My STEEM Journey... Part 3
Posts in this series so far...
Yesterday I've posted the article:
https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/my-steem-journey-part-2
The day before yesterday this one:
https://steempeak.com/steem/@doifeellucky/thinking-about-my-steem-journey
...about thoughts/todo's in my STEEM journey. And yes be brave this will be a clear case in the direction TL:DR... I'm afraid. Nonetheless here we go...
The latest article got some more recognition and upvotes! Nice!
As I wrote in my first article on my STEEM journey I don’t use any extra dedicated "boosting" by buying dedicated upvote/resteem services (but I’ve got vests placed for general “lifts” in recognition / see my delegations under https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html or a little down in this article where I mention this solution) for those articles. This is part of my experiments with STEEM to see how much resonance these would get without extra “boosts”.
I’m doing this rather for myself than to expect big returns. Of course I would love if it’s to some use for readers.
My update for today on my "todo's" I've again placed between the bullet points. So let's see...
- learn something about STEEM or STEEM projects every day! - ☑️ Yep that happened again! Not all things mentioned here where new to me, some I’ve been using for a long time, but I used all of the listed here today again. So I thought it’s just fair and square to give them a mention! @miti and @citiofstarts mentioned Steamworld for instance in the comments to my post yesterday! See the section Steamworld a little further down!
- 190501 checked out and got engaged with Steem basic income (SBI)
- 190501 checked out https://steemrewarding.com (auto upvote bot).
- 190501 checked out https://steempeak.com
- 190501 Checked out @theycallmedan's initiative STEEM tank! I love it!
- Steam basic income (SBI) Did some more vesting in SBI. I enrolled some more fellow Steemians and checked out the SBI Discord channel SBI bot you can utilize to see your engagement with SBI. I love this project and the idea behind it! I’m trying to enroll more Steemians every day for the foreseeable future and probably will up my delegation too. Check them out https://steempeak.com/@steembasicincome Here an example output from the SBI discord server/bot querie:
- SteemAuto Another very nice automation service done by https://steemit.com/@mahdiyari Played around with it a little, signed up and joined a curation trail. I’m going to deplete my VP so fast with all those great services I’m afraid I’ll have to power up all the time now… hahaha! Great article’s on the subject are: https://steemit.com/steemit/@energyaddict22/steemit-essentials-steemauto
- Steemd Great source of info’s all around ones STEEM account and all on one page! https://steemit.com/@roadscape great job building/improving this!
- SteamReports http://www.steemreports.com/ Wow! I love this! Nicely visualized data out of our beloved STEEM blockchain. I especially go nuts for the “Enhanced Votes Graph”… Jeez that is so nice! Check it out if you haven’t so far and give https://steemit.com/@steemreports a follow!
- Steamworld Steamworld, mentioned in the intro too, is another great solution that I’ve been using for quite some time now is https://steamworld.org Check it out and maybe give https://steemit.com/@steemchiller some love?
- qurator Read up on curation initiatives/projects/communities. Today I’ve sent an application to qurator. Beforehand I’ve checked on my content quality especially regarding proper image sourcing. Dropped a question to qurator that got answered promptly. We’ll see if I make the cut… https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/qurator-4-0-or-new-multiplier-system https://steemit.com/qurator/@qurator/standard-image-sourcing-for-the-qurator-project
- iSteemd Used https://isteemd.com/ to check out delegation comparisons. Nicely made by https://isteemd.com/about-us/ .
- SteamBotTracker ...and I’ve used https://steembottracker.com/delegation.html by https://steemit.com/@yabapmatt. Noice! Well designed and easy to use UI. Love this too!
- As a result of my research regarding upvote/resteem services I chose Upmewhale. They haven’t got the highest iSteemD score but deliver the highest returns it seems. Upmewhale… I’m still playing around with some upvote/resteem services. So I’ve dropped 2000 Steem on Upmewhale.
- A few of the open questions/todo’s I’ve listed in the original post can be closed. I’ve given them the needed thought and have made my decisions. So here they are…
- But first...
In complete contrast to my experiments with autovoters, upvote/resteem services I’ve found a fellow Steemian who does manual curation and posts regularly about it in his Manual Curation Reports. 👀❤️👍
https://busy.org/@miti/mydailymanualcurationfeaturedposts2019-05-01-xdsz7d6juo
Please check out https://busy.org/@miti with his approach to curation. Very interesting to say the least! I guess I, maybe you too (?), can learn a lot from him.
I’ll be revisiting doing manual curation myself when I’m done with my “auto whatever” experiments.
- ...and I got “STEEMified again…
What I mean by that is… I consumed so much wonderful content today again from my great fellow Steemains that I got a little sidetracked.
This messed up a little what I had planned for today but I had so much fun I just couldn’t help it and it should be all about fun, right?
