Vlog 18: Giving up on Steemit Posts

james212 (56) · 8 years ago (edited)

I think that is the right attitude. When you do things for love, the money inevitably will follow (sooner or later). People that are posting for money are looking at things backwards IMO. Money is the effect of a fulfilling life and doing this you love, not the cause of it.

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tinfoilfedora (63) · 8 years ago

Until there is a tip button, it is all just fishing for whales.

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starcaptain (37) · 8 years ago

A tip button would be a great addition! A one step action to donate STEEM or STEEM Dollars to a particular post or profile.

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winstonwolfe (71) · 8 years ago (edited)

How's it going @trevonjb ?
You and a few other people are whose videos I saw before joining up myself last week. Since then, I've had to come to the same conclusion. There are so many people here who walked in with such high expectations that they ended up disappointed.

I'm one of them.

I'm a photographer with 18 years experience and TONS of content to post. None of it made very much. In fact, I found that simply replying other people's posts (particularly the more influential big fish) has helped me earn more money than what I've earned with my own stuff. The key is to jump in there and offer some insight or point that others can get down with. In the past 36 hours, I've made over $700 from 2 replies to posts made by whales. My own content made maybe $60-80.
So, I'm flipping my script and only posting when I know something could potentially be hot. Otherwise, my main focus is going to be to try and make conversation. Interact with others, be human to them, let them know I know they're human too.
So far, it's working. Go figure, right? ;-)

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trevonjb (74) · 8 years ago

I see what you did there....

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brianphobos (70) · 8 years ago

I understand your thinking on this. It will be interesting to see how it changes the reward system after the hardfork is completed tomorrow.

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winstonwolfe (71) · 8 years ago

It works though. lol
There's already an incentive in this place not to be assholes to one another, so intelligent conversation could very well go a long way. Besides, what better place than to make money while making friends? There's no reason we can't get to a point where we start recognizing each other's names...like I did here. The video of yours I saw was you driving in your car, talking about the pennies slowly rising when you get your upvotes.

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alexgr (66) · 8 years ago

This is the way content should be produced. Do your own thing, if people like it that's fine. If they don't, that's fine. But at least you've expressed the way you liked.

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4 votes

moose (48) · 8 years ago

Can't blame you man

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cryptodon (51) · 8 years ago

I right there with you Trevon :)

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karenb54 (73) · 8 years ago

It's pointless chasing the money as it may never come we may aswell enjoy what we're doing and if one day we get lucky then that's fine. keep posting and smiling :)

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paco (63) · 8 years ago

Never give up. Steemit is an emotional ride (aka social media) Live yours and do you!!

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4 votes

steemwhit (50) · 8 years ago

Hi! I really appreciate your perspective. I think the value of content here is in it being organically produced and genuine. Keep posting your insights, I am following!

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kakradetome (65) · 8 years ago

That's the way to go@trevonjb. Love your vids :)

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arcaneinfo (62) · 8 years ago (edited)

Commenting and voting been my only way in the means of trying to gain cash, like you stated its really catered money wise for the people with power. I voted for u just now and turned your 26 cents to 85 cents with the help of a few others just now, guess I'm gaining some small power!

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cybercodetwins (54) · 8 years ago

To make better content or become better, people are given the power to help influence their creative works. commenting is one of them :)

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cloveandcinnamon (57) · 8 years ago

This is the way to go. I've posted a rant a couple days ago and also changed the way I'm approaching steemit from now on. I'll talk about my true passions and try to write good stuff.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

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pheonike (62) · 8 years ago (edited)

The new rules started tomorrow will make so making more than 4 post in a 24r will penalize the payout of the post. This should make people more focused on providing good content and making less spam post that just that are clogging the system.

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cybercodetwins (54) · 8 years ago (edited)

where did you find this information at? got an article?

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pheonike (62) · 8 years ago

You need to follow the steemitblog https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-version-0-12-0-released

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rigel (39) · 8 years ago

The first concern when publishing a post should be make it as good as possible, not making money out of it.
So I fully support your statement

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lukewarm (35) · 8 years ago

I wholly agree with your sentiments Trevon. Steemit has descended into the uber-whack realm. It has unfortunately been a huge disappointment so far for the majority of the users.

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moonjelly (54) · 8 years ago

Well I don't know about that but there's certainly a lot to improve. Success is already on their side and they really need to implement key features like Trevor here mentioned (notifications, following, communities maybe). Right now it's a complete mess full of spam and mediocre 5-10k posts, we can all see that.

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thecryptofiend (74) · 8 years ago

I think right now part of the problem is insufficient voters compared to posters. That and the disproportionate voting power of the whales. Perhaps a mechanism where you had to vote a certain number of times before being able to post would help.

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starcaptain (37) · 8 years ago

As with anything, success comes with time, effort, and perseverance. Part of the issue is that Steemit's user base is still relatively small and only and small number of members have enough STEEM Power to cast votes to make a post big money. That will slowly change over time as more and more people join and the early adopters start accumulating larger amounts of STEEM Power. Todays "minnows" will become tomorrow's "dolphins" whose votes will be worth much more. Just keep working on developing a following on the platform and in a year or two it may start becoming lucrative for you. Just wait for your "minnows" following you to morph into dolphins later. Given the rate of compound interest for STEEM Power holders, it won't take a long time before the early adopters start accumulating some serious voting power (and wealth!)

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