Interview with a Steemit Whale - SEEKING WHALES TO PARTICIPATE ANONYMOUSLY

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Interview With A Whale


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Here on Steemit, like in the wild, Whales are animals with a certain mystique surrounding them. In the wild people seek them out for their beauty or to be wowed by their incredible size. Here on Steemit people seek them out for the upvotes.

I thought it would be fun to get a peek inside the mind of a while as well as get some of their background such as how long have they been on Steemit. How did they become a Whale, are they incredibly tech saavy and run 100 accounts with bots, or are they just an average dude who was fortunate enough to get in early and was just consistant on the platform?

What are their voting habits like? What kind of content do they seek out? What makes them upvote a post? How to get their attention?

I'd like to interview a Whale, or even better yet several whales. I realize some Whales may not want their voting habits connected to their Steemit account as to not have people chasing them around trying to play into their mentality for votes, so any Whales who want to participate can answer the questionaire below and e-mail it to me from a throwaway e-mail as to have no connection to their Steemit account.

Below are my questions, however if you guys have a question feel free to post it in the comments section below and maybe our Whale or Whales will be kind enough to answer your questions as well. If you'd like to know this info please upvote and re-steem this post for visibility so we can get some Whales to participate.


Interview


  1. How did you first find out about Steemit, and roughly when did you get on the platform?

  2. Do you have a tech background ie are you running bots on multiple accounts or are you just an average person who got in early and stuck with it?

  3. How do you use Steemit? ie. How often do you go on? How do you consume content ie Steemit, Busy.Org, DTube, DMania, Steepshot?

  4. How do you find content and interact with content? ie. Do you just check people you follow? Do you use the trending, new, hot or promoted tabs? Are you interested in a specific niche ie cryptocurrency, crafts, beer blogs, etc?

  5. What types of posts do you upvote? What in a post will make you give a strong upvote? Is it posts that are honest and authentic? Posts with a lot of media? Posts about a topic your passionate about? Long format vs shorter format?

  6. What advice would you give to newer Steemit users trying to grow their account?

  7. What are 3 positives about Steemit and 3 negatives about Steemit?

  8. How do you view Steemit ie what type of platform is it? What other social media sites would you compare it to? What type of content is Steemit geared towards? What are some Steemit best practices ie should people do all origional content or is it okay to repost or curate, etc, etc, etc?

  9. How has Steemit changed for the better or worse since you got started?

  10. Where do you see Steemit in 5 years? Is it even around? Has it changed?


I greatly appreciate any Whale who decides to participate. You can answer the above questions and e-mail them to me with a throwaway e-mail to RulesForRebels@gmail.com. I'll be doing a follow up post sharing the interviews. I think many people would love a look inside the mind of a Whale.

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Hey! I would love to read this, I hope you get a whale to respond! Ive been thinking about whales recently, and I dont even know if i would want to be one. Seems like so much pressure, people begging you for upvotes, following you around on Steemit, stalking you. Seems crazy. Obviously they believe in Steemit though because they arent powering down, so that's encouraging.

Me too, I find them intriguing.....and its not because I want them to upvote my posts, its more about the psychological aspect of being at the top of a community and having people worshipping them and being able to wield so much power. I saw a whale come out and make a comment and it was crazy. He was bombarded with begging comments seconds later. It happened so fast that I could even load the page. He even preemptively apologized for what was going to happen. Ive never seen something so...sad and fascinating.

also if you have some SBD to spare you could send it to a bot. @postpromoter is at least 3 SBD with link in memo and will be voting in about 15 minutes.

Hey thanks, hadn't heard of that one. Just gave it a try on this post, we'll see how it does.

Yeah it's crazy its like they have groupies lol.

Hey thanks so much for the resteem, hopefully we can get some visibility on this post as I'd love to hear about Steemit from the perspective of a whale as well as hear a bit of their backstory.

Hit me up on skype or discord or something man. sweetthooth1 on skype or join my discord https://discord.gg/B4MzYn

IF YOU ARE ALSO CURIOUS TO GET A LOOK INSIDE THE MIND OF WHALE PLEASE UPVOTE AND RE-STEEM THIS POST FOR VISIBILITY

This is interesting @rulesforrebels. Hoping few of the whales would respond as it isn't only interesting to find out but more of it is inspiring to know and will give us a little push to keep going. Also curious if most or some of the whales spent their own $ to power up or just focus posting meaningful content and stick on using their sbd's to power up? ☺ Also I could imagine Steemit was just a small community at the early days and early Steemians kind of know most everyone around. Upvoted and resteemed.

That's a great question asking if they powered up with their own cash or grew it organically.

You make a great point about it being a community. I have kind of my core group of people I always try to check on their content and help them out as I can. It would make sense when Steemit was much smaller you'd get those same kind of clicks and over time as all their accounts grew the power to help each other out grew as well

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