So you've been blogging on steemit like a legend for the past few months, slamming out shitposts but every so often you pull out a humdinger of a post, it's kinda the nature of the beast am I right?
You grind out in the comments section, you upvote some cool shit, you dabble in some bot work, join some communities and grow your account. You didn't give a damn about the price even though people are leaving in their droves, you stick it out, you're a purist you're here for more than just juicy gains, right?
You're there to build up an account with some real influence and earning potential and while your earnings aren't that great you're looking at your follower count and reputation as your saving grace. It's constantly going up and that's a good thing right? Mo rep, mo followers, eventually mo money, right? Well, not really that simple but I get the thinking behind it
Giving up on Steemit
I think its safe to say Steemit has gone full tits up in the wind, I'm already seeing cobwebs and tumbleweeds on my feed, the place is dead fam! While the bleeding started with smaller accounts jumping ship I've seen bigger accounts go into hibernation, delegate their SP to smartsteem or minnowbooster and say fuckit, send me my residuals I'll be back when this thing is worth something again.
Not very inspiring for someone who is basically in the middle of nowhere with their account but fuckit, imma ride this sucker till the wheels fall off. Let's all try to resuscitate steemit with the help of Micheal Scott
Behind the followers
Oh, so where was I? Oh yes back to the non-financial numbers you can count on for account growth, yeah well don't count on it. I have like over 1000 followers, whoop tee doo! Big boy account, not!
If you hit up http://www.steemspectacles.com/ and drop your handle in you will be exposed to the painful, sad and awful truth. Your followers ain't worth shit.
Of my 1150 followers 1051 are ghosts (Active Steemians who didn't engage with you in the last 100 posts), now that doesn't help much now does it. So basically I got like less than 100 peeps who gave a crap in the last 100 posts.
Reputation vs User Authority
So at least we have a reputation right? Wrong! Rep can easily be gamed, send a few upvote bots big ass bids and boom you're a stud, rep of 50+ with little or no effort. Who has time to interact and comment and curate and be a good person on the blockchain anyway? Just give me my gains bro!
So I have a so-called rep of 58 but my UI is 2.720 well out of 10, I think, it's not too great but hey at least it's not 0 and not inflating my ego.
I'm also currently ranked 12 939 not too sure if that's good or bad, I'm going to go with good on account that there are over a million Steemit accounts and around 60k active at any given point in time, so I guess I'm up there, wherever there is!
To find out more about user authority check out the intro post!
Why so serious?
So yeah, pretty depressing but i'm still here, try to get rid of me, I double dare you! Steemit is fun dudes and dudets, like seriously, I think if you relax a little you will be doing just fine, try to understand Steemit does want you as a fan.
Let me put it into perspective for you. You were shit posting on other social media platforms willingly for likes and comments that didn't pay for over 10 years now you rock up here after 10 weeks and think you're going to be the cats pajammies and we're going to laud your contributions with 100s of dollars?
No one is that funny, cute and smart ok? Not on Steemit! Get over it and enjoy the ride
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