Steemit users can be put in three categories depending on the amount of steem power they possess. If you are on steemit to make money or to help others make money, it’s important to understand and acknowledge your category because the users in different groups are rewarded differently according to their activities on the platform.
Minnows
This is the first phase on steemit, and their steemit power is usually below 5,000. As a minnow, you won’t make a lot of money curating. The main way you can earn steem is by posting quality content. That is the content which whales and dolphins will want to upvote. You need to remember that steemit is developing very fast and the chance of being noticed by whales and dolphins gets smaller day by day.
Following are two ways via which dolphins and whales can notice your posts:
- Sharing your posts on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. If your friends sign up, your posts will climb to the “hot” category which will make it more visible to dolphins and whales.
- Tagging your posts with a hot and trending category. That will make it easier to get noticed by dolphins and whales.
Dolphins
Dolphins don’t have much steem power as whales, but they make a key impact when they vote. I would put Dolphins as users with 25,000+ SP or someone who will grant you 50 cents or more when they upvote your post in the first 15 minutes or so. Dolphins earn curation steem power by voting on posts that will become popular, and that will be voted by the Whales. Hence, they want to move in and vote before Whales do.
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Whales
I would describe a whale as someone with enough steem power in their wallet to give you $10 or more when they upvote your post in the first 15 minutes. Whales have the major influence on posts, and their votes have a big impact on the contents that become trending and that make the biggest amount of money.
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I have read this article before. Is it a copy or you were the first author too?
@honarparvar Its mine.
Great post 👏👏👏 helped me a lot
my last post on steem/usd trend. And I really appreciate your time and advice@cryptofy I would be glad if you check
@honarparvar Will check. Welcome.
Thanks buddy 🙇♂️ we already saw a good swing. I hope for big gais soon 🤞
In your opinion I like one.
@masumkhan420 You are welcome.
Thanks for making me a comment.
Thank you for your post with so much information :) with 15 sp i cannot even say minnow to me :D. I am minnow in process. Getting whales vote is very difficult, even our post is quality post, whales do not follow us, how can they see our posts as they are not our follower and in their feeds it wont show. In New section they can see but new section have 1000s of posts... i guess only we are lucky and at that time whale is online then can we assume that we can get their vote :)
@adnanibrahim I agree with you. Nothing good comes easily. For minnows, you can work in all what's available like consistent posting of good posts, 3 to 5 per week or more. Also think of resteeming some posts, 4 to 7 per week, from the whales you like.
Thanks. I undertanded now.
@yusfriadi Welcome.
Good post , informative, thanks for sharing @cryptofy
@june21neneng You are welcome.
Here is detailed description on how those ranks are given on SteemitBoard.
@scorer Thanks for sharing the link. Will check it.
Enjoy! It is 3rd party service, but most of the users reference their naming system.
@scorer Ok
Minnow – Dolphin – Whale? It seems like such an obvious question for a new Steemian to ask, that when we arrive, many of us don’t ask. Because, maybe, we think the question will make us look stupid? So, we blunder along knowing kind of what they are, but not really knowing how they can impact our content and progress.
So, thanks for the straight forward explanation.
@poorcirculation True. Some questions and statements look simple but they are crucial.
Good to know. What about Plankton?
Here@poyim Those are the three main categories. Think you can check for more details ~ as per the link posted above
This is really a eye opener. All my payouts should go to more steem power from now on.
@dreamer007 Sure. It's necessary.
I'm getting good info from here, I'm glad I started following......
That being said, got any information on crabs? :P
This post remind me of this image
@trevord Thanks for sharing. Keep following.