It is obvious that with a financial incentive built into steemit, people are going to want to maximize their gains as much as possible. However, like most ventures in life, it is important to look for the long term gains, instead of using reckless tactics to score big in the short term.
One trend that I have noticed on steemit which may be counter productive is the fact that many people adamantly tell their followers to "upvote" their posts. For people already on steemit, who already know how the upvoting process works, this can definitely come across as pushy and make people less interested in your work.
This would be similar to a Facebook friend saying "LIKE THIS POST" at the end of everything they posted.
It is understandable to want to educate Facebook users and people new to Steemit about how the voting process works, but they honestly don't care about upvoting or getting anyone paid, what they are interested in is the content. So when someone approaches them with something that seems similar to a sales pitch, they will focus on that and could lose interest in the content altogether.
Also, if they see a bunch of different people making posts that appear to be spammy from the same website, they may lose interest in that website.
As with building any website, the key to long term gains is consistently putting out interesting content. If you do that, people will upvote without you even asking.
Just something to consider.
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