RE: Reputation Score: 62 - In 27 Days & My Next Steemit Goals!
So here's the thing, I use bots to promote the post and get it more visible. I don't see what is wrong with that, as long as the content is good.
Mark in all due respect your Content is NOT that great. I am being just sincerely honest here. I have watched your 50 second videos and it's more or less fluffy commonsense Content that bring little "new" info. to people. Sorry Iam not trying to be mean. It is what it is.
It's just NOT value from what I have seen. However, I do think you are capable of putting out good stuff. Your delivery is excellent :) But this stuff about being "selfish with criticism" and other videos like how it's "alight to take shortcuts" etc..etc.. is just not groundbreaking.
Your just getting by with Marginal Content at best and then pumping yourself up with inflated Votes with the Bots. And pumping yourself up with a inflated undeserved Rep, Followers, and Rewards etc..etc..
Please look at this as a learning experience and heed your own advice ( in one of your videos you talk about being selfish and utilizing criticism from others). Take a step back and do a self inventory.
I truly think after you have been here awhile you will see this is just flat out wrong all the way around.
I do want to see you around here but sometimes it is necessary to be honest with ourselves and make changes for the better :)
Sincerely,
Robert
Hey Robert, thanks for a proper presentation of feedback, you see this is something I can work with.
First of all, you are completely right, it is totally not ground breaking, and it is very basic. Yet, this is the kind of information that I notice a lot of people around me don't even know of. Therefore I decided to start with this 'generic information'. Of course, if you have been developing yourself for a while and have been reading books on the topic this must be common sense to you. However, if people haven't this might give them the opportunity to start thinking about stuff differently. That's just a niche that I'm trying to explore, introducing people to self-development :)
I hope that, as followers grow, comments come in etc, I can start to touch more in depth topics, hopefully based on concrete questions coming in from followers, but I will have to see about that.
In any case I fully agree with your opinion about it not being ground-breaking.
When it comes to the bots, I honestly did not know it influences the reputation score, but I do now. I have therefore decided to cut way back on them. I want to use a couple to resteem my posts to get more eyeballs on them. I will though, stop bombarding the posts with votes.
I guess I was mainly influenced by bot owners who gave '5 tips to grow on steemit' or stuff like that, promoting bot services and showing it can help you get traffic. Yet I didn't realise it gives an inflated look and 'undeserved' reputation score feeling to steemians.
So therefore, I'm gonna cut back on the bost and will restrict my daily spending on them, if any, to a minimum.
I'm also new to this niche of doing these types of videos, so I expect to learn a lot as I go along and hope that the value will start to rise above just the 'beginner level' of self-development. I'm mainly strugling with making videos not too long and boring. That is a point I'm concerned about when diving deeper yet I have yet to explore how I can do this anyway without boring everybody to death.
I hope I will learn a lot here and develop myself :)
Mark
Thank you Mark. Yes, I understand as it is a growing phase here. Really the curve of learning is pretty steep here. Iam still learning a lot myself.
I do not think what you did was intentional. I think the fact that you seem really driven and also open to listen says a lot about you.
Also the fact that you are taking criticism and embracing it and using it for your own improvement really gives you a lot of credibility. As you are definitely heeding what you preach ( in that video about being "selfish " with criticism). It's good to see someone not just "talk the talk" but also "walk the walk"
So that's really excellent to see. Thanks and I am sure you will do really good here :)
Thanks Robert, I mean I make huge mistakes all the time, but what is the point if I cannot learn from them. I really felt that bots is just what the people do here, but I now understand more about why it is bad.
I'm going to wait a bit for steem to come down compared to SBD, flowing most of my SBD to STEEM and powering up as much as possible. Since I won't need the SBD for bots anymore. :)