Winter Cleaning On Steemit
It's Time To Do A Little Housekeeping
In my morning routine of setting up the @qurator newsletter edition, I came across a post by @themarkymark and his response to a fellow steemian questioning how to make money on steemit. OK.. let's see what he had to say. After reading it (which I kind of already knew about being consistent, persistent and dedicated) I took away from the post that I may be cluttering my feed and missing out on some GREAT posts and steemians.
So, me being me, I decided today I will slowly start de-cluttering and downsizing my following.
I am still following MANY members from day one and it may be hurting me instead of helping me.
@themarkymark had a post about an entirely different topic, but, me being an over-analytical person, I read into it more. After all, there's more to read than just the surface and headline.
@themarkymark's response about followers:
Following 32,000 people is problem number 1. You just absolutely destroyed your feed. There is no way to make sense of anything at that level. I am very selective who I follow, I like my feed to represent things I care about and am interested in, not a firehose of everything posted to Steemit
Yes, I need to harness my "firehouse"!
It's time to rid my feed of steemians that don't share common interests or are posting fluff 'n stuff.
Steemit's Homesteaders Online
@pennsif's post featuring a list of current homesteaders on steemit has almost 300! WOW! That's unbelievable!
But after going through the complete list, I see that some haven't posted in quite some time; months even. But, being a true homesteader and committed member to the homesteadersonline group and community, I just can't axe them... yet.
I mean, they may come back. This is the slower season when it comes to homesteading and gardening. Right?
So I will do a second sweep of the list come April and May of 2018.
Using Dead Followers
There is a website called dead followers that you can see who you follow and when his or her last post was.
NOW.. keep in mind, they may still be active with UPvoting and making comments, they just aren't making there own posts; so be careful here!
Looks like about 24% of my following is D-E-A-D!
Here is just a sample of my account...
1474 Total followers
373 Dead followers
1101 True followers
Who Are Your Dead Followers?
a-3 2 months ago since last post
a-a-a-a 2 months ago since last post
aarkay 3 months ago since last post
abdel-ali 3 months ago since last post
abhishek.pandey 2 months ago since last post
abkktk 2 months ago since last post
abner914 2 months ago since last post
academix87 3 months ago since last post
aceton Forever since last post
addiemae 2 months ago since last post
adeel99 2 months ago since last post
adforce83 2 months ago since last post
The website lists your followers alphabetically and with the longest NOT posting first. If you look at mine, @aceton has NOT posted in FOREVER! Ok, yeah, that one's got to go.
How about you? Have you ever swept away and stopped following some people? Why?
Lol Problems to have on the Steemit platform!
Too funny. 8-P
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Hello, I remamber when you was supporting me when I was singing and this why I included you in comments here : Contest: Find the Best 25 Posts on Steem! , if you want you can upvote the comment to make it visible. ☺
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Sure can!!!
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thanks for upvoting the comment here, but I meant there on the contest, click on the contest and you can find it in the fifth position, because Jerry may choose you and you will be rewarded. ☺
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I did.. lol
Plus I made my own comment
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Yeah your comment was in the right place, but who cares. All that we hope is that you will find more people interested to that topics to be in trending page. Because everything here is related to social aspect, we have here more people talking about crytp world so we will have in trending people that talk about it, if you and your friends work hard on inviting more people that are interested to your topic to your community also will be in trending page. Because I know Jerry he mostly promote steemit as a good income so this why mostly we have people here interested about money.And not just Jerry all people are crazy about money that steemit gives, in the future when we will be whealthy enough, I think we can spend some money advertising steemit as well like Jerry do. ☺
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Even though still very new to the community I have started implementing random cleanings. I read similar advice around day 3 of being on here. It basically said "only follow people who post about stuff you want to read" I went through my vast list of the 50! people I was following (😂) and saw the error of my ways already developing. I then went through and scanned all of the accounts, which luckily was still a small number, and unfollowed the "random" accounts I had followed. Going forward, I will continue to browse their feed and make selective decisions of who to follow. This way I canhopefully have more meningful interactions on here. Merry Christmas!
And Yes, it is a very slow time of the year for homesteading! Lots of firewood burning is about all ;)
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Excellent to do early on. I've only been here just over five months and it appears I was a little over-zealous early on.
Live and learn... then delete!
