STEEMIT Secrets: 5 Things I Wish I Knew as a Newbie

spiritualmax (64)in #steemit • 7 years ago

STEEMIT Secrets: 5 Things I Wish I Knew as a Newbie

So, these are not secrets per se, but are some of the things 99% of the newbies don't know about, and I can personally tell you that throughout my journey promoting STEEM, most guys who enroll suffer from the lack of knowledge on these facts.

I wish I knew these things when I signed-up, so here is a post that I'm writing for you to show the guys who onboard on this beautifully rich platform.

Voting Isn't Unlimited: Look at your Voting Power

First things first, this is what happens with nearly everyone who joins - they vote their power to oblivion.

This one happened to me, it happened to everyone who joined that I know of, and it happened to a lot of guys that are veterans by this point.

There's no mention of the "voting power bar" anywhere on the platform.

When you join, you don't know about Steem Supply, Steem Reports, Steem Now, Steem World and all those nifty platforms you can use in order to check tons of metrics you never even knew about.

Having that in mind, know that you do have voting power and that it goes from 0% to 100%.

This power is spent, but it regenerates 20% per 24 hours. So, you can spend 20% per day, but what is 20%?

20% is the equivalent to 10 x 100% votes.

On the other hand, know that if you're a newbie, if you have under 500 Steem Power, all of your votes are worth 100%. Only those who have more than 500 SP have a bar so they can choose the percentage of vote they want to give out.

So if 10 x 100% Votes represent 20% vote, if you vote with 50% power you can vote 20 times per day.

So, before your friend who is new on STEEMIT starts voting until his power and bandwidth expires, show him this.

Comments Matter More Than Posts Early On:

I already mentioned the importance of commenting in one of my previous post. When you have no followers and when your posts still only make you cents, then you have to go fetch your audience, you can't wait for it to find you among all of the noise in the blockchain.

Having said that, commenting is the way to go. Comment on posts that are similar to yours and try to participate in communities that make sense.

Check Your Metrics with Steem Supply:

By typing "steem.supply/@username" you get access to a report that tells you not only about your rewards, but also when the payout is.

At first, many people don't know when the payout happens, this is a way to know that. On the other hand, you can run other accounts through this platform so you can see what the secrets of growth to some accounts are.

For instances, when I was a newbie I saw a newbie like me growing faster, so I ran him on this page and saw that he was making over 50+ comments per day and I was at roughly half.

I pumped up those numbers and experienced a lot of success.

How Many Posts Per Day?

There are a lot of new users that worry about the amount of posts they are publishing. They fear they are posting too much and that they'll get banned or something.

Now, most users that experience this resort to searching for how many posts are too much and they wind up reading posts from a year ago where everyone is talking about the 4 posts limit per day.

Know this limit doesn't exist any more, and that you can publish as much as you want, BUT I can't imagine anyone can make quality posts more than 4 times a day, so be careful about what you put out, you don't want to look like one of the most infamous STEEMIT users.

Don't Use the 100% Power Up Feature:

This feature was useful for when the SBD price and Steem Power was the same. Know that SBD is much higher than Steem nowadays and as such you are wasting a lot of power by putting all rewards on SP.

By placing the option at 50/50 you get roughly the equivalent of 75/25 because SBD is worth roughly the double of Steem Power.

So, if you're starting out and you want to invest in Steem Power, you get more bang for your buck by picking 50/50 and converting the SBDs you get to Steem Power.

So, what other things would you love to know when you were a Dust Account holder or a newborn on Steemit?

Share those things in the comments below, and if you liked this article, don't forget to give it a vote and a resteem.

Cheers!

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7 years ago in #steemit by spiritualmax (64)

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underground (67) 7 years ago

One other "secret" I have seen occurring is the Levels Jump. I first started here and did not do a whole lot of anything as I recall, a first. I read more than posting or commenting. Plus voted. I was a bit more active in the latter part of my first week? But here's the "secret" that I have observed. If one hits the ground running, you jump several levels. I was a 25 (as everyone is) and moved up one or two fairly quickly. Then all of a sudden I was a 42 rep level, and I was motivated to do more, learn more and yes, even INVEST in some SP of my own. Cannot remember when I hot my 500 SP and the attendant "slider", but then it was off to the races! I bought my SP, never had more than 27 on a delegation. I'm happy for that, it made me transfer some BTC/ETH gains over here ;)

I see that you have discovered (prolly long before you were a steemer!) that helping others helps you grow as well, Max. Not just in the steem/sbd sense, but in the 'spiritual' sense too, I am using my drive to EARN so I can LEARN. Making friends/money/contacts etc on steemit really does illustrate the spiritual journey of life, and it is very accurate IMO.