Last week I made a post that got more attention than most of my posts and the whole thing was a lot of fun.
The post provided users of all sizes a change to engage and introduce themselves to other and the results were amazing! 252 comments and still climbing. This should give you an idea of how hard it can feel for new Steamians to find each other. Yet, find each other they did! The networking was awesome, because in part they had the ability to feel free to interact and engage.
Please check out the post, these are quality accounts driven by quality people seeking engaging users. Check this post and the engagement out!
Shout Out to a Few Great Networkers:
There are many more in the post and thanks to @matt-a for helping to upvote the comment section I ran out of voting power!
Nice job to all who found friends in the comments and I will be doing this again!
What I was reminded of is finding each other can be hard and it's likely going to remain difficult unless there is a UI change coming. If we know it is hard, then everyone can understand that it is hard we can express that. We have too many new users who think stakeholder are going to come looking for them. Maybe it should or shouldn't work that way... All I know is that it doesn't. The minnows and redfish need to find each other and support each other. If you are all seeking dolphin and whale votes you will likely be disappointed.
graph from arcange https://steemit.com/statistics/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180711-en
Our Active Accounts Currently Consist Of:
- 37 whales
- 264 orcas
- 1713 dolphins
- 8344 minnows
- 109,360 redfish
This is before the gates on signups are open! There are not enough stakeholders, it isn't just greed it is time and voting power also. So adjust the expectations and please stop telling the redfish and minnows to expect whale votes!
I've been saying it for a while, it is up to us! The minnows and redfish are going to have to support each other through the phase of getting some traction. Vote for yourself if you make a good post, build up to the slider. Get in little groups and help each other build! There will be time to reward great content! Right now, build your account! We need you. After Hardfork 20 I think they quit wiping away dust votes, so that should help also!
Let's build a middle class and let the minnows support themselves and each other to grow their accounts! Feel free to Network with each other in the comments, ONLY ON THIS POST, give yourself a vote, drop a link... Go wild.. Just don't think it flies else where.
You are now free to move about the blockchain!
Congrats, I like the great work, keep on steem'n
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Congratulations and celebrations!!
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@whatsup,
Waiting to get support from Whales is a very bad idea! So it's time to help each other! @whatsup, you did a nice explanation and hope atleast few of minnows will read this post till the end!
Cheers~
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There are only 37 whales on this platform as we can see from the stats . Obviously they cannot help each and everyone.
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So since we are allowed to drop links here I'm going to take advantage of the offer. Not sure why others aren't as this is a good opportunity to showcase what you are about. Thanks @whatsup for the opportunity to spam your page a little...lol
With the help of some great judges we run the Pay It Forward Curation Contest. This week no less then 14 SBI shares will be given away, each entry gets a free Steem Monster Card, and there is a 3 SBD bounty which is for the entries. This contest is designed for anyone to featured 2 steemians with a reputation score of 55 or under. You help 2 others get some added exposure and in return you gain exposure to those of us involved in the contest and who support it.
The other link I want to drop is I just created my first offer for @steemfleamarket. If anyone is in to early Pokemon Cards check out the Pokemon Gym Challenge Booster Packs I listed for sale. Buy with SBD!
I will be adding more items to @steemfleamarket in an attempt to find things the community is interested in. Think this is something the community really can use and will help increase the usefulness of SBD which can only help it's value.
Lastly I want to mention that @pifc account is going to be launching it's first contest in the next week or two. Been running account builder posts for the last few weeks and building the account up. We have gotten a few nice delegations and already at 929sp in total voting power. Have a sponsor lined up for the first contest and just ironing out the details. Will be moving the Curation Contest over to this account in the near future also once I feel it can be self sufficient. Any and all support is appreciated on this account and if you like contests follow it to be alerted when we launch the first contest.
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252 comments is huge. That's a fantastic level of engagement so well done to you!
I'm totally on board with helping each other grow here. Actually (shameless plug coming), I wrote an article about getting more eyes on your posts yesterday. It's targeted at people who are new to Steemit or struggling to grow their accounts.
This was quite possibly the post that has received the most engagement of all my posts to date.
Also, I'm about to hit 1000 SP so to give back to the community I'm planning on doing a little short term delegation to a newbie. I'll do a post about it once I hit the 1k. :)
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Hey..I remember you...haha...
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Super cool!😉
For the moment i am still a red fish but my plan is to power up all the way till i will become at least a minnow. For the moment i have 266 steem power so still some time ahead...
But slowly i will reach there!
Wish you all a great weekend and always Steem on!
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Good luck on your journey! I'm 40 SP away from evolving from a plankton to a minnow! Can't wait!
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Thanks a lot! Wow you are so close! Imagine that i share the same felling and i just wait to became one... i will write a long post that time.
500 SP sounds so easy but in reality it is a long and hard way to reach it!
I think the golden rule is to have fun and enjoy and all the rest will follow even the rewards and the milestones...