So tomorrow – fingers crossed – I’ll pick up on my more structured approach to get some more things done in my ongoing STEEM journey.
on my list there are now another 4 STEEM related projects/initiatives left that I will look into one after the other...
- Post something every day? - ☑️ Again check... I've posted the article's - https://busy.org/@doifeellucky/spud-1-powered-up-by-1-821-190-sp-today Yeah if you made it all the way down here... you guessed right… VP depleted still wanna play on and not wait 1 ½ days for VP to be at reasonable level again… so I’ve … upped my SP a little. - and I will post this article about my STEEM journey part III.
For now I will try to post an article everyday (besides share2steem Twitter to STEEM posts).
- Maybe... but, very important(!!!), fight the urge to type every brain fart into a post! note to myself... fight harder...
Reediting this post here clearly shows me I've got a long way ahead of me to make some progress on this. To give you an example:
Reminds me of "A river run's through it"... when older Norman Maclean reflects on his Father
I attended the school of the Reverend Maclean.
He taught nothing but reading
and writing. And being a Scot...
believed that the art of writing
lay in thrift.
So now you have a clear grasp of the obvious... hahaha! Cutting things short aint my cup of tea... and it seems that I'm shameless enough to put a quote in here from a really gifted story teller!
- clean up #share2steem act... jeez... all that twitter shitposting clutters the STEEM blockchain... - ☑️Yes I did that. I will be selectively crossposting from twitter using the #share2steem tag rather than using the “crosspost everything” setting.
- improve post quality! yep... time to step up your markdown game ffs. I’m working on that! Hope it shows soonish…
- narrow post topics to field of own expertise or continue "to be all over the place"? - ☑️I can answer that now! Nope I won’t limit what I’m doing here at the moment. So this thing is answered and done.
- should I make it a goal to make money with posts or just have fun or even behave like a passive investor? - ☑️I’ll answer that with a yes/yes/no.
So I’ll try to get some return on my investment here on STEEM and have fun with it. What can be better than that? Passive… nope. Not at the moment at least. Somewhere down the road I’ll compare effort vs. income and will then possibly reconsider.
- push harder on/in things I'm experimenting with right now (sbi, bots)? - ☑️Yeah… I’m doing that so this point I’ll boot out of here.
- use my SP more for curating and supporting others rather than generating "autopilot" returns? - ☑️Kind of a redundant point… also covered under the “Learn something about STEEM or STEEM projects every day part. I touched it today for sure though. I’ll keep it in here for the time being.
To put it in some simple sentences...
- I'll stick with both for the moment
- I will use autopilot for some of my SP to make returns on my investment
- I will also continue to manual curate and engage further with the community
- Especially if there are changes implemented in the STEEM blockchain that give curators more returns for their effort and things start moving in a more profitable direction for manual curators I reckon I'll make some quick changes here... given that I have the time to do manual curation properly.
- Is it acceptable to further use upvote/resteem services for a smaller account like mine? - ☑️For the moment I say yes! It seems a lot of big accounts (either in rep. or SP or both) even use these or have used these in one way or a other. It seems to be part of the “spiel” somehow. No question at the end of the day it's about quality content and producing such content will be seen in the long run I'm sure. But to get some traction these services seem to be helpful.
I'll revisit this from time to time but for now this is a closed point for me.
- can I do something to improve STEEM? - ☑️ Too early to say I guess. Everything I can do in "drive by pragma style" I’ll do. Like supporting effort to get STEEM on exchanges promoting STEEM via Twitter and so on I'll do of course. I want to learn more first before putting my head into hammering something out beyond that. I'll close this point here too for later revisiting.
- Am I engaging enough with the community? - ☑️I’m not sure about this… at least I’m doing all that I can to keep up with curating, comments, replies and so on. I’ll revisit this on a regular basis.
So far my update for today. I'll keep you posted!
And of course I would like to hear from you about this post or the apps mentioned or your experiences or anything! Go ahead and leave a comment if you like!
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Interesting all through, I use/have used all the above services that you have mentioned but I just do not know about @theycallmedan's initiative. Could you give a little insight about it?
Also, before now I have always known @tipu as the most profitable bid bot when it comes to delegation, kinda having a rethink wrt what you wrote. Did you compare based on what you receive daily?
Futhermore, I am happy to read reason being that I unfollowed you because you were crowding my feed with your twitter cross-posts. I have no problem scrolling over the posts but it was just too often and became unbearable for me lol.
So yeah, based on this post I am giving you a second chance. I just followed you once again. Welcome back to my life baby!
Thanks for your comment!
Yes the STEEM tank initiative is covered in this post here (mwaves recording).
https://steempeak.com/dtube/@pennsif/v3vafoxh
You can also checkout @theycallmedan's blog or his twitter feed https://twitter.com/xformationdan to find more info's about it.
Basically @theycallmedan together with @themarkymark and @nicholaslive listen to pitches of different STEEM related projects to offer help or to advise. I sure do wish for that following sessions are with video tho.
