New User Support Project Update #2
Hello Steemit!! @gogogadgetupvote here!
First I just want to take a moment to thank the awesome Steemians who have supported my project.
THANK YOU! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!
Very little is possible on Steemit without the Amazing Community that makes this place up!
So I think my project is going pretty well. I have reached over 50 followers in just a couple weeks, not phenomenal I know, but pretty good I think. I only do an update post every few days, and it has actually been almost a week since my last post. I still curate every day, upvoting new user posts for an average of about $0.75.
I highly encourage community engagement on Steemit! Currently I am using my voting power only to upvote the new users posts, but I follow behind myself with my personal account and upvote the comments of those people greeting new users as well. So I like handing out rewards. The excitement when you are a new user and you get your first few upvotes increasing the value of your post. Even if it's only ten cents, it's a good feeling when you are starting out that you don't get anywhere else on the internet. No one gets paid for posting on that book with all the faces, or for pretending to be birds. That's why I love it here and started a project to support all the new users who are joining Steemit! The more people are excited about the first few posts that they create here, the more likely they are to continue posting and not go back to one of the other sites, unless it is to tell people to come here.
So right now I look through the #Introduceyourself posts and try to find people who have at least a couple of posts that I can upvote. People who still have low reps and haven't received many upvotes or rewards, to help spread that excitement to them. I upvote and resteem their intro posts and upvote their other posts and comments about $0.25 per upvote on average. I just wish I had more voting power to be able to give out more rewards. Here is where you, the awesome Steemian reading this sentence right now, come in. Any support that my posts or comments receive gives me more power to influence the value of new user posts. I look at Upvoting, Resteeming and Following kind of like donations to your local Haunted House. Donations are highly encouraged and greatly appreciated, but are not, by any means, necessary.
For now I am converting and powering up any SBD I get to increase my ability to influence posts. In the future I plan on doing contests, though I haven't decided how to structure them yet. I am also open to any suggestions that anyone may have on what I could to to make my project better. I won't automate anything on either of my accounts. I think using bots on Steemit kind of defeats the purpose of the platform. Who ever can program the best bot gets the most rewards, and I don't support that. I encourage community engagement above all else here! I upvote comments of people welcoming new users as well.
Please help me support new users by Upvoting, ReSteeming and Following! I follow back and reward engagement! Drop me a comment below to tell me what you think of my idea, what I could do better, or just to say Hi! I'm a real guy, I respond when people talk to me. Don't forget to drop me links to your Friends and Families introduction posts so I can keep doing what I do. There are tons of new users on the platform every day, and I can't find them all. Drop me links to ANY new user intro post that you can find! As long as I have voting power, I will give it a boost!
Welcome to Steem Community @gogogadgetupvote! As a gentle reminder, please keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.
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Very interesting, can someone explain to me what is meant with "using my voting power only to upvote the new users posts". Do you mean your time invested or is there something I have been missing. I joined just yesterday, but am still interested in the community.
Thanks for taking an interest. What I mean is that instead of using the voting power of this account to vote for my posts or my friends posts, I am only upvoting posts of new users and their introductions. You only get so many votes per day before your vote stop having an effect on post value. I hope that answered your question!
Yes it did, I did not know that they do sink in value! In there any detailed source on that? Thank you for responding and noticing me!
go to
and you can find your voting power. Your percent voting power recovers roughly 20% per day, which is about 10 full power votes. I think.
Anyone feel free to correct me if that is not accurate.
I'm really loving your project @gogogadgetupvote, Right now i will resteem it for more people to see what you're doing. I think everyone here deserves a chance and a good start on steemit. I'm also new and I know how it feels, I still like to help tho :P.
The idea of a contest was very good. I have an idea on what the contest should be about. I would say every day, or week or whatever you should hold a contest where people send their posts to you (only newer people), and the post that someone has really put their time and effort into and made very good wins contest and receive a upvote from you and a resteem. Something like that. Just something that popped into my head but you could work on that idea!
@lillieskold
Thank you so much for your kind words @lillieskold!!! I am glad to see people appreciating what I am trying to do. I really appreciate the support! Don't forget to drop me links in the future if you happen upon any good intro posts!
