Follow 4 Follow Desperation: Steal These Steemit Post Titles, I Dare You
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nice post, bro.
I read yours, how come you not upvote me?
Good information, sir. (comment was on an absurd meme)
If the above comments sound like yours, I am here to tell you:
YOU NEED A NEW GAME.
These kinds of comments actually reduce your chances of earning because they repel people instantly.
STOP. NOW.
You are wasting valuable energy.
There’s a new level of desperation on Steemit these days and I think it’s a product of terrible marketing, and I’m a tiny bit guilty too. Steemit has attracted a new breed of selfishness, and a lot of it comes in the form of people promoting Steemit like this:
“Hey, you can upvote your own posts AND comments, and make a decent salary, even if no one else upvotes you.”
This type of marketing sucks, and it’s not really accurate, either.
Steemit is a SOCIAL network. The behavior described above is ANTI-SOCIAL.
It won’t work as a strategy to bring abundance. It will only bring a very short-term gain. People will actually stop giving you attention. Remember, attention is the commodity that is becoming scarce.
In Steemit, you can actually make way more by being a decent person, interacting with others on a deep level, and creating solutions that affect large groups of people. The more people you help, the more you can potentially earn (but it takes a lot of time and dedication, consistency, and a breaking point).
Your blog is now social real estate.
Think wisely. Do you want to build a pigsty of shit, or a kingdom of idea diamonds? If you create a pig sty full of shit, no one will want to stop by for tea at your pig sty.
And if you tell people they will do well on Steemit if they write well-formatted posts, that’s not exactly accurate, either. If you write and don’t interact with others you probably will not do well. Steemit is a SOCIAL NETWORK.
It’s also a Delegated Proof of Stake platform. Dan Larimer invented the DPOS system, and it does not function like any existing mainstream blogging company. It’s a new design. At first when I joined Steemit, I didn’t know what Delegated Proof of Stake meant. It took me almost a year to understand it fully.
The reason no one tells you the truth is because the mainstream world doesn’t operate this way. It doesn’t operate the way gift economies work. The mainstream world operates like everyone upvoting their own posts and comments shamelessly, each person picking a corner and masturbating until they’re senseless.
That is not the definition of a social network.
That is the definition of a masturbation vomitorium.
I love what many of you have done to promote Steemit, but if you could make this one adjustment, I would be very pleased: please stop encouraging people to upvote their own comments all day long. I’ve watched several videos where some repeat this over and over for people to just upvote their own stuff, and the message is actually misleading because Dan didn’t invent Steem for that purpose.
The only reason that this has happened recently, is because of HF19. Before that, my full upvote strength was worth about $.30, not $10. Dan predicted that people would abuse the platform and self-upvote to an extreme degree, so that is why the algorithm was created to reduce the upvote strength of smaller accounts when Steem was first designed.
It was us, the community who rallied together to get this algorithm changed, in order to give a voice to minnows. We argued that minnows need to feel the power of being able to give say $.05 to others, instead of $0. But now, it appears that this algorithm needs to be re-considered due to self-upvote abusers (the big ones, the ones who vote for themselves more than 50% of the time).
Desperate Minnows: Please Steal My Post Ideas
I’ve been thinking about ways to help those who feel desperate, and here are 10 post titles that I would love to see posted on Steemit. You are free to use these post ideas, and write a post with these same titles, if you like any of them. I am at a point where I don’t have enough time to write all the posts I want…..
Here goes, please steal these titles, write these posts and keep all the rewards:
FAQ Me on Steemit
My eSteem App Review
Follow 4 Follow: A Deep Statistical Analysis of Empty, Soulless Comments on Steemit
How Papa-Pepper Socializes on Steemit And How You Can Be More Like Him, A Human
How To Make Friends With People
How To Make Friends With Bots
How To Stop Posting Stuff Like, “Follow 4 Follow” And Become a Human Again
I Hate Myself, But I Still Post Once A Day on Steemit
5 Strategies To Teach Others How To Use Steemit
How To Turn Your Mental Illness into Money On Steemit
From Troll To Functioning Human: My Journey
How I Operate A Botnet on Steemit
I Think I Am In Love With A Robot
Why I Stopped Using Twitter For Masturbation Purposes
How To Lose Money on Steemit: A Guide For Power Trolls
How To Write A Steemit Post: A Guide For Shallow People
Steem Addict: How The Blockchain Swallowed Me Whole
Idiot’s Guide to Delegated Proof of Stake
If you write a decent post with any of these titles, and i like it, you’ll get one full upvote from me and a resteem. If I don’t like it, I won’t vote for it.
