While true that leaving comments is a fun way and can be rewarding for a many of reasons. There are quite a few people out there that do not reward comments; instead, they go looking for your latest blog and toss it an upvote.
If you resteem dozens or more times a day people who actually read and use there feed tend to unfollow. It also means if you do write any blogs anyone who comes by looking to see what you been up to will give up trying to find it. They will just think “this guy is just spamming resteem all day.”
There are people on this platform where a follow/resteem from them will bring in lots of votes and people leaving comments wanting to engage. Then there are serial resteem users who are just spamming into feeds of people who get a very low return back on clicks.
While some would argue me not taking an f4f or me being so restrictive on who I choose to follow has “stunted my growth” I would argue most of those people would never bother reading or upvoting my content again. They just wanted the follow back and when they did not get it they went elsewhere. There feed is so full of spam they can’t possibly find what is important to them. I imagine at 2k following you have a difficult time trying to follow your feed. Most people after following a few hundred tend to use bookmarks or engagement in their own blogs to see what people have been up to.
Not saying it’s a wrong way to go about Steemit. Just keep in mind there are many different ways to go about it. Having and using a few options instead of being restricted to just 1 for me at least has been a great way to go.
That follow for follow stuff is exactly why so many have thousands of followers, 10 votes and 12 views. I'm nearing 2000 followers. I never see 2000 votes or views. You want FANS, true fans of your work. You want to give them a reason to show up to the blog and read. You can't do that with shit posts 12 times in a day because nobody has that much time to focus on only one person. I follow 500. Many don't post, eventually I'll have to remove them. ...and yes, coming here to comment makes it a lot easier for me to head your way, but at the same time, I can't be everywhere at once.
There even a worse trend I have been noticing. I call them serial community joiners. At the bottom of their blog they have 5, or god knows how many footer/banners stating all the communities they are in. Most of the time its longer then what ever there content was which is both sad and funny at the same time.
Then you look at their upvotes and they are under $1 total only getting bot upvotes with 2 views on their blog.
They just can’t invest any time into a single community so they get zero rewards and might as well just leave them all and start over.
I suggested long ago: Those with the long signatures should simply write an "About the author" post and link that down at the bottom with a much smaller signature. Then they can fill up that post with as much spam and bullshit as they want. Nobody is reading it, they're trained to scroll past. Anything new gets overlooked... totally pointless. They could also copy/paste their junk into the first comment under each post. Whatever though... it's like talking to a wall.
So many look for that easy road. The shortcut. They don't read the fine print, they just see $$$. Then they find out their tricks and exploits didn't work, they blame Steemit... and quit. I've seen that numerous times.
That’s true!
What do I do then?
I think this should be Type#11
Do I unfollow all I follow, if I do that everyone will unfollow me because I unfallow them. And then I will end up with minus 1500 followers. My goal on first day on steemit was to follow as Manny as I can, so I did.
Oh BTW, I have to go to resteem the one I follow, but I will come back if I’m still welcomed here.
In my first week or two on Steemit I followed a few hundred people and I had to take steps to reduce that.
Make a list of people you enjoy reading their content of and those who you enjoy engaging with. Those are the people who you should follow. If you are not sure then invest some time (in your case a lot of time) checking up on each person you are following and asking yourself “am in interested in following this person content and interacting with them?” If no unfollow!
After that try and find someone who does curation here on Steemit. They resteem the best of what they read a few times a day to your feed. This helps you find wonderful new people when you don’t have time to go out and find them yourself. You tend to just randomly run into one of these yourself or hey they leave you a comment letting you know!
While you do have 329 people following you if they unfollow because you did they had 0 and I mean 0 impacts on you. They are just unfollowing and following for follows. They don’t’ care about you. You were only a number to them.
This is great advice. Not the reason I'm responding though, this is the reason I'm responding: (in your case a lot of time) I think I may have..mmm, nope, dry, but close... ;)
I’ve noticed quite a number of amazing people have an interesting follow ratio.
After a certain point people just seem to give up on maintaining and having any control over it. Which is understandable I use to spend every weekend trying to catch back up on every person I was following. That was a weekend afternoon hehe.
