"True Leadership comes from actions; not from what they say" ~ Charles Fuchs.
What Up STACKERS!
This is a somewhat a touchy subject and many people will have his or her option about it. The question is, should you self vote your own posts? 👍🏼
Well it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Just to lay it on the table, I do up upvote my own posts like many of us do but recently I'm thinking differently. 🤷🏼♂️
Voting for oneself is kinda meaningless if you don't have a lot of Steem Power and if you're posting many times a day, it can just drain your steem power for just a few pennies or couple of bucks.
So I'm going to try something different by not voting for myself for a few days or maybe weeks and start voting more on comments to test things out. 👨🏼💻
For those who have been following me for a while, I tend to vote a lot on people who comments on my posts and try the best that I can to "spread the wealth" on Steemit.
There are lots of benefits of "upvoting" people who comment on your posts. You will get a bigger following, more people will engage with you, and especially your posts become more fun to interact with.
Try this out, go check out 90% of the posts out there, even the whales posts. They hardly ever upvote comments let alone engage with people's comments. It's kinda crazy, it's like many of you are just talking to yourselves most of the time. 🤣
The main reason I joined Steemit because it was a "Social Media" platform with a good community. My main goal was to provide some entertainment, bring some knowledge, make a few friends and especially "STACKIN" that Crypto 🤑
There is nothing wrong with "upvoting" your own posts but if you want more engagement and become very "Social", all you have to do give more back to people than you receive. You want to play the long term game, not the short term "Greedy" game if you want to win.
Why should you take my advice? Well you shouldn't haha ... you see, I didn't get a reputation of 70+ on Steemit by having huge amounts of Steem Power. I gained it by being very "Social" with the people around me, helping people, and upvoting good posts + comments.
Just give it a shot if you're looking for a long term strategy of building a huge following but if you don't care about things like that, just start posting and upvoting your own posts but don't complain how great your content is and no one "upvotes" you. 😅
With that being said, Hope this helps many of you guys out and always "think out of the box"... or is there even a box?
Keep On STACKIN! 💞
For those who are interested in following my "Content" and "Daily Activities". Just Follow me @stackin so that you can get a notification.
Nice write up food for thought!!
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Interacting with your followers is incredibly important. You can immediately tell how well respected and liked a person is by the number of comments they receive on their posts.
People engage a lot with your posts already so if you're planning on rewarding them more then it can only get better.
I’ll definitely follow your lead on this. :)
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Speaking the truth right here, it’s the same thing in real life also. You can get people to like you if you don’t engage with them lol
Keep doing what your doing, in time you will build a big following 😀
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thanks for the advice .. I take care every day to publish quality content reading a lot and summarizing what I read .. and I help my followers with my upvote but my publications are very low and I only have 3 followers that are always pending my publications I do not know what to do to get the attention of my followers ..
What advice do you give me?
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@joelgonz1982 in all honesty in my experience Steemit is very little to do about creating quality content, its much more about interaction whether that be upvoting, commenting or even participating in contests.
If you could go one of two routes, route 1 posting quality content everyday or route 2 never posting a single thing but actively upvoting, commenting and taking part in contests, IMHO route 2 your going to be WAY further ahead than route one.
If your not interacting you can post the best content in the world and nobody will see it, furthermore even if you get 100 upvotes unless they are from someone with a powerful account they are pretty much worthles anyway.
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thanks for the advice .. on the one hand you are right .. I earn more with the comments than with my publications ..
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Best thing is just do the best you can, keep bustin out good content and especially get real social with everyone. Too many people expect quick success, it takes months or even a year to do but we’ll worth it at the end of the day 😀
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😂 funny and touchy subject, I laughed when you showed a gif of Nicholas Cage 😂, well, I do upvote my post, I'm cool with it for now.
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:) lol
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My personal approach is I only upvote my own comments or posts that I really want seen by the masses. If I make a comment of “Nice photo” or “Thanks” that’s meant for one person, so no reason to upvote. A post like this with a comment many could interact with I’ll upvote. I’m not doing it for the pennies but to get subs, views and interact with others :)
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totally agree, if you put a lot of time and effort into a post i see nothing wrong with upvoting it, same with a thoughtful longer form comment or something you want to get more eyes on but kinda dumb to upvote one word comments
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yeah yeah ...one has to free his mind and start connecting to people... otherwise people will never know about you and because of that wont notice what you doing .... actually they do not even know one is there and in fact dont bother about that either... once you put effort into it things will change; oportunities will arise and chance maybe created... all in all a better situation for one
.... well - you know what to do ... just need to 10-X it all and one is ready to go :)
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Great feedback.
