How do you choose what to upvote at steemit?
If you care about curation at steemit, you have a plan for how you upvote. He is mine and I would love to know yours or any ideas you have about what works and what doesn’t.
My Upvote Goals
No matter what – I do not vote for garbage posts. I’m not using a bot to vote because you never know. I want to see what I’m voting for before I vote for it. I'm looking for:
- posts that will make me high rewards
- good comments on my posts
- posts that touch my heart
- comments on other people’s posts that I want to reward
- posts from my friends
Why do I care about high rewards?
- sp value is critical for success at steemit in many ways
- my higher vote amount matters in this steemit world
What posts that will make high rewards?
Here is what I vote on when looking for rewards:
- 25 – 2 days old
- good prior earnings of the author; $5+ regularly – OR I think they should be making more with their content based on what I see.
- good content on a topic that interests me
- good formatting
- good photos
- good first photo
- good blog in general
- lots of voters smaller than me
- not too many voters bigger than me
- my power not below 85%
How do I reward good comments on fitinfun steemit posts?
I upvote good comments I get in the first hours right away.
I upvote the rest of the good comments, if I get any, on the 6th day.
I upvote between 90 and 100% strength and at 60% -100% with the slider depending on many factors about the comment.
What comments are on other people’s posts that I want to reward?
I reward engagement or compliments on someone else’s post when I feel like it and have the power to vote.
Posts that touch my heart
See my feed – I pretty much need to be touched by something to resteem your post. I upvote everything I resteem. The posts resteemed on my feed are the posts I’m promoting. The more I can increase earnings – the better.
Posts from my friends
I have some here at steemit! I’m loyal as I can be in this crazy place.
How to choose what to upvote at steemit?
That’s it! I don’t have too many votes a day since I keep my power up and this is how I use them.
I would love to know you procedures and if you are having good results.
This post is an expansion on my previous post about making income on steemit when you are a minnow like me:
Make Money Blogging on Steemit Top Tips and Checklist for Better Results!!
We might as well learn how to work this place :)
Nothing at fitinfun would be possible if I still weighed 275 pounds. Anyone can lose weight if I did!
A solid set of rules to go by. As you know I've been investigation curation, mainly out of interest and a desire to get a comparison of how folks are doing, and learn what's working for them.
I hope my next post on this will give more people an idea of how they are doing, and some clues (normally from the comments) as to improve their curation.
Cheers!
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One of my next posts on this topic will be talking about you and your posts because they are so helpful to me. I can't wait to see the next one. I should have mentioned your awesome work in this one.
I'm going to be posting about curation all week. I have 4-5 posts to go if not more. I am going to crack this nut! I'm doing better already. I got .222 on one of my curations this week!
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.2 is huge at your current SP!
I'll check in to see what you are up to and hope to do my next update on Tuesday or weds.
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Thank you! now I'm proud. You just watch me lol. I was very good at payday with meowth on pokemon and this is just the same but more details. Somehow, curation hits my brain in the right way.
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Have you tried Streemian to automatically make curation upvote for you?
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No, because I want to see what I'm upvoting. I promote these posts on my feed, chat, twitter, fb, linkedIn etc, so I want to make sure I really want to upvote.
I'm not ruling it out for the future though. What is your experience?
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I keep it on all the time and use it for passive income so it just keeps curating all the time. You can select the curation trail you want to follow.
The above image shows my curation rewards through the day on steemnow.com. If I did not use Streemian not many bar charts would be shown and hence not much curation rewards being made. If I had more SP then obviously the curation rewards would be higher. Using Streemian also does not stop you from manually curating post that you like.
If you look at some of the successful steemian on steemnow.com, you will find their curation rewards are huge and probably round the clock. So imo don't let your manual curation get in the way of making more money to build up your SP faster. You can build up your SP now to do good things later.
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Hmm... something more to look into! The whole idea is to grow my sp faster so I don't want to eliminate something that works.
But aren't those people with the huge rewards people with huge sp to begin with? I feel like I'm doing pretty good by hand-picking and promoting. For most of what I upvote, I also comment and promote in other places which increases rewards for me as an author and a curator. Do you go look at these posts you upvote or not? Would in be easy to find them through that system?
I have a few people who look at my feed and upvote behind me since they know that the little posts I upvote have a chance of getting big by the time payout comes. I usually vote under $2 and most of the posts I vote on will far exceed that.
