Today I crossed the magic 2,500 follower mark, and I just wanted to write a short thank you note to those of you who are following me! It's been a long time since I wrote a milestone post like this, but lately I have been having so much fun interacting with all of you who read and comment on my posts, so I decided that I should give you all some recognition.
2,509 followers at the moment. This is the Busy.org interface by the way.
I actually "leveled up" to reputation 67 today as well, which I am very happy about. I feel like I have been stuck at 66 forever, so it's great to finally get to one higher level. It's pretty nice that this happened at the same day as I got 2,500 followers.
Thank you for all the support
It means the world to me that you guys are reading, upvoting and commenting on my posts, and I would never be as motivated to make new content on such a regular basis if it had not been for the great community of people that sticks around! I can't believe that over 2,500 people have decided my content worth to follow, and it feels amazing to know that so many of you value what I do!
However, my favorite part is the fact that my comment section is getting very active, and my plan to build a thriving community seems to be working so far. I have gained lots of new perspectives on different topics by reading what you guys are actually thinking when you read my posts, and this has included some really interesting opinions and ideas that I would never have learned about in any other fashion. I'm looking forward to keep sharing ideas, concerns, solutions, misunderstandings, suggestions and everything else with you guys, and I hope more people join us as we grow bigger.
My future plans
Even while I have two and a half thousand followers, I have no intent to stop what I'm doing, and I'm finding myself thinking about my next Steem post all day long. I have made some exciting plans for the future, but I'm not 100 % ready to share it with you guys yet until I sort out all the details, but what I can say is that I am currently writing a roadmap for what I will try to accomplish on Steem(it) during 2018, and I think you will enjoy these plans once I'm ready to share them ;)
The roadmap is still some work away from being shareable, but I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm working hard with projects that I think you will enjoy, and of course I'm going to keep posting science news and funfacts/educational posts at the same pace as before.
Congratulations, @valth! I'm so glad you went the route, early on, of using images in the public domain or with the appropriate creative commons licenses. It makes all your work really usable for anything in the future. Here's to your continued success in 2018!
I'm looking forward to seeing your roadmap. I've been working on one of my own, for the areas that I want to build out - foraging wild plants and mushrooms, gardening, and nature study. 2018 is going to be an exciting time. Nature is pretty amazing!
Thank you very much, @haphazard-hstead! I'm very happy that I went that route as well; might as well make it legal if I'm going to spend so much time here anyway ;)
It's cool to see that I'm not the only one working on a roadmap. I think it is a great way to make goals and keep working towards them for the entire year, and not getting too distracted from the original plans.
Hi valth..congrats.. You are doing good work iread some of your articles and start following you for more.. Specially rats article was interesting.. I was also biology student.. Zoology botany and chemistry were my subject.. So i always happy to read new articles.. Thanx for sharing.. Good work always rewarded so you are.. Keep it up.. Iam happy i am one of your followers..
Thank you very much, @biyanoor :) It's great to see more biology students in my comment section! I agree with botany and zoology, but I'm personally terrible at chemistry, so that was not my favorite :P
Haha.. You are not alone many others are also terrible at it.. I was good at it till intermediate or grade 12.. During my graduation it gave me tough time and dusappointed me alot literally took me to weep.. Haha.. Due to chemistry my grade went down in graduation
Hehe, I can totally see that happen. At first it seems pretty understandable, but I have a very hard time remembering all the small details that are so important :P
Haha.. When i told my husband that i like chemistry he was shocked.. And wonder how can someone love such horrible subject(his words).. Haha
In graduation my professors were so boring and taught like reading from book.. And the other issue they taught only 4 chapters from each book like organic, inorganic etc books.. And the bad luck when i had paper in my hand i was shocked to see that 50% was out of syllabus or old syllabus and 30% was from other chapters which are not taught only i know 20 marks question and you can imagine my condition with teary eyez and broken heart.. Haha
I was to much scared that time fear of failing.. All papers from all books were with same condition..
