First I'm gonna rant about it.
- On a daily basis, I don't stop creating content.
- I spend time on my post doing research. Will be easier when I do some writing about my opinion, but whales doesn't like it
- I do filter my photos. What can be post, and what can't be.
- I spend time mingle with others so I get their attention
- I repeat the above consistently and hoping to gain more traction
And what do I get?
- Complement from a few friends that really read my work, but hardly any real conversation
- A bunch of trail upvotes that hardly made up some serious value
- A bunch of votes that is so obvious that the amount of people who viewed my post is less than 10% most of the time, because they're trail
- Upvote value that is so low that if divide the value by number of votes, it's hardly more than 1¢ per voter
- Consider lucky if I get anything more than 3$. That also being upvoted by my local community support.
Ugly truth
Let's face the truth. There's very little to no real readers here. Curation trail has their individual/specified working order, one gotta follow their rules and regulations. If you fail to comply, you don't get upvote from them. There's time that I made a post, waiting for upvote with full excitement. After an hour, there's about a dollar worth came in. And I will be expecting the same momentum continue for the next few days, not bad right! After 3 days my post would be atleast 72$. Sadly, it doesn't happen that way. Whatever happened to the voting list, it happens only within the first hour. There's a group of people who will vote you between 15 - 30 minutes. They know your potential of getting bigger payout later so they can earn a better curation reward. Some real readers will still upvote you by 30 minutes, and that too because they wanna take back their 25% curation reward. Technically, after the 1 hour period, chances of getting a real big upvote from your supporter become slimmer than your hair!
Things I learn to survive
So what the fish am I still doing here? Here's the thing I learned so far, and I'm HODLing them to my dearly blogging life.
- No one has ever promised to upvote me. Previously I have done my study when I reached 400 followers. Like less than 10% are reading my post. I need to get real and start to make real friends!
- No one has ever promised to give full upvotes to curation trail, or their voting power will drain in less than 5 minutes. I need to accept the fact people vote with 0.01% despite they have only 5sp, simply because they wanna support the trail, not me!
- When there's curation trail upvote, the number of voters will come in huge. I can't force them all to give me big upvotes, but atleast the curator is reading my post. So what if I only got 1 organic view and bunch of ghost votes? I need to get over it!
- As soon as I press the freaking POST button, immediately my post got pushed down and dropped off the screen. I can probably still find my post somewhere at the bottom of the south China sea. No one is obliged to dig up my post from there if I can't find it by myself!
- What's so attractive about my posts? Was it the picture? Was it the title? I recon none of them. The least a chick post her selfie worth clicking than my Fat ass cheek. I asked myself, will I click on a chick photo or myself? The answer is final, anytime I would click on that chick rather than myself! Trust me I'm not a sexist, but I do click on hot chicks photos, and numerous time I almost got phished. Reason that I'm still surviving is because I always misplaced my keys, that got me some time to think about what have I clicked.
Ugly truth isn't it? These all boil down to manage expectation. What I did was seeing other people success and hoping that with my skill, I will be able to replicate the same result as them. Have I ever thought of how many of those successful people are actually circle jerking? Have I ever thought of they spent hundreds of SBD buying votes from upvote bots and ended up harming everyone who bid for the same round of vote? And why the fish am I still blogging? Probably less then 2 will read until here, but let's put my real thought at the bottom of the ocean and see how many replies I get, probably some bots will come and ask me to follow, but I'm not going to give a damn anyway. I'm starting to realize, there's only so much skill I have in creating quality content. I don't need to race against anyone. I don't need to have any one to promise me anything. Last but not least, I need to thank my friends whose continue to upvote me and leave me real comments to help me improve. All I gotta do is continue steeming the hell out of my brain juice. Have fun singing karaoke and make people suffer from listening to my crap voice and see how people react. I'm gonna continue to keep my workout journal going on. One day, hopefully steem still exist, I will be reading back all these and take it as my personal diary. Money making is the motivation of keeping people to continue writing. Having writing as a passion is a total new territory to me, but I start to feel a pinch of sweetness in it.
Now bugger off. Start to create your own content or roll over and leave steemit.
At least you're creating content.
Face it, when money is involved, things get clear - money first, everything else third, because you have to put how to spend the money at second. Steemit proves it. How to earn more? Vote early and get curation rewards, and do the same for as many potential posts as you can find. What is the main characteristic of potential posts? They are long. What does long posts do? They make you read for a long time. What's lost? Time. Hence, unless people don't care about the money part of Steemit and are having fun in the Steemit post list, no one bothers to give organic views. The last resort will be community support, and that is also the only resort. There's another way - an expensive way - buy votes to push your post all the way to the trending page, so that everyone that doesn't understand the logic behind the trending page will read it. Be sure to put a clickbait title, insane introduction, and a meme cover photo to get maximum attention.
