBanfield his post about bots: Boosting Posts With Bots
You can only see your reputation increase by 1,2,3 and so forth but not by 0,1 or 0,5. Luckily a smart man called @penguinpablo created a website where you can check your reputation progress & more.
Does Reputation Matter Much?
Short answer: No. Long answer: Reputation does not really much because the option to boost your hopefully nice butt into Steem Olympia exists.
Reputation reflects how much cash in the form of upvotes you have received and because of the boosting option that number does not reflect your efforts that much.
There are people out there with reputations 60-70 who produce worst kind of content that I have ever seen. They post a picture with 1 sentence below it and call that a "post".
Since I have reputation 60 I also don't see an increase in the worth of upvotes that I receive. It really depends on the quality of your posts & the information it.
My bests posts in terms of upvotes are about subjects that are helpful for Steemians, perfectly formatted and about subjects that almost nobody covered.
Take a look at this post of @TheRightSideOfUp Click here to open it which received $20.
Now you say to yourself that it ain't much but for a guy that joined Steemit last month it really is. That man has written about a topic that almost nobody writes about (His war experience) which is described in good detail.
He has written 1600 words, wrote about a rare but highly interesting topic which is useful to almost everyone who has served in the army because he also offers advice in his post. That seems to be the winning formula!
Conclusion
Reputation does not matter much. What matters is the information you deliver, what you write about, and how often it was already covered, of course, there are other things that are important as well but in my experience, your reputation plays no important role in that.
There are plenty authors with high reputations that only post shit. Don't be one of those guys and girls.
That's it for today's Steem School episode. Have a nice day ladies, gentlemen & savages!
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The tool does not seem to be working for me...
But your thoughts on reputation are quite right. I think people are drawn towards reputation when new and increasingly towards high SP as they start to understand how Steemit really works.
You just have to reload the page or go to 'replies' for example and then go back to blog. Sometimes it doesn't work at all though.
Good tip & same experience.
yeah, figured that out... thank u
You already installed it... good job!
The blog histogram doesn't load sometimes, but the other features are reliable (they lag sometimes tho).
That really sucks sometimes, especially when you want to make a screenshot of it for your blog post!
Yeah, that histogram is not the only feature... There are other very neat and useful features as well
Enjoy!
In a way I do agree with you that reputation means squat if the person just writes shitty posts but having a high number would often make a person pause and check the content of the person and if it will be worth the time to comment and possibly get an upvote and a follower if the comment was very good.
Once the person realize that it's a golden shit post talking about marvel and 80 % of the comments are bid bot comments of confirmation from the 5-6 bots he would use on one post. Then you see 5 more similiar post and same MO done the same day and you leave in disgust and never follow check teh person again because you know it's just a placeholder post.
Reputation is indeed climbing up high but the respect the person gets in the community is almost none and zero engagement on posts. Tis just a reputation and money grab.
In a way content is still King and engagement an important part of the growth. Reputation may get a person to try to engage but afterwards it will be up to the skill of the person to turn that to a follower and in turn make them an engagers.
I agree don't be a golden shitposter.
Very well said Maverick, as usual, you write very good comments.
More people look at our posts based on our reputation but that doesn't guarantee upvotes, in fact, you risk losing cash and you ruin your reputation here on Steem (not the number) by writing shit.
In other words, I agree with your statement.
I'm loving the Steemit education course, there's always some nugget of gold in each post. Sometimes more.
Another good tool for checking reputation, voting power, votes, comments and the like is steemworld.org. Granted you do need to have it open in another tab, but it has a wealth of information in there.
I do think reputation has an indirect benefit in as much as others may be more likely to at least check out your post if you have a higher reputation. The post still needs to be of high quality to make that tendency worth anything. If you're posting garbage the higher click-through will just serve to wreck your efforts at creating a tribe, and could even lead to some of you followers leaving you.
So, I agree with you - don't worry about your reputation, but instead focus on posting high quality content if you want to grow on Steemit.
Very good comment.
I like your style. I am waiting your post how to use the bots to promote your post. Of course @jerryBanfield is a legend , but his posts are sooooooooooo long to the degree I am bored to lose my focus or even interest and not able sometimes to complete his video , tell myself I will later. However, I like videos which give the info in a “nutshell” like yours and boxmining ... just my opinion . Also it maybe funny to think ( human vs bots) : if bots in the future become so smart to write high quality posts on their own 😃😂
Cheers 🥂
That is very valuable feedback for me Josteem!
Thank you!
By the way, i don’t Know if it matters or not ( How much percent of My vote I give to a post, will influence My curatorn, if the post becomes trending?) i.e if My vote worth 1 $ and does it make a difference to give 10%, 50% or 100% of My vote when it come to curationion rewards , if this post becomes hot or trending? I appreciate if you have an answer based on your reasearch
Curation is very difficult to explain, check out this post for more information about the subject: https://steemit.com/steemit/@albertvhons/calculating-steemit-potential-rewards
Thx
Keep up and sure you will 🚀 soon
yes reputation doesn't really matter much, but to an extent it gets you attention, it's easier to for 70 to attract your attention than a 35 or so.
it's much easier to read an article written by someone with a 70 reputation than someone with a 40.
Maybe it is not that much, but reputation can get a lot of people to check out what you write. Maybe that's when they find out whether you write sense or crap, but at least they had checked out your content.
Yes you are right, it's not much but it can a difference.
True... psychology.
However, as a newcomer, I always value the 'underdogs'. Same with publishing, I tend to read authors who are self-published. True, a lot of the 'noobies' have lots of crap, but there are others with real high-quality content (or at least, to what I like). So I tend to try and encourage and read others.
I agree as well, seeing newbies climb through godlike effort is a nice thing to see!
100% agree
Gotta get to reputation 70 asap!
I Agree
First of all @valorforfreedom thank you for this. Indeed this is a school and I am leaening every thing I can as possible. Indeed your facts here have spoken well of themself.
Just 8days old here I have been I have been able to build a reputation of 38 and won myself 0.200 steem and other benefits from the biggies in the community.
Right now i must let yoh know that your blog and and it content is my roadmap to get to that exact point you are now.
Thank you, thank you, thank you @valorforfreedom for this wonderful piece.
I am me @brightfame
Thank you Brightfame.
I completely agree with the comment you have made in regards to the quality of posting. I confess my posts are far from perfect something this year I should strive to better myself at but I read many things about tags and effectively using them, In your opinion do you think this is true, or is the following and connecting through curation a natural evolvement in the steemit journey.
Of course if you think tags are important and how to use them, I would love to watch you do a video about them??
Choosing the right tags is important, I create a video+post about it soon.
Following increases with the quality of your posts and how often you are in trending.
Thanks for this info, lots of useful information.
I do hope though that bots will play a far smaller role in the future regarding payouts and reputation score.
I'm a very big fan of curation, and it's pretty hard to help somebody's good post get noticed when others are paying for bots and or self-voting. I don't mind that people selfvote and pay for bots, it just shouldn't be possible to buy you way to the trending and hot list. It should be a matter of people finding the good stuff and helping it get noticed.
And maybe for that reputation could play a bigger part, so we could have more superstar curators, a bit like spotify I guess.
Anyway, thanks for the read.
I absolutely agree that it shouldn't be like that.
Thanks for taking the time and explaining reputation the way you did. You really cleared up some points for me. Although I do feel reputation gives you an edge in terms of having people check out your content, giving upvotes, and following you. Overall great post and like always MUCH LOVE and RESPECT! #BlessUP
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