I was failled in one subject out of 4.. But what a good luch that some good man filed case in court about out of course papers court took quick action and ordered to pass all candidates as only 5% were passed before.. And it was a shame for university..haha
And after two days of receving fail card i receved passed one.. Haha
This is the biggest achievement being steemian. This is only happens when you put a lot of efforts and precious time to make steemit community worthy. I always love to read your all posts without even following you because it was become my habit to visit your blog by putting your name on URL that's why I was unaware that I followed you or not? Well, now I followed you because you DESERVE it. :)
May you get more milestone in no time! :)
It's really cool to see that you have actually been reading my blog without following me, and it takes even more effort to type in the URL every day than it does to check the Steemit feed ;) So thank you very much for the nice words, and for leaving many great comments in my posts!
No, it doesn't take much time I just write 'V' against my URL in the place of my name and the list comes up where your name is first placed. I just hit ENTER and there you go. :D
But now I followed you so I can see your all upcoming posts in my FEED. ;)
Hehe, that's nice! I'm glad you have you as a Steemit-follower also, even though you've been a real follower for some time now :)
That's an honor for me! :)
Congratulations , I've only been actively using Steem for around 3 days now but I'm glad your account was one of the first I found when I first signed up in October. You have great content! Wishing you continued success. :)
Thank you, @ribbitingscience :D
I feel honored to be one the very first accounts you found and followed!
The honor is all mine, you have excellent content! I wish I had started actively using this site sooner, it has the largest, most active stem community that I've been able to find of any alternative social media site to date.
Yeah, the community here is great. At least you're starting now, and it's far from too late to get involved with the Steem community, so I would not worry too much about what I had missed out on if I were you, and rather focus on the future.
Good point, I've already invited a few people to join and only have one more essay, on evolution and the progression of scientific knowledge, I have to move over (I hope people like multi-part posts here, going to have to redivide it up from the original two to at least four parts with the different site formatting o.0).
Multi-part posts might work, and I have planned some of these myself, because it is certainly a lot better than having a single 3,000 words+ post in my opinion. But some people might feel like it is an attempt to get more upvotes by spreading the posts out (while not understanding the huge amount of work these posts often require).
Well, hopefully most people will understand, putting a 3100 word essay with a dozen pictures into a single post sounds like a surefire way to make sure no one reads it. Either way, thanks for the advice!
You deserve this huge following sir because I just explored your blog in the morning which was really good and worth to read all biological informative posts. You have spent a lot of good time on steemit and in return you got this reputation and fan following. Keep working continue and informed us like this. You earned one more follower today 😊
Thank you, @bilalawan :)
Yeah, I don't even want to think about how many hours I have spent in order to reach this milestone. It must be very many!
Congrates to you my friend.
You truly earned it.
I love to read the comments section of your posts, as there is so much to gain from different people. So many different angles and opinions.
By creating a discussion platform in comment section, the beauty of your awesome post increases 1000 folds.
Thanks @xabi!
I'm glad you also enjoy reading the comment section :) I agree that it really increases the value of the posts by a huge margin.
Congratulations! I'm another new follower! I love the animal posts. Looking forward to seeing which animal you will highlight next!
Thanks, @ilanaakoundi. I'm glad to have you as a follower, and welcome to the community!
Best regards from @valth
Congratulations on your achievement. You are right, it takes constant work and dedication to make a go of Steemit. I have noticed that in the periods I did not comment much, there was a corresponding decline in votes. Keep it up you are example to many of us.
Thanks!
Yeah, staying active and interacting is absolutely the key to making it here. The best way to grow big is to be able to post and comment every day, but most of us obviously don't have the time for that.
congratulations ! the effort you put in your work is what made us all follow you ! you deserve this and even bigger and we will witness that soon .
keep those posts coming !
more power to you !
Thank you, @mariahbill!
