It is obvious that with a financial incentive built into steemit, people are going to want to maximize their gains as much as possible. However, like most ventures in life, it is important to look for the long term gains, instead of using reckless tactics to score big in the short term.
One trend that I have noticed on steemit which may be counter productive is the fact that many people adamantly tell their followers to "upvote" their posts. For people already on steemit, who already know how the upvoting process works, this can definitely come across as pushy and make people less interested in your work.
This would be similar to a Facebook friend saying "LIKE THIS POST" at the end of everything they posted.
It is understandable to want to educate Facebook users and people new to Steemit about how the voting process works, but they honestly don't care about upvoting or getting anyone paid, what they are interested in is the content. So when someone approaches them with something that seems similar to a sales pitch, they will focus on that and could lose interest in the content altogether.
Also, if they see a bunch of different people making posts that appear to be spammy from the same website, they may lose interest in that website.
As with building any website, the key to long term gains is consistently putting out interesting content. If you do that, people will upvote without you even asking.
Just something to consider.
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I am constantly telling users to upvote content that moves them or makes them want to get engaged in the conversation. I try to let them know not to go around upvoting content because it thinks its going to make them rich but to upvote because they think the content is rich.
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I usually phrase it as if they enjoyed or found my posts useful to please consider an upvote. I guess it is how you word and approach the request. Can you see your point that eventually this will be like Facebook and it would get a little annoying to see it at the end of every post, but I think Steemit is new enough with enough new users coming in that it is still a reasonable request.
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Upvoting itself can be a hassle...but without it here you end up in minnow world...the sheer amount of content in itself is impossible to read...quality content does help...but it's the upvotes(& who's upvoting) to get good stuff to rise to the top!
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I tend to disagree too. If the reader reaches the bottom they likely enjoyed the read or wouldn't have finished it. I don't see anything wrong with a reminder, especially like NOW. I went straight to comment as I finished and by passed voting. It is too easy to leave not realizing I forgot to up vote it.
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I shared my first post in a few freedom-oriented groups I am in and on my FB page. I asked for people to take a look and if they wanted to upvote, it would be appreciated. I made $0.03 on the article. I posted my second article just recently and shared it only to my FB wall, no other groups, still made $0.03.
I see a lot of authors sharing their content to groups and asking for upvotes, and I am FB friends with many of them, but I do not really know them. I do not feel comfortable tagging people like Sterlin Luxan or Luis Mises, who I know have the SP to bump my posts. I will continue to post articles, albeit slower than I thought, but will see what I can get going organically. I feel less like a mooch and more like a contributor that way. I may stay a minnow forever, but my posts I pour my soul into and who knows what might happen.
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