Connecting is key. Especially since there is so much new content being created you have to go to the humans and actually connect or they will forget about you. They have to know you are still alive! You need to make sure you are always inside their head.
A simple trick to boost anything in your life is to contact 10 companies in your favourite niche per day. Watch what happens when the opportunities starts to roll in. Because they will!
I would even do 100-X. You feel so good after give 100X in value that the response doesn't matter.
Btw isn't majority of peoples eyes at the comment section more than blog posts even? Since people are always curious what other peoples opinions are.
Also that people love a response that is made for them. And you could discover more niche content that may fit you better. We are social creatures after all!
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good thoughts, buddy... after all we are all human... as of such we are "social beings" hence it is in our nature to connect with one another. Problem though I found is that sometime it aint that easy due to a diversity of reasons - langueage, culture, etc.... however once someone is willing then it don´t matter at all as they are going for it no matter what.... and this is exactly what we should be trying to enforce evenmore here
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My mannn, you got it down. Let’s start training the “newbs” on here 😂
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ahhaha .... we shouldda run a 10x boot camp bro :)
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Let’s make it the “stackin“ Bootcamp 😂
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good one buddy ... like the idea. Mabye we should really consider doing it as this will be creating a lot of attention which in the end will turn people looking at it and being willing to get involved, hence they will want to connect with one another themselves evenmore once they what huge of an impact that may make.
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btw buddy... am searching for a company logo right now so maybe we should try get some designers/ artist/ photographer or jsut creative minds here to join in?
do you mind spreading the word?
https://steemit.com/deutsch/@spirits4you/spirits4you-logo-contest-week-2-update-by-spirits4you
I will be replaying to any design handed in ... good ones however no 100% what I´m looking for will still not do have ot worry not gettin any... I will normally put a booster upvote in for any I am mentioning in an update post...
would be awsome if you may help me getting few more people lookin at it
cheers
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The concept of the "long-term goal" like you've expressed in this post, will not only save people from being haunted by the stigma of greed but will also save the community from collapsing.
While "short-term goal" like you've analyzed in this post will only increase the level of oppression to some others on the platform, which is already undeniable. It would be like the case of the rich getter richer and the poor getting poorer.
The art of integrative growth can only be fostered on the long-term goal of spreading love to others by also upvoting their comments and meaningful posts as a way of showing appreciation and most importantly for the purpose of growing the community.
Thank you @stackin for sharing, this is quite timely!
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You got knowledge man! You will do great here in 2018 🙌🏼
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Thank you so much for your kind words @stackin, you have no idea what you just did through these words of encouragement. I planned quitting steemit recently, as most of my posts kept yielding terrible pay outs or a nothing sometimes despite my efforts.
But with this encouragement from you tonight, I've been inspired not to give up.
Thank you.
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Yes amazing comment!
You are also giving amazing value to keep being in a high vibration state rather than low vibration. By saying thank you that also helps to keep you in a high vibration gratitude state.
What's good with Steemit is yes it's very long term strategy that will work the best but you will have constant daily amazing rewards by getting upvotes and comments in return so it won't even be a boring long term thing. It will actually be quite fun!
Very thankful you can't just cash out the Steem Power in 2 seconds. People are too lazy to take it out when it goes slower! I think when Steemit Inc launch Communities stuff will get even better because you can increase the quality and feedback loop even more then. Real legit Win-win groups for success!
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You've said it all @phoneinf
As for the attitude of gratefulness, to me, gratitude is not sth we should postpone.
Gratefulness is golden.
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Leading my example sir. I had a talk with a few of my customers recently and I told them to watch how you treat Steemit. You respond to basically every single person and that's how I believe anyone will grow on this platform.
Showing people the respect to actually respond....But sadly, that rarely happens with many of the larger accounts. I've stopped following many that don't interact with their community and followers.
A lot of us aren't always looking for upvotes, we're looking for engagement. Salute to you man for practicing what you preach!
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Totally agree @brianphobos is someone who is awesome with this. Not sure how but man the guy is all over the place. He pretty much always responds to my comments, then I got a couple people who I follow regularly on here and I see he's active on their posts or when they comment on his stuff, I don't know how the guy finds the time in the day but his account shows the work he puts in, I personally think he should be even higher. There's alot of other dudes like him who are super active and all of the people I see like that have accounts that are growing steadily
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That's testimonials I really appreciate. Going to go check his stuff out now. Thanks for the recommendation!
