Hey, I try to browse through the intro posts section every now and then - how I stumbled on this post. The biggest problem is the mass of users abusing the tag for people wanting to reward legit newcomers.
A good idea would be to have someone or a group of people you follow that either resteem or comment on intro posts made by real new users which would make it easier for us with more influence to both cast votes more safely and make it less time consuming and reward the users going through them by voting up their comments.
Hey acidyo, thanks for stopping by!
I have a suggestion for you - Starting from today, I will resteem around three promising introduction-posts every day till Christmas ;)
You can look them up every day! - All others are of course invited to do so as well!
For sure, if you want you can create an alt account for it since resteems aren't yet filtered from own posts and you don't want to spam up your profile. Let me know in that case and I'll try to check up on it daily, threw you a follow just now.
Actually I have found a better solution than using @taug - I have just made the account @welcoming via anonsteem. I have already resteemd a few accounts I remembered from the past days. I will however make a post about @welcoming's purpose on monday and then resteem a few promising users every day. Thanks for giving me this idea, I think it's a way I definitely can add value to this plattform! Have a nice weekend!
So how do one go about being a promising user? I've recently made my first post, and would love the chance to discuss my ideas with people. My ideas are weird though. Anyhow, this is cool of you, thank you!
True, that is probably a better solution! I actually have made an altaccount before - @taug . Originally I made it for short content - But I will use it for those resteems instead for now" Greets!
Hey there @acidyo and @theaustrianguy! I like to browse through the new introduceyourself posts as well to add some value to new users. Thanks for both of your efforts in doing this! I know it's one of the main reasons I decided to stick around on Steemit.
Anyhow, I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of new efforts to support new Steemians.
First, there's @mitneb's daily curation posts. He targets users who may not speak English as their first language. He's done a great job of picking through #introduceyourself to find the actual intro posts. I'd suggest keeping an eye on the users that he curates. They're always worth a vote.
Next, my friend @gogogadgetupvote has started hosting a kind of contest for people to pick out new intro posts. Check out his blog if you want to find some more posts to support.
Once again, I appreciate both of your efforts to welcome new Steemians. There are also some project dedicated to Steemian "retention," which I first caught wind of thanks to @mikepm74. Still lots of work to be done, but I personally am looking into trailing accounts that curate intro posts so as to add value and promote new users' retention.
I think what you propose is a really good initiative, since like you pointed out, those days when people made dozens of bucks (or sometimes, even over a hundred) with their introduction posts are gone.
Last time I took a look at it, it looked like a wasteland of posts making less than one dollar, flooded by comments from bots and/or users just going there to plug their own gigs ("Welcome and check out my photography/cooking /travel page!").
In my case I can say that I stopped checking the #introduceyourself tag mainly for two reasons:
There seemed to be a tidal wave of minimal effort posts made by people who obviously came here just for the "free money" but had zero interest in actually contributing anything valuable to the community.
When I found a rare gem of a new user, I would comment on their post, upvote them, followed them, etc... only for them never showing up again or making just a couple of posts before quitting, ending up just as some dead number in my following.
So while I agree with your points about supporting those who stand out, I whish there was a way to also increase the quality of new users... is that even possible? Or is this just the way it is?
My friend I as a minnow often check introduction posts, and upvote all of the very well made ones, and always give a tip or two that helped me a lot when I started a week ago, but when I see people with 2 sentences and no pics of their own, I just ignore it... As for bots, if we real people keep commenting with real opinions and discussion, bots will be minority in comments, and feel less spammy, just my opinion...
It is really hard to find those decent users who are actually going to stick with the platform. I have started a new daily bounty for Intros that meet certain requirements, where I reward users for finding me Introduceyourself posts that meet my criteria, then I upvote and resteem the intro, as well as reward the user who found it. I started my project to help boost the introduce yourself posts a couple months ago, but really started to see some support and success when I started the daily bounty/contest about a week ago. Please feel free to check out my blog and my posts. My blog @gogogadgetupvote is full of mostly resteemed intro posts, and every once in a while, you can find a post by me. You can find my most recent daily bounty post LINKED HERE There is still one more prize left to be claimed, even!
Two is definitely stronger than one in this case! I have a reply of my own somewhere towards the bottom of this post! My feed is basically the same thing, intro's that I have resteemed and my contest posts that helped me find them. do you have a discord? I would love to chat with you a little about how we could maybe work together?
There seemed to be a tidal wave of minimal effort posts made by people who obviously came here just for the "free money" but had zero interest in actually contributing anything valuable to the community.
