So you've been blogging on steemit like a legend for the past few months, slamming out shitposts but every so often you pull out a humdinger of a post, it's kinda the nature of the beast am I right?
You grind out in the comments section, you upvote some cool shit, you dabble in some bot work, join some communities and grow your account. You didn't give a damn about the price even though people are leaving in their droves, you stick it out, you're a purist you're here for more than just juicy gains, right?
You're there to build up an account with some real influence and earning potential and while your earnings aren't that great you're looking at your follower count and reputation as your saving grace. It's constantly going up and that's a good thing right? Mo rep, mo followers, eventually mo money, right? Well, not really that simple but I get the thinking behind it
Giving up on Steemit
I think its safe to say Steemit has gone full tits up in the wind, I'm already seeing cobwebs and tumbleweeds on my feed, the place is dead fam! While the bleeding started with smaller accounts jumping ship I've seen bigger accounts go into hibernation, delegate their SP to smartsteem or minnowbooster and say fuckit, send me my residuals I'll be back when this thing is worth something again.
Not very inspiring for someone who is basically in the middle of nowhere with their account but fuckit, imma ride this sucker till the wheels fall off. Let's all try to resuscitate steemit with the help of Micheal Scott
Behind the followers
Oh, so where was I? Oh yes back to the non-financial numbers you can count on for account growth, yeah well don't count on it. I have like over 1000 followers, whoop tee doo! Big boy account, not!
If you hit up http://www.steemspectacles.com/ and drop your handle in you will be exposed to the painful, sad and awful truth. Your followers ain't worth shit.
Of my 1150 followers 1051 are ghosts (Active Steemians who didn't engage with you in the last 100 posts), now that doesn't help much now does it. So basically I got like less than 100 peeps who gave a crap in the last 100 posts.
Reputation vs User Authority
So at least we have a reputation right? Wrong! Rep can easily be gamed, send a few upvote bots big ass bids and boom you're a stud, rep of 50+ with little or no effort. Who has time to interact and comment and curate and be a good person on the blockchain anyway? Just give me my gains bro!
So I have a so-called rep of 58 but my UI is 2.720 well out of 10, I think, it's not too great but hey at least it's not 0 and not inflating my ego.
I'm also currently ranked 12 939 not too sure if that's good or bad, I'm going to go with good on account that there are over a million Steemit accounts and around 60k active at any given point in time, so I guess I'm up there, wherever there is!
To find out more about user authority check out the intro post!
Why so serious?
So yeah, pretty depressing but i'm still here, try to get rid of me, I double dare you! Steemit is fun dudes and dudets, like seriously, I think if you relax a little you will be doing just fine, try to understand Steemit does want you as a fan.
Let me put it into perspective for you. You were shit posting on other social media platforms willingly for likes and comments that didn't pay for over 10 years now you rock up here after 10 weeks and think you're going to be the cats pajammies and we're going to laud your contributions with 100s of dollars?
No one is that funny, cute and smart ok? Not on Steemit! Get over it and enjoy the ride
Have at it
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You are right the followers are worthless and they aren't!
Look at the upvote value from the busy.pay bot. The value you are getting is based on the vests your followers have. So yes we all do have lots of death account, but I would be happy if I did get more than 1000 of these to follow me extra! That for sure would push my busy.pay upvote :)
Cheers,
Peter
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I didn’t know it’s my follow vests that improve my upvote that’s pretty cool! I guess you’ve just given me a little added motivation! Thanks for the wisdom
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If the steem coin price goes up again will it be back or not
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Dude I’m not sure what you’re saying or asking
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Ouch...just checked my ua:
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And I thought mine was bad, either way it’s still depressing! Living in a world of relative numbers is hard for our egos
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One thing that crypto has taught me is that the long play is better than some kinda promised get rich scheme. I am happy to be making small consistent gains with a big upside potential when the masses come flocking back.
Maybe I am just an eternal optimist...maybe one day I will be sitting on a pile of Steem worth a busload...only time will tell.
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Lol I love your optimism man and I hope I can catch a seat on that bus! The way is we it is I don’t have much to lose really if it belly’s up and everything to gain if it catches on and moons!
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The platform is making us boring day by day .
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Why do you think that? We Too focused on the rewards?
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Am i winning? 👀
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Not too shabby! Half way to my rank and you’re less than 2 months in
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Lol sometimes life gives me a break you say!!! Onwards and upwards!! I think its all the commenting and trying to find like minded peeps to connect with!
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Spot on brotha. I love it and will continue to do so . F@ck FB and the Likes lol
Btw, well written post with good humor and truth to it as well ;)
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Thanks @robertandrew lol we need to find the humour in our current situation and spread it, glad you enjoyed it and got some of my terrible jokes! Lol keep your other social media likes I don’t need it! Give me SP any day! If this thing catches fire and those old accounts come running back and new money hungry peeps start joining up I’ll be here waiting for them lol
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This was inspiring, all us small accounts are sticking by Steemit in tough times only to build ourselves and get some returns in future, these auto vote bots are something different, should have some criteria for these. One guy takes 5 months of real work to get to rep 50 whereas another guy does it within a month with zero effort, unfair
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Not much we can do but keep going and hope the wealth eventually evens out and trickles down to more accounts! Currently it’s still very much in the hands of less than 1% of the 1% while some can buy themselves to the top that’s fine they investing in the platform and helping our stakes value!
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It's fine in a way that they are investing but unfair in a way that they get to the top without any effort or struggle we go through, having said that we do not really have an option but to raise a voice against it and a voice for better rules nd structure
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No have idea about what you mean there...
Great post, a necessary dosis of reality with humour, time to see the platform as it is, a social media, to share, comment, vote and enjoy the ride...
PS: I thought you were a meme user, good to know than you are more than that, starting to follow you =)
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Lol personally I have no idea either how UA metrics work I read up about it but I still need to wrap my head around it!
Totally agree man and glad to meet steemians who feel it’s not just about the money, the money is a by product of us having fun with the tool not the reason we use the platform
Well I’ll be posting a lot of random things so it’s going to be a mixed back! Followed you back
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