I was hoping to be able to celebrate both my reputation reaching 60 and having gained 1000 followers at the same time. But I seem to be 38 followers shy of 1000 and the number of my followers has been increasing so slowly in the past month or so that I think reaching 1000 will probably take another month or longer at best.
Out of those two, reaching a reputation of 60 is clearly more important as reputation is a straightforward consequence of getting upvoted (minus downvotes). For the details of how reputation is calculated, see this article by @arcange. Reputation as a function of upvotes (minus downvotes) is logarithmic which means that your reputation increases easily at first when you start out with a reputation of 25 and becomes gradually more difficult to attain when it grows. I started on Steem in February 2017 but did not write anything but my introductory post until early June 2017. It has essentially taken me a year to go from 25 to 60.
I have always upvoted my own posts like the most people here but never my own comments. Nor have I ever bought votes from bidbots or from any other larger account, which means that all upvotes I have received have been organic except for upvotes given by @suomibotti, a project of @apsu, that has been delegated SP by @acidyo (~ 5,000 SP), @gamer (~ 300 SP), @tarazkp (~ 350 SP) and @apsu (~ 150 SP). (Thank you @apsu and all delegators to it for this project to support the Finnish community for free!)
I owe special gratitude to @gamer00 who onboarded me in the spring of 2017. I'm also very grateful for his ~ 1,000 SP delegation that I have received from him. There is no question that he has been my most important supporter so far. Another important supporter has been @acidyo, the champion of manual curation, to whom I'm very thankful for appreciating many of those of my photography posts that I have taken some care to craft. I also want to extend my thanks to all the rest of those who have supported me during this journey!
Congratulations! You have earned it! :)
Thank you!
Honour well deserved.congratulations
Thank you!
Friend. Congratulations. I really tell him. "Honor to whom Honor Merits" and again I repeat my motto, When you do things well, good things always happen.
You receive the good of others because you deserve it.
Thanks, we must give all that we follow faithfully to his publications and his adventures, both photographic and learning. From many aspects. Even when one is well corrected for errors, that is very honorable, I always remember my mistake made with you when I made a comment in a post that should not. The mistake was solved thanks to the fact that you remembered that I was congratulating you for the gold medal in the Olympics, that I will never forget.
Go ahead that from where I am, I will try to follow your good steps.
Oh yeah, that case. I'm very glad it turned out fine in the end.
Thanks to you. because at that time Mr. Jaro considered that I was a bots. Of course I was the guilty one, always accept my mistake.
Thank you for making the comment that I was congratulating you.
I remember the case. It was in February. The Olympics had just started and it was in my blog.
A certain friend So it was, but something bad, something good came out. Also our friend Jaro at that moment after clarifying everything, I generously delegate SP and that helped me and many Venezuelans, because from that moment I help all I can with a vote of 0.01
Congratulations on the new milestone! :)
Thank you!
Congratulating you on this milestone @markkujantunen. There is needn't to bother about followers count. Out of them most are fake and inactive. I'm one of your real followers. Wishing you all the best to make it 70 soon!
Thanks, but 70 is an order of magnitude more difficult to attain than 60. And let's not forget about the reward pool shrinking with the decreasing rate at which new STEEM and SBD is minted and also the growing user base. At this rate we'll see about it in 2050.
Haha. Yes. But people like berniesanders can achieve it in one day!
It's a function of your Steem Power. If you have millions of dollars worth of SP, you can upvote yourself into a high reputation score. He has a lot of followers, too.
congrats mate :)
Thank you. :)
Congrats! You've worked hard to get to that point considering that you haven't used bots
Thank you!
I have used @suomibotti but that's not a bidbot.
Yeah, it doesn't count
Time for a drink. Well done. You of all people deserve it. I don't know any other person here who just pops up all over the platform.
Thank you.
Big congratulations to you @markkujantunen. Welcome to the reputation 60's club.
Thank you!
Congratulations, friend, it has been perseverance and dedication that has put you at level 60, that serves as motivation for many new ones like me. You have to be disciplined and have faith that if you can
Thank you. Just keep at it.
I see this achievement so difficult to achieve, certainly incredible @markkujantunen, congratulations, I've always liked your work with bedtime fact, that inspired me to create my own project, which you has always supported me and you've always taken the trouble to answer the comments of your followers that's the best, and if you have any future project I assure you that we will continue here giving our support.
Thank you!
I wish you many successes more dear friend. In steemit, in your work and with your family. You have received support as you mentioned but you have also supported a lot. I am one of those almost thousand followers that you have and it is because your contributions are great: geography, climate and general curiosities, as well as I have learned a lot from their customs, traditions and your beautiful places. Felicidades!
¡¡¡¡Onneksi olkoon!!!!
Gracias!