I just don't upvote those :)
When I found a rare gem of a new user, I would comment on their post, upvote them, followed them, etc... only for them never showing up again or making just a couple of posts before quitting, ending up just as some dead number in my following.
That risk is always included - That's why I only try to vote well made introduction posts - Sure it's not granted they stay - But chance's are higher. And there always will be some who quit. That's just the way it is.
I whish there was a way to also increase the quality of new users... is that even possible? Or is this just the way it is?
Support good users and flag spammers + report them to @steemcleaners!
fair points @irime ... But it's almost like drying up a whole pond just because you don't like a few fishes... :) Hope you'll change your mind soon because it's not easy for new steemians to rise up here :)
I gotta admit I haven't checked the #introduceyourself tag for a long time. I'll go change that. Now that I've been rolling here for a few months I can potentially give some hints too!
I woudln't mind some tips. I joined the network yesterday and find it rather difficult to get even people to visit my introduction post. Granted I've only submitted 2 posts that I've authored (including the introduction) just doesn't seem like I understand what's really required.
I figured I'd kind of treat this a bit like Reddit but that is probably the wrong way to look at the site.
Ok, so here's what I'd say based on my experience:
At the moment when Steemit is still in beta, it's very lacking in features. So even if you write a great peace it likely won't get huge payouts even if it was better on quality than the average on 'trending' tab. But luckily there are curator teams, like @ocd; by using the 'ocd-resteem' tag it's much more likely you'll get an appropriate upvote from the team for your underappreciated article.
But what I'd do first would be getting to know people; this is a social media after all! Earning money from authoring is great and all but should not be the main goal as a new user because at the moment it's almost impossible to get a following which is pretty much a necessity on the state of Steemit for a good regular payout.
So, try find some interesting content and authors and throw comments preferably that add value to the original posts and show that you have really read their content; every author can appreciate when their content get responded with a little more effort than "Nice post". Of course it's easier on topics that you're actually interested in.
But of course you should not get discouraged about writing your own content, you definitely should write about anything you feel like. Steemit isn't very new-user friendly but you'll get some following if you keep writing decent content, slow but steady. But with time I believe some of the problems, that new users face also, will get solutions
So, take Steemit as it is at the moment; an experiment. Enjoy your time here!
Oh, almost forgot: do take a look on @minnowsupport and their discord channel. There are many different chat rooms where you can hang out and get support, really nice and welcoming people there. There's also an upvote bot you can use to upvote your posts, with instructions on how to get using it.
For now its mostly that I have a long road ahead, in order to learn the basics of the platform. For now I am still testing stuff, so can't really answer properly :)
I went through the introduceyourself the last couple of days a bit to welcome some new steemians what was "disturbing" was the amount of posts which were not really introduceyourself posts but using the tag because it have (had?) a lot traffic and generous upvotes.
But you are right I will also make more of an effort to welcome new steemians.
That's true - Maybe it can be implemented that every user can only use that tag once? Or once in every 3 months or so! That would definitely stop that.
Or maybe somebody can create a bot which highlights if a user made more than one introduction? Similar to @cheetah...
But for now we just have to look manually - I didn't mean we should just blindly upvote the comments - otherwise many users would maybe go for doubleaccounts as well.
But if just 10% of all Users with significant votingpower would manually find and vote one introduction per day, it would already make a huge, huge difference!
There was indeed a bot, it got triggered when I posted my second introduceyourself post. Just to clarify I wrote two because the first one was english and the second one german. However I just clicked through a few posts on introduceyourself and found a user who posted several posts daily with only pictures of female celebreties. I reported the account to steemcleaners I hope that helps..
Vielleicht hilft dir ja der Account den ich extra zum Resteemed vielversprechender User gemacht habe - Details findest du hier: I would invite you to check my most recent post about that topic: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation! - Maybe it will help you to find the promising users and not the spam!
Liebe Grüße :)
In Anlehnung an Deine Ausführung "Let me just tell you a quick story:"
nach nun 93 Tagen der Mitgliedschaft habe ich die selben Erfahrungen, mit Ausnahme des "whale" - ist mir noch nicht begegnet.
Bei allgemeiner Betrachtung der Beiträge und deren Votings habe ich noch nicht genau erkannt, nach welchen Kriterien im allgemeinen die Votings abgegeben werden.