I know we can't compare due to our various levels, but my curation yesterday was .700 with about 1200 sp. I feel like I want to stay in control of what I'm doing but if I can improve by following someone else - maybe I would.
I use steemnow and I have never seen that nice bar chart. How do you get that? I want it now!!!!
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You see the arrow on my image file. Just click that little icon to which the arrow is pointed and the bar chart will show.
Check https://steemd.com/@marcusxman to see the post I have been upvoting via steemian. No, I do not read the posts that are being automatically upvoted. I don't know which post are being voted on until they show up on steemd.com.
However I read somewhere that it is said if your reward is too small for calculation by Steemit then it will be considered as zero so SP is important.
I do do manual curation and also comment and I usually make comments using chainbb.com to get that extra upvote reward from @jesta.
Do you also use www.steemvoter.com.
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lol - have not heard of steemvoter either. You are a wealth of information!
I did look at your curation and see the .001's coming in like mad. I mostly am over .03 now at least and hope to grow that. I definitely have way less volume of voting than you do.
I get what you are saying about set it and forget it, but I really am trying to help some minnows succeed. I think my .13 or so vote helps more than the .01 and that my promotion and commenting helps them too.
According to @penguinpablo the average post only gets 3 comments and you know half of those are from bots.
Yes, it is true that if your vote is too small [compared to all other votes] you will get nothing. I tested that when I first got here. Now my goal is to be in the top 20 upvoters and if I am in the top 10 - even better. When that happens I can get a pretty high reward from some of the posts.
I got my steemnow bar chart!!! Thank you so much. That will keep me on track. I will come back and upvote your comment when I get some power back. That was worth more than I can upvote you but just pretend I have a $10 upvote :)
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You should also get your SP from http://www.minnowbooster.net/ . I think that your upvotes are a bit more powerful etc... if you lease SP from minnowbooster.net. Though you have to pay to get SP as others will delegate the requested SP for a price.
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Finally you mention something I am actually doing lol. I have 3 delegated sp leases and might get 4 - not sure. But I will definitely keep this up until I'm about 5000 sp on my own. I cannot believe the difference my "huge" .13 vote makes. I outvote whales frequently since they have no power and vote at 5%.
I'm paying 28 STEEM a month for this effect right now. I just started at the end of August and I wish I would have started as soon as I had the sbd to do it.
And I buy the upgoat thing on the 6th day if I qualify now. I figure this gives a better benefit to my upvoting "fans" and recycles some sbd into sp at the same time. I'm really happy with this plan so far but open to your thoughts. I don't do it early since I think it looks trashy. So I just wait until the end.
With the upgoat, I also don't feel so sick and sad about my own low post payouts since I made them bigger! I delude myself!
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I saw your rewards for curation and I am very impressed. After all you put in the work to find these posts and I commend you for that. Unfortunately I am not as astute as you so i will have to manage with the smaller rewards ;-)
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That's not true! If you had the desire you could do this too! It's all a matter of finding what interests you here and jumping on it.
Somehow I'm all fascinated by the preppers, homeschoolers, and homesteaders, even though I live in a hotel with no kitchen and no kids now. I have those type of people on twitter too, so I hope I get interest that way. I'm getting rt's anyway :)
Thanks for the compliment. I'm on a mission with this curation business. I have no money to invest so I have to grow my sp from curation and author rewards.
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You can auto up vote accounts you trust or close friends. You can make / join a guild on Streamian and get a significant boost. You'd need to meet the criteria though.
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But still - I'm careful of my voting power and I don't want to upvote "all" of my friend's posts in many cases. They might post on two topics and I only have interest in one. Plus you never know until you look what is in the post.
What kind of criteria do they have?
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There's none. It's just an auto trust. So it may not be for you.
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Yes, I think I am too ocd for that :)
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I also use chainbb.com to make comments and sometime post. You get an upvote from @jesta everytime you make a comment or post through chainbb.com. A way of making a bit more rewards for your posts. If you scroll through some of my comments you will notice that most of them have been upvoted by @jesta resulting in some reward.
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chainbb.com is a new one on me! What is it?
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Its like all the other services provided like busy.org and esteem etc... It takes the form of a bulletin board format whilst others are of s different format to suit different people's taste. Link: https://beta.chainbb.com
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Oh - now you mention others I'm not familiar with. I am trying to stay here at steemit! This may not be my best plan with what happened here this weekend, but I am up to my eyeballs already in the learning curve.
