Personal reflection of steem-bounty (Bounty for quality comments)

I have not written articles for personal growth for a long time ever since I started actively writing educational articles using @steemiteducation tag.

I am aware that many of my followers followed me when I first started because I usually shared ideas of growth through my experience in steemit.

I have recently used @steem-bounty for the first time.

I would like to write some thoughts about it.

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The driver behind @steem-bounty

The main driver behind @steem-bounty is @knircky.

I have been reading his posts about his regular workout routine to keep fit.

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Although they were short posts but the fact that he has such determination to regularly exercise to keep fit really is a shame to us who work, eat and sleep daily.

We have neglected our need for regular exercise. I have developed quite a belly to compete with a pregnant lady for sure.

His posts do act as a good reminder to me the need for fitness.

Can you imagine for a man with heavy commitment with work and yet he is able to stay fit with regular exercise?

Modern society with heavy stress in our day job has given us too much excuses of tiredness due to heavy commitment.

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He is really a nice role model for us to stay fit and yet do well in our daily job.

Learn how to balance your work and health!

I decided to give @steem-bounty a try since the main driver behind it is such a great guy.

To be frank, @steem-bounty may not necessary be a profitable project but @knircky probably wanted to find ways to excite the platform for more reflective readers rather than comment bots.

The fact is that no self-voting of your own comment is allowed and you can get downvoted for doing so.

Quality comments are really what authors would like to have.

Using @steem-bounty

It is not hard to use @steem-bounty at all.

Just go to your wallet and transfer to @steem-bounty the amount.

Put your link into memo.

This is exactly the same way how you buy upvotes from bots actually.

Click here to find out more about steem-bounty

You can see how easy it is to set a bounty and the rest just leaves it to the system.

No hassle!

Personal opinions of the benefits of using @steem-bounty

The below points are just some of my personal thoughts about the benefits of using @steem-bounty.

Newbies

Newbies who first joined usually found it hard to find readers to their articles.

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Their posts get drown into the ocean with other articles almost the same moment when they post it.
You are literally competing with other fishes in this great ocean.

Getting a regular pool of supporters and friends is really crucial in the beginning stage especially when you have low steem power.

@steem-bounty can be another form of support and marketing for your article as @steem-bounty does collate articles with bounties as a summary.

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There are definitely bounty hunters as well as newbies themselves who would like to gain some bounties to help with their own building of accounts. It is definitely a win-win for both sides.

By putting in some SBD as bounty for your article, you can attract more to read your article before posting a comment.

Since self-voting is not allowed, the author can actually downvote the comment.

In my opinion, @steem-bounty is another way to increase your visibility in steemit as well as getting more followers.

I must admit that setting up @steem-bounty does not mean you would definitely get noticed immediately.

It is not an instant noodle but it is just another form of marketing your article to get visibility.

Bounty distribution

In simple, the bounty distribution depends on the amount of upvotes that the commenters received.

80% voting weight comes from the creators while 20% comes from the community.

At the end of 7 days, the bounty would be distributed on its own by the system.

An important point that I would like to repeat is not to self-vote as it is not allowed and it is considered as an abuse to the system.

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You would probably get downvoted when you do upvote your own comment.
Really easy and simple where all benefit.

Quite a cool and easy way for me since I just tried it not long ago.

Appreciative act for article

Every article of some length must have taken time to create.

If you have enjoyed an article and found it useful, it is really important to give the author an upvote of approval and encouragement so that he/she would put in more effort to create more of such articles.

I understand the attractiveness of a bounty for comment made but it will definitely be an abuse if you comment what you really don’t read or like to please the author to gain a bit of upvote.

It is really disgusting to do so.

Most serious content creators do hate such comments and I have read articles that they really intend to downvote these comments.

When I do visit an article and I decide to leave a comment, you will usually find an upvote to it too.

Appreciative content creators do welcome me to their articles and sometimes I may even mention some of them to help them to gain more attention.

Don’t comment to aim for a bounty but comment when you really mean it.

Give an upvote when you find deserving authors who can write well with large amount of time and effort invested.

The true essence behind @steem-bounty to me is really to encourage more active readers and help the authors to get real visitors to their articles.

Gaining visibility can be quite hard and @steem-bounty is another nice way to do so.

In conclusion

Every good initiative can have abused.

For a successful initiative to work, we must follow the rules to build a good foundation for steemit platform.

This article is purely my personal thoughts and opinions so it does not represent @steem-bounty or @knircky in anyway.

I am definitely not paid by @knircky for making this article but I definitely welcome an upvote for sure.

This article was made purely based on my own opinion and inspiration to do so.

In fact, there are plenty of @steem-bounty articles around in steemit.

I am just a small fish still swimming and surviving in this ocean.

Whatever you read, you really need to do your own research and decide if it is a system that you want to explore.

This is the end of my article and I hope you find it useful.

Appreciate your support and recognition for the effort that I put in for this article!

Disclaimer: This is my personal reflection and I am not in any position to instruct anyone what they should do. I am not responsible for any action taken as a result of this post. My post can only be a reference for your further research and growth. By reading this post, you acknowledge and accept that. All images and pictures were taken from google images that are free from copyright under labelled for reuse.