I saw an interesting idea about a Steemit Faucet by @miketr that is tied to upvotes of a post and that gives users away back STEEM DOLLARS that are earned by the post, not a bad idea to help new users of the website.
In my opinion this idea however has a flaw, giving users away Free Steem Dollars does not encourage them to stay on steemit.com long term and become a part of the community that contributes in different ways... with free SD given away users may just cash them out and get out.
So as an experiment I have decided to try out a different type of Steemit Faucet with no strings attached, I'll be giving away 0.1 STEEM POWER absolutely free to anyone that wants it for the NEXT 24 HOURS after the publication of this post. You just have to ask for it and yes, you can Power Up other users with STEEM and not only yourself.
The STEEM POWER will be sent manually after the 24 hour period ends, so I'll need some time to send it to all users that want to get it for free. After the end of this experiment I'll post a summary and see if there is a point in doing other similar incentives to help new users get an increase of their STEEM POWER and influence on steemit.com and of course encourage them to stay long term and become a part of the community.
Note: Bots will not get anything sent to them, they will be simply ignored!
So what do you think about that idea, do you want some free STEEM POWER?
How exactly is this going to work? You can't transfer Steem Power. An alternative would be something like what I've been doing where I ask people to comment something on a post and they get an upvote. It's effectively a faucet, it just doesn't have immediate payout and obviously the value can fluctuate, but at least it's "for free" in regards to both sides. You can check out the one I've got running now here: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@robsteady/upvote-giveaway-round-three-just-tell-me-if-you-re-right-or-left-handed
This is actually the third of such giveaways I've done and I plan to do more. I initially said not to upvote my post, but now I figure I'll use whatever I get from that post to power up so I have a little more SP for the next round. If a bunch of people followed behind my votes and upvoted the commenters it could probably be a pretty profitable exercise.
It will work very easily!!! You can't transfer STEEM POWER, however you can use STEEM to Power Up other users thus sending them STEEM POWER by using your own STEEM (not your Steem Power)...
Ah, interesting. I didn't realize you could power up other users with your own steem.
Just take a look at the second screenshot of the post, it is the Power Up option of your STEEM, you go to the Advanced mode and you can write any username you want to sent Steem Power to provided that you have enough STEEM tokens yourself.
Ah okay. I have all my images disabled so I didn't even see the example image. Nice find though. Hopefully that can work out for some people.
I'm running it as an experiment to see if most of the people are after the quick buck, or want to be a part of the community... so far the results are not too encouraging.
I think the community as a whole has way more value than the free STEEM power or SBD they could potentially get. I have gotten a few really good crypto tips frm STEEMIT that are still paying off.
I love steem power! of course ill take some free steem power!
like it
I am a new user. I would like to have some free STEEM POWER, please.
Great idea I tried to do the same concept and call it #brownie-points but it didn't catch on and nobody really cared about it so I decided it wasn't really worth doing.
Good experiment @cryptos! Upvoted!
Please STEEM Power @cryptobro + .1 SP
thanks for the steem power
Please STEEM Power @dervish
The Steemit Faucet is now closed, everyone who requested Free STEEM POWER will shorly get it.
Please do not post any more requests as the 24 hour experiment is now over and no more SP will be sent to anyone!
I missed this post yesterday. I wanted to get the free STEEM Power. Can I get one?
I dont understind, how to get free steem power?
Include me @cryptos thank you
Yes, I want steem power. Thanks. :)
I really want some free steempower
would like to get steem power to @schniggschnagg
THANKS
Are you still giving out steem power need some bad!!!
Are you still giving out SP, if yes then my user ID is @guurry123
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