Hi Steemians,
I recently completed my 6 months on Steemit and shared my experiece and lessons with Steemians. Meanwhile, I spoke against a whale's bot account and got flagged heavily on my almost all active posts. One of the posts was the one in which I shared that experience.
The post had received 83 votes and 45 comments on it. Total worth of upvotes it received was $25 when it was nearing payout but got flagged. Ever after the flag, it received upvotes worth $50 but once payout is finalized the post can not recover and stays hidden. A new information for me. And that's why I have to bring it back to life; and with some updates in achievements department.
I'm a happy person to have achieved this incredible feat.
"I am incredibly happy to have completed 6 months on Steemit. I applied applied for my Steemit account on 3rd June this year and I got approval email soon as well. The @esteemapp (by @good-karma) shows my joining date as 5th June, 2017. Which means I have successfully spent 6 months on Steemit already. For the best part of these 6 months, I remained active on Steemit and I cannot be more thankful for it!
Flagged but not killed. Posting again because it did deserve to stay...
This post is not just a celebration post. I have lined up some encouraging achievements to share with my fellow Steemians so that my journey can inspire new, as well as struggling people. It's going to short and crisp.
6 Achievements
In these 6 months, I have experienced wonderful Steem moments all the way. I am going to list down 6 achievements to encourage you to work harder and do well on Steemit.
58.558 Reputation (Now 59.263):- That's the reputation score I have right now. If you follow @arcange Steemit Statistics closely, you'll know that there are less than 800 people who are at 58 reputation. The number of people who are above me in reputation score is less than 4000.
200+ Posts & 2500+ Comments (Now 3000+ Comments):- This is one of the keys to my steady but consistent rise on Steemit. I have been posting blogs regularly and have been writing hundreds of comments of good value. It's not easy to remain consistent but it's totally worth it.
$200+ Post:- On a single post, the maximum reward I have received till now is $225.31. It happened 6 months ago when I was totally new to Steemit. Two days later, one of my posts went beyond $200 again but finalized on $184.84 due to price fluctuation.
1300+ Followers (Now 1430+):- I take pride in knowing that more than 90 % of my followers are organically acquired, meaning they chose to follow me for the work I have done. The numbers are increasing with each passing day and I don't plan to stop working hard either.
1000+ Steem (Right Now 1320+ Steem & 42 SBD):- I made a special update post a few days ago upon achieving my target of having at least 1000 Steem (Steem+SP) in my account by end of this year. I was able to achieve the target one month before the deadline. I now have a target to have 1000 SP in my account excluding any power ups. The best thing is that, barring some, all of this Steem came from Proof of Brain. I used my brain to create content, and Steemians used their brains to judge it as deserving of their valuable upvotes.
Amazing Connections (Now Even More):- I am mentioning this at the last but it is the number one achievement in my opinion. I cannot quantify it but it's the most valuable. I couldn't have gotten to know and talk to a lot of people if not for Steemit. @SirCork is a friend since my week one. @AusBitBank is an amazing support from that first big post of mine till now. I used to admire @jerrybanfield when his courses used to pop up in my Facebook feeds due to my massive inclination towards online learning. I can talk to him now and learn from him and he's amazing.
@JBN is not just a colleague anymore. He's a Steemian that I can share with and talk to anytime about Steemit. There are countless more and this post will become too big if I keep going on.
There may be, and are, many more things worth highlighting but it's not a popularity contest. I just want you to have a look at what I have done and may be we can talk about our progresses in the comments and help each other in the areas of our strength.
6 Lessons for Steemians
Over these months, I have observed and shared a lot of personal insights and experiences. I have created many guides and tutorials as well which have since helped literally thousands of people to do better on Steemit. I am going to combine my experience in these six lessons that I hope will help you do better on Steemit.
