"Dear Dawne - Who Are You Following? And Why?"
Season 1 - Episode 15
We Have An Experienced "Steemit Personal Mentor" To Help You Directly!
General Topic: Who Are You Following? And Why?
When you first joined steemit you were probably like most of us.. YOU were full-throttled and gung-ho for success, following people, meeting new people and making the most of your page. Right?
It's OK... I can admit too. I followed any and every one. Why? I wanted to have a HUGE following because I had it all figured out. If I followed 3,000 people and they, in return, followed me- well, tht was 3,000 Upvotes and hundreds upon hundreds of comments. My steemit life would be off to a great start.
Ummmm that didn't quite work out the way I had planned. How about you? Are you following hundreds and hundreds of people too? How many comments and upvotes are you getting per post. If you do the math, guess what? You were wrong too.
After chatting with a few steemians over the last few days I discovered some following techniques that people use; while some are successful and good, others may be just smothering and cluttering your feed.
When you first started here, you probably had the hopes and dreams of following a whales and receiving a mutual following. How did that work out for you?
You need to establish yourself on steemit first. Yes, I know you want to be successful, but you have to do that yourself, for yourself and in time. Just as the whales did. They started here anytime from the summer of 2016 until autumn of 2017... it takes time, persistence and determination. You have it, I know you do.
When I started in July 2017, I followed a very well known whale (papa-pepper) and not because he was a whale. But because he wrote about his adventures in homesteading and gardening; the two reasons for writing that brought me to steemit. So I had a definite reason to be a follower. But... other whales, with very opposite interests, I don't follow. Why? Because I have more important things to do than sift through my feed and posts that are of no interest to me. Keep it simple. Keep it on topic.
So, look at your following list. Why do you follow the members? Similar interests? Follow me/follow you mentality? Mutual steemian friends? Someone from a Discord group?
To know who is active on steemit versus who is not, head over to Dead Followers to see when your followers last posted and were active. There is no program to dismiss and unfollow inactive members, you need to do this manually. (Sorry) I tend to do a spring cleaning of followers every three months or so. It helps keep itunder control and as I continue to progress on steemit, I pay more attention to who I follow. Do they have similar interests? Are they consistent on the platform? Do we belong to some of the same Discord groups?
It An Open Forum So Ask "Dawne" Anything!
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Anyone can play. Anyone can join.
First, a Payable Penny is something that I am using to educate people about how the votes get paid. Its a $0.03 upvote on their entry in the game/contest and it guarantees them something for making an effort (because $0.019 or lower and there is no payment). It is a fun way to educate you and help you to learn/engage at the same time.
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#1 Leave a comment to Dawne on this post. It must be a question directed at her asking for her help, or it must be a relevant observation to her topic of the day.
#2 If you leave a comment and Dawne responds, you can earn "bonus" Payable Pennies for a relevant additional comment to her. Note: that is (2) $0.03 Payable Pennies just by engaging Dawne and following up respectfully with her replies!
#3 Resteem this post and tell me about it in the comment section and I will give you more Payable Pennies for that! You must leave a comment to me (@davemccoy) so that @goldendawne only focuses on her discussions.
Got it? You can earn up to (3) sets of $0.03 in Payable Pennies today just by engaging in thoughtful and engaging dialogue!
When: Today!!!
We are proud to present the news that #newbieresteemday and @goldendawne have teamed up in a partnership called "Dear Dawne". @goldendawne is an accomplished member of our community and she wants to help both the members of the Newbie Resteen Initiative and alse the "newbies" we serve.
Dawne will be regularly participating with us in a program called "Dear Dawne" where she will take comments, look directly at your posts and give you one on one suggestions, (and she will even go through your blog... How's that for being awesome!). Basically she wants to be your mentor and help you with ideas, formatting, access to resources, and even applying for various grants and delegations. Plus you can get "discovered" by a valued and connected member than can help you rise through the ranks!
Quick Facts About Dawne
In just the last four months, Dawne has:
- Become the writer & staff member for @qurator (which if you dont know about it, you should)
- Been delegated 10k SP from a whale- she is a Stewards of Gondor recipient
- Holds weekly, sometimes daily, contests to share the delegation she was awarded and given
- She is a mentor in certain Discord groups and helps incoming new members with formatting, posts and how to succeed
- Dawne is now a @curie curator too!
In the mentor program she is involved in... she says "the best reward is knowing and watching the people you partnered up with have their own steemit page and posts blossom and grow".
She is the real deal.
To read more about Dawne check out her past post: Personal Mentoring Statement For Homesteadersonline Community or just go to her steemit page @goldendawne an see the quality of her work and the connections she has.