Nice to meet you, @gogogadgetupvote! Welcome to the Steemit Community, wish you good luck and a good start, ive send you a small tip and followed you, hope you have an amazing day! :)
Thanks for the support @vlone99
@cryptohustlin has voted on behalf of @minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowpond on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond. To be Resteemed to 4k+ followers and upvoted heavier send 0.25SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo
Thank you @minnowpond!!! I have followed and sent the 0.25 SBD for a heavier upvote. Thank you again for the support! Keep doing what you do!
I m pretty new user in this community...want support from you...my introducing post given below...support me if u can...thanks in advance.. @gogogadgetupvote
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@sajib7/introduce-myself
Thanks for linking me to your post. I almost didn't make it in time to upvote it, but I am glad I did. Thanks for supporting me and my New User Support Project!
Nice to meet you @gogogadgetupvote
It is a pretty project. I am new user in this community. I wanna support from you.
https://steemit.com/introduce/@nirob/introduce-myself
Hi there gogogadget, I'm fairly new to steemit, I definitely have less than 200sbd, in fact I think I fit all your criteria. I would love for you to have a look at my blog, I also write short-stories. So far I've not had much success but I'm not the kind of person who quits easily and I truly believe that steemit is the future, it's certainly the future for my writing anyway. It's a great thing that your doing, thank you and I hope to see you about in the comments... djr420
Hi me again, I've just realised you upvoted a couple of my posts a couple of weeks ago, sorry but everything I wrote is true, I am new, with no where near 200sbd and I am still struggling away. I believe in what I'm doing though so I won't be giving up anytime soon. Thank you for all your support past, present and future. Here's a link to my mum and her husbands account, https://steemit.com/@clanplan I think it's pretty bare though. Thank you again... djr420
Hi @gogogadgetupvote. I am glad to see a newbie so pumped up about supporting other newbies. That is an awesome initiative and I wish I had enough voting power to support this. I will, however, resteem this post to my 500+ followers and hopefully you will get support in the form of exposure. Keep up the selfless spirit and you will go far in this platform.
Awesome! I appreciate all the help and support I can get. I'm actually not that new, I joined back in February, just recently started this account for the purpose of supporting new users. Thanks for taking an interest and supporting me!
Hats off to you for your efforts!
Encouraging new members with a good sized upvote is a valiant way to use your account. I remember when my intro post got some large votes, it definitely encouraged me to keep with Steemit.
It can be tough to go at it alone, so I'm glad to see you're asking for input from other users. I'll keep that in mind in the future. We get a lot of promising new members a over at The Unmentionables, so we do our best to encourage them with our votes. If you're interested in joining a community of people who love to do the same thing you're doing, come check us out!
Once again, good luck with this endeavor.
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Thanks for the support. I am definitely interested in a group doing the same thing as me, or similar anyway.
Awesome project. Thank you for your support. I will resteem it as my appreciation for you
Thank you very much!
Hey @gogogadgetupvote! I wanted to thank you for this post. I am pretty new here to Steemit and have really received quite a warm welcome so far. I have been encouraging newer people like myself to engage more as well! Here is a link to my intro post. I am just now beginning to get the ball rolling. I upvoted and follow you now as well. I will Resteem this so it can help spread the love! Thanks again! https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@castleberry/who-am-i-really
No problem, my friend. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Thanks for commenting and supporting my project!
Thank you again for the links!! People helping people! That's what I love so much about Steemit!!! Keep it up @castleberry!
Indeed! I have been helped so much by everyone here on Steemit so far! Just trying to pay it forward and get the Head of Steem this platform needs! As I come across good Intro posts.. I won't hesitate to holler @gogogadgetupvote! =) Thanks for all that you do... It is much appreciated!
No problem, man! Glad you are getting support here on the platform! And again, thanks for your help!
It was perfect timing actually! Thank you so much. I am going to look at some new Intro posts now that Steemit is back up and running! It went down just as I commented earlier. Here is a post from a newer person like myself that I felt could use some more support! https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@jist/time-to-party-introduce-learn-educate-and-get-to-know-you-all
Sad to say that I missed the payout window for this post. I had an incredibly busy weekend.
Thank you so much for Supporting my project and helping me find good intro posts to help up!
I hope you had a great weekend! No worries! =)
I'm a little past your criteria, but I love what you're doing! Keep up the good work!
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Thanks randowhale and @justinashby!!!