Bei mir direkt hängt es eventuell an den meistens auf die Finanzen bezogenen Themen. Unter Umständen werden damit relativ wenig Personen angesprochen. Da muss man einfach durch und sich selbst motivieren.
Wenn nun in "introduceyourself" gut gevotet wird, dann mag das eine erste Motivation sein. Wenn sich danach jedoch die Votingbeträge im unteren einstelligen Bereich bewegen, schwindet diese Motivation eventuell wieder sehr schnell.
Einen Lösungsvorschlag habe ich aktuell jedoch nicht.
Wie @theaustrianguy schon geschrieben hat hatte ich ziemlich Glück sehr früh entdeckt zu werden. Ich hab dabei unbewusst etwas nach geholfen indem ich mit einem angehenden Curie Moderator ins Gespräch gekommen bin. Ich wurde dann gleich seine erste Empfehlung was super für uns beide lief :)
Ich kann nur sagen mit den Leuten ein wenig ins Gespräch kommen, auf höchstmögliche Qualität achten und eventuell (falls man die SBD dafür hat) den ein oder anderen Post mithilfer von Minnowbooster oder Votingbots auf Hot oder Trending bringen. Ich weiß, das ist verpönt, aber wenn du von deinem Post so überzeugt bist, dass er es verdient auf Hot oder Trending zu landen werden vermutlich die meisten Leute nichts dagegen haben. Bis auf berniesanders vielleicht ^^
Wenn man einmal ein wenig Fuß gefasst hat wird es leichter oben zu bleiben.
Ist am Anfang auch viel Glück im Spiel, zur richtigen Zeit gesehen zu werden ;) Gibt einfach so viele gute Posts mittlerweile. Frag mal @bypaul z.b.. Der wurde gleich mal von @curie entdeckt, seit dem läufts bei ihm (Seine Posts sind natürlich auch super, keine Frage, war nicht nur Glück ;))
Great post! I just started on Steemit and you are right, that the community should encourage and support new members. A growing platform is beneficial for everyone. Could you tell me how one can lease steempower? Greetings, Leon!
Hey Leon!
Actually there are many ways, you pretty much just need to find somebody who wants to delegate to you. @blocktrades and @minnowbooster are the most popular ones who lend SP for money!
But there are also whales supporting minnows by delegating to them - But that's rather lucky to achieve.
Or you make a personal deal with a whale!
Hope this helped you ;)
I read the FAQs for acquiring reputation / SP but how long does it take to actually reflect on your account? I've made 2 posts, made some comments on other posts, upvoted and have been upvoted but sitting at the default reputation.
It takes a little while for the votes to add up @falconspy. You can get a better handle on your Rep score by looking at yourself in steemd ( https://steemd.com/@falconspy ), there you can see who responds to you and who votes for you and you will eventually see Reputation 25.1. Look for articles you are interested in, read them, upvote them, and leave a comment.
When first starting out try to vote on 10-15 articles or comments a day. Try to make a post once a day or every other day. And most important, if someone leaves you a real comment on a post you made, definately give them an upvote. It will pay dividends in the long run. By day 3 if you have been posting, commenting and voting, you should see your reputation climb. It does take time. I have been here almost 4 months and am only up to 54, some people that joined around the same time are in the 60's.
Thanks for your reply. But doesnt it make more sense to buy steem, steempower with that money instead of goving it to someone for a defined period of time?
I always loved to scan the introduceyourself section but after it got turned into the most best and amazing tag to use i stepped away for a while.
For a week now I have been back there trying to find the great new posts! I hope this section will soon be blooming again with great warm welcomes on posts from amazing new members!
Hey, I try to browse through the intro posts section every now and then - how I stumbled on this post. The biggest problem is the mass of users abusing the tag for people wanting to reward legit newcomers.
A good idea would be to have someone or a group of people you follow that either resteem or comment on intro posts made by real new users which would make it easier for us with more influence to both cast votes more safely and make it less time consuming and reward the users going through them by voting up their comments.
Hey acidyo, thanks for stopping by!
I have a suggestion for you - Starting from today, I will resteem around three promising introduction-posts every day till Christmas ;)
You can look them up every day! - All others are of course invited to do so as well!
For sure, if you want you can create an alt account for it since resteems aren't yet filtered from own posts and you don't want to spam up your profile. Let me know in that case and I'll try to check up on it daily, threw you a follow just now.
Actually I have found a better solution than using @taug - I have just made the account @welcoming via anonsteem. I have already resteemd a few accounts I remembered from the past days. I will however make a post about @welcoming's purpose on monday and then resteem a few promising users every day. Thanks for giving me this idea, I think it's a way I definitely can add value to this plattform! Have a nice weekend!
