RE: .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 SBD
Yes!!! I joined only very recently, but I was quite disappointed with all this spam posts and comments, bots, "please follow me I followed"s, requests to resteem, etc... If I like anything, I'd comment, upvote and/or resteem.
Even though I don't understand how would making #waronspam trending help this, flagging content will help.
It's too much noise here. You can read either hot/trending posts or get lost. So it's quite discouraging for someone like me, who has only the best intentions but can't really get any audience... My goal was to write about mental health and startups. But it now seems like a waste of time because I won't do it for 10 views and half of it bot or spam anyway. I even tested posting fancy travel photos that usually help, but it didn't help either. So not sure about what to do next... #endrant
milansteskai... You'll find your spot. It's taken me a month to work out that the hot and trending categories aren't my place = and nor are they yours unless bitcoin suddenly crashes, in which case a mental health expert should be able to make a killing and redistribute some of the whales wealth at the same time... It's more luck than judgement if you catch one that interests you as it flies past in the new section... but if you go to the far right menu and try explore, then you can go to the topic of your choice. Read and comment there and you get responses because they are like-minded people who will have a genuine interest in what you say. Plus when you enter a sub-community it's smaller and you get chance to get to know the names, Beyond that I do quickly visit, upvote and comment on genuine introductions, because like you I can remember how important it was to get response at that point. I could have done with your advice the day I discovered that bottymcbotface and Ionlysaymeep were bots... As for the number of views... Forever is long time. If you are writing something that isn't time sensitive then its likely to be accessed far more in the future than during its first week here. It's the folk doing crypto and steemit posts who have to think in terms of the immediate future. Some of their stuff is out of date before they upload it! Best of luck!
Thank you so much @elaine54. I didn't expect such a complex answer and really do appreciate your time spent on writing this. There is still a hope that it's not only bots here :)
Haha... yes I've been slightly disturbed by the number that have appeared since I've been here
ok, best thing to do: write comments like the one you did on mine, on other peoples....find your area of specialty, mental health and startups, and reach out to others, by commenting. I commented a lot and still do, and it's so valuable, because everyone is hungry for getting attention.
So simple and so true :) Maybe an encouragement like this, from time to time, is what helps. Thanks!
The first 3 months are the most difficult in Steemit I think. Check out My Steemit thumb rule for Minnows to keep yourself motivated. BTW I followed you and up-voted a couple of your posts. Keep them coming. Good content is what will save Steemit.
Thank you @gokulnk! I've bookmarked it and will read it this weekend.
This thread is encouraging. It's difficult not to feel discouraged here. NOTHING happened for 2 months, then BAM, I had a couple of hugely successful posts. So, I churned out some more and I'm back to 5 views and 5 cents. Hooray!
I appreciate the info on commenting and drilling down to the topics outlined by @elain54. I think this will really help me push through. Thanks all who commented on this.
Now about this horrible spam problem...#waronspam!