1000 followers! Yay! Or not?

in milestone •  7 years ago 

I have 1031 followers, the interface says. A truly joyous number, that deserves upvotes from you all, as per tradition. Best do that first, before you read on, as I run the risk of losing followers by writing this next bit.

Of these 1031 followers, 107 haven't posted or voted in over a month (you can look up your own numbers here).

This leaves 924 followers. On a very good day, a posting by me gets 90 upvotes, and a little less views. It looks like, but I'm not sure, that these viewers and upvoters are often the same people. To these people I say: Thank you for following me!

I do wonder, however, why those other 90% are following me, if they don't look at or vote for my content. I don't expect a vote from all my followers on every posting I make, far from it, but these percentages are ridiculous.

If they don't care about my content, fair enough, but why are they following me then?

This isn't a post-HF thing either, I have seen similar percentages before that too.

Maybe I can persuade @mynameisbrian, who made the dead-follower tool, to include an option to see a list of all followers who haven't voted for any of my content in over a month.

Maybe I shouldn't think about these things too much, but I am curious by nature, I suppose, so:

  • What are your stats like?
  • Any ideas on what, if anything, is going on here? Am I not handsome enough?

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I like your posts and try not to miss nothing. If someone don't like them, why follow? You ask a good question.
I have similar stats: more than 300 followers and only 10-15 upvotes from real people. Sometimes voting bots are very active so I can get even 40 votes...

Thanks.

The Mysterious Case of the Followers Who Aren't 8-).

Of course I congratulate You, too! And let the number of Your followers increases every day. But, yesterday I was interested in this same question about dozens of dead followers. My stats: Total followers-409; Dead followers - 24; True followers - 385. Of these 385 vote for post of 10-12 people. And I always thank them for it. Sad for me that I don't understand why such a low rating votes for my posts. Perhaps it is the quality of my content, bad photos or bad language. What is the real reason, then it can be corrected in a better way. I always read my followers. I signed up for a small number of people. Only those who are interesting to me. Yes, I think You, too, so a lot of people on this platform. What is the point of having a few thousand if you will not be able to read or just scroll through their posts. I'm not even talking about getting them all to comment on. Disappointing more that in recent times there were comments with requests as you are me and I you, if you vote for me, I will vote for you. Or more persistent requests to vote and links...links...links. And if you don't vote for him, then this message comes again. Yesterday I was terribly upset, hands down. Want to shut everything down and disable...But, Oh well!. I'm very happy for You. Go ahead and continue with even greater success. I am very grateful for Your continued support. I wish you all the best for You @ocrdu

Thank you.

It is probably best to ignore all that, not get upset, and post on for those who look at your content. I don't think the quality of your content is a problem 8-).

Time will tell :) I wish You a good day!

Hey! Congratulations! I've recently reached 500 subscribers, but as you note, most are not active - or rather - engaged.

Here's my reply from our previous discussion, if someone cares to read:

The mid May spike in the price of Steem attracted a lot of people, looking for a quick buck. They realize they need a lot of followers to make a lot of cash, so they hope the traditional follow-for-follow strategy would work here (while copy pasting articles from the net, hoping to get upvotes).

The problem is that Steemit doesn't notify anyone of new followers, so this strategy doesn't really work. So they now follow hundreds of people, but won't bother unfollowing them - first, because unfollowing so many people is a very slow and time consuming process, but mostly because they don't use their Home feed in the first place (they don't care about people's content, they care about cash).

Instead they stalk the New feed, for articles with a big (SBD wise) upvote. Not only will they get more cash as curators from these posts, but the rich authors often upvote any comments on their posts, bringing in more profits to the ever hungry minnows. That's why rich authors are more popular - even though they often post low quality content.

This whole thing would've ended with Steem's price falling back down again, with WannaCrypt's slow decline in number of infected computers (and related Bitcoin laundering), were it not for yesterday's news of a new ransomware, named Petya.

If it is successful, expect the events from mid May to repeat themselves.

p.s. I've gotten good at typing on my phone! But my fingerprints are now gone.

There could be something in that. It all sounds very facebookish to me, can't they just unfollow?

You sure are handsome enough and deserve an upvote :) Congratulations on the 1000 !!

Thanks!

With all the new folks, and the resteeming going on, I don't even see a tiny fraction of the posts by people that I have been enjoying for months. I can't count on my feed as the efficient way to see posts by the people I am following. And I don't even follow that many people! I have to figure out a different way.

Voting has gone way down. I'm sure I'm part of that, too, because the cognitive overhead of the voting percentage is so high. It's worse than tipping, which the Steemit whitepaper dismissed as an option for this platform, for that reason.

