This weekend Steem turned three years old. I joined about six months after it started and have seen a lot of changes in that time. I might have hoped it would be a lot bigger by now. As it is we have about 1.2 million accounts according to the stats from @arcange. Of those most are pretty much inactive. I started the #TenKMinnows initiative to try to increase the engaged users. It has been fairly successful as we have over 80 more minnows than when it started a month ago, but we cannot take credit for all of them. We may not add 250 in March as @paulag hoped, but it is an improvement. Does anyone know which whale dropped to orca?
Over this weekend I have seen several people we have helped get to minnow. I hope this is just a step on their journey to greater things:
Meanwhile I have been claiming accounts with my resource credits. I think you need a few thousand SP to be able to do this, but I can claim several each week and I had built up a few. I had already created one for my cat, @mildredcat, to try it out and also a couple for people I know, but I wanted to use up some more. I advertised this on Twitter and it went a little crazy thanks to lots of re-tweets.
Several of these people have contacted me via DM or email and I have created six accounts so far using SteemWorld by @steemchiller. That makes it very simple.
I then email the keys to each person with some guidance on how to proceed. I do include a few of my referral links in case they choose to use them, but I do not expect payment for this service. I tell them they ought to change their keys as soon as possible.
Two of the six already had small Steem accounts and wanted an extra one for a different topic or a friend. I will not say who they all are at this point as I do not think any are really active yet. I have delegated some SP to those who need it as you cannot operate an account with none. I will be reviewing their status over the next month or so. I am being a little choosy in who I add as some of them had nothing original on Twitter.
I have posted the same offer to Facebook, Google+ (shutting down very soon), Minds and Bitlanders. Feel free to share my tweet link elsewhere if you cannot claim accounts yourself.
I'm doing all this because I want Steem to grow and be better. That could happen if we can get enough creative people active here so that there is enough good content to bring in people of all interests. It really needs some big names, but I do not have access to those. We also need lots more active accounts who will vote up the good stuff.
The success of Steem is down to us all.
Steem on!
The geeky guitarist and facilitator of the 10K Minnows Project.
- I'll buy guitar picks for Steem
- Get a Wirex Debit Card to spend your crypto.
- Get some passive income with Mannabase
- Get paid to search at Presearch
- Battle for cards on Steem Monsters or drugs in Drug Wars
- I have Steem accounts to give away to worthy people!
Damn, that's older than some peoples mental capacity on here. 😂
But anyway, Happy Birthday Steem!!! 🎆🎇🎂🎂🎂😀
Since the gold rush ended at first half of last year it has definitely stagnated quite a bit. There was a big burst of growth during that period.
Glad that is going well 😊What is involved in this task?
I was talking to @reazuliqbal about account claims the other day, I think he said it was almost 5k SP. Around about that.
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With my 4.9K effective SP I can claim 2 tokens in 8 days without affecting my daily activities.
#TenKMinnows is a great initiative. I love what you do for Steem @steevc. :)
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#TenKMinnows is just an effort to push more people up to minnow level. We have targeted those who were close to start with and you can see it is working. If a few more dolphins would dedicate their votes to the 'small fry' we could boost a lot more.
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Ah cool, so they use the #tenkminnows tag, I will be sure to check it out. After I walk Xander, it's getting late. hehe
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There's a @tenkminnows account that re-steems posts that could do with extra votes to help them out. I'm happy for people to vote less for me if they support those who struggle to make much.
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Nice, followed. 👍 Also wrote down on my list for future delegations.
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Happy birthday to Steem! And, with luck and more good content, it will last for many more.
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I don’t understand this account creation using RCs. I only recently created a couple of accounts via Steem connect and I needed to pay some Steem as part of the process.
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I'm not sure if you have enough SP to do this, but you could try powering up all you have. With what I have it takes 60% of my RC for each claimed account. It costs me no Steem at all. The new accounts get no SP by default, so need a delegation.
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Ok thanks good to know. Will look into it some more.
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I'm trying reach the minnow status. I'm pretty much doing on my own, but I wouldn't mind some help. @onepagex
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As we work through the potential minnows we should get to you. Just make sure you have some posts for us to vote on and keep working at it.
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OK thank you.
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Nice initiative. I’m stockpiling accounts myself, mainly with my upcoming comic launch & conventions in mind, but I’ve been thinking about sending out some targeted invites soon. I use steeminvite.com. It has a nice system to it which allows you to send out an invite email link so the end user takes care of choosing account name, saving keys, etc.
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I tried https://steeminvite.com but it wouldn't let me click on the button to send the invitation. Is the 'label' supposed to be the account name?
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Hmmm... I’ll have a look at it when I get home tonight. I only went through the process once and sent it to myself as an experiment & to set up an account for a friend. Gotta refresh myself on the steps and see if anything changed!
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I should have a look at that. Anything that makes the task simpler is welcome. I hope you, @blewitt and others can make Steem a big thing in the #comics world.
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I really need more SP to start claiming accounts... once the market reverses I will shill STEEM to my friends and I'm sure I'll need a couple of accounts to give to them. Lol you made an account for your cat ahahah, nice one! I made an alt account a couple of weeks ago for my actifit journey but haven't used it much, I really need to start using it more...
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I just wanted another account to experiment with. That one is powering up and voting for people, but won't post much.
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wow awesome results on setting up new accounts and the tweet. That's a really good achievement.
And yes its awesome to see these new minnows, let home we can help and encourage many more for a long time to come
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What is the point/use of having multiple accounts? Is it worth for new users as well?
I mean isn't posting from each once daily the same as posting 2 times from one account?
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There are some who will abuse it to vote up each of their accounts, but some may want to serve different audiences. I know some who do all their Actifit posts from a different account so they don't fill up their main feed. We are allowed to have as many as we want, but I think Steemit aim to only supply one per person as they have to delegate to those.
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Oh yeah, I understand :) As of now one account feels already a bit grindy for me, so maybe later I'll have some others too. Also often the drugwars fight reports, "see what I opened today on Steemmonsters", etc. posts are not seen as high-quality posts, so it is indeed a good idea not to have them on your main account.
I just realized that on multiple accs you could farm the steemmonsters dailies multiple times. If you gather the cards to one of your profiles you can have so powerful decks...
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I'm sure people do run multiple Steem Monsters decks, but you would have to buy cards for each of them. I don't have time for that.
What I'd like is to be able to filter what tags I follow for certain people to keep the feed under control. Maybe one of the dapps will add this.
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Thanks for this @steevc
I think I’ll create one for my missus
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I want an account please
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Having seen your low rep and what you comment I have to decline. Sorry, but you will have to find someone else to do it for you.
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Ohhh what I comment is not right? I see. I guess I committed wrongthink on here. Ok
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My choice. Call it what you want. The fact that it took you two months to respond implies you would not make much use of it anyway. Flagging me was totally pointless.
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That is really awesome that you are using your RC's do claim those accounts and give them out to people. We definitely need to be seeing the platform grow with some high quality users!
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I'm doing what I can. Got another account to create when I get home.
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