What a wild ride the last 30 days have been. I have learn a metric ton from all of you, so thank you for being awesome. Here's what my first 30 days have looked like.
Top Post
My Top post was I think pretty predictable. My IntroduceYourself Post! here
Top Comment
My top comment came from haejin.
What I learned
- SP vs VESTs
- SP vs Steem vs SBD
- Bandwidth
- Voting Power
- Post Promotion
- Bots
What I regret
I tried using "promotion" on one of my posts and I definitely regret that. At that point I didn't really understand what any of the SBD vs Steem vs Steem Power... I pretty much wasted $1.00 SBD.
At one point I got very lower on voting power as well as I didn't really realize that was a thing. It took several days for it to recover back to 100%
What I did well
I think I did a great job learning the platform and all of the tooling around it. I probably spend too much time monitoring my "stats" on steemd, steemstats and steemDB.
My Goals
I really want to start gaining more Steem Power, but I am at a loss at the moment on how to generate it. Currently I am trying to start comment threads on popular items, however the payouts are merely just cents. It only really seems to matter when someone with a lot of steem power replies to you directly and up votes. I think that's a bit of a shame as just because someone doesn't have a lot of steem power doesn't mean that their contribution to the conversation should be weighted lower at least in my opinion.
I think it's incredibly difficult as a minnow starting out to fully understand all that is going on but that's just part of the learning process.
Starting February Stats
- VESTS 2644
- SP 1.292
I want to triple those in Feb. I think it's pretty doable given that My rewards payout within the next week should be almost double of what my account is worth now. I feel as if I got very lucky with a few of my comments and that's why I am succeeding.
Investing
Given the current market for crypto, I am semi-considering buying some steem to get some steem power; but I need to do more research on how much and what the ROI might look like. It definitely seems like it's one of those things where if I invest early it pays out in the long run.
Anyway I look forward to another month of SteemIt! This is definitely way better than just randoming around on Reddit ;) You all have an excellent MemeGame and I hope to up my meme level a few on dmania.