I have to figure out a better approach to voting, too, because I used to heave out votes everywhere and I liked that, because the people I follow have good content! I think I'm just going to go back to that and sit there are 3% vote power, which is still worth more than it used to be. But it does shortchange good posts and overcompensate most comments. Aarggh. Drives me nuts!

I don't put much stock in the number of followers. I saw some recent tool that I've since lost track of, that showed the growth and loss of your followers, by name and over time. I could see so many of the followers are people that will never look at my posts. They are people just following to build up numbers in some hope of something. And then there are people that constantly follow and unfollow, over and over.

I value the people that are my repeat supporters and my vests in Steemit more than numbers of followers. I just went from a fat minnow to a baby dolphin, so I have a milestone party going on. But I won't do anything special for the number of followers.

This post received a 1.7% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @schattenjaeger! For more information, click here!

I enjoy your posts from what I have seen, bear in mind only been here two days LOL

I know, but I've seen some good shots inbetween the resteems on your blog.

Thanks kind of you to say :)

Run out of my upvote quota for the day! - And that may be why more people aren't upvoting you. But still, like you say, the percentages are ridiculous.

And nice to learn about the dead follower tool! Will be using it in the future I guess.

Am I not handsome enough?

Before I answer: is that a picture of you at the end?

I never do selfies. Always photography away from yourself, I say.

Congratz man!

Thanks!

The more you hard work the more you gain , this example is set on you totally , its the reward of your hardwork dear keep it up may God give you more n more here on steemit

Thank you.

pleasure

Congrats !!!
I have 219 followers , 3 dead ones leaves 216 TRUE FOLLOWERS!!!
Thank you all for following me and if you're not following @ocrdu already, go do it now please!!

Thank you!

First congrads on 1000. I'm only in steemit since late May. Have over 140 followers and can only claim one (1) who consistently checks and up votes my blog. So don't feel that bad @ocrdu. I follow you because your post has dynamite photos and written content. I appreciate all your views and up votes. keep steemin...

Thanks! I liked your dead caterpillar post, BTW.

I have about 800 followers, but a posting by me gets just 40-50 upvotes. It's a strange thing, but I'm sure I'm handsome and so I decided to ignore the numbers :D

Seems like a wise thing to do!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! I wish you @ocrdu a crazy success:)

Thank you!

Happy to be one of them

Thanks!

I was thinking the same thing. I gain more followers then upvotes or interaction. And this is just the beginning
I see new users following 3500 others users. and they are followed by a 1000.
I think they just click on following just to gain some followers?

Could be. They sound like stalkers rather than followers.

I don't even look at the number of followers, they are just that, a number. I follow 30+ people whose content I like, and that's it! Usually I find other interesting content by browsing, just like I found this one. So by my humble opinion number of followers don't mean a thing if you don't interact with people.

True that. I just don't like meaningless numbers a lot, I'm an engineer, I can't help it 8-).

Killed my voting power again, as I got carried away flagging matrixdweller's spam. So, I'll recharge for a while. I randowhale'd.

I have over 800 followers, and get 100-200 views on very successful posts. Less on others.

So, yeah.

Same strange stats. Oh well. Thanks for the rent-a-whale vote.

Is Matrixdweller still here? Haven't seen anything from him in ages, and I don't even have him on "mute", I think.

Well, my stats are pretty much the same :) On average, about 5-7% of my followers are upvoting my posts.

The rest must be stalkers rather than followers 8-).

Who knows, but 10 are dead for sure :)) haha

The stats are interesting.
I have 300 followers and on average, I get 7 votes per post. Hmmmm . . .
Gotta say, I am grateful for thoses votes however many they are. :)
Congrats on your followship!

Thank you!

That link was really helpful!
Thank you post this post.
Firstly, Congratulations ? I don't know if I should.
And my last post was just like this. And I would get only 20-40 upvotes.
I feel bad now. But I won't stop posting content.
And you will always have a supporter in me ! :)

Thank you! 8-)

oink! congrats! ;)

Thank you!

I just came for the piggie!! Piggie alert!!! So cute! 😍

You are forgiven 8-). It is cute, isn't it?

Yes!!

Yesterday I had the same conversation with a friend of mine as I had the same effect. But at the end I decided to just keep on doing what I love and forget the numbers. Good luck my friend from a follower!

Thanks!

I get like ~30 votes average with almost 900 followers :P

Similarly sad then 8-).

Congrats on your milestone:)

But I have realised that many new accounts have hundreds of followers only after a few weeks. So I think a lot of people may be following accounts just for the sake of it?? In hopes of getting a follow back or increasing their reputation score?

