Following on from the rash of ‘I follow you, follow me back’ posts we have been subjected to lately, I’m now getting a bunch of - ‘I have upvotged and resteemed your post. Check me out.’ - type comments.
When I get one of these, what’s the first thing I do? Well, just in case you are thinking of writing a comment like this on my post or anyone else’s post, here is what happens.
The first thing I do is check to see if you have actually voted for my post. Since I don’t get a lot of votes, it’s really easy.
I click the little down arrow next to the vote counter to see if your name is in the list. If it isn’t, that means you didn’t vote for me.
Strike one.
Then I click on the down arrow next to your name, and click on your avatar, which takes me to your blog. If my post is not listed on your page, then you didn’t resteem me at all.
Strike two.
So what have you done by doing this?
Well, you have lied to me. It’s not a mistake. You said you had upvoted me (not that you will upvote me if I challenge you on it) and you had resteemed me, when you haven’t. That’s lying.
So now, not matter how interesting your blog might be, no matter how much effort you put into your posts, I’m NEVER going to upvote you. I’m never going to read what you write. I’m never going to follow you.
Remember, upvoting my post does not cost you anything. It’s free for you to do it. So saying you have done it when you haven’t, makes no sense.
Let’s now assume that you have upvoted and resteemed me (thanks for doing that) and I’ve checked your blog to make sure. Why would I want to visit your page? What post should I read? What are you writing about that will interest me? – Not a generic me, but the actual me.
You have read one or more of my posts, so you know a bit about what interests me, tell me why I should visit your blog and what I’m likely to connect with. If you want my attention, help me out by pointing out what will interest me.
Make it easy for me to want to follow you. That’s one of the keys to building your audience – make it easy for them to connect with your content.
If you are new here and trying to build your audience, short comments that could be written by a bot and lying to potential followers is not the way to do it.
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Good job. I'm with you on this too! I don't know what's going on in Steemit.
I have had a batch of people not voting but coming around to comment to make author rewards. ?? I don't understand this thinking.
I patiently talked to one new person about it to find out where she learned this. I sort of "mentored" her for a bit. But she continued commenting and not up-voting anyone but herself. She also complained that her steem power was too low. Isn't that true for all of us?
We all had to start and start out slowly. We can't have it all at once. I still have to budget my steem power. When it's low, I stop voting and commenting until it goes up.
I finally put it in black and white for her, nicely of course.
She openly admits to "piggy backing" on higher rep posts so she gets upvoted by them - she said she makes more money that way. She believed her comments were adding "value" to posts ... I asked what that meant to her? Where is the value for me??or other posters? Ugh.
I was kind and tried to explain how to succeed on Steemit. She took my words as harsh criticism and went around for a week bad mouthing me to a lot of people.
It bothered me for days. I felt like writing a post to expose her — I don't want her mooching off my friends.
Then, the grown up me stood up and said, that's enough. I muted her so I didn't have to see the comments complaining about me.
Rant.....that's all I did for a couple of days. I was frustrated with Steemit. Frustrated that I am repeating myself 10 x a day to sometimes the same people. @steemcleaners can't keep up with comment spam, plagiarizers, scammers, etc.
I hope someone practicing this learns from what you wrote and also from my experience.
I too check before I upvote anyone on my post and if they ask me to look at their post, I don't even answer anymore.
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As a newbie, I was trying to learn the ropes with commenting and upvoting, but was then told to keep my % over 80% or else, I wasn't really helping anyone. I was frustrated and wrote this post and got a variety of responses. I believe there are times when I've received a valuable comment without an upvote and I'm ok with that. I equate it to working as a bartender. Tips are nice, but I don't expect them. That being said, if they're upvoting only their own, then that says something about their priorities. But, if they've been busy reading and commenting and maybe they're about to sign off and notice a very striking title, and click on it to find the article was engaging enough to warrant a well organized response. Isn't that response worth something? Are we just here for the upvotes, or for the community? I mean no disrespect, this topic just sits on a fine line in my opinion.
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Thanks for your thoughtful comment @crowbarkids. I know starting out can be frustrating in that you want to comment and upvote everyone and everything that's interesting to you - you want to contribute. And yes, your contribution is small but it's still a contribution. It's how Steemit grows.
I started Steemit in 2016. And I never once commented without upvoting. It's not that I was looking for big payouts it's just how I learned that each upvote made a difference in the over all payout for everyone. Once my voting power went down - and sometimes my vote was 0, I just waited until it went up again. I had a lot of help from dolphins and whales at that time and this is how and what I learned.