So how do one go about being a promising user? I've recently made my first post, and would love the chance to discuss my ideas with people. My ideas are weird though. Anyhow, this is cool of you, thank you!
If a introduction is well done and meets certain criteria, it's promising to me :)
True, that is probably a better solution! I actually have made an altaccount before - @taug . Originally I made it for short content - But I will use it for those resteems instead for now" Greets!
Hey there @acidyo and @theaustrianguy! I like to browse through the new introduceyourself posts as well to add some value to new users. Thanks for both of your efforts in doing this! I know it's one of the main reasons I decided to stick around on Steemit.
Anyhow, I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of new efforts to support new Steemians.
First, there's @mitneb's daily curation posts. He targets users who may not speak English as their first language. He's done a great job of picking through #introduceyourself to find the actual intro posts. I'd suggest keeping an eye on the users that he curates. They're always worth a vote.
Next, my friend @gogogadgetupvote has started hosting a kind of contest for people to pick out new intro posts. Check out his blog if you want to find some more posts to support.
Once again, I appreciate both of your efforts to welcome new Steemians. There are also some project dedicated to Steemian "retention," which I first caught wind of thanks to @mikepm74. Still lots of work to be done, but I personally am looking into trailing accounts that curate intro posts so as to add value and promote new users' retention.
Keep up the good work!
I've made 0.08 on my introduceyourself in august.
So, $1-2 is not that bad.
I don't say it's bad. But more is definitely more motivating :)
We did forget introduceyourself topic here.
We do need to go there and upvote from time to time.
Thank you for reminding it.
I think what you propose is a really good initiative, since like you pointed out, those days when people made dozens of bucks (or sometimes, even over a hundred) with their introduction posts are gone.
Last time I took a look at it, it looked like a wasteland of posts making less than one dollar, flooded by comments from bots and/or users just going there to plug their own gigs ("Welcome and check out my photography/cooking /travel page!").
In my case I can say that I stopped checking the #introduceyourself tag mainly for two reasons:
There seemed to be a tidal wave of minimal effort posts made by people who obviously came here just for the "free money" but had zero interest in actually contributing anything valuable to the community.
When I found a rare gem of a new user, I would comment on their post, upvote them, followed them, etc... only for them never showing up again or making just a couple of posts before quitting, ending up just as some dead number in my following.
So while I agree with your points about supporting those who stand out, I whish there was a way to also increase the quality of new users... is that even possible? Or is this just the way it is?
My friend I as a minnow often check introduction posts, and upvote all of the very well made ones, and always give a tip or two that helped me a lot when I started a week ago, but when I see people with 2 sentences and no pics of their own, I just ignore it... As for bots, if we real people keep commenting with real opinions and discussion, bots will be minority in comments, and feel less spammy, just my opinion...
It is really hard to find those decent users who are actually going to stick with the platform. I have started a new daily bounty for Intros that meet certain requirements, where I reward users for finding me Introduceyourself posts that meet my criteria, then I upvote and resteem the intro, as well as reward the user who found it. I started my project to help boost the introduce yourself posts a couple months ago, but really started to see some support and success when I started the daily bounty/contest about a week ago. Please feel free to check out my blog and my posts. My blog @gogogadgetupvote is full of mostly resteemed intro posts, and every once in a while, you can find a post by me. You can find my most recent daily bounty post LINKED HERE There is still one more prize left to be claimed, even!
LOL - Just now reading this answer after posting this today: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation!
So guess we had the same idea :) Well, I guess two accounts are stronger than one!
Two is definitely stronger than one in this case! I have a reply of my own somewhere towards the bottom of this post! My feed is basically the same thing, intro's that I have resteemed and my contest posts that helped me find them. do you have a discord? I would love to chat with you a little about how we could maybe work together?
Yes, you can find me under the same name I use here ;) Definitely would love to talk to you!
I just don't upvote those :)
That risk is always included - That's why I only try to vote well made introduction posts - Sure it's not granted they stay - But chance's are higher. And there always will be some who quit. That's just the way it is.
Support good users and flag spammers + report them to @steemcleaners!
fair points @irime ... But it's almost like drying up a whole pond just because you don't like a few fishes... :) Hope you'll change your mind soon because it's not easy for new steemians to rise up here :)
I would invite you to check my most recent post about that topic: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation!
followed & upvoted. Noble project :)
I would invite you to check my most recent post about that topic: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation! - Maybe it will help you to find the promising users and not the spam!