1. Seek First to Learn, Then to Earn
The phrase is inspired by the habits number five in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which says:-
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Seeking first to learn how Steemit works and why successful people are successful translates to seeking first to understand. You're on a new platform which is based on a blockchain and rewards in cryptocurrency. Please understand its system first.
Don't learn so that you can manipulate the system (you can't do that), but learn so that you can offer what the community expects from you; value, contribution and engagement.
2. There are NO Shortcuts!
There are simply zero shortcuts that work. You'll either be frustrated and leave or be caught and punished with flags. Many people think they'll collude with friends and make a group who vote each other all the time. They do not realize that even a group of 100 people will only give you $0.10 at max if they all have no Steem Power.
Upvote for upvote does not work even if you get 100 votes because these people who are voting on your posts have zero vote value.
Follow for follow is another shortcut most rookies are mistaken about. You cannot get any support from such followers because most, I'd say all, of them are losers just like you. Harsh but true.
The only way to success is the way in which you do some valuable work and people reward you for providing that value. Avoid the shortcut thinking.
3. Consistently Contribute
If there's one word to summarize all the advice that experienced Steemians will give to you, it's contribute. What is a contribution? Anything that is valuable to the community. A thing which helps people know you, take a decision, make an improvement, enhance their knowledge, or do anything that people deem valuable.
And you have to do that on a consistent basis. People should know you for doing valuable things on Steemit for a long time.
4. Prioritize Relationships over Rewards
Take any account. Let's take @kus-knee. Visit his profile and open his latest post. Read it and then write a detailed commentary on that post. Also follow him. Then visit his profile every other day to see if he has posted something new. Read and comment. Repeat.
You'll slowly become familiar to him and you'll be able to know him better too from his posts and writing style. It will become a relationship of its own. Whenever he will see your post in his feed or comment on his post, he will be inclined to reply and even upvote it. Because you put in effort to make that connection.
I cannot talk enough about how relationships have helped me on Steemit. I have a genuine desire to make good connections from the day one and I have hundreds of them now on Steemit. So many people have made an undeclared connection with me too by consistently appearing in my comments. I try to upvote and reply to them on priority.
If you focus on building relationships, rewards will multiply. Try it.
5. Always Reply to Comments
That's one thing I have been doing regularly. I may have missed some due to commitments but I come back to replies tab and reply them all. The person who comments on your posts is a reader; not necessarily keen to be your follower. But when you reply and keep the conversation going, he or she tends to check you out and follow you if you fit the expectations.
You will see an amazing increase in the number of your followers when you make an earnest effort to reply to all comments in a way that is seen as valuable. I resteemed a @jerrybanfield post on the subject. Check that out for further evidence.
PS:- Upvoting valuable comments on your posts is a habit that you can borrow from me and you will see amazing effects of it too.
6. Do Not Spam, Beg or Plagiarize
Short comments like 'good post' are spam. Comments saying 'I followed you. You follow me and upvote my posts' are spam. Comments not relevant to the topic of the post are spam. Comments containing links, and that too irrelevant to to the post, are spam. Do not spam.
Do not beg. Just because you're new or struggling to understand how to get rewards, you should not resort to begging as a way to get some rewards for no work. Work hard. Learn. Put in effort. Show patience. You will get rewards.
What's not yours is not yours. What others wrote is theirs. Do not post content that is stolen from another author. Do not try to scam the system by spinning. You will be caught and you will be punished.
Note:- All gifs are from Giphy and are used to make the post interesting.
Conclusion
Steemit works but only if you are ready to make it work. I have spent 6 months and I am so happy. I wish I had joined in July 2016 rather than June 2017 but I am thankful that I joined. There are millions who are still wasting time of Facebook like I used to do before.
On completion of half an year, I wanted to share something to inspire Steemians and guide them to success. I hope you found this post to be useful. Please consider upvoting and resteeming."
You are doing great since your first day on steemit. I am very impressed with your progress.
Your love for learning and your efforts for helping others to understand that how steemit works are absolutely amazing.