Congratulations, and thanks for sharing interesting and well written articles :)
Thanks! I'm glad you like writing what I write, @dieterschneider :)
Congratulations brother.. for your new achievement keep posting amezing stuff. Like you always do. Keep it up. Blessings to you man @valth
Thank you very much, @papillon-14 :)
Congrats dude! You deserve more, I hope you will get it :) all the best.
Thank you, @cemke :)
Congratulation valth to have 2500 followers. May you have many more in near future. Keep sharing your worthy post
Thanks! I will of course keep posting ;)
AMAZING milestone @valth!!! :D
Heres to many more 🍺
Thank you very much, @gavinthegreat!
COngratulation @valth :)
May yOu have many more, because you deserve it. Yeah you are right!! your all post is educatiOnal , give us very valuable informatiOn. I LOve to read your post about nature. Hope you will successful in all your plan, and best of luck for your bright future!!
I Liked yOur Cute profile picture, what is it name?
Thank you, @sanach! I'm glad you like my posts, and I hope you will also keep enjoying them in the future! And thanks for all the comments you have left on my posts :)
The name of the dog is Mino :)
Congratulations for this achievement :)
Thank you, @lemouth :)
Congratulations, you deserve all the best. Personally i'm having great conversations with you. Hoping to see you celebrating more milestones.
Thanks! Hehe, I hope so too, @oguylmz ;)
congratulations on this big achievement @valth
Thank you very much, @hidayat4u :) And thanks for leaving comments on my posts so often!
Congratulations @valth
I look forward to your new project. Keep posting.
Thank you :D
congratulations friend .. you are one of the successful people here, keep working in reaching your dream here ..
Thank you! I will do that :)
Magnifico friend congratulations that good and continue to have more followers every day the short time that I have been following and I realized that it is worth publishing some great posts very educational and interesting to learn thanks, you have a lot more success in this great community
Thank you, @aligaby89 :D
Thank you!
Congratulations!
Thanks :)
Congrats!
Thank you!
Congrats @valth
It seems to good for follwer and your post are most all are unique and better than other. I appericate it @valth. I think your future plan will be done.
And again @valth for 2500 followers
Thank you!
Congratulations my friend, you are one of my favorite accounts in Steemit because other type of content comes up but just as informative and it is the collective intelligence that is needed in Steemit, you have well deserved brother you have a faithful reader from Latin America, greetings and blessings!
Thank your for the congrats and the kind words! :D
Congratulations friend enjoy that great achievement since I follow you I have seen the extraordinary and fantastic post that you upload 2500 is a great number that I'll be good support every day I love reading greetings success
Thank you! :D
Congrats! Well deserved!
Thank you, @itsok :D
the milestone you got, what every one is looking for here. i checked your blog yesterday and find it a worthy one so followed you by wasting no time.
Thanks! :)
hey i am one of them .. lets celebrate togather
Many Many congratulation from the core of my heart. I'm glad that you got some achievement on steemit by making top-notch blog for readers like me. I used to read your post few and far which are really worth to read. You earned one more follower in your followers list.
Thank you, @nain!
Congratulations. You're doing great 👍
Thanks, @fun4dudes :)
congragulation you deserve it! you did a great job!
i am the luckiest one one of your follower!
we will be waiting for your project!
Thank you, @addys :)
Big congratz!!
Thanks!
congratulations sir i am really glade and ur really a nice person the way u worked u will get more and more in the upcoming time i am sure u will reach the peak soon best of luck and i am one of them sir!
Thank you!
pleasure is all mine sir!sorry sir i was late in ur post but i got some work to be done other than steemit many many congrates!
No worries; better late than never ;) hehe
hahah yeah its really better to get their!late but no the end!
wonderful...
you have done such a great job..
but honestly you deserve it because you give your precious time to steemit.. <3
very happy for you
Thank you very much :)
honor sir that you liked what ever i say..
you deserve it buddy keep going on we all are with you @valth