Follow Friday: Keep on Steeming and support the plankton!

slobberchops (74) · 7 years ago

I will be adopting a plankton this weekend, I know you know who mine already is, but I'll do a post about it. Maybe we can get more to do this.

The price of STEEM is getting more depressing by the day and we need to impart some cheer.

#AdoptAPlankton seems a good tag.

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I'm not bothered about setting hard rules for these things. Let each person do it as they see fit.

bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

I think there are a few things a person can do to help a new user who is interested in staying and learning the ropes of steemit. It is very difficult for new users to get a following and build an audience, so a tutorship for a little bit with helpful opinions. If it is affordable for you, first a gift of an @dustsweeper account, this can be done with $0.500, and would give them protection on about 70 received dust votes from fellow redfish/planktons on the comments they leave Second if affordable is an SBI, in conjunction with the dustsweeper account that would give a payout of $0.030 on all the content they create. I know it is not much but when you look at a new user account it can be very helpful. Encourage the content creation, at least one post every other day, but post that people will comment on.

Encourage the new user to vote on and respond to at least one comment on the content they created. (this is why I suggest the every other day content creation). It is important for people to try and maximize their vote potential, yet it is also important to engage with a person's blog visitors. By commenting and voting on at least one comment, this shows other visitors to their post that they are trying to engage with their audience members.

Everyone's Idea of how to use the vote is different, Self voting at the earliest stages I believe is detrimental to a new user, it is potential reward that could be lost, so if a new user is going to self vote, it should only be on their post that have already reached a payout of $0.03. If they have a gifted @dustsweeper account, excessive self voting (and no I do not know what would be considered excessive) , could lead to termination of the account and funds returned, so make sure if they have one to be careful. Self voting on a comment is a complete waste of time unless it has also reached pay out level.

Just a couple thoughts, it really does not take much to help a new user as a new user,(about one month old), you could ask @paparodin what he thinks has been the most helpful advice and help he has received. (I use his name because he is one of more recent people I have tried to help). Also when you have the person you think is going to be a good steemian and productive member of how you see and want steemit, then promote the piss out of them drop their name, semi introduce them to others. Even as a brand new user to steemit, when I first joined, I found someone that was an awesome writer, I promoted him when an where I could without being blatant about it (like right now), he is now a REP of 64 and has close to 3000 SP earned not bought.

So that was just a few thoughts, helping does not need to be real complicated, sometimes just that little hand up, little piece of advice, and you have a person that may give it 6 months.

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paparodin (54) · 7 years ago

Being a social platform, people should just socialize a lot. Read content that you like and leave meaningful comments, have meaningful conversations. Especially for people who are as social-able as that, dustsweeper of course comes in handy.

Failing to plan is a plan for failure, so you want to have a solid idea on your writing and posting schedule too. Gathering ideas that you can pursue constantly is also helpful.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I'd not looked at Dustsweeper, but it seems like a good idea. I know I lost a lot of 1c votes in the early days. I have used SBI a bit. I will gift these to my nominated plankton.

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verhp11 (67) · 7 years ago

I also did some thinking about supporting minnows,Im not a big 'Player' myself but do received great help from you and others.. I wanted to put in relation with people who arent as fortunate as I am for instance. So I support your philosophy 100% ,the knife cuts on both sides I think,helping people and giving more exposure to steem(it). But the devil is in the details,how do we implement such a thing :)

shanibeer (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

It can be as formal or as informal as you like. I have sponsored some SBI shares, provide regular votes (I use steemauto.com), but most encouraging, I feel, is commenting regularly on their posts. There are also initiatives like @pifc which runs a weekly pay it forward contest. At the moment, @pifc is building their account through regular posts - you can upvote, sponsor SBI shares or delegate steem. Here is the latest account builder post.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Maybe you can help those in the Dutch community, but there are plenty of good musicians who need support too. Votes and delegation are useful tools for this.

torrey.blog (57) · 7 years ago

Plankton here, thanks for your support!

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Welcome aboard. I sent you a few votes to help you along. Looks like you are on the right course

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torrey.blog (57) · 7 years ago

Thank you for your very kind words. Appreciate it!

drwatson (69) · 7 years ago

I like the idea of adopting a plankton, and in general, thanks for all the support you've thrown my way.

I'll try and upvote others more, try and stem the bleeding from these latest price drops.

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silviabeneforti (72) · 7 years ago

Very interesting "selection" of steemians! I follow some of them from many months and they are fantastic ;)

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spbeckman (54) · 7 years ago

I think your observation about the value of steem being tied to public demand is important.

For all of Banfield's problems, he really recruited people to the platform well and created demand for the currency.

Thinking about that... maybe steem needs external advertising in addition to support for plankton?

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I think bubbles are unsustainable by their nature, so we want Steem to rise and stay there. I'm just not a Banfield fan. We want people to join with realistic expectations. I hope Steem Inc will buy some advertising when they feel ready.

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spbeckman (54) · 7 years ago

I agree that the Banfield "make money fast" approach isn't healthy, but I do think we need exposure. Nobody I talk with in real life knows about Steem. When I contrast Steem and DTube to the YouTube model, they all "get it" and see how this new paradigm should win in the long run.

I also think that moving away from the theme of crypto would be beneficial. Prior to my joining Steemit, I used to think of crypto as a scam of sorts -- people trying to make it rich betting on bitcoins. I basically ignored the whole technology because of the way it was hyped.

In my mind, a better pitch is, "Get paid to watch TV and vote on shows." I like blogs, but realistically, the majority of people don't have the luxury of sitting and reading, but they do have the time to watch shows while cooking or doing other house chores.

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nathen007 (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

In my case, I never watch videos here, I much prefer to read. Vlogging is someone anyone can but not everyone is able, or wants to appear on video.
I think the other big benefit of the written word is that it's easy to tell shortly after starting whether younwishnto continue reading. With video, you can end up watching it all, waiting for it to get better only to find youve wasted your time.
Horses for courses my friend :-)
I do totally agree about some outside advertising. With the huge SP Steemit inc has at its disposal, I cannot understand why there isn't more promotion of the platform itself. Perhaps they are expecting the developers of third party apps to do it, which would be a fair point, but so few people know anout Steemit outside Steemit.
Mynsolutio would be a small upvote for each post shared to FB or Twitter...but max 2 a day to stop spammers.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I'm more of a reader than a watcher too. I think they don't feel ready for a marketing push yet. It's no good millions coming here if they can't sign up. The next hardfork should be fairly soon and then it may all happen.

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bozz (70) · 7 years ago

Awesome to hear how you and @slobberchops came up with the idea of #adoptaplankton. I think it sounds like a great initiative. I look forward to being able to give back myself someday!