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It’s hard work responding to people but this is “social media” and people need to start getting social lol
I salute you to boss, just keep at it and you will start winnin’ 💪🏼🙌🏼💯
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Hi stackin, good idea man.
I don't know how you feel about bot voting... I haven't for a long time, but now and then I do lately, though I try to bot vote others a little as well.
Thoughts?
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I hate comment bots and content bots but I have no issues with bots voting. THere are a lot of creators I know who put out quality content all the time and I wanna support them, however I dont always catch all their stuff within 5 days or 7 days or whatever the cap on earnings is and sometimes I'll take a few days off of steemit so I like with autovotes it take my mind off of having to go around upvoting all my peeps. For stuff that's especially well deserving of a higher upvote if I catch it I'll cancel my lower regular vote and give them a 100%
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Yup, I hear yah. I have most of my SP delegated out, so I like to upvote others via bot so they're not just getting my 8 cent vote. ☺
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Yeah I do bot voting at times... only way to get in the hot feed these days. I see it at like adversting but lots of people abuse it lol
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I say, you vote all of my comments, all of your comments, and lets see what happens. Also, meet up in Florida March 17, have you purchased your ticket yet?
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That’s funny! Hmmm I’ll probably make it to Florida in the summer time. Vegas is the spot! 😂
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You are right. I feel like many people, including myself, try to outsmart steemit by trying to make "quick money". Then we realize that the best way to do it, like you said is to engage with the community and actually starting to create good content and upvoting people. Thanks for sharing and lets keep stacking.
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Hey, I was the same when I first started and was like let me just be all about myself but soon realized it’s social media and people have to give back than to receive. Let’s start STACKIN engagements 😂
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Woah am very happy i read this post because i had been too self centred lately.
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Realy good post, I will definitely resteem. But my little amount won't help you much. I love your way of thinking. But upvoting yourself when you don't have a lot of followers jet is just obvious. I do try to interact with others more, but there are days when you just don't have the time. I will definitely try to use your advice. Especialy now, when it will be on my blog page.😇🤑
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Your biggest gift you can give is not upvotes but legit value in the comment section! Since that will both be good for the author and for the people reading the comment section. So we all have massive amounts of value to give at anytime. Since we all have these two rare currencies: Time and Attention.
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Totally agree, while I love upvotes and money, I would take someoen leaving a thoughtful comment that shows they actually read my post and decided to interact with me about it. I would take that over a 100% upvote anyday
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Yes exactly! What is some upvotes compared building real connections with other humans that will last for a lifetime? The way I see the upvotes is that it's small screws that you use to create a stronger blockchain and connection to another person.
But the meat is the comments! That is what brings the real value that makes the chain strong for a lifetime if you invest into it! Also human chains takes a longer time to develop weeks, months and years. That is how real new connections are built. It also take some artistic ability to decide what is appropriate in the moment to say.
It's more hidden value. Since it's harder to measure. Perhaps in the future you could create some software that could measure this value without using tokens or digital coins. So humans feel like they aren't wasting their time.
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Totally fine, it will reach people who really wants to get it lol... have tons of patience and keep moving forward. Overnight success is a fairy tail but if you keep pushin, you got this 💯
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Thank you. I have a lot of patience and I know that what you give is what you get. If only we could get more time to spend much more for all our followers.😉 I wish you a great day and looking forward to your next post.
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Great post on a great topic. I feel like I'm pretty generous, I pretty much try to upvote everyone who comments on my posts at least a little bit, the more thoughtful the comment and/or if I have a relationship with.
I tend to give pretty good upvotes either 100% or 50% normally 20% about min, and even to half ass comments or bot comments normally 1%. I honestly feel like for the most part with the exception of a few people it doesn't really come back to me, people don't really return the favor. I'd be curious to see if I give less but spread it out to more people if that has a better effect.
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I love this @stackin spot on. You're very observant.I always love how you interact with your followers may it be in other social media platform, your followers appreciate how you reply to every comments, though I know sometimes you get tons it's hard but the upvote means you went through to every comments meaning you appreciate your followers.And upvoting my post is not my thing like in fb or ig but i'd rather share my sp to my followers.
