Wassup Steemians! I'm back with my impressions on how my account is going before and after my first post. This one is the second.
My First Week
After I created my account I was only trying to understand the Steem ecosystem. I started to read here and there, and out of all this overwhelming information, this is what I came up with as a set of basic things that have to be done in the early stages of your account (I won't dive into details because I don't know all of them yet either, I'll just stick to the very basic things for now):
You need to be active, follow other people, read other people's posts and make relevant comments. The result is that you get rewarded when your comments get upvoted by steemians with some voting power. This will give you some coins in your wallet.
You need to create your own posts, which will be upvoted and commented. This will also give you some coins in your wallet.
You need to upvote posts and comments made by others, which will also get you some coins in your wallet.
You also can upvote your own posts, which will give you both the curator AND the author rewards. This is considered non-ethical by some of the steemians, but in my opinion, it's not. If the Steem algorithm allows it, it's by design, so why feel bad about using it? Of course this could change in the future, but for the time being...
All these activities will also make your reputation grow (the number in parentheses beside the username), which will also make your voting value bigger. In fact, the voting value is determined by a mathematical formula that includes a few elements.
Believe me, in the early stages, growing you Steem Power is one of the 2 goals that you need to follow. The other one is growing your followers, your community, but the latter will come almost automatically.
So, during my first week as a Steemian, my reputation number has increased from 25 to 29, only by voting and commenting.
Getting Some Voting Value
But how to get voting value in the first place if my Steem Power is still ZERO? Here are a few ways:
Buy Steem Power - pretty streight forward;
If you have Steem just use the "power up" option to transfer some of your Steem to your Steem Power section of your wallet.
Lease Steem Power.
I've chosen #3 because I think it gives you the biggest impact for the smallest effort, for a limited time of course. So, before even creating my first post, I leased 700 Steem Power for 4 weeks and I paid the equivalent of 10 US Dollars for them. Its 700 Steem Power folks, which at the time of writing it was worth about 600 US Dollars! Cool!
Here's an excellent guide on how to lease Steem Power from MinnowBooster.net.
After doing this I noticed that my voting value changed from 0 to 0.03$, which is not too much, but it will help, that's for sure.
About My Followers.
As I mentioned before, during my first week I only commented and upvoted, even if my upvotes were worthless. During a week I only did this, and I managed to grow a following of only 9 people.
After posting my introductory post, the number of followers grew from 9 to over 90 in just 2 hours! This is just crazy!
Obviously, I thank you for following me, it's just that, I'm pretty amazed at how fast my community is started to grow. And I'm really curious to see what reaction this post will generate.
PS: So, dear Minnows Steemians, keep posting quality content and relevant comments! Let's help make Steemit world a better world.
good remarks vladu, I believe that here are several ways to interact and pick up some coins and only choose the best that fits with your profile and time, hugs.
Welcome to Steem @vladu.
Do read A thumb rule for steemit minnows - 50:100:200:25 for starter tips.
Spend time reading Steem Blue Paper to know how Steem blockchain works and if you still have any queries ask them on our Ask me anything about Steemit post and we will try to answer that.
All the Best!!!
Welcome back!😊
Thank you for the post! It is very informative. I did not understand what the steem power meant or why some people gave more than others when upvoted, but now I do.
Glad to help. And also upvoted you, even with my tiny value :)
Welcome to Steemit vladu. Let me know if you got any questions about Steem or anything related to it! The official FAQ can be found here and has A LOT of information https://steemit.com/faq.html - Also remember, Steemit is just ONE of the sites built that uses Steem the blockchain. We also have DTube - our very own Youtube, DSound for Soundcloud and Steepshot if you prefer Instagram like experience. I'd also like to mention ChainBB - forums, Busy - Steemit with more modern look basically, DMania for memes and Dlive for streaming just like in Twitch! You can also earn Steem by gaming now! Search for Steemgar if that's more your thing. Welcome to the blockchain! :)
Thanks @janne for the information. Yes, I'm aware of some of the many tools gravitating around STEEM. It takes time to learn.
Hi vlad Goodmorning
Nice summary off week 1.
700 SP makes you a minnow but dont use the tag introduce yourself thats not allowed only when you enter the platform. I missed the tools I recommended in your blog. 💪
Now you have to start blogging frequently
Good luck
Thank you for the reply. It was a mistake. I simply forgot to edit the tags field and introduceyourself was left from the first/previous post. Beginner's mistake :)
I saw that I Made alot off mistakes typing this morning😬 sorry for that.
The intro tag can have you flagged by abuse bots alot of abuse in that tag !!
And the tools didnt invlude any apps, dont you use apps to help in your Steem engagement?
Don't worry about mistakes😊 I'm currently using steemauto to automatically upvote the posts of certain users. This way I'm using my SP to get some curation rewards in the process. I'm trying to see if I will be able to get a return on my investment.
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But the Steemify app is for your phone. To See Whats happening in your account.
Really easy and very handy !
Thanks, but my phone is running Android and it seems Steemify is not yet released for Android
Welcome and congratulations to join Steemit ... 😊
Thank you for this post! As someone who's just joined Steemit and is still trying to figure out how it all works, I found it informative and useful.
You're welcome! I'm also new and I don't pretend I already understood everything, but I do my best to fit in and share my knowledge so far.
Hi @vladu!
Welcome to the Steemit platform! I really hope that you will love it here! This post was really great to read because it gives us all insight to how new users find their way on the platform. We use Discord for our project and below you will find a link to there as well. Hope to chat soon!
I am a curator for the You Got Snekked curation project and this is just to let you know that...:
You got SNEKKED! ;)
Expect a certain Snek to come 'round and give you a bite soon ;)
You Got Snekked is a curation project!
We aim to find good content, share a happy moment, & some visibility. Your post got our upvote, and we will feature your post and possibly an image from it in our 34th curation compilation if you don't mind! If you don't want to be featured, please let us know!
Also, feel welcome to join our community on Discord! -:
https://discord.gg/VWJxTEz
Thanks, I think I'll join
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