UPDATE: Paging all fellow Steemians: Let's give back part of our earnings to make Steemit better !!!

in giveback •  8 years ago  (edited)

Last Month I started giving back 10% of all my SBD income to other authors or projects.

Being successful on Steemit.com feels amazing, but from my point of view, every member of a society has to share part of his income with the society. Without the society nobody can make it on Steemit in the Long-run.

I spotted many authors on Steemit, whom had pumped out 50-100 posts yet their financial reward for all posts combined was usually less than 20$. One might argue, that the content might not be good enough, but I think that the content is not worse than any successful authors content. At the moment, mostly people with great social and online marketing skills are getting payouts, without bonding using the Steemit.com Chat it is very hard to earn even 1$ on Steemit (This is just my subjective view)

Since 30 days ago, I have been able to sent more than 600 SMD to other authors on the Steemit platform and sponsor different challenges (For Example the Foodchallenge).

Here is a list of receivers for the payments:

elyaque 4.5 timsaid 5 mindfreak 2.5 capitalism 17 xcode18 2.5 hagie 2.5 msutyler5 steemit-recipes 5.492 spiritual3 3.873 jayfox 5 voltarius5  lordvader 5 edbriv10 pixielolz 5 stevo2.5 bkkshadow15.259 angusleung100 2.5 andrew0 2.5 thebigweb2.5 vlad 2.5 the-ivor 2.5 rittr 2.5 sauravrungta 2.5 tecis 5 mun5.373 jeison9.772 neroru 5 sykochica 3.018 stevehodder2.544 aji79 5 chako5555 11.769 johnhope 5.403 blackeyed 3 kita5 sizil 5.937mark-waser 4.652 ats-david3 gonzo5 contentjunkie 3  lovetosteemit5 dwinblood5 andressilvera 5 gargon3.559 nat4ka10 kakradetome10 ulfa 5 tiberius10 zahnspange10 steemuwe5 flowflowsen5 nekromarinist 5roy.batty 7.561 Food Challenge 25 boddhisattva 5.747 rznag 4.335 uwe69 10 tanata 4.32 ali.s2000 5 mandibil1 akareyon5 stefanbusch3 Food Challenge10 chris.roy5 mashkovpro8 sinkova7 cherish10 nulliusinverba5 lanimal5 cjclaro 5 akareyon 5 virtashare 10 johnnyyash 10 boddhisattva 5 steembeast 5 febird 1 reaction 10 timbernana 10 bacchist 10 Food Challenge25  klye 10 mallorca 6 ericdubay 6.445 dmilash Fabio25  twinner 5 goldstein 2 julia26 5 magetanbonar 5 puffin 5 redpalestino 5 goldstein 5

I have recently switched the payouts to STEEM POWER. Many won't cash out the Steem or SBD anyways, so this way they get more voting power. 

As most of you are aware of, I am featuring others authors too and the authors are receiving 100% of the SBD earnings as a payout. 

Most of the authors are so grateful, that after writing so many posts, they at least get once a decent payout. I wanted to ask everybody to follow these authors and help them stand on their own feet. 

I have discussed featured posts countless times with @razvanelul and others, are featured post good or bad for the platform? My opinion is, that the money the authors receive from a featured post will motivate them to really keep posting. The time between giving up and getting successful might be only days or even hours apart I know this because before i wrote my first huge GOLD Post shortly before I told myself if I don't earn at least 5$ with a post I will quiet Steemit within 10 days. 

Lately I have started to send the SBD earnings as SBD + SP to the authors. Of course an author could always ask for only SBD to be paid out. 

I am issuing a Magazin called Steemperlen featuring undervalued German posts (5-30 SBD payout per featured author depending how much the post earns)

We were able to find a lot writers and we created the channel #deutsch in the Steemit chat. Since 4 Weeks ago, over 100 German speakers are united in the channel and are discussing and helping each other to spread the word about Steemit (Yes, D-A-CH , Germany, Austria, Switzerland united under one roof)

If you see the Steemperlen, please support the German community with a vote. 