Ranting is not the best way to create a post but still, this is my advice to all those new players in the Steemit world. If you can't create good original content, rant. I really seriously hate looking at all those copypastas on the Steemit post list and it just gets more and more serious as the number of accounts on Steemit increases (so you can see, "At least you're creating content", I'm appreciating every individual here that actually put effort to make the world a better place). You can just pick any crap and complain about it to make a 400 word essay. If you can't, you have no rights to complain about it . Maybe I shouldn't write it here but put it somewhere in my own post, but that's for a later date.
Circle jerkers are something. Algorithms are just maths - they can be played. Maths is the logic of the world, deal with it.
Here's a potion that temporarily reduces your IQ to negative, drink it and treat this place like Facebook and tell me if it helps your mood. If it does, I might mass produce them and probably earn more than just posting here :) The main point of joining in something is to have fun and if this does not give any fun, quit it. Which obviously you won't. You had so much fun singing lmao.
Very much appreciate your comment here.
Face it, most people I met who has more then 500SP, they give even lesser upvote than they were before they can control their upvote weight. But ofcourse, I also seen "Happy Dolphin" <= if you know who am I referring to, burst his voting power because he's happily upvoting every single good content he came across and forgotten he need to take care of the number of posts he upvoted! You can never compare here with Facebook, because the number of "likes" doesn't have a value. 1 can have thousand "likes" in Facebook, but it doesn't happen here in Steemit, simply due to the reason of "vesting". A sligthly easier to compare situation between YouTube and Dtube will be, I've seen YouTuber jump to Steemit to earn. Needless to say, because these are already well paid YouTuber, getting like 200$ a week from YouTube. Once they shifted over, what do they get? Delegations. Upvotes from Dtube/Dlive. And on the brag war begun, talking about how underpaid they got from their previous platform, and over here 1 post would have make them easily 300SBD which topped the previous platform pays. Try again, ask another YouTuber who has only 400 subscriber and jump to Dtube/Dlive, guess what? 0.01 upvote, all by the author him/herself.
I'm glad you got my point. Manage expectation is what we can do right now.
要慢慢消化才行
好。慢慢。
@tipU upvote this post with 0.1 SBD
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whyyyy
@tipu needs more steem power ><
but Im working on making it more available :)
Hey @cardboard, Thanks for the effort. haha
<insert REEE emoji> lul.
wow 长篇大论 很有墨水 放在自己那里更好
可能到时候再放一次哈哈。
对咯！写华文版本，看看有没有更惨……
悲哀啊……
@davidke20 read our posts and points out our mistake and reply our questions!! How much efforts he has putted in!!! He helps the minnows like me especially who wrote in Chinese language!!!!
He cares us!! Who else cares us???? I pity him being use and don't get appreciated!!!
I pissed off the ppl that used him and don't appreciate him.
Lolz. Calm down. Nobody can use anybody here. It's communal driven. I'm glad you're trying to defend me, you're 1 of the few who have consistently give me support, and that's all I'm looking for. That's the drive that keeps me going. Cheers and go benefit more plankton like ourselves.
Haha... yes pass on the attitude that you demonstrated to he people around.... but where is the whale that can help things out.... 🤧
Cheers.
@kevinwong is still here. Need to stop mentioning what whales can do for us. Try to think it this way, what can we do to make the whales to upvote us, some said, suck a whale dick. Others, spend SBD to bid for whale bot votes. Which would you rather be?
I can only keep writing and writing and wait for whale to upvote me Big one!!!
Hmmmm.... sighhhh
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This is the same in any other platforms. Actually, most will be performing worse elsewhere in average.
If Steem goes 100x (which is 10% of facebook's valuation), then that 1cent will be a dollar.
I guess what Steem needs now is a communities feature where people can find each other. Still waiting for that. Anyway, maybe I'll repost some of my old posts that sort of sheds light to what Steem is. It's not really blogging per se lol.
And yeah, I think using it as self-development personal diary is best. I used to write my stuff in private. Anything here, just open it up. Nothing to lose really and everything to gain.