I'm not very tech-y. I tried discord for 5 minutes and got out of that one. Are these similar?
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ChainBB.com is just a conduit to Steemit and just presented in another format. You can post and make comment through chainbb.com instead of logging in to Steemit. Not like Discord at all.
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Oh - ok. It's on the list...
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For my upvotes, I don't have too many rules, but there are a few. This first and most important is content. I search the new page everyday for at least 15-20 minutes for new steemians who have just started out here. It is so important to find fresh talent on this platform and although my vote isn't worth that much, I'm sure it feels good to get an upvote. If someone puts effort into a post I like to give them an upvote, its as simple as that.
Conversely, I stay away from the posts which only took a few seconds to throw together, where the author clearly has one intention in mind.
Making your own profit off of curation is important, but for me thats more of a secondary thing. I leave a comment on almost all posts I upvote, I suppose I just like the human side of it, with some real interaction to go along with my vote.
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I agree with the commenting idea and try to do that for most posts I upvote. The average post here gets less than three upvotes, so most comments are welcome whether you upvote or not :)
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Agreed. I just try and look at it like, you never know how much a good comment can effect another person, maybe your one comment puts that person in a better mood and their actions are changed for the better because of it. Kind of like the butterfly effect
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Maybe if we comment - it will convince them to. I get great results from mine in every way.
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I'm still learning about how Steemit really works and often feel that I would not like to be stingy with the upvotes; but it seems to one has to only upvote the very finest of posts. I'm wondering how long it will take to lose my Facebook style liking habits.
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I liked everything when I first got here because I like everything everywhere!
Now I keep my power above 85% and have all kinds of upvoting rules in my head. But the main thing for me is to upvote the good stuff to reward it and try to make a difference in encouraging the other person.
This is not an easy place to learn, but I think it is worth it.
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i reckon it is pointless seeking to make money from curation until you have a huge bank of SP - i seek to develop loyal relationships, and make my money from the occassional post that makes a few dollars. If i was hung up about making curation money, then i wouldn't upvote you now at 6 minutes. Then i would get distracted and you would miss out, at least if i get the money out of my head i can reward nearly every post that i read. To many people on Steemit are rewards focused, and it is ruining the whole platform, as no one will upvote the minnows anymore. Good well written blog, have a great weekend. D
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Thank you! Much more to come since I am in fact focused on making the income from curation. You can see what I upvote on my feed and I feel like I'm supporting as best I can with my 14 cents :)
I get what you are saying about no one supporting minnows, but I have to start somewhere or I can't afford to be here at all.
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Another helpful post for us new here on the platform! Keep it up! Looking forward to our Thai/Steemian Farang dinner tonight. See you at 6:30!
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Thank you! I thought you would be off exploring!
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Yes indeed. Spent a couple hours at Chatuchak market got a good 45 "real life captured" photos to share with my steemit friends. Got back before the rain started pouring down.
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Oh that's good. This one is kind of exciting. Hopefully will blow through. I got some thunder into a video. Very loud!
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Why do you upvote later comments on the 6th day?
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So that I have them "all" to look at and decide. Sometimes I'm talking to someone and the 4th out of 8 comments is there best one. Also I review the whole post, proofread again, and follow the commenters I wasn't following.
And it reminds people of me. They commented a few days ago and now they are being upvoted. So sometimes they come back right away and keep commenting or go to one of my other posts.
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Upvoted, followed and resteemed great post fitinfun :D
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Thank you - how nice of you. Good luck here. It's not easy, but I think it is worth it. Followed you back.
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Good strategy, I think the practice of random voting is an old habit from other social media sites. Steemit is different in that you're better off supporting only what you truly like and believe in. For example me with your post! Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you! I followed you now. You are right that the voting procedures here have to be so much different than on other platforms. In other places I like, like, like, because I do like everything! Here - I have to be choosy and plan my timing :)
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Loads of information. Many thanks. Love it. @fitinfun Followed
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Thank you! What happened to your rep?
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"No matter what – I do not vote for garbage posts"
This is should be the main stream for those that want a quality growth of the SteemIt.
