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RE: Goodbye Steemit! 🤙 Thank You Minnows
What the heck happened? All your posts are deleted. Your account says it only started less than a month ago, and you have less than 200 followers? Why are you giving up? I read your post, and you sounded very encouraging. When I look at your stats, I am not sure how quickly you were expecting to grow. It takes months to get the pennies rolling, and months more to get the dollars rolling in. It takes big cash to get big cash quickly.
Yep. You are correct, except this is a second chance to see if things improved. They didn’t. As for the it takes months. That’s not accurate, as I have a friend on here that is doing extremely well, and she started out small, but quickly sought out all the whales 🐳 and make friends, and truly I applaud her for that as it’s a brilliant strategy, but it doesn’t fix the problem. - let’s say I flooded my posts and steemit with traffic, that won’t improve my posts revenue. Only upvotes by whales do. So regardless if I had a hundred minnows or a thousand all giving me 0.09 cents, it wouldn’t make a dent as to what a Whale can bring. Further more, I want REAL relationships on here, not fake ones. I don’t want to be a whale one day and having minnows kissing my ass because I have money. I want them to like me or follow me because they actually like me. - I’ve seen it bud, hearing fellow steemians say “I got another whale!” - that shit spoke volumes to me.
I'm with you on this. Had you joined before the vote-selling started, good content often got rewarded eventually, so if you did five posts and only one got a decent vote, it was still enough. But now, many of the whales are reserving their voting power for buying customers, and thus the chances of your work getting rewarded just because it is good is significantly lower. There just aren't as much free upvotes to be distributed anymore.
The hilarious thing is that they are still earning the curation rewards that were supposed to incentivize fair voting, for selling their votes.
This place has become quite a joke, but if it is money you are here for then I'd advise you stick around. The price of STEEM and SBD are still so fucking low compared to where they are ultimately going, and so the pennies you are earning right now are already worth dollars if you can hold them. So if it money you are here for, I really would stick around because I guarantee if you leave, you will be back in a few months trying to earn and struggling when if you had stuck around you'd be making plenty.
If you are here to meet great people, then you should stick around. It is getting harder to find them, but I still believe some of the greatest minds on Earth are here, and with them great opportunity for collaborative efforts.
If it is to be heard, then I can understand why you must go. Lengthy posts or anything you have worked hard on has a much higher chance of getting read on a different platform. Most users on this site are primarily authors and so less and less content is actually consumed while everyone is preparing their own posts or living. If you were willing to play the game such as your friend has, then that would certainly boost your viewership, but if you are not, and have no interest in the first two options, money or magnificent minds, then I bid you farewell, dear stranger.
This is a great comment, thank you! Excellent. - No, I gave it a lot of thought, and you (like many others in this comment chain) are 100% right. I'm going to stick it out with the rest of the boys & girls here who see it from my side. I didn't have to be here long to experience and read the thousands of comments of users in the same boat. Many of which are pissed and they have been here from inception - So great advice, great comment. *here comes the upvote: #Bam :)
I'm going to try and organize my thoughts to continue in discord, though if you happen to get on before that feel free to jump in lol. One thing I didn't reiterate there yet was the emphasis I put on Anything from you is worth my upvote, your presence is worth my upvote. This comment for example... :) Though my power is a bit in the shitter right now, hopefully I'll catch your next breath of air with it full xo
Lol. I was writing all day. I will go on discord now.
Is there a specific channel I could join to get in on that? I have discord. Thanks for the comments. cheers!
Hey there... I just so happened to come here to upvote my friend's comment- and saw this.
You can definitely get in on 'this'. It's not a channel, what I was referring to was just our private chat. It's just people who have connected since being here, who want to help each other just because, lol. The way to get in on it is to be out there, making these connections.
And I should mention- there is a group between the minnows and the whales...we are a vastly underrated, overlooked group, the dolphins lol.
Ha ha, right on @Dreemit 🤙 Yeah in my viral post it went to extreme lengths. Plankton to Whales lol - never want anyone to feel left out! Ha ha ... I did make mention of Dolphins 🐬 and everyone else I my latest post, so if you have time feel free to check it out. Thanks for your time, and comment, no matter what status you are, it’s valued. 🙏 🍻
P.S. @dreemit this is a newb question, what does that Rep number by the side of our usernames have to do with anything? What’s the significance and why should I want it higher? Thanks in advance. 👊
im on steemitchat as well...
Dog food for Vito :) xo
@son-of-satire
great comment has been a pleasure to read you
@lifeinspired your arguments I also liked you do not give up for leaving you have good arguments and I see a logic in what you say, however the advice of @son-of-satire is the best that I've read.
I hear you. Everyone has to make the big decision for themselves which path is more important to take. Run a business, or run a blog. You can have a little bit of both, but it is better to focus one way or the other. I have found the relationships made here to be far more valuable to me than those I made anywhere else on social media and the internet. If I was trying to make a profitable business, I don't think I would have earned people's trust in that way. At first I was getting a lot of lucky upvotes, but I never expect them, and now I rarely get those. It is slow growth if you go the normal blog route, with no extra help or investments put in.