TL;DR: More creativity, less shit commenting.
Social networking , not a beggers platform . You earn from what you create , you make a shit post , you get shit in return . You have worked your way up , you will deserve the best . Good content is always rewarded my friend . I hope the new comers stop the follow me crap , it's really old school now . Ps. I am going to try out the challenge, I'm not desperate but I want to improve @stellabelle
You are invited to check brilliant content in the steem dust generating $0.03 or less. It looks like you only read the "hot" or "trending" sections
Very good point indeed, I agree. Most top / talented bloggers never even make it in the hot pages and most people only read the trending posts in order to get some juice from comment upvotes...this is human nature, unfortunately.
delegated proof of stake means that good content is not always rewarded. Gaining influence is a back-breaking process, grueling and not really for the faint-hearted.
which challenge will you do?
I am not too positive on which one yet , BUT I will let you know before I throw myself onto a topic
Please don't upvote my shitcomment. ;)
golden response.
I saw the sun was talking about Steemit @muhaidin
Upvoted it without even reading it...
First
People who are lazy, spammers, selfish or whatever you say will not ever try to work hard, they always want an easy way to earn bucks. Though the topics you have mentioned are kind of unique but still people want to earn quickly and via easy ways, so they are going to ignore your advice.
Second
Let me share a story, I know a person who is from my country and joined Steemit in June, 2017. I was following him and about 15 or 20 days ago, I saw him upvoting his own comments, he was publishing his own posts too. When I saw his wallet, he had more than 8000 delegated steem power. I checked his account yesterday and now he has not posted for the last 10 days. His upvote worths .53 and he is upvoting his own comments with 100% and upvotes newcomers introductory post with a lower strength. I went to steem.chat and asked in the general channel that is it leagal on steemit. Should we flag him or any step like that. People there said he can do this, it's a free world/economy. So the purpose of telling this story is why we have allowed so many bots who lease steem power. You know whom I am talking about, don't want to mention the name. Even, I have seen some very good accounts who have a delegated steem power of more than 200,000 and their 60 to 70% upvotes go to themseleves. So instead of teaching the people, why shouldn't we stop these services/bots?
Third
And to be very honest and I am not being negative here, I have seen whales/dolphins being selfish too. They work on their content, work again and work again and never read other's people content. As a red fish, I want big fish not to upvote me but just read my post, leave a comment and suggest me something that can help me grow in this community. You might disagree and you have a right to do so but except for a few ones, peeps here are selfish!
In order to write something, you don't have to have a brilliant mind. You can write what you yourself think and ask yourselves questions like why this happened?
I always used to think about people who have never been successful in their lives, so I decided to share their stories, without even thinking that I'll get money from these posts. Highlighting people who deserve to be highlighted gives me everything I want and will continue doing that.
Too long!
I find it interesting that such a long, time-consuming response gets just a 6-cent upvote, yet a 5 or 6 word response can garner an up-vote of almost $10. Here is someone pouring their heart out into what they see as affecting the platform and suggesting a shift in mindset. I believe @ghulammujtaba is doing EXACTLY what this platform was designed to do (share ideas and stimulate discussion around those ideas), yet there is not a lot of 'gifting' going on to appreciate his/her thoughts and time.
I encourage everyone to examine their own voting attitude and reward those who actually participate in the social part of this platform. Although my vote is worth very little, I will up-vote to show my appreciation of the effort expended on the reply.
Also, to contribute to the discussion above regarding the stopping of the bots: As it currently stands, there are too many people that still believe the bots are helping the minnows (or are grabbing too much of the pie to want it to stop). It will take a while for people to realize that these vote-buying bots are NOT helping the platform and are actually a part of the problem. There are good bots that don't sell votes, so stopping all bots is not the solution either. I believe it is a mindset thing that needs to be shifted and those with the huge SP need to begin using some of that SP to down-vote these vote-selling bots when they see them being used (probably easier to down-vote the people purchasing votes for themselves) which is like voting on your own comments. When the gains are nullified, there will be no more reason to make or use the vote-buying bots and we can get back to the social side of this platform.
That's my 2 cents worth and if you disagree, please explain why. Let's get this conversation going and see what we can do together to make this place the best it can be.
I have upvoted that post you mentioned.....I was on break for the night.....This is the first I have seen of these new comments.