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How much steempower required to upgrade from redfish to minnow,minnow to dolphin and dolphin to a whale??
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500 ish (It's not exact)
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I wonder when I would ever reach to these levels...phew...
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I'm not sure from redfish to minnow but I remember that I became a dolphin at 4900SP
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Exciting! Good luck!
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Good initiative. Engaging and networking can do miracles for us the minnows.
I'm doing what I can to build my count because I don't want to depend on whales votes.Since we are allowed to drop links, here is the link of my last post. https://steemit.com/life/@ikar59/a-non-purpose-dominant-race Greetings!!
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DID SOMWONE SAY GO WILD !! :D
It’s great to see minnows connecting and supporting each other because that’s what some of us just need . Support and motivation
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Support and motivation..the two most important factors on steemit...
This is what I have learned through my first week on steemit...
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strongly agree
this community will be great if we can cooperate with each other and support each other.
We are together to move forward together
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Yes..waiting for whales to reach out to us is a wrong idea..
I just hope we can all help each other grow...
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You used the introduceyourself tag and you have bots welcoming you to steemit haha.
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I know... hahaha. Can't they figure out I'm not new? Bot makers need to up their game!
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That's the reason one of this welcoming bots have Reputation Level 8...
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I guess they aren't so welcome'd themselves ;-)
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Bots cannot do anything when reputation is very high😀😀. You can introduceyourself tag as many as times as you want lol
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Yeah, the only way this works is if you make people aware you are here. We all find that out and the ones who stay and make this work take responsibility and venture out interacting with others. Once you do that, it gets a lot easier as you find a lot of others through the comment sections.
So much this. I spend more time on here than I should reading the many great posts within my small circle. There are many great posts here once you find those who interest you. But even then, time becomes a factor, as well as voting power. I tend to log out once I have used up my voting power, but everyone has their own methods.
This is a business with the perks of learning new things and meeting cool people. As such, people should really think about the idea of investing in their business monetarily. Many say they can't afford it, but I am sure many who say that could revisit this next time they are at the drive through, or shopping and find a few bucks here or there if they wanted to.
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Hi whatsup, thank you for this, it's a really nice idea. I'm a minnow building towards dolphin level, I like blogging about art, knitting, food, nature and the environment.
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It's a pleasure to meet you :D Your latest knitting project (brown wool) looks incredible! Really smooth and perfect pattern :D
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And you, too 😊
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Thank you for this opportunity @whatsup and I resteemed for my awesome followers to see ^^
I'm an artist and on Steemit I primarily post my own dragon art. I share all of my art techniques and steps in my post. You can find some of my old step by step art tutorials by googling. I've also shared Steemit related tutorials like how to present your art on Steemit; how to use tags for artists; how to set autovotes and more. (The previous 3 posts are old, don't upvote).
The following is my latest dragon art. The post is old so don't upvote it.
For the past couple of weeks I've been working on a new project- mermaids and everything underwater related. The following are my recent coral studies.
Currently I'm hosting week 7 of Random Games- it's completely different every week. I try to keep it easy and as fun as possible.
My pretty well know free page dividers.
A shoutout to @enternamehere for the generous delegation which is helping my blog grow :D
I'm always looking forward to meeting new artists, craftsmans and creatives <3
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I'm re-posting mine tomorrow :)
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if we repost something,then bots are flagging. There is a bot called Mackbot, Don't know what's wrong with it. Flagging many innocent people. I have seen people with high reputation doing the same ,but it don't do anything.
If I want to repost my own content in my own blog then what's wrong in it. It's up to my followers whether to read it or not.
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I hope this figure can increase, it really needs too. I'm with you on your growth opinions, although I do support a lot of minnows and plankton. Self-Investment is what is needed if you want things to happen quicker.
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Great idea! So true...I did something similar to this and got a TON of comments...I should check how many...but something in the same ballpark of 200 I think.
Thanks for providing statistics of active users. I think that's SO useful to see and I wish EVERYONE knew this, and I wish there was some kind of disclaimer that popped up with your exact words when new users are about to sign up.
That way they are more aware of how things work I guess.
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Éxito, saludos desde Venezuela.
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Delegate to MEEEEEEEE!!! lol
https://www.minnowbooster.net/market?direction=asc&sort=effective_price
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Yay! I would love to build a little origami group on steemit we already have @ivan-g and @marblely and @cryptocariad. Come fold with us.
Reversible flower stamen/star own design
here: https://steemit.com/origami/@gmatthe2/reversible-origami-spinning-top-flower-stamens-star-e5d556a9cb735
Or @ivan-g post on how to fold a Spinner by Lewis Simon
found here:
https://steemit.com/origami/@ivan-g/modular-origami-unknown-model
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Yesterday I made a introduceyourself post introducing my formula student to the community. But it has not no reach😥😥. As an alumni I'm trying to sponsor 150$ to my team and I'm also trying to raise sponsorship through steemit. Will it not be cool if we have steemit logo on a formulastudent car??