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Luckily we do have lots of quality posts. It takes some work to find the good ones, but it's worth it :)
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I guess that this is have being happen because there are some people that bring to the SteemIt just thinking to earning money, like as money "easier". And they forget that to earn something and have a good valorization, It's essentials that they work and work had. Putting quality on they text. Something that you did in this post. You did a great job for common good the SteemIt. Really great! ;D
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Thank you! Be sure to look at the post I referenced above for making money with the green poster. That will help a lot for you and for your circle of steemers too :) We can promote good posts and do well for ourselves with good strategies.
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@reported has voted on behalf of @minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowpond on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond. To be Resteemed to 4k+ followers and upvoted heavier send 0.25SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo
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I should care more about this shouldn't I? LOL
But literally I just upvote things I like and find valuable for me and the community.
Don't think to much about the profit I can make of my upvotes.
(maybe it is time to start thinking about that)
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You can most definitely just upvote what you like and not worry about it. This is not for everyone. I will do a post about the actual benefit for time spent. It's probably not going to be good until I am around 3000 sp. You can just upvote as you like and post more - but be sure to comment a lot.
Did you see my old post about how to make money here? Just pick the things you like and do them and improve on those - ignore the rest.
Make Money Blogging on Steemit Top Tips and Checklist for Better Results!!
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You are becoming a professional on this :D I am so glad to see that :D And I am so happy for You.
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I'm trying to work this place to make rewards while people do not read my posts too much. In the beginning it is all about connections and then hopefully that goes forward.
You can do it too, my friend. You are very good at posting and interacting so you have an edge. Also you have a strong voice - unique compared to others. There are selfie contests here almost every day. Find them and enter!
And - you are 52 rep now so you are almost an old-timer :) Let's just keep trying :)
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Thank You so much for the nice words. I think I will let it flow and keep working hard as I always do. And maybe one day I will breakthrough. And Your strategy it is very clever and a good way to go. :D
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You're welcome. This is not an easy place, but I see the potential for both of us :)
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Good rules!! resteemed! And upvoted :) The upvoting is a good tip - hard to follow if you are a small, small fish :) I learned from you about keeping voting power up and while it is hard - I want to vote for so many good posts - I think it is very good advice. If the voting power goes too low, the vote doesn't benefit anyone :(
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Exactly! I really had to break myself of like, like, like here. I feel like commenting is also a good way to show support. The average post has less than three comments so you are usually welcome even if you can't upvote.
I upvoted your recent post - I hope you can get the photo changed and then I will promote. Good for you on the kudos - it always helps make a better day.
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Thank you so much I did change it to Jpg. Still not showing. Then I changed the size - thought it might have been to0 small. Still - nada. Little bit frustrated with that.
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Don't know Why my Canva graphics don't work as thumb nails. Frustrating!!
I know you are going for SEO here and such. You might know this, but here is a hack to get a short slug without stop words. Just write the words you want to be in your slug in the title. Publish, Then immediately edit to the title you want to show on the platform. And update :)
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Brilliant! No I have not thought of that but now I will do it always! The short slug makes a huge difference and mondayred does nothing but add confusion lol.
Your other thumbnails show - maybe try copying the canva file and re-exporting the jpeg. I've had glitches with it a few times - always my fault as I investigate :)
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I just moved the YouTube into the first position. Downloaded it 4 different ways. So frustrating. Basically, I can't do a graphic in the thumbnail until I have found a different program
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Yikes! What are you downloading to? Can you email it to yourself direct from canva? Feel free to email it to me if you want to try that lol.
I've had troubles, but I always got something I can use. The You tube thumbnail looks fine though so don't worry - put your graphic back below somewhere and it will not matter if it is a jpg or png.
I also tried this - only having one canva graphic in the file. So I don't have to choose to export only page 1 because there is only one page. I can't remember why I had to do that for someplace once but it worked.
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I figured it out! just couldn't think any more last night. If I upload it to igmur and use the markdown link from there - it works !! I was downloading it to my desktop, then ran it through Tiny - now, I have to add this extra step....
Just for the thumbnail. The other graphics show up fine in the text.
Learned something new!! yay!!
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Oh that's great. I'm glad it worked. Yes, it is only the thumbnail that has ever been a problem for me.
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Sharon, what do you use to make your graphics? I am using canva and the thumbnail I did does show fine in the post but does not show up as the thumbnail :(
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I use canva as well - the thumbnail needs to be a jpeg and the rest can be pngs. Just re-export from canva and replace the png with the jpeg and you will be fine :)
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Thank you!!
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As a follower of @followforupvotes this post has been randomly selected and upvoted! Enjoy your upvote and have a great day!
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