You likened up-voting to getting tips as a bartender. Up-voting isn't a tip though. It's part of the larger scope of Steemit rewards and investments. I found a really great post by @snbox - he's put together a toolbox of sorts with all kinds of interesting helps not just for new people but for everyone.
I get a lot of people on my posts who comment only sometimes and that's fine, I know their steem power is low at times.
But when I am investing in their blogs and it's never reciprocated, after a time I begin to see a trend - why? because I upvote comments on my blog. When I noticed a comment from one of these people on another blog saying she has started commenting more than posting because she was making more SBD from upvotes on her comments than from her own posts. I was shocked. It's not only mooching it's not helpful to herself. She needs to upvote others in order to increase her voting power.
We are here to build an investment and for the community. Otherwise we'd be on FB still, right?
I understand where you are coming from and appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
If you are interested in a further look at what up-votes are and how it all works I recommend this article by @sndbox. what is a Steemit Upvote?
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So that's why they are doing it. I never would have thought of doing that.
I have a cunning plan forming........ hehehehehe
What's really interesting is I have another comment just now, and I checked, and they HAD resteemed me!
So maybe it's working already ;-)
I have his comment a full upvote for that.
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Ooo....I can't wait to hear what your plan might entail.
I hope it works for you. It's just plain annoyingly annoying.
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If it works I'll let you know ;-)
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You do more than me - I ignore those comments if I get them unless the person says something else and has a reasonably high rep. I upvote and reply to good comments I get on my posts so the ones you are talking about just sink to the bottom.
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I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and help out where I can. but some people are just taking the Micky.
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I open steemd.com and I know who really upvoted me)
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Yup. That's another way of doing it ;-)
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Yeah!i agree with you and satisfied by your post,maximum people on steemit nowadays applying this.
I had commented you in your last post and in the comment i have also mentioned you that i will resteemed your post and i have done it kindly.
You can check out my posts.
I have restemmed every post,where i have metioned to resteemed.
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Good on you! :-) that's the way to do it
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Thanks for your sweet words.
Stay connected👍
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Wind him up and let him loose.
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If they have 5sp and 10 followers then it has little value even if they do it. I'm more interested in their opinions. That's what will get a vote from me.
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Yup same here.
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Like others are saying in the comments, I just ignore those types of comments, they prove that person didn't even try to say something meaningful so I'm not going to waste my time with them even if they really upvoted for 0.00000001 $ and resteemed to their 10 followers.
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Yeah know what you mean. But I'm trying o lead the way, a bi like @papa-pepper is showing the way to make a good income off Steemit and be a nice person as well.
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Well you are a much nicer person than me then :)). But I'm seeing steemit as a marathon and in order to keep a constant pace I need to concentrate on the important interactions :D ( I hope you like the analogy :P). The last thing I want is a steemit burnout.
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hehe I get what you are saying. And i think that is the best strategy, just keep quietly working away at it and overnight success will happen. it will just take a while. ;-)
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When someone say they upvoted me, I just check and then I take a look if they have something interesting so I could follow and upvote in the future. But generally, I don't like to see such comments where people say and ask for upvote. It is like pressure or obligation for me take time to look at something that I didn't ask..I like what I like, and that is it, i don't owe anything to anyone.
That is what is right for me, and I keep the same rule for the people that I follow. I don't ask anyone to follow me. Whoever might like my posts, they will find me eventually.
If someone is saying that they are following me, but obviously not, I wouldn't take it so personally as you do. I understand that you are irritated by lies, but you can just mute the liar instead of wasting your time thinking and writing about that.
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Thanks for your opinion. We all work in different ways and w a re all trying to succeed here. There is plenty of room for all sorts of people. Some will try to scam and some will not.
For this sort of thing, I'm no taking it personally so much as I can't see the point in it.
Since it costs you nothing to vote for a post, why would you say you have voted when you haven't? it makes not sense.
So I'm trying to impress on the people who do this that it is counter-productive, in the hope that they will start voting and get followers and thus be more successful here.
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Thanks for the advice! I'm still learning the ropes, so I always appreciate when folks explain things simply. While I have not ever asked others to follow me, I have received many of those requests, and honestly, I've just ignored them. In the rare occasion that I've told someone that I am now following, I usually mention something that caught my eye in one of their posts to make me want to follow them.
Anyway, I found you because I am preparing to start an alt account for my kids, and I was reading up on how @Papa-pepper started up his @Little-peppers. I saw that you wrote some stories for them, so here I am checking you out and noticed this post. Now I'm off to go read some stories! Thanks for the info!
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Thanks for that. Yes @papa-pepper and the @little-peppers are are really good example of how to do things right. If you copy what they are dong, you won't go far wrong.
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