Thanks for the heads up! I will check it out for sure :-)
I gotta admit I haven't checked the #introduceyourself tag for a long time. I'll go change that. Now that I've been rolling here for a few months I can potentially give some hints too!
That's agreat idea :) Maybe you still know the problems/questions you had at the beginning and can share your tips!
I woudln't mind some tips. I joined the network yesterday and find it rather difficult to get even people to visit my introduction post. Granted I've only submitted 2 posts that I've authored (including the introduction) just doesn't seem like I understand what's really required.
I figured I'd kind of treat this a bit like Reddit but that is probably the wrong way to look at the site.
Ok, so here's what I'd say based on my experience:
At the moment when Steemit is still in beta, it's very lacking in features. So even if you write a great peace it likely won't get huge payouts even if it was better on quality than the average on 'trending' tab. But luckily there are curator teams, like @ocd; by using the 'ocd-resteem' tag it's much more likely you'll get an appropriate upvote from the team for your underappreciated article.
But what I'd do first would be getting to know people; this is a social media after all! Earning money from authoring is great and all but should not be the main goal as a new user because at the moment it's almost impossible to get a following which is pretty much a necessity on the state of Steemit for a good regular payout.
So, try find some interesting content and authors and throw comments preferably that add value to the original posts and show that you have really read their content; every author can appreciate when their content get responded with a little more effort than "Nice post". Of course it's easier on topics that you're actually interested in.
But of course you should not get discouraged about writing your own content, you definitely should write about anything you feel like. Steemit isn't very new-user friendly but you'll get some following if you keep writing decent content, slow but steady. But with time I believe some of the problems, that new users face also, will get solutions
So, take Steemit as it is at the moment; an experiment. Enjoy your time here!
Oh, almost forgot: do take a look on @minnowsupport and their discord channel. There are many different chat rooms where you can hang out and get support, really nice and welcoming people there. There's also an upvote bot you can use to upvote your posts, with instructions on how to get using it.
That's what I'm thinking too. But maybe sprinkle in some good content with the shitposts and we will be golden
Thank you @celestal .
Very interesting post with strong logic and good examples behind it ! It is a bliss to see someone that is IN for the long run !
I hope many in here are there for the long run ;) What are your first impressions on steemit?
For now its mostly that I have a long road ahead, in order to learn the basics of the platform. For now I am still testing stuff, so can't really answer properly :)
I went through the introduceyourself the last couple of days a bit to welcome some new steemians what was "disturbing" was the amount of posts which were not really introduceyourself posts but using the tag because it have (had?) a lot traffic and generous upvotes.
But you are right I will also make more of an effort to welcome new steemians.
That's true - Maybe it can be implemented that every user can only use that tag once? Or once in every 3 months or so! That would definitely stop that.
Or maybe somebody can create a bot which highlights if a user made more than one introduction? Similar to @cheetah...
But for now we just have to look manually - I didn't mean we should just blindly upvote the comments - otherwise many users would maybe go for doubleaccounts as well.
But if just 10% of all Users with significant votingpower would manually find and vote one introduction per day, it would already make a huge, huge difference!
I saw a bot auto posting comments how often people used the tag already but I am not sure if it is still active.
There was indeed a bot, it got triggered when I posted my second introduceyourself post. Just to clarify I wrote two because the first one was english and the second one german. However I just clicked through a few posts on introduceyourself and found a user who posted several posts daily with only pictures of female celebreties. I reported the account to steemcleaners I hope that helps..
Can someone make #introduceyourself after a 4- 6 months on steemit? When he got a camera, and something to say
if you havent done one before sure. otherwise probably, too as long as you dont introduce yourself every post or week
@flipstar ... Thank you brother... Do check it out. I have recently submitted my introduction post too. :)
Vielleicht hilft dir ja der Account den ich extra zum Resteemed vielversprechender User gemacht habe - Details findest du hier: I would invite you to check my most recent post about that topic: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation! - Maybe it will help you to find the promising users and not the spam!
Liebe Grüße :)
In Anlehnung an Deine Ausführung "Let me just tell you a quick story:"
nach nun 93 Tagen der Mitgliedschaft habe ich die selben Erfahrungen, mit Ausnahme des "whale" - ist mir noch nicht begegnet.
Bei allgemeiner Betrachtung der Beiträge und deren Votings habe ich noch nicht genau erkannt, nach welchen Kriterien im allgemeinen die Votings abgegeben werden.