And i totally agree with you that begging, plagiarizing or trying to find shortcuts will never get you any permanent success. If we want to be successful in any field of life hard work and dedication is the only key.
I am glad for all your success.
God bless you brother!
Thank you much. I know you have seen me since the day one. You couldn't continue like I have and I wish you had continued. Anyway, thanks for your appreciation. Learning and helping others is a great way to give to the community.
well you have explain all you go though the steemit in last 6 month i appreciate your hard work brother
Thank you so much for your appreciation.
As usual you shared an other inspiring post and shared your motivational achievements to steemit community.
Achievements also provide tangible evidence that colleagues, competitors and the wider world use to judge you as more or less successful. So after reading your post I judge that you are more successful person.
Congratulations for your achievements keep on enjoying to work on steemit.
Thanks for a detailed comment. I did not mean to show myself as a successful person. I just wanted to share my progress so that someone can get some motivation and start working. Then I shared my lessons.
I already read this post, I'm really surprised to know that it was flagged, why someone would flag this beautiful post?
I explained in first paragraph bro. Almost all my active posts were flagged a few days ago. Then got recovered by comcerned community members. Most of them anyway. But this one had finalized payout so it never recovered.
I'm sorry that I didn't check first paragraph i was just checking out that it is new post or that old one but when i scroll down and read the reason of reposting it, I immediately asked the reason of downvoting. After that i scroll down your blog and found who was the down voter & remeber your post against that upbot . Now i realize the whole situation. Happy to know that you managed to recover other posts.
Thank you so much. It was just another lesson and experience on Steemit for me. I had never been flagged before and do not plan to be flagged again too; unless something requires a little sacrifice.
Best of luck dear!
I am new here bro & I just need your suggestion. I have written few posts & I would be delighted if you could spare some time to check my blog.
https://busy.org/life/@haseeb96/story-of-a-servant-who-became-1st-asian-grand-chessmaster
This post has received gratitude of 1.00 % from @jout
@ilyastarar thanks @jout for the gratitude and comveys his warm regards. Followed you :)
glad to read your trade secret @ilyastarar Great going sir. you are a source of inspiration. amazed to learn that you got $200.00 plus reward in your early days. This show your writing and presentation skills. keep sharing
Thanks a lot brother and please keep working. Do not look at the reward. Look at your effort and improve it.
yes i am here to just improve my skill.
Wonderful lessons. Steemit has been a place for me to exercise my creative ideas..nice post..worth saving
Thanks a lot. Steemit definitely brings our creative side out in the public and polishes it.
You did hard work and its paying off...
You deserve the achievements....
Stay blessed.
Thank you so much for your wishes.
Today is me my first day on steemit. And this first post i read on steemit. I am pretty sure that i am at right place to learn success mantra of steemit. I visited your profile, there are much articles to learn steemit. Thanks man :)
First of all, welcome to Steemit. It is a matter of happiness for me that this is the first post that you read.
From your first comment, I can tell you that you are going to do great things on Steemit. Just be focused. Learn more. Work hard. Don't look at rewards. Look at your work and improve it.
Best of luck!
Hi ilyas brother!
Today I checked your profile for the first time! I am a beginner here at steemit, I was checking the posts of @ayeshanor and then saw one your post which she resteemed , "Collecting Funds For a Needy Family. Read to Know Why Your Support is Valuable. Please Help"
And after reading that post I must say you have amazing and engaging writing skills.
If I talk about this article then , Brother as a new steemer, I will always take care of these three points:
1- Prioritize Relationships over Rewards
2- Always Reply to Comments
3- Do Not Spam, Beg or Plagiarize
Brother, at first I was begging everyone at steemit to follow me back and upvote me but after reading your detailed MOTIVATIONAL article, I will never do this again. Yes, from now I will reply to all the comments although people don't comment on my articles but I will reply if anyone comment.
Thanks again brother!