And when that happen, Steem price will be like what? 90$? And the payout will have 37.5% goes to divide by 90 and I'll get my 0.01sp I believe? Don't get me wrong, I'm not challenging you. I know I can always use my SBD to buy Steem, which few early adopters does it (I know you did, I did read your posts >:) R E G U L A R L Y! And including older posts), my point is, despite all that, the amount will never take me to @kevinwong 's 10% SP volume, atleast not within the next 5 years.
Thanks for dropping by. Am surprised to see your reply and also thanks for the big upvote. You yourself is already my Steemit Bible. I'm not shoeshining you, but sometimes I did write up and quoted your previous posts for my readers to understand what am I trying to achieve. Here's my 11 days old piece. Part of your vote is there too.
https://steemit.com/teammalaysia/@davidke20/wake-me-up-when-steem-recession-ends-mayday
About $200. Yes, if in terms of SP earning, it will be lesser, just as mining difficulty of any networks will increase with adoption. For Steem, next phase of major distribution is SMTs. Good plans will get Steem funds, just like what happened with Ethereum. It will be hard though, now that the cryptocommunity is maturing, although I think entrepreneurs would be able to translate business ideas well with a Steem-like framework.
Thanks for reading and writing-up really. Tbh I don't even know what I'm doing half the time and just planning to manage my thoughts, connections, information, etc well enough to go by. I tend to do a lot of research so I hardly find time to read anything else most of the time.
If your repost your old posts that would be very useful for all of us here, as a guideline to swim in this sea... :D
Yoo!! Brother you are here.... ok... you are the handsome boy too..... 🙈🙈🙈 confusing....
well i actually read the whole post.
i think you may have to adapt and rethink your strategy.
People dont read long posts? write shorter entries.
People that you upvote dont return the favor? Stop upvoting
etc etc
writing in english would also help :)
Thanks dude. I'm writing this post to fish you out. You have been quietly power up and upvoting me for too damn long and I didn't get to talk to you and upvote you. I made a new friend @crypto.piotr you may find his posts interesting.
ok I followed him ;]
hi @ghua
pleased to meet you. I noticed that you're not very active on steemit? I checked your blog but it's all empty :(
nah, to be honest I am not writing at all - I guess there is enough spam out there. Once I have sth valuable to communicate, I will post it :D
thx for your kind reply
so actually what do you do here? :)
I mostly read and upvote ;)
Cheers mate :) I appreciate that you've mentioned my name :)
@ghua is more of a curator right now. He has been leaving comments and discussion everywhere . Nobody know why hasn't he make a post. He's been committing since his first post, started to empowering himself with SP to upvote others instead of making post. Will just have to wait until he's online and share his thoughts.
Oh, that will make it harder to stay in touch with @ghua if I cannot get his attention by commenting his posts. Well. Thanks for replying (as always) :)
You're the man! :)
Oh no.... I don't write in English most of the time.... :(
Who is going to read my poor English... oh no....
i don't just upvote, i actaully read the posts I upvote. I'm sure many of your followers manual curate so you do have some great followers out there :)
Super touch. Almost did not roll down manly tears.
hahaha seriously so dramatic
Tip for your great effort ❤️
@tipU upvote this post with 0.5 SBD
2 hours now. Let's try this post without community upvote where will it be after 7 days?
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I finished reading everything and everyone's comments, and I love the way you rant!! Lol... Your work out and singing posts already a signature contents, just continue or else your followers will be disappointed!!
加油，大哥！
In return, give you a free 45 minutes massage. Come.
wahahahaha comment i also read ok....
yes！me too. I'm here to prove it.
Don't want, I want upvote!! (merajuk ni)
Hahahaha!!!!
2 hrs already $2.12, not bad wor...
See, there are still many people read your posts to the last line and even the comments below. Cn-community needs you! We all know that you have put in effort into the local cn community.. Even whale also notice you..haha. Cheers!!
I agree with you that we should change the mindset and treat steemit as an open diary to ownself when blogging, otherwise too much expectation on the money rewards is just so demotivating. I will read Steemit articles on and off when I'm free, cause i think many smart people here and their sharing is most of the time eye-opening and definitely benefits me. Instead of watching movies all the time in my leisure time, i prefer doing things like reading books or spending time on steemit, but i prefer to do it at my own pace and time without pressure as I believe in this way, i will be able to stick around on steemit for longer time.
