Greetings Steemians!

Today, I have completed six months on this amazing platform. I was very active on Facebook and other social media platforms before joining this platform. I have a decent fan following on Facebook. They miss my posts but Steemit has enchanted me. So, I am spending more time here. In fact, I am getting addicted to it.

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So far I am satisfied with my journey on this platform. I started with 25 reputation score and 15 delegated SP. Now my reputation score is 58 in just six months and I have around 250 SP and some Steem as well. I have posted 238 articles and 2752 comments so far. I am following 286 accounts, and 1282 accounts are following me. The number of my followers crossed 1000 mark in just three months after my account opening. I think it’s a great achievement for me as I have seen many veterans hanging around just 500 followers.

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This doesn’t come easily for me. For many days my posts could not get upvotes, but I didn’t stop trying. I commented on good posts of others which got upvotes occasionally. I also invested $300 and bought Steem to power up and promotional activities. Bid-bots really helped me. I could get visibility on account of their use and it also increased my reputation score. I have posted on various topics, including criticizing reward distribution system. I wish to include many other topics for my blog in near future.

I met many great steemians here. Hive account@paradigmprospect, Hive account@gandhibaba, Hive account@robert31, Hive account@csharma, Hive account@geetharao, Hive account@lizzyib, Hive account@maya7, Hive account@rahulsaini, Hive account@solominer, Hive account@xyzashu and Hive account@tinanikolovski etc. are very nice people who always support me for my work.

I experienced that Hive account@vaansteam, Hive account@tonysayers33, Hive account@terrylovejoy, Hive account@richq11, Hive account@steevc, Hive account@shaka, Hive account@steemchiller, Hive account@royalmacro, Hive account@princessmewmew, Hive account@sanmi, Hive account@sayee, Hive account@krnel, Hive account@colinhoward, Hive account@clausewitz, Hive account@abh12345, Hive account@arunava, Hive account@chbartist, Hive account@bigtom13, Hive account@berniesanders, Hive account@arunava, Hive account@robertandrew etc. responded quickly, whenever I made comments on their posts. Hive account@adsactly also upvote my comments on their posts.

Hive account@themarkymark, Hive account@firepower, Hive account@jatinhota, and Hive account@timcliff also respond on my comment on their posts. Hive account@dwarrilow2002’s steemhost.com delegated some SP to me. I received many upvotes from Hive account@steemitcentral. Hive account@s4s, Hive account@mbp and Hive account@hr1 had upvoted some of my post in the past with good voting weight, though I am not receiving upvotes from them for many weeks. My experience with Hive account@thedailysneak was amazing. I had been the guest curator for the ‘the daily sneak’ posts. I also received some SBD for my contribution from the daily sneak.

Now, I am a member of the indiaunited community. Hive account@indiaunited supports my good posts. Members of this community have become my good friends. Musing.io is a great platform. I get upvotes from Hive account@musing for my answers on their platform. I also get upvote from Hive account@good-karma and Hive account@esteemapp, whenever I post my blog using eSteem app.

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So, friends my experience with this platform has been amazing. I also got downvote from some mischievous accounts. They downvoted me because I supported Hive account@steemcleaners and Hive account@abusereports.
I have downvoted only one occasion in my entire Steemit journey when Hive account@austin101 annoyed me by spamming on my posts.
Six months are not very much from the perspective of human life but it has been an achievement since many users didn’t find Steem platform profitable and hence, quit.

I am thankful to everyone who supported me and helped me to grow. Thank you all.

Now this is the contest time.

So friends! I am starting a contest on this occasion. I will give away one steembasicincome share each to five steemians. If you don't know about the Hive account@steembasicincome, please follow this link- sbi

Rules to follow
Just upvote this post and write comment below. I will select five winners as per random selection method. The results will be announced after five days of posting of this blog. So, don't miss this opportunity.

I will use bidbots to promote this post. But I will do it after 10-12 hours of posting of this post so that the upvoters may receive handsome curation reward.

Thank you.