Thanks so much for putting this out. I'm still new here as you know, but that's one thing I noticed quickly, how bad that tag especially was being misused. I've used that tag once, it was my very first post. In my opinion that just feels like the right thing to do, you know unless the author is suffering from amnesia I can't see why you would want to keep introducing yourself, at some point just makes you look not so right in the head.
Btw I would totally upvote this post if it wasn't for the fact I screwed up and let my power level drop to 50% . I'm such a doofus lol.
Yes, I very much agree of course with what you have said about using the tag more than once.
There is also an "introduce" tag people can use if they want to introduce a new product etc, but "yourself" is only once.
No problem on the upvote, I certainly appreciate the support just the same.
Blessings!
No problem on that support, you were one of the first people who welcomed me to the community. You seem like good people, and I like good people.
Ditto. Its nice to have friends.
I only wish to aspire to the things you’ve achieved
Then you will and much greater!
Blessings!
I agree, @djfugly. When I did my first post a few days ago, and tagged it with introduceyourself, I went to that page 2 minutes later to see it, and my post had already dropped off the page. I thought, "How could there be that many newbies posting their introduction post at exactly the same time as me?" Now I realize that there's tagging abuse and spamming going on.
Thank you, @bycoleman, for doing so much to tackle this issue!
Yeah and the sad thing is from my understand we minnows don't really have enough voting power to try to flag it with any effectiveness. I would be great is we could use all this bot knowledge and power in some where that would allow effective flagging of misuse as well. I'm not sure exactly how it could be done. Maybe if it was some bot where you could submit a flag, and it use a vote weight similar to how the vote weight works, except it would have a threshold, point where once the threshold was met it could flag abuse using it's strength. Kinda like a proxy. I don't know maybe just an idea.
The whole voting power, bandwidth, vote weight, etc is way over my head. It's a complicated system, that's for sure! I've learned a lot hanging out at the Peace, Abundance, Love channel on Discord (Minnow Support Project), but it was several days before I understood that there was such a resource, lol. By that time, my IntroduceYourself post was already old and buried.
I think it would be great if, when someone signs up for a Steemit account, they are provided with a list of Steemit articles to peruse that would start preparing them. There's a waiting period before getting accepted onto Steemit anyway, so may as well use that newbie enthusiasm to begin preparing! :-)
Yeah I think that would be good for sure. Btw love the name just checked out your blog and throwing you a follow. Looks interesting :D
Thanks, I followed you back. :-)
Thanks I actually also just shared your intro post on Facebook. It's freaking great. I so wish I could vote you up, cause this makes me smile.
Wow, thank you so much! That's exactly my intention with this blog, to bring a smile or a chuckle to people's day.
Thank you from both of us!