I’m just blessed I follow enough to keep my feed interesting and flowing but not to many it turns into a circus with lots of room to spare.
Hey @milano1113. Nobody is kicking you out.
I said that part too.
Thank you!
RESTEEMED!
Anyway, I think we sort this one out.
And that's the beauty about Steemit. You can check enyone what’s he up to, you can see how many times a day he made a comment, you can even check his wallet. And that’s only what I know, I’m only for a month on steemit, so I’m sure there is much more.
Anyway, thank you for your advice, I’m open to any.
If you have not dug around on a site like https://steemd.com/@milano1113 it can be rather fun. Sooner or later you might get rather bored and want to join a community and start putting out your own blogs. While there is some amazing open door community out there they are getting abused a lot by people taking advantage of them for their upvotes.
A small closed community that has requirements to get in is where a lot of the fun and friendships get made. Part of Steemit is networking and a very big part in the community. A lot of them look for long-term consistent, quality content, and being a team player.
I have one person who told me they have me bookmarked so they can read my comments. The odd thing is he has only ever upvoted my blogs, not my comments outside of his own blog lol. Outside of the random comment challenge people tend to not invest a lot of time into reading other people’s comments.
While financial rewards are a part of Steemit it’s the community that is the true and most rewarding.
In a year from now, where do you see yourself on Steemit?
Honestly, I don’t know.
I’m realy enjoying it now.
But what is the difference between if I comment on post and resteemit and if you comment on as many posts and don’t resteemit. Most of the time I Resteemed the post I also let the author know and in return they realy appreciate it.
When someone tells me they “resteem” my post I go and look if they left a decent comment. Most of the time they don't and if they did they resteem every dang thing they read that day. There resteem to me is worthless even more so if there comment was low quality as I only upvote certain type of comments.
If you resteem everything you read you will have a hard issue getting someone who is a “hard follow” to follow you. Look at my stats 671 followers; 54 following. With very few exceptions if someone gets spammy in my feed they are out!
I follow so few because I engage a lot with those people. I don’t worry about missing their latest blog because my feed moves at a speed I can almost follow (depending on the day.) I invest a lot of time into the people I follow. From leaving comments, to offering help if I see they are needing/asking it.
When someone comes to my page and they notice I resteem something they sometimes look because I’m rather picky about it. Best thing ever that I know of is I comment on a post and someone with a decent upvote read my comment and like it so he check out my blog. He left me $3 but the person who I had resteem $20 within 30 secs of both votes. There was no other way he would found and upvote that other persons blog lol.
I’m getting realy dizzy now.
I just don’t see anything wrong about resteeming someone’s post that I comment on. Meny times I resteem someone’s post and thanks to this it appears in front of the HOME page.
I got it, you think you are right and I don’t think there is anything wrong about things I do. At the end we follow the same person.
It does not appear on the home page. It appears on your feed and feeds of anyone following you.
I’ll be honest I was going go count how many times today you resteem but after 20 times I gave up counting. IF ANYONE who is following you reads there feed they would unfollow from all your spam. I use to have a few people like you in my feed they made it impossible for me to catch the important blogs I wanted to see so I removed the problem from my feed.
That’s the point I’m trying to make. What value are you adding to someone who they are just a number? Did I go and read any of the blogs you resteem? NO, I never would you resteem everything you leave a comment on.
Here is you can see if I resteem someone else’s post it does appear on home page
If you really want resteem a lot then you might fall under the role of curation. They resteem the best they find in a given topic(s) but not everything. They upvote, comment, and make a daily or weekly post about the best of the best.
They want to gain a following from providing this service. They can sometimes amass a very large powerful following that can bring people in 10-$100+ in upvotes from the community that forms around them.
Here is an example of some of them.
https://steemit.com/curation/@clayboyn/clayboyn-s-curation-corner-1-18-18
https://steemit.com/ocd/@ocd/ocd-daily-issue-169
https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/curie-author-showcase-january-18th-2018
It's a very hard road to go down as it takes a lot of effort, time, and building up a community. Many people try but they often don't get anywhere.