Thanks @stackin you're really the best! 🎉😊❤
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Yes! I've been upvoting my own posts since day 1 (because, yeah, I actually do like the stuff I post! :P), and have been 'upping' my game by regularly upvoting comments now for maybe a week or so. Basically my VP is constantly below 70 and I'm starting to think I might stop upvoting at least my posts. I would like to be able to interact in the comment section without draining VP...
The fun thing with Steemit is 'tactics' and 'beliefs' about what is supposedly good behaviour will keep on changing :D So many people so many opinions.
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You are so right @soyrosa! Great to meet you, I don’t think we ever seen one another.l on steemit, followed ya! 😬
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Yeah, first meet here indeed! Nice to meet you too! :-)
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I don't upvote myself because I prefer to take a teamwork approach, in which everyone should simply share their votes with other people, so if you vote you should also receive votes back.
Besides, since my vote is only worth a few cents I prefer to vote the people who make comments on my posts instead.
Cheers dude!
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That’s what I’m talkin about, mad respect man! I’m going to create something called team STACKIN 😂
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Thanks for taking your time to consider this. Since I haven't seen that many big names cover this. Clearly this platform won't survive if people just keep on upvoting themselves instead of taking their earned wealth and spread it to everyone else. It takes a lot of wealth spread to create trust inside a community.
My strategy will be more like this. Give 100X to others and if they give 1X back I see that as a win. Living in full abundance mode all the time! It's also to reconfirm to yourself that abundance is real and to remove scarcity mentality from your own life that there is not enough to go around. If everyone goes with 100X - 1X strategy then trust me there is enough for everyone!
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According to Steemreport I selfvote about 7.2 % I publish about 1 post a day and I don't have any whales or dolphins upvoting a lot of my posts so that .41 cents I get for upvoting myself is a huge help.
I don't upvote my own comments though unless it's on another post and I want some visibility.
The rest I give 92.7 of my votes to over 400 posts last week and over 220 unique accounts.
I have started behaving like a dolphin and upvote on comments on my posts that add value to it as well as comments of other people in other posts.
This landed me in some pretty good curation rewards and boosted my own Engagement.
I'm a big fan of Engagement and of course stacking to get more SP.
The more SP we get the better chance to get our advocacy and charity to a lot more people. I am doing community building with both @steemitfamilyph and @promo-mentors and I have started my charity work with @giftinkindph
The faster I get stronger, the better I can help these dreams become a reality.
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Sometimes i upvote my own posts coz they do poorly,so at least they will have my vote at the end of the week payout! Its really hard as a minnow hehehe.
So some of us vote so that we can at least have a payout on our posts hahaha.Let me also take heart and stop voting on my posts and see the outcome!
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I go back and forth on upvoting my own posts. I think as long as the option is there many people will.
You are so right about many whales not engaging and upvoting comments. That’s a particular reason I follow you and others like @broncnutz due to the level of engagement. Keep it up, I really enjoye your content!
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Yeah, I stopped voting for people with a huge Steem account that don’t engage with the community at all. It’s funny to see that most people are just talking to themselves on those posts 😂
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Great advice as usual @stackin! I know you like to share with your fellow steemians and support the community, (including me) and that's why I add people like you to my Steemvoter auto upvote, so even if I miss a post of yours, I can still show you the support I believe you deserve. You've been a great Steemian from the start :)
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Apppreshhhh! You are the best! I had to turn it off for a day, I was getting drained of my power haha
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Good idea dear
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I joined Steemit for the community too. I like to engage with others with common interests. I don't post a lot so my SP is very low, but again, it's more about community for me.
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Yeah, makes sense... what did facebook or instagram pay us for years? Nothing! 😂
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I have no judgement for people that do self-vote, but I feel like I never have enough power to vote all the people I want, so couldn't imagine using some on my self most of the time! I have occasionally but not often at all.
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Just buy more steem 😂
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I generally upvote all my comments. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it also creates good will. I also upvote myself.
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Interesting Im halfway through writing a similar blog post about this topic! I tend to agree that sharing the wealth is a much better initiative. As a minnow im much more likely to engage with a post if I see that the author is willing to share some of the upvotes around
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That's a nice way of having a good relationship with other steemians. I will do upvoting others comment if my sp is already high. You always have a nice topic that helps others including me. Thanks for this :)
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You are great at connecting with your followers... good advice for those whales with a god complex... ha ha!
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I want a god complex who comments lol
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You are on your way!