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Am definitely not missing this one. I blog about business, social justice in Nigeria and philosophy
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Hi wahtsup. I try and find someone new every week. Even if it is only one new person that I follow and comment on it makes a difference. I think that is what this place is about, how much can you add and every little bit helps.
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Hey guys! I remembered that @whatsup said we could do "shameless self plugs" so I figured I would go for it and shout out my most recent posts! I am mainly aiming to write vape news/reviews but will also be throwing some more life style-ey things in there to keep it exciting and make it a little more personal!
I figured that I would post the last 3 articles I wrote just to give you guys an idea of what I am all about! Again I really appreciate this opportunity to be able to reach out and share what I have been working on without coming across as too spammy :) Anyways here are the 3 links:
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Favorite E-Juice Review
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Some Of My Life Story
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FDA Investigates Quarter Million
Fake Comments On Flavour War
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Thanks again so much for this opportunity, I hope that everyone out there is having an extremely Classy Ass Evening!
Peace, Love, Good Vibes!
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There sure are a lot of plankton accounts, the key to steemit success is them sticking around
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here for the long haul 😎 nice to meet you!
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I wish I could get into this ship little early:
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😀😀 me too bro!!
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If u have power to make someone happy do it, the world needs more of that...
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congratulations, it is a nice work and great innovative work. thanks for sharing such a valuable blog.
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Contratulation sir.
Keep up it because i like it.
Best regards from
sujonxr.
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Thank for sharing this post sir@fred703
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Welcome to Steem, @whatsup!
I am a bot coded by the SteemPlus team to help you make the best of your experience on the Steem Blockchain!
SteemPlus is a Chrome, Opera and Firefox extension that adds tons of features on Steemit.
It helps you see the real value of your account, who mentionned you, the value of the votes received, a filtered and sorted feed and much more! All of this in a fast and secure way.
To see why 3126 Steemians use SteemPlus, install our extension, read the documentation or the latest release : Steemplus 2.18.
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Inspirational! The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. We steemians must stand together!
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Lol love your content! Nothing better than good old star wars facts! :P
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great post
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sadly i missed this. I was kind of in a slump, acedia, whatever you call it.
Was checking all the musicans that introduced themselves.
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This is a great idea...I think this can help get us exposure...
I have been over here just for a week and I am still trying to get to know things...
I would like to say a big hello to everyone over here...
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Lots of people on steem with great content, but getting no traction.
No-one on here is interested in learning programming as evidenced by my programming tutorials. So far I have published 4 complete courses on dtube.
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Welcome to Steemit whatsup. Let me know if you got any questions about Steem or anything related to it! The official FAQ can be found here and has A LOT of information https://steemit.com/faq.html - Also remember, Steemit is just ONE of the sites built that uses Steem the blockchain. We also have DTube - our very own Youtube, DSound for Soundcloud and Steepshot if you prefer Instagram like experience. I'd also like to mention ChainBB - forums, Busy - Steemit with more modern look basically, DMania for memes and Dlive for streaming just like in Twitch! You can also earn Steem by gaming now! Search for Steemgar if that's more your thing. Welcome to the blockchain! :)
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Congratulation and wish you all best in your success .
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Welcome to Steem @whatsup.
Do read A thumb rule for steemit minnows - 50:100:200:25 for starter tips.
Spend time reading Steem Blue Paper to know how Steem blockchain works and if you still have any queries ask them on our Ask me anything about Steemit post and we will try to answer that.
All the Best!!!
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If you are going to do this why not have it check to see if the account is new? This is bloat.
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If the bot says you are new to Steem them you must be new to Steem obviously!
Welcome to Steem, Enjoy your time here!
/s
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Please don't interrupt Whatsup at this time.
Steemladder has very helpfully instructed Whatsup to read "A thumb rule for steemit minnows," and I'm sure she's having major difficulties navigating her way through that exciting yet unfamiliar tome, as "minnows" like Whatsup need more than a little time to find their bearings in this new and scary landscape of her own Blog's page full of comments! :)
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lol
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It's probably keyed off the introduceyourself tag.
Nice work on the post BTW, it's needed. quick question is there a way to tell how many of the accounts are active in the last 30 days? In bouncing around and testing stuff out I have figured out that a load of the lower level accounts are controlled by restreem/upvote bots.
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The possibility of steemladder being a problem or error so unable to identify which one is new which is old
hahaha...
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lol
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Ah thanks for pointing that out. We are targeting #introductyourself tag May be we should exclude posts by users with rep more than 50 from our criteria. We started off with a broad filter and have been making it more specific. Will add this condition over the weekend :)
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Great! :)
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