I'm not quite sure.. It's a mystery!

That it is. Almost facebookishly scary.

I'm not one of your dead follower. I was afraid to be one, while I vote on many of your photos but not always reply. Lately I can not always keep up with the feed. (and I wonder how other people do that.)

I got 189 from which 13 dead. So 176 true followers. I don't think I have so many true followers though. I really doubt these numbers.
I get an average of 5 or 6 votes. Mostly from people who visit once, there are even those who leave a reply that they like your post, and don't vote.
There are a few who vote more oft though, that I engage with but that is also very random.

I follow 15o plus people but sometimes I think I should cut that back.
There is an app thought to help you organize, so you can select the people you like to follow most, but it's for a phone, and I don't have a phone.

Oh euh almost forgot. Congratulations with your thousand followers...... I guess ;)

Thanks!

I'm following you now, I love that greasy-pan photo.

Thank you for the follow and letting me know.

I followed your advice and didn't read on, and since it's your big 1K I dropped a 100% on ya too! Don't know what I'm gonna find when I start reading up above but either way to have enough devotion to this platform to earn over 1,000 followers is deserving a solid vote from me! Steem on @ocrdu :)

Thank you!

You're welcome! On a side note I've noticed this issue myself, though it seems to me it has been directly tied to HF 19. Pre HF19 I used to receive around 50-70 votes per post, not too bad given I was at around 500 followers, now, post HF19 I am lucky to receive 20 votes on a post, and I'm now at nearly 600 followers. Not sure what's going on but the hard fork seems to have hit me particularily hard. Not sure what I can do about it though but keep Steeming on, hopefully it will change back to the way it used to be!

Yes, let's hope so. I'm often one of those 20 votes, but that will not make you rich 8-).

Yes I know! (that you are often one of those 20) It is much appreciated my friend, regardless of whether it will make me rich or not :) We support each other right, that is what this place is all about!

The saddest thing is to know that you have for example 900 followers and only 20 vote in your posts and these 20 are usually some small whales and witnesses ... this is always with me. After all, do I have followers or just viewers?

Or stalkers? 8-)

It is a bit sad, yes. Oh well, you get my votes, not much, because my voting power is low, but the intention is good 8-).

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I, too, friend, i would like to do more for you, but my power is also little. We're in it together. Big hug, congratulations to the followers! :D

Thanks!

Congrats on 924 followers! You will get my monthly upvote here... what the hell ;)
And I agree with on the "why follow" thing. If I am not interested in the content, I simply don't hit the Follow button.

I think that the Dead Follower link doesn't work on me. I am here just over 2 weeks..

Thanks!

When I try, it says you have 0 dead followers.

Yea, that's what it showed me too. But since I am here shorter than a month, would technically all of them were active in this 2 weeks.

Awwww i read your stuff dude!!! here is an upvote ;)

Thanks!

Wow !!!

Brilliant :)

Thanks!

Congratulation! Nice and interesting post!

Thank you.

You're welcome! ;)

I've noticed the exact same thing, haveing 120 followers and spiking at 10 upvotes.

1000 is a thousand. You got it @ocrdu. Well deserved!

Thank you!

My stats are worse than yours. You are handsome. I will never leave you.

Owww.

Maybe your posts don't stay visible for that long being that Steemit is continuously getting new people joining. The feed has to keep getting faster. They might not even be checking this site that often? I wouldn't worry about the one's who are inactive anyway. It's your active viewers that fill your day to day. The rest are just potential viewers that at the least liked something you posted in the past and can upvote any new post when you least expect it. I only recently discovered you and your photography and really enjoy your posts. Congratulations on your 1000 plus followers. May that number continue to swell and your viewership take off as well. Cheers @ocrdu.! Onward and upwards.

And I thought in this post about the mumps! :)

Congratulation..its a great achievement :))

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Don't feel so bad...on Facebook, about ten percent is about the maximum number of page followers who will see your post, unless it's going viral or you start paying! :D

Congrats! It's a huge number! But people are not active very much...

Thanks! Voting does seem a bit slack for many, yes.

i would'nt spend too much time worrying about followers, but i do agree engagement is the key, maybe ask more questions, like this one, will garner more interactions. for me, someone who got in early in twitter in 2006 and ended up with 10,000 followers but only 3,000 engaged people i learned very quickly that it's the engagement that really matters when connecting across the internet.

True that. And I'm not worried, just curious. Can't help it 8-).

curious is good, curious will save us all.

you made me laugh at the end...I mean a picture , you choose the right one:)haha

and as i'm a new here, i didn't know option about real followers. Thank You!

Congratulations for you))))

Thank you!

nice photos

Congrats @ocrdu