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One thing I don't do is upvote obvious copied-pasted comments. I love it when someone has actually read the post and taken time to craft a real response. It only takes a minute friends, and it makes giving that upvote so much easier.
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Yeah that’s the truth, I get tons of those spam comments 😂
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Very good post. I ask me this question and your answer is a way never think about. I think you are a beginner on steemit you can upvote yourself it's not wrong if you don't post more than 2 times per day.
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Awwww, man don't do it. Just vote for yourself. It is proven that we love ourselves more than anyone else. Hahhaha.
Hahah, just kidding.... do whatever
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I'm trying to think the same a bit but more if I should get off Steemit for a few days let my vote recharge and then upvote some stuff.. of course its significantly different from a peasants perspective like me to someone with more power.. but at the end of the day we're all trying to grow so our mission is the same. Just trying to figure out the best way to go about it!
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There is one thing about life.
The day We stop learning is the day we die.
learning will never stop as far as we are obtaining the right information from the right source such as @stackin .
knowledge is power
information is the key
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Thanks Charles @stackin for a refreshing view on the upvoting. I believe its a universal law, give more before receiving more. Engage more with your supporters. Creating meaningful relationship.
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Engagement is what steemit is built up for. Upvote, resteem and conversations is very important here on steemit. I will personally give you an upvote and resteem because you always bring to us Great quality work. Thanks!
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Let’s get you a steemit profile picture lol
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Im glad to hear that, yeah my vote is worthless at the moment. Try it out and let us know how it works out for you.
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Let’s get it up at least 500 😀
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I have noticed that if I don't upvote my own posts, they don't get any upvote, but, if I do upvote, then I get more visibility. My upvote isn't worth much right now, but, it does help.
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Visability is currently hard to do, you have to hit the hot feed. Upvoting your own posts will not do much. Start building that following and over time, you will get the upvotes you want 😀
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Haha, I engade with my readers a lot. Yes, my posts suck, most people only find them by accident. But ohh boy, if someone comments! I know it's rare, but if they do, and I reply to them, it just keeps going :D If so then I get around 10-15 comments on my post, just me and some guy talking!
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Yeah, just keep grindin’ ... we all started as small minnows and worked our way up, you got this 😎
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Wow
This is totally amazing.I never really thought about self voting but now i see it is really not worthful with individuals with low SP like myself.Thanks a lot for a great post
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Why do you have a low SP, get it up and start STACKIN 💪🏼🙌🏼💯
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Hehe you make it sound so easy.. if only so :)
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Exactly
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This is what I am taking home from this post...I realised after I connected with you at a point in time u were the third most votes on my post and I simply couldnt understand why....now I think I have an idea....@stackin is my personal favourite steemian....Thanks for being you...ur votes increased my reputation.
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This might be a dumb question, but could upvoting your own posts and/or comments possibly affect your reputation score?
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Not really, it’s very small. Majaority of your reputation will come from people 😀
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You are so right @stackin. There are a lot of people who don't even check their comments or reply to them, unlike you who appreciates this community and people and socializes with them and helps them out and you are doing amazing job at it and I don't even imagine how much time and energy that takes, so thank you for being a very good example and role model for this community.
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I’m eating my words right now, I’m having a hard time replying to everyone hahaha
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You can just mix things up, it's fine to vote on your posts not comments when you are voting other people too.
Sometimes when you have some good steempower you just want your post to be seen easily so you can drop one..lol
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It’s significant if it’s over 50k 😂
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A lot of the big whales do it and get like $300 on their posts . I mean then there’s me with 10 cents vote on my lol
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In my opinion, they deserve it. They bought lots of steem and build a good following. I know lots of whales on here but don’t get upvotes at all also 😂
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Nice to Steem you, Charles @stackin! :-) Well, like I stated in another comment: I feel the root of all this "self-upvoting" issue is ethics, rather than a technical or circumstancial decision.
After 3 months of being active on Steemit, I appreciate the most part of my experience, the social and living connections it offered me, the evolving platform, etc. How much I earned, talking SBD and STEEM? The equivalent of $15.
I could be earning the same amount every hour or so, thanks to some alt accounts, and posting/rewarding myself here a dozen of the ideas I orally share on a daily basis with my "physical" friends. BUT I don't. Why?