The comparison of the different delegation returns is nicely made by https://isteemd.com/. They compare based on the payout for the last seven days and they have a "anto spam" scoring that's interesting too!
Finally.. yes that hefty twitter crossposting was not nice to say the least. I'll still use it but a little more selective.
Hey and nice that you follow me again! Thanks for that!
Cheers!
Alright thanks for insight about Dan's initiative. I will take it on from there.
Also, have you ever compared your daily earnings from your delegations with these bots? This is actually what I was trying to find out because I believe isteemd doesn't have it all right in terms of profit rankings.
I found their results misleading back when I used to delegate to 3 bid bots last year. I think you should try to analyze your earnings.
But then it's not bad if you are happy to just diversify your investments.
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Thanks for your reply! So far I've seen that the returns hit the estimation with a 2,5 - 3% variation downwards... Yes they vary, and the stats of iSteemd only cover the last 7 days. I'll do some analysis again in in a few weeks and maybe share the results then.
Have a great Sunday!
Cheers!
Alright my friend, thanks for your replies as well. A better day for you!
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Thanks!
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As pointed out in your post, posting everyday helps with getting noticed or at least posting every second day. Consistency has helped me on my journey here. Using the cool feature @knirky created (@steem-bounty) is another cool way to help bring attention to posts.
Thanks for you comment!
Yep... I broke my own rule of not using dedicated boosting a little I think by dropping a bounty on this post. Well, it's not exactly the same as dedicated upvoting/resteem service but kindofish... However it fits in my strategy to test and experiment a lot. And posting something every or every other day, yeah I guess I'll stick to that for a while.
Cheers!
This is great. Just discovered your post and account on steem-bounty. I defenitly wanted to know more about some projects. Kepping an eye out for these posts from you.
Thank you @brothermic!
I hope these posts are of some use. I try to make progress with these every day and to share my experiences and experiments.
Cheers!
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WOW, great post and lots of fantastic links to follow up on.
As for any new apps, I have been getting in using https://steempeak.com a lot fort my day to day use of Steem/steemit. Sorta streamlines my daily todos' ... A LOT. If you have not taken a look at it, I say have a gander it may help you too!~
Going to book mark this post as well for future reference. :D
Thanks a lot for you comment and compliment on the post! It's much appreciated!
Wow! Bookmarked even! Thank you!
Down here... Otto's reaction to me sitting in front of the computer all day... tzztzztzz.... Hahaha!
Cheers!
Great post and one of the program I started to use more is SBI and I want to invest in that program to increase my vote value from it.
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, I like the idea behind it a lot too! We'll see how that goes. I've been upping my shares here regularly for the past few days.
It is cool to have guaranteed upvotes.
Thanks for your comment!
You're definitely right! When it comes to using the full tool set to make the best out of one's STEEM experience upvote/resteem services are very effective. Building on a strong foundation of organic votes by creating quality content and engaging with your following seems to be very effective too. But getting off the ground... can be tough and that's one of the reasons that a lot of people get frustrated here. I've read this again and again that people put in the work and don't see much for it in return.
Cheers!
Thanks for the valuable information you have provided on the Steem voyage. All of them are valuable systems but I think magic dice fraud.
Thanks @sipahikara!
I'm glad that you could find something valuable in my STEEM journey post! Why do you think Dice is a fraud? It's not for me either but I didn't see anything scammy about it. Even looked up Github to check for the different Dice apps. They seem legit besides the fact that the bank always wins right, hahaha! If this wouldn't apply there would be no gambling industry in general.
Cheers!
Great Post👍.I have one SBI and I am using SteemAuto to play Playdice.
Thanks @nassimal!
Way to go! Pssst.... I'm still upping my SBI game every day a little. It's definetely a interesting project that's for sure! I tried throwing some dice too - manually - it's just not for me but I get that people like it. Same with other games... I've looked into some posts about STEEM Monsters or drug wars and I like the idea behind those games but I didn't get pulled in. For now I'm trying to figure out what works the best for my STEEM experience and how to learn a bit every day. If sharing theses posts here is of any help to some others I'm happy!
Have a great weekend!
Cheers!
@doifeellucky, It's reflecting as you are following effective TODO list and also analysing by using different Steem Reports. Keep enjoying your Steem journey.
Hey @chireerocks!
Thank you! There's so much great stuff here in STEEM it's hard to chose what best fits one's needs or is most joyful to use. I'm staggered every day how much is out here and most of it is free to use too. That's absolutely crazy good so I try to give back a little either by showing some love to the creators of great content, tools and solutions or by one or the other - hopefully - helpful post.
Yuss, I'll enjoy every second of my STEEM journey that's for sure!
Have a nice weekend!
Cheers!
Welcome and great to pursue your Steem Enthusiasm. Have a blessed time ahead.
Thanks! You too my friend!
Welcome and thank you so much.