How It Will Work
"Dear Dawne" will be available to help you individually today. She will answer questions, she will offer advice, she will even direct you to the right place if you don't know how to find something on Steemit. This is your chance to connect with a "60" Reputation Steemian on an individual and personal basis.
She is available to give you guidance and help in just a few hours. You just ask your questions to her in the comment section. Its that simple. She will read the comment section and reply individually with you and decide how best to help you from there.
When I started using Steemit I followed people regularly earning large sums on their posts. I followed them to upvote and end curation rewards. Then I came to know Utopian.io and started contributing on it. I purged my followers a bit and started following developers and few witnesses who were posting important updates. I also follow some curators and always update my followings. I do not expect my followings to follow me back, I just follow them because I love their contents.
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Agreed.. purging and cleaning up things really help.
I treat steemit (and Discord) as a business; as I am a stay at home wife and dedicated myself to the platform as my career. Keeping things nice and tidy goes back to my days as a journalist and administrative assistant.
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The majority of people I have listed as I follow, generally are newbies like myself. When I give a newbie a follow, I feel it help them in a psychological manner to view that this can work. I admit I cannot afford the votes to go around voting on all of these newcomers. But the addition of a follow did spur me on a bit when I started. There are a few, Such as yourself @davemccoy Which I have also followed for the personal benefit of gaining knowledge. I found this not to be too beneficial. I manually opened the pages of users I was intentionally following to learn more. My feed I do not use very often to find who had posted, it is often full of resteems on topics I have little knowledge of or very little interest in. I found Gina a month ago, and have begun to add those who I follow or wish to follow on a regular basis there, The Gina bot although more often late with notification, Permits the following of others with much greater ease.
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Ginabot is the best friend we all love. I have certain keywords, tags, topics and even fellow steemians I keep an eye on daily. I do so much curating for myself, communities and curie that I tend to keep a tight reign on things. I have too much OCD in me to not use Ginabot.
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Yes, I am figuring out how best to use my Gina Secretary at the moment myself
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Thank you @davemccoy for the mentoring session. Congratulations @goldendawne on your success. Please, how can I be consistent on this platform.
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Papa pepper was also one of the first I followed and he’s on another site too. I’m still having trouble with the different type of Steem and voting. I usually use my iPhone. I wasn’t expecting much as I’m not a blogger, but it’s been interesting.
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Dear Dawne,
Does similar logic apply to voting for witnesses? Is each account holder required to vote for witnesses, and what are the consequences of having none or having voted for the wrong ones?
Thanks,
@qiyi
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In regards to witnesses... what I do is research each witness. Just because they are in the top 20 doesn't mean they do projects that you would support or like.
The best place to get the names of 400 of the witnesses is here
https://steemian.info/witnesses
I would go to their pages, read about what they do, projects, who they support, what is their record, etc. You can always change your mind too. Just because you vote for a witness doesn't mean it's forever.
Months and months ago there was a scandal about a witness- who has since left the platform... so do your research.
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Thanks for the clarification. I was on the right track, but I'll go back and reevaluate some from time to time.
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I tend to follow people of whom I read an interesting article. The mistake I make is that I don’t check out the rest of their articles before I follow them.
I now have like 300+ people on my following list, which is way too many.I can’y use my feed, because it is full of articles I have absolutely no interest about.
I tried unfollowing based on onteraction once - there is no need to follow someone with whom there is no interaction at all - but that was an awefully time-consuming task.
Still, I don’t want to unfollow people that interact on my posts regularly.
I really need to clean up the list - urgently - but I have no idea where to get started.
Somebody once told me I should only keep the ones I recognize the name of, but since I have an awful memory - especially when it comes to names - I don’t think that is a good idea.
Any tips on this topic are definitely welcome...
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Starting can be overwhelming. What I do is take a few days a week.. maybe 30 minutes at a time and just go through all my following. If it's a name I don't recognize, I'll go to his or he page and see what they are posting or if they have been posting, commenting recently.
Time consuming.. yes.
Worthwhile... yes.
Just last week I had to sit at a car dealership while my husband's new truck got running boards installed. I had two hours to sit there.. so I took my laptop and that was one day I went through my list. So instead of being bored, I at least accomplished this favorite task. <--- yeah.. sarcasm (ha-ha)
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@beeyou had told me about this tool where you can see how often you engaged with someone - I forgot which it was - I used that to compare my followers list with the engagement between myself and a certain follower.