There are more languages:

Russian  Spanish French  Korean (please support the authors!)

Thank you @pharesim @smooth @xeroc @laonie @blocktrades @berniesanders @summon @fabio (and many more) for actively supporting other languages!!

Big thanks for supporting and making Steemit a better place goes to: 

Project Curie

https://steemit.com/steemit/@donkeypong/announcing-project-curie-bringing-rewards-and-recognition-to-steemit-s-undiscovered-and-emerging-authors

The RobinHood Whale Initiave

https://steemit.com/steem/@repholder/the-robinhood-whale-initiave-community-feedback-needed

Steemsquad

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@steemsquad/hello-we-are-steemsquad-and-we-are-here-to-support-the-minnows-read-on

Steemit Abuse Classic

https://steemit.chat/channel/steemitabuse-classic

Thank you guys, your work is priceless ! Keep up the incredible work


And the most important thing i wanted to say THANK YOU to @all my followers !!!!

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Upvoted! Go Steemit! Go!

hey acidsun ;)thanks you for the nice picture ;)

I see your Braveheart and raise you one more:

They can take our land, but they can never take our Blockchain!

You are a good man. So that means I can't like you.

mylord ;) be the force with you

Even, my size I already distributed them back but they don't appreciates.
Do you know, how hard to make 0.001 SBD ???
I collects pennies.

I just sent you 5 Steem Power ! Keep going !

Thanks @knozaki2015
Well, I will give to the deserve one.
I believe in sharing.
Just add you , to follow

What a coincidence. I "promoted" one of my followers post recently.

;) hey ace, yes everybody can help others. if you dont earn 100$ on steemit, you could help with 1 $ or 10cents. its about the gesture, not about the amount !

yay... I only have 2 x 3 digits $ post so far many more zeroes but also glad for the single digits $ to keep me coming back. :-)

Upvoted. Good article and I very much appreciate all your efforts for the community.

Hello Ines, thank you for helping the german community with your translations !

aaaaw, thank you :)

This is a great idea and kudos to you for those donations.

thank you! Yes if steemit fails, all SP I am building up are worthless. so I am happy to share most of my rewards to push Steemit to a point where major adoption occurs.

@knozaki2015 that statement hits the nail on the head. Exactly! I'm grinding out content, building a following as hard and fast as I can so I can donate! I've donated out of pocket thus far to robinhoodwhale and RAK initiatives. If the community grows, we all win. It's still the early adopters phase here.

indeed , as one of the very good earning authors, I see it as my responsibility to give back as much as I can to the community!

This is an amazinv post, thank you for your efforts and contributions!

thank you for your comment ! I will keep pushing to help even more people

Thanks for giving back!

thank you for taking the time to read the post !

I love your project and your commitment to help new users. Keep going!

Hello Ziogio!
thank you for your support really apprecite it

I do not earn much as all but I would be happy to donate when I do earn

yes, even if you earn only 2 SBD you could send 0.2 SBD to someone you think deserves it.
But of course once you earn big, I know you will donate too :)

You are doing a good job! Thank you! After receiving support from you, I realized that I should not give up

you last post is doing well !!!

Thank you for your work and your support. Hats off!

thank you backeyed. I really appreciate the effort you are putting into steemit !

You do a lot for the community! Thank you for helping novice writers! I thank you personally for your support.

I am your fan!

Hello tanata-san ;)
Thank you for supporting me !

Thank-You For Posting This
I Am Still Learning And New Here
This Is A Good Idea

Hello,
Welcome to Steemit ! Happy you like the idea !

Fantastic work. I have been doing something similar by tipping people and promoting their posts. I think it is up to people to decide for themselves if they put something back but I think it is one of the most rewarding things you can do.