Because I take for granted the blockchain and cryptocurrencies original spirit: disrupting the traditional capitalist economy. It EXCLUDES to copycat the banks attitude: creating money (being it a crypto one or not) only to send it to oneself and to feed the greed of the happy few (the closest dev friends, the smart whales,...).
I sincerely hope this perspective will be the main one amongst Steemians, in the long run :-D.
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I usually upvote people who comment on my posts. Not always but mostly. Depends on what's happening with my steem power.
I don't upvote my own comments though unless I end up at the bottom - a trick I learned from some whales a while ago - I'm shy to do it but they say if you want to get noticed in a large thread you need to. So, I do this very seldom.
You said
This is wisdom to anyone who read your post!
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its like when you gain knowledge you take a pride that you know it, secondly you go after polite to others that you have learned about a little on that, thirdly you realise that how mistake you have maiden. i think selfvoting just like that when you first acheive a little worth about doing that. otherwise its make fun!
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Thank you @stackin this is really helpful for a newbie like me.
"There are lots of benefits of "upvoting" people who comment on your posts. You will get a bigger following, more people will engage with you, and especially your posts become more fun to interact with."
Awesome
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thanks for the advice .. I take care every day to publish quality content reading a lot and summarizing what I read .. and I help my followers with my upvote but my publications are very low and I only have 3 followers that are always pending my publications I do not know what to do to get the attention of my followers ..
What advice do you give me?
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great ideology with a good sense of humor. I like that. I myself i do upvote my own post, it shows or let you know that to give a self upvote meaning your post worth it.
just little whales love upvoting comment. I have always look at it that if I become one, by way of upvoting comment will be also another to create engagement and it least to appreciate the people for their time and effort. But base on how relevant the comment is to the post.
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TLDR upvote for nicolas cage LOL I mean you are right I don´t selfvote since a month, feels good.
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How can i earn sp bro?
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Engage 😀
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i agree with you 100%.. !!!!!STACKIN!!!!!
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Nice post sir thanks for sharing..
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Another "nice post" comment 😖🙄🤣
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You got a 4.88% upvote from @buildawhale courtesy of @stackin!
If you believe this post is spam or abuse, please report it to our Discord #abuse channel.
If you want to support our Curation Digest or our Spam & Abuse prevention efforts, please vote @themarkymark as witness.
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You got a 3.35% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @stackin!
Want to promote your posts too? Check out the Steem Bot Tracker website for more info. If you would like to support the development of @postpromoter and the bot tracker please vote for @yabapmatt for witness!
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This was my question, if it is OK to upvote my post or not...
thanks for enlightening me.
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Since I don't have high SP and low income, so Just yesterday I tried the whale bots and others ...
I liked the result and
it is funny, you paid pennies and you will get more pennies :-)
but FRANKLY I will be more happy if got real upvotes from steemian rather than paid upvotes.
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Which bot did you use please?
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I used @minnowhelper, @minnowhelper-1,-2,-3,-4,-5
@canalcrypto, @friends-bot, @whalebuilder and @minnowbooster
I spent 0.104 and got 0.160,
I told you it is fun and funny :-)
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You spent that on all of them?
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i only upvote the post's and that gets automatically done hahah ;)
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Good info and perspectives presented here. As a fairly new Steemer, I thank you! I stopped by from our Steemit Mastermind group to show some support. Upvoted & following :)
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https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/the-self-upvote-dilemma-why-you-shouldn-t-be-upvoting-your-own-comments
Heres my article about the topic and my thoughts!
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always upvote others that's the coolest thing to do
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This is a good example! I don't have a lot of power on Steemit, but in 1.5 months I have achieved reputation 51 precisely due to social activity. I think it's a good idea to vote for comments. It attracts followers. I believe, that the post will die a lot faster without comments than votes
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One of the joys of dropping a coment on a post is getting a reply because it shows that someone actually saw it and an upvote can add more joy because it shows someone actually liked it...thanks for the point of view
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Oh, I never thought on these lines. My voting power is always down cause I am trying to reach out to as many as I can, At times I try not voting for a day but then I feel bad that I am not giving back. Well I make 1 post every alternate day as a rule and I self vote it, May be I can start with reducing it to 50% as a try out. Thank you for sharing tips :)
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with $0.00 i am going to be rich so i don't upvote ;)
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engagement matters the most upvoting others is great
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Hi, your post very useful for newcomers like me. It's almost a month I post an interesting story and useful but not many who are interested in my post. I confused how to make my post a lot of upvote. Thank you😉
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