How goes the Steem battle today?
The current mood on Steem has me walking down memory lane considering my own Steem experience.
When I first started on SteemIt, I did four posts a day. Usually a story of some sort, a status report on how my SteemIt experience was going, A "Hot Chick Pic" and I don't remember what else. lol, as I mentioned in a recent post - some of those, many of those didn't receive enough to create a payout. However, the process was fun and it likely improved my writing and definitely my focus. Overtime I quit trying to try everything and I also quit trying to limit myself to a topic or area. I am too inconsistent to do pull that off. I just write what I am thinking about and that might be of interest.
Here is a flashback to a "Hot Chick Pic". They were pictures of my own flock with some sort of nasty, pornish sounding titles. I came up with the idea while I was trying to identify the breed of a chick, and I googled "Black Chicks". lol, I had a lot of fun with the "Hot Chick Pics".
* "Hot Chick Pic of the Day - Teens"
This one was featured - Here.
Not many liked the one called, "Hey check out my big Cockerel"
LOL, but a couple received a nice payout when @blocktrades voted on them occasionally. That was enough to keep trying.
I've written a few posts recently about how things were hard when we were minnows also. I've spent many hours reading and writing on Steem. Some of the time was spent building an audience, but some of it also was honing my own skills, and learning how to be comfortable with what I have to offer. It just is what it is.
I've been here for 22 moons according to steemd, I've tried a bit of fiction, a few personal stories, art, commentary seems to be my thing and I write about Steem a lot, because it is often on my mind and it is the one thing we all have in common. As I have gotten to know the community it gets harder to share really personal stories. Isn't that odd, for me it was easier when the site felt more anonymous.
I've made some friends, and learned a few things, I am getting more comfortable with accepting my own up and down phases in generating interest in what I write about. I've have to admit I'm not Shakespeare either. Once I got more comfortable with just being who I am and saying what I have to say, things got much better and I no longer sweat about it.
As I said recently, #justkeepposting
This is how I am doing.
- My rep is currently at 69,
- I have 4475 followers,
- I've made 8127 posts, including comments.
- I have 13,435.559 STEEM powered up. Worth somewhere around 50k USD (rounding for price variation)
- Which ranks my account at 863rd largest, by "Own Steem Power" on https://mysteemitfriends.online/#
- I'll let you judge whether that is success or failure.
Status report for @whatsup
I'm still here and still posting, what is your status?
That is a REALLY awesome site! Thanks for sharing! :)
Good read. I am a minnows myself. Started posting about a week ago. Its hard to get people read your stuff. How did you get blocktraders to upvote your content.
Blocktrades changed strategy in November 2017. Before that, he (and the mrs Blocktrades) were avid readers and curators.
Now, things have changed. Maybe it has been become a little bit harder to succeed at Steem, but setting goals and going for it is never a bad idea.
I am writing articles consistently to get more followers. Also trying to find my genre
He likes photography, or at least in those days, he voted on photography posts quite a bit. One of my hot chick pics earned $110. or something due to blocktrades. I've never spoken with him that I know of.
Thanks for the info.
You would like him.
same old same old...
So, you are saying I bore you. :)
No you don't bore me, it's just the same old battle of evermore....
Hey girl, check out my big cockerel and my 69 reputation.... 😎😎😎
You've got pretty nice numbers, my current objective is to get a vote value of 0.50c
That's a good one! Having goals helps keep it interesting.
Holy COW! now that is some SP , good job!
Thank you to one of the first Steemian's I meet on the journey.
Lol why have these seemingly innocent words suddenly turned so nastyy
Some vice terms mehn..lol
I have to say, your titles really had it coming, you are really something else...lol
I like that you are versatile, but steem is still on top , that makes the two of us, lol, no im not famzing you
I think you're doing very well for yourself, you have a very shinny portfolio but you can always do better
I agree, I can do better. I want to help set a tone now. That is my new goal. Acceptance, celebrate success, and live and let live.
Excellent, i wish you all the best, you need it more now
just
keep
posting
Just reached the milestone of 55 rep (which would be a distant memory for you) and having an ass-load of fun reading and commenting and blogging.
The rest doesn't matter much except that I am pretty proud of my feed. (You can look at anyone's feed to see what comes to them on a daily basis) https://steemit.com/@zekepickleman/feed
Clowns and Renaissance people and authors and rockstars and killers and poets and rabble-rousers and friends and photographers and artists and PIONEERS!
Status: still vertical and planning on staying thatta way.
Whoot! Vertical and upright! :) I appreciate you ZekePickleman.