Thanks buddy. 🤙
So why don't you make a real relationship with someone who thinks your content is worth their vote... Anyone who does a job others want will have their ass kissed one day.
What other blog site than steemit has any kind of quick ramp up... nobody wants to read some rando's blog (even mine), you have to build a following.
A hundred minnows at 9 cents is 9$, a thousand is 90$, a hundred thousand is 900$, obvious the more traffic the btter... just because those numbers are unrealistic doesn't mean each minnow vote doesn't add up.
Truth. Thank you for your comment, it’s valued. 👊🍻
your words are very wise @creativetruth and I agree. I've had posts that took me 6 hours earn $1 and others $200. it's a bit random, but there are plenty of dolphins like me searching for new people to support every single day but we can't keep up with all of it!! And I never never sell a vote. quality only.
Good for you @natureofbeing. If you know of any groups looking to support the little guys putting out quality posts, let me know. Looks like you've been around here a lot longer than most, and might have some valuable connections to share. I started my own Shrimp Support Project this week because I was fed up with people complaining about following the whales, and then getting mad when they don't get any votes back. I've always made a point never to reward drama posts, and instead search for ways to reward those making a positive solution.
You do not want to have a whale support you, you see that as sucking up, so you think your friend is a suck-up? You want people to follow you because they like you but then you slam 90% of the people, minnows, and new users (redfish/plankton), as not being able to GIVE you enough support? I am sure you can make more "Friends" and money on Youtube than you could here.
Your second try, two weeks long, after you lost the keys to your first user name. Not much of a try. How long did you have your other account before getting locked out 2 weeks also? It has taken me 6 months to get to the level you are pretty much whining about. Here is what it says on your profile - - - "YouTuber 📷 Photographer 🎨 Media Artist 🎥 Crypto 👾 Gamer 💻 Advertising Enthusiast" - - - YouTuber, okay that I am sure makes you a lot of money. Photographer, I am sure all you youtube friends pay a lot to look at your pictures. media Artist- how much do your youtube friends value that? Crypto, oh yeah the Youtube crypto dollar. Gamer, youtube , I am sure you kick ass in gaming on youtube. And finally Advertising Enthusiast - - - I hope that is not your real job.
You don't like whales, you despise your friends, and you treat the backbone people of steemit like they are worthless. With that type of attitude, you really should quit steemit, and go play with the youtube trolls.
Yes it’s sucking up if you’re intentionally only being friends with a Whale because you want his/her vote. I think I said that in the post bud. You’re missing the point. Read my other comments before you vent. Cheers 🤙
When I take a look at his coming author rewards on
https://steemworld.org/@lifeinspired
I must say that the result is not bad for the first week on Steemit:
So the going rate for a weeks worth of quality content is $30? Where a shit post by a Minnow with a few whale friends can earn $500+ in a day? Not bad... 🤦♂️I think you’re missing the point here.
No man. Stick around. you are right, but if all good folks left, that doesn't achieve anything.
Today I woke up with a new mindset. I was dead against paying (begging) for votes. But I will do it now. Just to get there in the front. My content is good. I can do even better given time as well. I can see from what you wrote that you have the same notion.
But I wish to add something to this by pulling out something you wrote about and I haven't seen much of yet on here. It is a level of honesty, frankness.. and not about the pay-for-votes nonsense, but about the 'support' groups that are actually jerk(coughs) channels. Most of them seem to be like that, with just (you said it) a hand full of exceptions. You said it!
after looking over the way the groups are operated, it is the same cult mindset that pervades the general platform where the powerful operate in some kind of monarchy, while pretending they are open, equitable distributers of genius. The quality of posts are often good, but the support is given to people that 'play the game' - so they put people through a process, handing out colors.. statuses, issuing do not do this and do this so we can do that for you. I's nuts. I decided to play my game dirty, because dirty is cleaner than that sort of pretence.
Whatever you do, reconsider what you said here. No one will hold you to what you said. Do what you know is right and stay. Because evil thrives where good men do nothing (or leave).
Wow. I dare say you will change my mind with this comment. Damn. Bravo good sir! 👏😎 You just gained another follower. Excellent.
lol gosh
We aim to please ☝️🕶 #MinnowLand 👊
I think I see the problem.
Indeed, its no joke. Pretty serious in fact. Whales supporting shit posts, or possibly Whales being manipulated for their vote. ...the list goes on and on...
That wasn't the part of the problem I was referring to.
Hey buddy, just noticed you replied. Let me know what you mean. thanks. 🤙
Why do you compare yourself to other people? You need followers for reaching like minded people. Optimal would be like minded whales and that will come with the time, trust me!
Important:
Don't shoot your best bullets in a time where there is not yet a target to hit ;)
Thanks buddy 🤙
You are so narrow and pessimistic, and impatient and full of yourself.
B Gone.
Thank you for your comment. It's definitely easy to say that when you're sitting on the top of the mountain looking down. (You have quite the account behind you... $692,493.61) The rest of us aren't so fortunate... and your comment doesn't just carry over to me, you just spoke to ALL the Minnows and Plankton who are experiencing the same damn thing. Keep that in mind.
