I've hopped in @steem-ua a couple times but its always so busy there and most of the time the answer on how things work is simply "Magic". Since this is more of a personal OCD issue, I'm not going to bother them or make a big deal out of 1 user not understanding it. Hopefully when they release source or the algo they use I can reverse engineer it with my own data (or at least find someone who can) and see that way. As long as its a black box system I will have to continue to stare at that 0.000 unfortunately.
Thanks again for the SBI and affirmation I am on the right track here. It can definitely be daunting coming in to an already established network/platform like this and trying to "break-in", especially when you are more of lurker than a participator like me. As I've stated many times in my posts, i am extremely grateful to have met so many friendly/helpful people in my short time here. By doing that I have probably saved myself weeks or months of problems and fumbling that others have to go through.
Follow links is a tag that can be attached to a web page and generally references back to an original source. So if I post something on my blog (like my Coral Castle story a few days ago), google will look at it, and say thats nice, you are the only one who cares about this, no score for you. If however, another website puts the link to my site on its page (like I do at the bottom of my coral castle post) with a follow link. google looks at it on steemit and goes, hey maybe this isnt crap and other people are interested in it and gives my original web site a higher score.
Thats a very basic summary.
Since steemit doesnt want to put follow links on everyones post, good god that would be a lot of links, they apparently (still hoping for confirmation) set a $10 minimum value as the limit. This would typically (before posts are gamed anyways) ensure that the post is of good content, read and liked by many people, etc. Of course when my posts make $0.50 organically I'm looking at that $10 mark as an insurmountable hurdle, unless of course I spend steem to buy the votes. And my baby blog isn't worth that LOL
Ahh now I know what you mean! Yeah well, in the other hand those "links" are not THAT important since we are anyways only getting paid for the 7 first days. So unless you are making an article that is timeless(like a guide or something), maybe it is not worth it to think too much about that honestly.
Maybe in the future if they find a solution to continous paying people(even after the 7 day mark), then maybe it would start being something to be interested at.
That is just my opinion at least.
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