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Ha! Great motto! "Live and learn... the delete!" Really!? Only 5 months!? Wow! By your content and knowledge I would have guessed much longer. Good on you! And hey; I just read one of your re-steemed intros, was great. Thanks for sharing those! Is a good way to find new quality people. I need to do my intro post soon....
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Thank you! And yes... joined July 13 but I was a writer/journalist and ghost writer in another lifetime, in a land far, far away-lol
Anything you need, or question just ask away!
I love sharing new steemians with my following! And there's a newer account called @welcoming that resteems new introduceyourself posts that are good quality. They kinda filter out the others and share the good ones for us.
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Oh cool @goldendawne! I am tempted to dig through some of my old journals and see what I wrote years ago when I was a jaded teen...then again, maybe not Haha!
If you have the time and interest (and I am not looking for any upvotes!) would you be willing to look trough a few of my posts and let me know any thoughts. In particular what would catch your eye and what you would like to see more of. I am still searching for my "voice" on here. I am passionate about homesteading and conservation, but my interests run a lot wider than that.
Thank you in advance!!!
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Absolutely!!!
I can look Tuesday... any specific ones?
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Yay!!! :)
Hmmmm...
Here is one that talks to land conservation:
https://steemit.com/photography/@jonpetrich/a-walk-to-peach-preserve
This one is Homesteading:
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@jonpetrich/harvesting-firewood-timing-felling-decking-rounding-stacking
And a meme I created:
https://steemit.com/nature/@jonpetrich/2nd-meme-attempt
Have a wonderful holiday!
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Will do!!
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Dear @goldendawne - Your re-steem of my post has just made a HUGE impact on my reputation and has far out earned all of the combined work I have done thus far. Thank you soooooo incredibly much! I am forever grateful! Please let me know how I can pay it forward. You are AWESOME!!!
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You're VERY welcome!!
No need to repay me... I'm here to help!
😁
Glad it helped you.
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I try to clean my list at least once a month, I figure if they come back and start posting I will start following them again, till then they are just eating real estate on my feed, I do the same for those who mute, those are unfollowed right away. And I don't do the f4f...
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That's a good idea to do every month. Once I get the main part of it done, I'm going to try and do a monthly sweep too.
Despise the f4f comments, never really did that that I can remember.
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me either!
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I don't follow a whole lot of people because the posts of my real followers would be lost with so many, so good idea!! Merry Christmas eve my darling friend❤️🎁🎁
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In the beginning I did because I was thinking, "If I follow people of different interests then it will give me and allow me more exposure" but now... yeah, it's time to restructure some things
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It is possible to open a cemetery, invite anyone who is active,
Say a few words and that's it :)
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lol- that would be interesting... a dead followers' ceremony!
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I noticed this the other day when I was checking somebody who kept upvoting themselves. I have a bunch of dead followers and I have practically no followers!! Crazy!
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I know, right?
I'll be doing some every day until I have it at a hand-able level
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Hmmm, I didn't know there was a website that listed followers by the last time they posted. I would suspect that a good 10% of the people who followed me are no longer active, and I'm sure there are people who I followed who are no longer active. I'll have to check that out.
That was pretty interesting. There are more than 300 of my followers that haven't voted or posted in at least a month, some a lot longer.
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Yeah I knew about this website months ago, but never really ventured there too often.
I wasn't surprised by the 24% for me though. It seems people come, expect quick $$, then leave when it doesn't happen immediately.
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So informative, I think I have to go check my list now 🏃 🏃 🏃
Thanks for sharing
It was nice reading your work.
Cheers!
@raymondbruce
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thank you for stopping by and if you have questions,just ask!
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Thanks a lot, I'll surely ask a lot. I won't let my ego come into Play, lol
I wrote a post on ego
You can check it out, I think it is information
https://steemit.com/life/@raymondbruce/5jyzex-key-to-success-6-final-submerging-one-s-ego-and-getting-along
My questions are coming up on discord
Thanks for your attention
Cheers!
@raymondbruce
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Happy Christmas @goldendawne and thank you for the mention of the list.
Yes I'm hoping a few of the missing homesteaders will come back - some have already. Maybe the rising price of steem will entice a few more...
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Maybe but I'm hoping more return with the changing of the seasons too
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Is there a way to delete all those BS followers in one click of the mouse?
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Unfortunately not that I have found... dang it!
Even @themarkymark said no way to do it- he recommended the person just start a whole new account- YIKES!
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