Just like you sometimes I find myself spending hours on commenting and replying, without any time left to create a post. Or it's the other way around: I'm spending all my time on getting a post out, and then realize I haven't seen anything else than my own editor all day.
Maybe it's not such a bad idea to create some kind of organisation system... it would probably more effective than my impulsive jumping around from post to post and Discord Channel to Discord Channel... 😀
It's indeed harder to get noticed as a beginner. The in-stream of new people is huge. I try to help out where I can and make posts about what I learn. Sometimes I notice a post in the tag stream with a cry for help and if no one else does, I take my time to pay attention to it and answer questions. Being fairly new myself, it's not always that easy; SteemIt is a giant puzzle with way too many pieces and I'm only just managing to find my way around it myself.
And the truth is that most of these newcomers signed up because they heard you can earn money here, but don't bother to educate themselves. As a result, I find it difficult to go searching for those few diamonds in the rough. I dislike searching the tag streams more and more, because there's so much crap out there that it makes me sad.
The problem is that SteemIt lacks a good educational system. I've been here for 4 months, and only found out about the FAQ page last week. That should be different. It should be the first thing people see when they sign up, not something they accidently bump into.
Fortunately, being a minnow myself, I mainly attract other minnows with my posts. It's easier to separate the promising newcomers from the others, and it's easier to sense whether I'll be wasting my time or not.
How do you go out and look for those who do post quality content? I could sure use some tips...
It's great that you're taking the time to support other new joiners!! If you can believe it, it's actually 5000% easier now to join steemit and learn the ropes because there are so many resources now and posts to help newbies, but I understand that it can be hard to even discover them at first.
It's true that there are so many new accounts and so much crap for sure....kind of discouraging, but there are also so many incredible content producers that I can't keep up daily or weekly with everything I want to read. This is a good thing even if curating eats up so much time.
So, to answer your question - I found my favorite bloggers mostly by exploring and reading posts that caught my attention. Commenting and following these people regularly helps to develop authentic relationships if you genuinely connect with their posts. And often those posts have comments by others who blog about the same subject or of equal quality. You can tell a lot by the quality of someone's comment. It was very organic in the beginning for me and I spent a lot of time sort of discovering. I often see who my favorites are following as well since those people may be a good match.
And lastly, making friends through joining chats and groups can be really useful. I've met some good friends here that way.
I hope this helps!!
Thanks for the tips.
Unfortunately I don’t like chats - they drive me crazy, but I’m beginning to understand how the ball starts rolling. I set up my first contest earlier this week, and suddenly I’m picked up by a group of people who are doing the same thing, all using the same tag. And so we started supporting each other, getting to know each other better.
I started out here as a marketer, with the idea that 75% of the people I followed, would follow me back. That is about right, but it made me end up with a ... let’s call it a ‘diverse’ feed. I really got to clean that up tomorrow, because it’s hard to find the quality post in there...
ah yes I relate...got to clean up the feed sometimes! make sure those you follow continue to post worthwhile content for sure!