Very true. My life situation is odder that most rational people could imagine, would make compelling reading, but I’ve yet to be able to bring myself to write about it.
I used to want to find my niche but have pretty much given up on that idea. I’m just too scatterbrained. But I’ve come to really enjoy doing freewrites, they might become a larger proportion of what I post.
I’m now ranked #1809 by “Own Steem Power”, not bad out of nearly a million. Meh, I’ll never be an orca or a whale.
Nice ranking! :) If the price continues to rise, you might end up an orca after all. Hey being a dolphin isn't a bad thing at all. :)
100,000,000 vests is a long way off.
If the price goes up significantly, I’d be wealthier, but that by itself doesn’t translate into SP which is going to be increasingly difficult to acquire.
I did some rough number crunching a while back that suggests that there could not ever be more than about 60,000 dolphins (just over 1,500 of us now).
We will likely update the criteria again though. At one point it was 20k to be a dolphin.
Did the number of SP change or the number of vests? For at least as long as I’ve known about it, it’s taken 10M vests to be a dolphin. But the number of SP per Mvest has been rising.
You joined before I did. When Steem still inflated at 100%?
Yes. I didn't earn much if anything even with that. :) Hm, I don't know about the vests changing. I thought so, but you have challenged my memory. Okay, we can forever remain dolphins.
This is really a great success here. My main posts are related to 3D art, digital Painting and photography these days. With time our preferences in life changes so we must act accordingly otherwise we will not evolve as a great human being.
Hi whatssup. You have done well and like the way you think. Write what you want and are open to anything. Makes it more interesting for you and us. It is amazing how you can grow on here. Just got to keep plugging away. It helps if you enjoy it.
10-4 on the status! I have gone through a similar process. I have been here for 12 months. The chicken pics idea was brilliant BTW.
30 votes but not a cent on your 'Hey check out my big Cockerel" post. Eeek, looks like things were worse here in the old days.
I looked at that too, so we learned... PapaPepper didn't even have a penny vote yet. He still hadn't worked up to that either. :)
Don't you think you should have used the nsfw tag with that Hot Chicks Pic? LOL
Amazing work and success.
I like the fact you keep going. Sometimes i wonder if my writing is good enough almost get discouraged. So thats what im taking from you today.
It's not all about the writing it is also about engagement and networking and also gaining visibility in the space. I've checked out your work, excellent writing, but some of the topics are the type of information I might google if I needed to know about it, vs just reading it. (gentle feedback) Only due to our current size, eventually, we will have enough that someone will be looking for it. Or you might show up on outside Google engines and bring people here, one just doesn't know. Keep trying, you have talent.
Maybe try some friendly conversational work.
Sometimes it is good to just say/write what is on your mind. It doesn't have to be super profound. Your opening up actually does create a warm feeling...at least in me. I and other readers feel we know you. At least some part of you.
Keep writing.
The beginnings are difficult, and desperate but read articles like yours encourage to follow, if you could get to success I can also. Regards!!
That's an great journey and in my opinion the great thing is, you highlight your initial posts, and in my opinion our initial work on some particular project can bring back the same enthusiasm. And in my opinion your status report is really awesome but the main thing is, it's not matter what others thing about you or your status report, only matters, if our work and progress is giving satisfaction to us or not. Thanks for sharing and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
This post has received a 16.68 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @whatsup.
its a good articale,verticale and upright
Certainly you found the road to success after getting lost on the way to bitcoin store :)
good information.love to read it....It helpful for me. I have some steem loan. I really need it. God bless you
This "hot chick pic" thing made my day man 😂😂
Well ever since I started I have been through some sort of these situations but yet went on going while currently giving out some own nature images by the way ;)
While blocktrade did made my day once as well ;)
HAHA I like the one called "hey check out my big cockerel!"
"Overtime I quit trying to try everything and I also quit trying to limit myself to a topic or area. I am too inconsistent to do pull that off. " <---This is me too!! Do you also have ADHD?
Lol " Isn't that odd, for me it was easier when the site felt more anonymous. "<--- no it's not odd at all!!! It's easy for me when it's just "random internet people" reading my stuff.
But when you start meeting steemians in person, or becoming their internet friends...it gets harder to share stuff! A couple of people I know in real life have joined and found my profile and I'm like crap...now my anonymity is gone...to post personal or not to post personal stuff?!?
You def did a great job honing your writing skills....you've got me clickin' through your other stuff so that's how you know you're legit good. Because I'm very easily distracted, so the fact that I've read through several of your posts in a row is as huge win in my book haha
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