Bei mir direkt hängt es eventuell an den meistens auf die Finanzen bezogenen Themen. Unter Umständen werden damit relativ wenig Personen angesprochen. Da muss man einfach durch und sich selbst motivieren.
Wenn nun in "introduceyourself" gut gevotet wird, dann mag das eine erste Motivation sein. Wenn sich danach jedoch die Votingbeträge im unteren einstelligen Bereich bewegen, schwindet diese Motivation eventuell wieder sehr schnell.
Einen Lösungsvorschlag habe ich aktuell jedoch nicht.
Wie @theaustrianguy schon geschrieben hat hatte ich ziemlich Glück sehr früh entdeckt zu werden. Ich hab dabei unbewusst etwas nach geholfen indem ich mit einem angehenden Curie Moderator ins Gespräch gekommen bin. Ich wurde dann gleich seine erste Empfehlung was super für uns beide lief :)
Ich kann nur sagen mit den Leuten ein wenig ins Gespräch kommen, auf höchstmögliche Qualität achten und eventuell (falls man die SBD dafür hat) den ein oder anderen Post mithilfer von Minnowbooster oder Votingbots auf Hot oder Trending bringen. Ich weiß, das ist verpönt, aber wenn du von deinem Post so überzeugt bist, dass er es verdient auf Hot oder Trending zu landen werden vermutlich die meisten Leute nichts dagegen haben. Bis auf berniesanders vielleicht ^^
Wenn man einmal ein wenig Fuß gefasst hat wird es leichter oben zu bleiben.
Vielen Dank für Deinen Hinweis.
Ist am Anfang auch viel Glück im Spiel, zur richtigen Zeit gesehen zu werden ;) Gibt einfach so viele gute Posts mittlerweile. Frag mal @bypaul z.b.. Der wurde gleich mal von @curie entdeckt, seit dem läufts bei ihm (Seine Posts sind natürlich auch super, keine Frage, war nicht nur Glück ;))
Very interesting idea! I just made my introduceyourself post so maybe you could check it out :)
You have some skills brother... and an artist's perspective for photography :) Welcome to steemit. I also just made my introduction post! :)
Just did :) Congrats on a successful start!
Thank you! :)
Kudos to you
Great post! I just started on Steemit and you are right, that the community should encourage and support new members. A growing platform is beneficial for everyone. Could you tell me how one can lease steempower? Greetings, Leon!
Hey Leon!
Actually there are many ways, you pretty much just need to find somebody who wants to delegate to you.
@blocktrades and @minnowbooster are the most popular ones who lend SP for money!
But there are also whales supporting minnows by delegating to them - But that's rather lucky to achieve.
Or you make a personal deal with a whale!
Hope this helped you ;)
I read the FAQs for acquiring reputation / SP but how long does it take to actually reflect on your account? I've made 2 posts, made some comments on other posts, upvoted and have been upvoted but sitting at the default reputation.
It takes a little while for the votes to add up @falconspy. You can get a better handle on your Rep score by looking at yourself in steemd ( https://steemd.com/@falconspy ), there you can see who responds to you and who votes for you and you will eventually see Reputation 25.1. Look for articles you are interested in, read them, upvote them, and leave a comment.
When first starting out try to vote on 10-15 articles or comments a day. Try to make a post once a day or every other day. And most important, if someone leaves you a real comment on a post you made, definately give them an upvote. It will pay dividends in the long run. By day 3 if you have been posting, commenting and voting, you should see your reputation climb. It does take time. I have been here almost 4 months and am only up to 54, some people that joined around the same time are in the 60's.
@bashadow - I appreciate the information and link!
I made my introduction post as my first one but I am wondering if I did it "wrong" seeing as others had a number of welcome comments or upvotes.
Nah u good fam
Thanks for your reply. But doesnt it make more sense to buy steem, steempower with that money instead of goving it to someone for a defined period of time?
I always loved to scan the introduceyourself section but after it got turned into the most best and amazing tag to use i stepped away for a while.
For a week now I have been back there trying to find the great new posts! I hope this section will soon be blooming again with great warm welcomes on posts from amazing new members!
I think there should be some limit on how often you can use the tag... This would keep the area spam free :)
Maybe you'll change your mind soon? It'll help new steemians like me :)
I would invite you to check my most recent post about that topic: Welcome @welcoming, an account for manual #introduceyourself curation! - Maybe it will help you to find the promising users and not the spam!