无语了。谢谢你。尽在不言中。
I read your post and I give you a "big" upvote haha
Come sing karaoke together
you are sexy and you know it. ( i just don't know what to comment xD )
don't know how many people are (boring) like me finish reading the post:D
Thanks for being honest. You didn't finish reading it, u grind it through and took this as a chore didn't you. Hehe
哈哈哈 不要怀疑我 我只是英文表达能力不好
是啊，英文不好，抓不到重点啦。哈哈哈
Keep up the momentum and never give up, we will always stand by your side...
Think I should have make a different account for Chinese content alone.
Well, go ahead, no one will stop you from it :)
OK. I am one of those who read the whole post. haha
Let's continue to sing karaoke and show our Fat ass cheek in the clip, shall we? :P
I can always rely on you! When my song no one collaborate, you're always there!
I will resteem this.
Oh ya, forgot to tell you, your signature whale drawing still in my mind. Perhaps you can attach it to all of your posts, it's your signature.
Btw, I don't know about those rules by vote after 30 mins? And what 25% curation? I only want to support you to show my appreciation to you that always read my posts and point out my mistakes! That's precious!
I will do the same to you!
Therefore I hate those whale upvote to the ppl that bodek them!! I hate those whales or leaders that didn't appreciate sincere human like you like me!!!
hehehe which drawing i still don't know drawn by dage!i also dont know the rules! hahahaha
Need to dig his old post, got a cute fat whale. Very signature.
Thanks for the encouraging words. Its been awhile since I made a post without picture!
Just use the signature whale will do.
Chill man, I also came from that path and now I am still almost the same like any other minnow and plankton out there. Still struggling for real supporters (not to say I don't have but at an insignificant level). I think it takes time to build the reputation and with the mindset of not expecting anything, that will make ourselves less stressful.
Steem on and gave you a big 100% upvote (worth not much though).
So true arrrrrrr! Basketball, need to give you a bear hug now!
Haha apa tu basketball? I feel u bro
When one doesn't wanna spell out the word Bast@rd because it's a negative word. Your reply could have been:
Basketball! I feel u bro!!! <== to emphasize how deep the feeling is. LOLz
Ah, I get you! Haha basketball, a polite way to express.
金鱼蜀黍我发现你的英语真的很棒诶！我看了一半，剩下的用了Google翻译😂
你讲的问题很平常，我发现我也改变不了去关注收益的数字，可是慢慢地正在减少关注力，佛系啦
ps我的帖子貌似总是不在当天有什么好的收益，但在未来的七天里会有伯乐看到，从1到3左右，当然基本没有超过3的，但我依然很知足就是啦😊
知足常乐 - 冰博士的座右铭？:)
哈哈哈哈哈，这个冰博士真的是折煞我了😂是的呢，我觉得期望少一点，每天获得的快乐就会多一点呢
我有一大堆0.5以内的耶！！不过懒得管了，爱多少多少，我担心的只有挖的坑填不完。。。
都是慢慢来的呢，我也是在第三个月以后开始有1-2的收入…依然对一篇文章就要二三十的望成莫及中😢
ps我也在担心自己的坑永远都填不完了
你多写英文贴，肯定会很好的啦~~旅游和电影肯定是热门话题，如果能出英文影评的话会很棒的吧！
ps坑这种东西自从看书以来就熟悉得很，我想看的书有几万本你敢信…然而现实是如此的残酷，佛系佛系
那你比我还狠…我想看的电影电视剧最多也就上千而已…同情…
我放弃写英文了啦，感觉有这个时间我宁可多把我的坑填填好，哈哈
看书这个东西，索引一带就是一片片…
你看《头号玩家》了么~
我完全不敢看索引。。。太可怕了
没有呢，最近被好多人推荐，喊我看了以后赶紧写个影评什么的，我打算这两天要着手写了。。。
叔叔的马来文也是很好的。呵呵，三语人才
蜀黍在马来有帮过我一个大忙，超感激的！
ps你的活动很好，有参加啦
😁 谢谢赏脸，欢迎日后再到来西马半岛这里旅游，@davidke20 必会盛情款待，还会加上赏鱼团的
我在仙本那玩的超开心，太爱这个城市了！
@davidke20 要招待好多赏鱼团，我等老阿姨就不凑热闹了啦，哈哈哈哈哈
所以我提到了Manage Expectation 。不是降低期望，是有效管理期望。将远大的目标缩小，然后向最靠近的旗杆迈进。500sp在望！
中文贴在此，我第二次参与的三个一 - https://steemit.com/cn/@davidke20/or
https://steemit.com/cn/@davidke20/or
加油！！！我现在在攒sbd像要攒够到400了一并power up来着，哈哈
单靠写作，每天一两贴根本微不足道。唉
我现在是每天一帖呢，节奏慢慢缓下来了，刚开始的时候一天三更都有过。不过可能一个帖子真的花费掉我好多心力，真是没精力写太多😂
我强行看完了survive以下的部分，拉仔哥的英语还是很友好的嘛！
我来写作从一开始就只是因为可以让我写作啦（顺便还有钱？！！）。但现在我觉得也要考虑下收益的问题，毕竟每天2个多小时甚至更多…
嗯，理想也离不开面包，不能只饮水饱……
对啊！我这喂奶妈妈 努力到要死了……🤧
说到收益就是诉苦大会，太惨痛了-.-
呵呵.... 不说出来就没人听见.... 你也开篇吧
费尽喂奶的洪荒之力 O.o
绝对是的...