I was looking at post times and did notice all your votes were (at that time) 16 hours ago, so I did think that you were likely finished for the day. I was not pointing at you in particular (I had recently made an article about voting patterns) but rather used the opportunity here to further my quest to change the way people in general use their votes. I have seen that you are in fact one of the generous people who do pass around their 'gifts' of votes and I thank you for that. I hope my use of that example did not make you feel personally attacked. That was not the intention and I apologize if it did. I can see that you are in fact on the same page with most of these ideas and appreciate your efforts in making this issue public. The intent was to have your readers also up-vote the reply. I don't believe it is entirely the responsibility of the author of the article to do all the up-voting. Treating this platform strictly as a business is not going to result in it growing into what it was envisioned as, so that mindset needs to change if we expect it to grow the way it was intended.
Agreed, 100% agreed.
You raised a lot of good points that I mostly agree with. Highlighting others is a good way to be recognized by Steemians.
I like the sentiment, Mujtaba. A business at the end of the day, I think, is business. Businesses do like their own products the most, don't they? They do ask their own employees to buy their products and don't just gift them for free. I believe if we look at it from that angle, delegating power etc. doesn't hurt much the basic plinth of the community. Again, it is a free world and everybody has the right to think differently.
This is quality content, thanks man. I have a high voting power right now and I like to go through and give my 100% upvote to great content, which is getting harder and harder to find! Appreciate blogs that help others so thank you for this one! As it pertains to commenting, I still try to give a little vote to everyone who comments on my blogs, even the bros haha. I like Steemit most for the support so I try to show some of that to others, even the ones lacking creativity ;)
Thanks very much. As Steemit grows, I suspect it will be harder and harder to get votes, especially at full strength. mine was just wiped out by flagging a bunch of scammers!
yeah, commenting on commenting is not exactly what i was referring to...i know i have short comments on other people's comments....
I once saw a book "How to lose friends and really piss people off; The secret to corporate success"
It's very difficult to WIN at a Social platform when you cram your 30 character self flagellation down people's throats.
For this reason I practice what I preach;
Anyways ... I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, that's my...
It sounds like you have a solid strategy.
The desperation is just a symptom of other problems....the world economic situation become s more and Moreno paradoxical....all the technology available to ensure that we could all be well fed, housed and have enough free times during resources to enjoy our lives...and yet most of us are working harder than ever in an unforgiving job market.
Also we are so accustomed to selling ourselves and thinking in terms of marketing that as soon as the potential for personal gain makes itself seen, we use whatever method we can think of to attain it (and some are pretty bad at sugar coating. You seem pretty triggered by these f4f, but I think just as bad, if not worse, are those who are good at coming across like they care about the community when they are really scheming for personal gain. I'm unimpressed with most initiatives meant for minnows, the only one that I have few questions about is OCD because it focuses on quality content by minnows and also "employs" minnows as curators in a sense. I'd like to see more of these initiatives which are just as, if not more beneficial to the participants than the organizer and that are about more than helping to spam posts relating to the specific initiative.
I am writing some posts that are not so different from your suggested titles ;-) we do think alike although our situations are quite different. Always good to get a glimpse inside your world 時間があれば日本語を練習しましょう、僕は自分の始まったbe awesome discord channelをよく使っています,来て見てください。メンバーは多くはないけどいいところです. Our small new community based, our general chat is called "deep shit" where we go deep and get personal X-D
Edit: Jesus, I just saw how many comments you received and I almost don't want to comment on your posts anymore, it seems like I'm just giving you more work since it mustn't take you hours to read all your comments every week.
but you should, because without your reminder, i may have gotten lazy, and not responded to all comments! I'm trying to get better about this.
I collected ridiculous comments under my posts and my hit parade is:
oh god, those are priceless comments!!!!!!
your guy is really funny!
First you teach me
Then you amaze me with your write up
Then you crack me up
Lol
Thank you @stellabelle
ha ha! Passionate answer
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Yep!
I did it!
How To Stop Posting Stuff Like, “Follow 4 Follow” And Become a Human Again
this might sound weird but every time i see a black person using gifs or stock photos of white people, it kind of depresses me.
I'm sorry...
Hello @stellabelle. I translated this post in Russian. Translation here: https://steemit.com/shitcomments/@igor-steem/otchayanie-iz-za-podpiski-za-podpisku-kradite-nazvanie-postov-ya-ikh-vam-otdayu . Thank you! But I see that your post will be useful in any language.
I'm also suffering from the same struggle that I'm not getting much upvote from any whale but I'm still trying to get upvotes from my post or from comments but thanx for building my confidence again.
involve yourself as much as possible with other minnows, forming a group. That is a long-term strategy that will create more abundance for you.