I wish my upvote was worth $70 and not 7 cents, because you deserve it with this comment. Literally saying what everyone else is thinking but are too scared to say it...
Brother your upvote is worth solid gold! 👊 Thank you for your comment and your time. I know it’s valuabe. Cheers 🍻
Here’s to being real an not kissing ass! 💪😎
Thinking out loud, but there are times I wonder whether that is the reason my posts don't do well any more. At first I was flying (I went to a 54 rating in the first two weeks!), but I don't upvote or follow anyone that doesn't interest me and that could be the reason some of these big boys don't read my stuff anymore. Sometimes I feel that I have to 'play the game' and say things that everyone wants to hear if I want to turn my content into profit. Anyway, good for you for speaking your mind. If you do choose to not come back hopefully you would have gained writing experience for your next front page reddit post!
Check out my latest post, I’m staying buddy. 🤙 Too many damn awesome people to leave, it’s all of you who are the rockstars. Motivated the hell out of me... and true, I think as soon as you go back to being yourself and damn the concequences, just be free, be you! Write whatever’s in your heart, see a beautiful sunset that moves you, put it into works and share with everyone here. They will love you for it, just because it’s you. 🙏 Namaste my friend.
Keep in touch.
I'm one of the more tragic cases here on steemit I feel. I have over 500 posts. Most of them are pretty good I feel. I have made much less than you. I have worked so hard and have so little to show.
The reason I stick around is I enjoy it otherwise and I hope someday my luck changes in terms of earnings.
Thanks and take care!
No I totally feel you in that, that’s why I was one foot out the door until everyone pulled me back in with good sound reason. Don’t write for reward, break away from what “people might want to hear” and lose yourself in your passions. Trust me. As soon as you let go and say “damn the concequences” you’ll find people value your true inner voice. The Real you! And if they don’t, to hell with them as you don’t want them as followers anyway... there are a ton of people here just like you and feel the same way. I just happen to creatively “lose my shit” and vented for all of us at once... no way did I expect it to blow up and go viral, but it did. All because people were pissed. They thought their awesome work wasn’t good enough when “I know it is!” Ive seen it on reddit as well as other popular social networks. So don’t beat yourself up, dig a little deeper into yourself, if you weren’t getting paid and didn’t give a shit about whales or minnows and just wanted to write... what would you write about? That right there, that’s what you write about... you could write a post right now just to vent and get a ton of different responses, and when the negative comments come, don’t take it personal, spin it in a positive way. - I read this one article one time, a Fairly Large Woman posted a photo of herself as she wanted to overcome her fear of wearing a bathing suit. - people ate her alive in comments! Beached whale, out your clothes on you’ll scare the kids! All kinds of mean shit... know what she did? She SLAYED THEM with kindness... one lady said she was fat, the large woman responded. “You’re so beautiful and thin, I wish I was like” all sorts of kind comments, and EVERYSINGLE one caved and apologized. See people crave reality in a digitally led world, they sometimes comment mean shit forgetting that an actual person with feelings is on the other end... what I’m saying is don’t lose yourself her, keep yourself. Think about everything and anything. Write about what “you” think is cool. Eventually people will be drawn to you... they can’t help it.. it’s reality we all crave... I guarantee you read every word in this comment. This is what you do. Dive in rockstar. 😎🤙 Have a great night.
I’m off to dreamland... 💭 😴 💤
Thank you very much! Well I will keep trying and will try to take all of your advice, keep your examples in mind, etc. One of my Sons is autistic and I am considering writing about that. Thank you again and best wishes!
Omg that’s a great topic! 🙏 You totally should! This would help people understand more about Autisim. Brilliant. 🔥 See, write from your heart and let your beautiful self shine and people will pay attention... it’s like a people magnet. No one likes fake people or comments, know what I mean? Cheers 🥂 😊
Best wishes! :) :)
Tell me how you really feel.
🤭😎🤙
Thanks for posting that.
I understand what @lifeinspired is saying and have shared that thought as well.
I'm hoping that with consistency, work and time, i can grow my blog here.
I think people come to steemit seeing the trending section and expect to be there within a week (me included).
But it is true that it is discouraging to see some post that are very well written and thought out, getting left in the wind by one/two liners from some of the big accounts.
Anyways, I'm steeming on for the moment, thanks for the encouragement from your comment!
Thank you for you comment. It is valued and appreciated. 🤙 Really. I mean it.
i agree with you - slow - study and win the race
Thank you for you comment. It is valued and appreciated. 🤙
Removed this comment, as @whatsup was correct and no harm done. Thanks for the support friend. Moving forward.. 🤙
I upvoted your post based on the content. It was not flagged until I made a comment asking what happened and watched more of your posts change to deleted.
It's on the blockchain. I voted it up and I flagged it after you removed the content I upvoted.
I see a lot of good points in what you wrote, and best of luck to you!
Well thank you either way. I respect that. @whatsup like I said, I like what you did with the #AdoptAMinnow regardless if you upvote/downvote me. I appreciate anyone and everyone that helps those who are reaching out. #NoBumKissing ;-) That wont happen here... lol #KeepItReal and we're friends. lol