Yes, everybody if they want to , and if they are able to do so financially.
But I think the whole community has to help, this iis the only way steemit will be sucessful

Agreed. It makes it a much nicer community for everyone.

Having an abundance mentality is such a rare thing :) Thank you for mentioning me, friend and maybe steemit's future is bright with more people like you :)

thank you man ! I am always inspired by your posts !

Thanks for your generosity. I hope one day, you will discover my work an upvote @bobrandolph. I have led a long and varied life and I have a great deal to share on many subjects -- life, success, psychology, relationship, and business (40 years in corp America). Keep up the good work. When I get to your level, I promise to be as generous.

Hi ! I powered you up a bit ;)
and upvoted your post

I might need some of that knozaki2015 magic!

Upvoted your last post !

Thanks! Miracles do happen! :D

You're such a great steemian!

thank you ! I think only we as the early adopters can really make it happen.

Goodheart.god bless u @knozaki2015

I hope 1 day u will discover my work.ur such an inspiration.

hello ! I have sent you 5 Steem Power! Please keep writing, maybe one day some big whale might find you :)

One of my favorite accounts to follow because of exactly this type of sharing mentality! awesome work @knozaki2015!

thank you itm! really appreciate your comment

Alright! Sending at least part of reward as SP will #spreadthepower, thus increasing the decentralization of SP, which is very beneficial for the functioning of Steemit, great that you agree with it.

While the featured posts are great as far as authors are concerned, if the SP stays in few hands, it will slow the decentralization of SP, and thus perpetuate the whale hunting. So we need more people to support that!

Hi, I am trying to send 100% of reward as SP, but most of the featured authors, really need the money to pay for food etc. So with authors whom have been featured more than once, we worked out that they receive 70% in sbd and 30% in steempower

Yeah, I can relate to that. :-) Still, as someone who'd like to succed on their own, I've decided against going the featured author route, and concentrate on other projects, like helping people with translations. It does bring some money, perhaps not as much as a featured post does, but the exposure is great! About couple more followers and I'll hit my 1st hundred. While some of them are people that added everyone and their grandmother, and perhaps even some bots maybe, it is still a significant milestone. :-)
Luckily I can manage without relying on the steemit payouts, and try to play the long game.

good to hear that you found your own way to success and helping the community !

I wouldn't call it success yet, as there is no returns on the effort so far, but maybe in a month or couple. Thing is I probably better do some posts of my own as well, to at least measure if there are any returns via that avenue.

Wow, I am really glad I opened my Steemit page today. I was losing hope on my Steemit initiative abut now after reading your post and another about @projectcurrie, I see some light at the end of the tunnel. with 4Sp, it seems almost impossible to feel any effect from time and effort posting or curating, but then I see efforts from the likes of you and others who are determined to see the community grow and I get recharged. Thank you!

hey ! I have powered you up! now you have more sp ;) keep steemin!
2 seconds ago Transfer 10.000 STEEM POWER to bobbybillbob

Holy Cow! That was extremely generous! Thank you! I will do my best to redistribute and build our community :)

You hit me up with 3 more!!! If it was a mistake, I can give them back, but if not THANK YOU!!

Excellent idea and always helpful to have someone willing to pay it forward like yourself thanks for your insight and good karma steemboatmickey

thank for your support ! we all need to help to make steemit a sucess !

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Hi, it took me awhile to find this post. I am also grinding here in Steemit without getting good returns for created work. Can my following posts make me qualify for your blessings?

  1. https://steemit.com/steemsquad/@darthnava/the-little-kite-edited-re-issue
  2. https://steemit.com/steemsquad/@darthnava/i-hate-romantic-movies-but-these-5-gems-are-exceptions

hello darthnava. I already found you as someone was talking about you yesterday in a channel. ..

I have sent you 8sp

Oh, thank you very much, @knozaki2015. I am very grateful for your generosity. May God Bless you and may you find fortune always.