RE: CURIOSITY: Why is the number one person in terms of followers someone who appears to only resteem? Digital archaeology/anthropology
Fair enough - my guess was good then!
I'm following you and still see and read your posts.
As far as not upvoting my own comments go, I'm happy to not upvote them on your posts but will continue to upvote them on other posts.
It's not about paying myself or draining the pool, it's to bring my comments up to the top of the comment feed. I upvote every comment I reply to, every comment that replies to my comment, and every one of my own comments at 10%. These votes are all worth about 5 cents depending on the price of Steem.
But I fully get what you mean about draining the pool - in fact I just said this to a commenter on my most recent post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sift666/a-censorship-threat-to-steemit
"I think it sucks that you just upvoted your own comment to the tune of $25 when to get it to the top all you had to do was upvote it by about $2, but that is another issue. I like to upvote my own comments too, but that is just to bring them up the feed - what you are doing is blatantly giving yourself big payouts"
Well if you don't up vote them on my post then I am in a catch-22. I would like to follow you as I do enjoy some of your stuff. So let's try it see how it goes. You shouldn't have to worry about visibility on mine. I look at all replies to me. :) My litmus test of "If everyone did this what would it do to steemit stands here"... It'd not be a pretty sight. If everyone was up voting their posts for visibility it'd quickly get pretty ugly.
Thanks, much appreciated, you are actually the highest rep person who was following me, so now that I know why I'm stuck on 62 I'm all the more keen.
Just don't look at my comment tab or it might push you over the edge! :)
The only disadvantage will be that I up vote comments I see elsewhere too if I'm cruising around and see one I like. I don't do it if they are self up voted. :)
No worries - I only want one vote on my comment to get it up high, but jeepers that sounds like a lot of work checking every comment for self voting - just don't vote for any of mine, about 95% are self upvoted, I only don't if I want them to stay down the bottom.
Apart from that I fling my votes around like confetti and don't give it a thought - blue dots are what I use to show me what comments and posts I've read.
Me too... and when they are replies to me the ones that are not BLUE stick out like a sore thumb.
i was about to upvote your comment in order to help you, but then I read the part where you said you'll be upvoting all your own comments on other posts.......I'm not interested in helping this kind of behavior. That is probably why you're at 62....
Thanks for your reply. I know you are very popular on Steemit, and your input is much appreciated.
My thought on this is that if I do something on Steemit that I don’t actually believe in, just to get a higher rep, am I different to all the newbs posting spam comments in order to attract followers?
A rule I try to Steem by is to post the sort of content I want to see on Steemit myself. And if that limits my audience, so be it!
When I read most posts, I only tend to look at the top coments, and the ones I really notice are the ones with pictures.
So when I comment I include a picture, upvote the coment I’m replying to (even if I disagree with it) and upvote my own comment. And that ticks my boxes.