Everything about this post summarizes my misgivings about being here. I came here thinking you might explain this randowhale and bot thing in a way I can understand, but now instead it's a list of places I could send money I don't have to people who would then upvote my posts. This worries me.
I haven't been posting much except into daily photo challenges and have mostly been reading and commenting to try to make sense of what is here. I came for the amazing Alexa Ranking and I feel hopeful that re-cycling my 3000K pieces of content in here will make a difference in my success with my work in the health and weigh loss niche. I still feel that I can make those posts effectively and will have success in drawing google search traffic to my posts.
But the other issue is to grow my reach within the steemit community for the purpose of making money in the first 7 days of a post if I have this correct. I have certainly made more here and faster than in most other places I post.
Today I am working to understand bots - why they are here, and what they mean, and if I should use them, and how I would do that if I should. But it all seems like gaming the system in every place I have read about them so far. It reminds me of fb "like for like" groups. I use them over there for the first 200 likes on a page and then let fb search get people to me. But here it seems like trolling for votes a way of life I need to spend daily time on maybe.
I'm not in any chats yet and never have done that in the past. I tried to go in discord and was lost completely. A lady offered to show me, but I am no sure why I want to go there anyway. This is a hurdle to learning I think. but it seems like the chats have the same "like for like" thing going on there from what I have read.
I've been advised to invite my contacts to steemit and then we will all upvote each other, but I don't think it should go that way. If I gave my friends that line they would not even listen to me.
I think people should upvote what they like. But apparently, that theory will not get me anywhere here. At this point I am not asking contacts to join since I do not have any clear understanding of how they would succeed. I've stumbled quite a bit so far and it does not seem that this will change.
My contacts are bloggers and authors and health related and generally are not involved in crypto, gaming, bots ,or scams of any kind. They are trying to get a message out and in some ways, I feel like steemit is a big distraction to that goal.
I've been resteeming a lot - more than I post. I did not think to ask for donations for doing that and I'm not even sure how would justify such an idea. I resteem what I like and do not always have the power to vote on it, but I comment most of the time.
Thanks for posting about this. I feel like I am in a huge learning curve and hopefully it will come clear soon.
Thank you for your comment @fitinfun
I don't spend any time in chat rooms either, all my time Is spent on my posts and replying to comments, I don't think it's very important to be in the chat rooms.
I think to grow here you just have to stick at whatever it is you do best, the people that are into what you post about will aventually come to you in time.
Pay for vote Bots are a fairly concept here but it looks like they are here to stay, I think in the end a lot of people will rely on the Bots instead of trying to build an audience which is a shame.
Steemit is a place none of us will 100% figure out, but I'm cool with that, I am not here for crypto news I'm just here to share my story of living debt free in my tinyhouse and I really enjoy interacting with people on here.
Thanks for the interaction
Tiny house! My hero. I would love to do that, but I live in tiny hotel rooms instead. I will look out for your posts to see anything on that that topic. I always drool over those cute little places. It's a good rabbit hole for me to get lost in.
Thanks for the boost about the chat rooms. I will continue to ignore them and just get my content going as best I can.
At this point the crypto is all over my head so I'm not looking :)
So nice to meet you, Mark. Thank you for your help, and I will keep going.