就连西北风到了云南也弱势。。西北风都要喝不起啦！！！
是啊，有一丢丢的无奈……
My English is horse horse tiger tiger. I learn from not three not four school. People come, people go. I say up, you say down. When can we no finish no end.
...皮这一下你开心吗！Your English peppery my eyes!
支持一下老大，我除了你的奥林比克赛很少阅读，因为很多看不懂的数据，其他都有阅读咯。唱k都要在公司因为不能听歌，回家上Wi-Fi 重听，只是没留言而已啦。
哈哈哈哈 奥林匹克数据我也看不懂 但那些我没读也没vote 很老实滴
我都留言。有懂没懂都留言。点赞就看能力。
运动贴写不下去了今天，运动做了。明天才找机会贴吧。已经累坏了。
读了，不知道要怎样安慰你，给赞就对了，这样可以吗？哈哈
谢谢长期支持！
我就明白一点，不明白一点，怎样都好大家一起加油吧。。。😁
谢谢老张！我还没请到你喝茶！
有胸几时都可以。。。😁😁
Ugly truth
"Let's face the truth. There's very little to no real readers here."
Im not really sure if I agree. I created my account less than month ago. And I managed to build engagement bigger than I ever did on facebook within past few years.
Friend. Let's do some study on your account.
You have more bot votes than your organic votes each time you put up a post
You have some organic votes, majority of them (shall I say us, I'm 1 of them) came for the curation reward as they(we) are expecting you to purchase bid bot votes
Take the total number of comments on your post, divide it by 3, that's about the number of people really engaged with you. Many of a time, 1 single users will have multiple comments.
Anyway, that's my own perspective. Or may be I have higher expectation in terms of "engagement". But generally, that is also partly my own problem because my topic doesn't really fit the general category of Steemit discussion, which majority in crypto related.
Hi Dave
Indeed I used every possible method to promote my content here and reward all curators as much as I can. I tried to do the same with facebook.
If I use same content here and on FB and I will spent same amount of time and resources on both, then results will be very different.
All your points are pretty much (more or less) correct. But again: look at my posts about crowd machine or latest contest (around 30 people were commenting). Reading comments alone can take half an hour or even more.
For that reason I still believe Steemit rocks! Could I achieve with other social media platforms? Not really. Those comments = real engagement.
Dont get me wrong. Im not bragging about my skills / luck etc. It just it look like you're losing your spirit and I hope I can point out some reasons to make you believe in steemit again.
The problem is that you're huge expectations. I've been working as a social media marketer for quite some time and whenever Im talking to a client then Im explaining that if 2-5% of his followers will be genuine and engaging then it's already great result.
So if for each 100 followers 2-5 are engaging with you then it's a good result already.
Got your point there. Perhaps I need another account for crypto talks. Hehe.
@davidke20 I just read it twice. And I see many others did.
Why such a bad mood?
Thanks for replying. I hope my comment above didn't offend you. The mood you're referring to, if you're talking about my mood, that's because I wish to have more. But if you're talking about vibes, nah! I just like to rant sometimes. I'm still blogging anyway! LOL! It's simple, I can stop blogging stop accepting anything from Steemit, than I'm free from all these heartache. Don't you agree? Sorry to have channel these negative vibes to you. My friend.
Not at all. No reason to be offended. I just noticed that you seem to be quite grumpy lately :)
And it made me a bit worried.
You do know for a fact that a customer that complaints, it's because the customer do care about our business? Look at this at the bright side. I'm voicing these out to show "the man" what I wanted and what I don't like. Trust me if one day I decided this is no longer my playground, you won't see grumpy me around anymore. No more complaint, no more voice, no more post. Hence, don't worry my friend.