I guess I just have to accept that there is no ‘quick fix’ and that I will have to schedule some time to do it. Better now than when I’m following 3000 people instead of 300, I guess... :0)
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Thank you @davemccoy for the mentoring session. Congratulations @goldendawne on your success. Please, how can I be consistent on this platform.
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You have to have the dedication and determination and no matter what... never let a bad day or week deflate you. I have had bad days, bad weeks, etc but I keep trudging on. If one thing doesn't appear to be working, I try another. I just keep going.
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Thank you @goldendawne.
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First of all great work @goldendawne - am I supposed to post questions here? Oh yes!
Two questions:
Firstly - do you think the 'four times a day' unwritten rule is an acceptable ethical limit for someone who typically does info posts and video posts (I have to exclude art and maybe food from this)? I mentioned this as I actually recently unfollowed papa-pepper as I noticed he always maxes this out. I also found some of his video posts in the past to be of quite low quality (rambling and just annoying). Personally I think most of the people who post under the data-analysis tags and post something of real quality involving real work (e.g. @miniature-tiger) have just got much more integrity - they seem to say to themselves 'I'll post once or twice a week BUT ONLY IF I have something worth posting... Papapepper (NB he's far from the worst offender and I'm not @ him because I don't think his posts are THAT BAD, it's just that he's mentioned above) seems to be in the 'I must churn out 4 posts a day' category.... That got him an unfollow from me. I don't need these people clogging up my feed! Personally, I'm thinking twice a day max.
Secondly, what do you think about 'good curators' getting large (>$20) upvotes from their curation accounts for all of their posts, some of which are bit naff (e.g. $20 for live streaming gaming on DLive). Is this acceptable, fair game if you like for their curation work? Or is it generally frowned upon?
Thanks @davemccoy for the post!
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Ok.. here we go...
Ethical.. well that depends on who you ask. There used to be a four post limit on steemit but that isn't there anymore as a rule. If you post too much, people may tend to overlook your posts. Some days, rare occasion, I have been known to post up to four times a day but it has been a LONG time. I usually do one, maybe two, a day. I have so many projects and curating that I do that I am limited on time to make quality posts and I will not post just to post.
I'm not exactly sure what you re referring to when you say their curation accounts. Do you mean curation accounts like OCD, curie, etc or if someone has their own bidbot? If you can clarify, I may be able to answer better.
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Hi - thanks for the reply. As to no.2 - the example I saw was of a generally 'good curator' who works as part of sndbox being upvoted >$20 from sndbox for their livestreaming of games on DLive... I think they maybe on an autovote from that account, but it riled me a little bit to see that happening.
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Yep, following everyone was what I started to do on Steemit the first couple of weeks. Then I started just following those with similar interests as I have or post good material that I am interested in. I also try to follow, on occasion, those who have differing views as I do just to keep me thinking and balanced.
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That's always a good plan. It's nice to keep a balance.
I think when we all came to steemit, we were unsure of all the ins-and-outs and treated it as other platforms; AKA popularity-like competition. But as you get into it and delve further into the platform, you can see the error of that thinking.
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Don't have any questions, really, just wanted to let @goldendawne know I am with you when it comes to followers. I learned my lesson on Twitter, so coming here and doing something different was easier because of that earlier experience. I still ended up following a few people who either had posts that interested me, then changed it up, or people who shortly stopped posting and interacting. So, I've been pruning and then seeking out others to try to fill in the spots. I'm still around 25, though, and probably need to up that some, maybe another 10-20. I really want to make sure I can manually keep up with all of it.
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Do what you feel comfortable with. I know people who follow so many they have no clue what they could be missing because their feed is so FULL.
Once you're ready to add, you'll know. I like to clean house every so often. Something for me to do when I am mulling over a new post and gathering my thoughts; almost like mindless work but still productive.
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What a big success to your steemit life!Congratulations @goldendawne.
Your way to your success is a good example to all of us from an ordinary steemian and now a curator is a huge success so please,would you tell me how to start my step again to be successful like you?
What is your secret?
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My secret? Not one thing has been the key to my success. I devote anywhere from 8-12 hours a day to steemit, converse on Discord relentessly and am always commenting, posting and finding new things to experiment with.
I would have to say being dedicated and interacting with people has helped me progress. I've only been on the platform since mid-July 2017 and feel I have progressed at a nice steady pace.
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Thank you maam,I noticed it you are so very active in your steemit life.I was following you since January or February with my lost account Ilove your homesteading.And even sometimes you post about the curation.I know it is hard to be like you and my quedtion for you as like a dog barking the moon.But anyway I am so happy for your reply and it is so much appreciated
Good afternoon and God bless.
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