The Experiment
Exactly 24 hours ago, or maybe a little more already, I have posted the following:
Offering FREE STEEM POWER to everyone that wanted to get it with absolutely no strings attached, you just had to say that you wanted to get it and I would send it. The idea was to offer new users on steemit.com a different way to get some more STEEM POWER instead of them begging for votes etc.
I have decided to give away 0.1 STEEM POWER per user as frankly I expected that there will be some demand for it. I know it is not that much, but it is not that little either, especially if you are a newbie on steemit. There was the possibility of hundreds or even thousands of users joining in, though apparently it did not turn out like that...
The results of the experiment were pretty much disappointing and you can see the short summary below.
The Results
There were 16 votes and 16 comments to the article and it has generated a total of $0.03 Steem Dollars. I'm mentioning the votes and the revenue, because in the post I did not want the people to vote for it in order to receive the reward, as I've said it was offered free with no strings attached and no conditions, all you had to do is to ask for it.
The Comments
Some of the comments were from bots, the usual suspect
and one called
, these are now apparently downvoted by another bot automatically
Some of the comments were from either bots or users that post some generic content:
and
probably without even checking the content of the publication
Some of the comments were mine as I've had to explain that something I said I'd do is indeed possible to
who doubted that I promised something that cannot be done
One of the comments from
was to congratulate the idea as he has tried something similar, but without much success either
Out of all comments only 5 were of actual people that wanted to take up on the offer for Free Steem Power and they will be getting it shortly transferred to their accounts, these are:
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and
The Votes
Below is the list of votes, all of them upvoted:
acassity
putradham
adrehajiuh
eduardf
dimon14
mosab
gfxmotion
cryptobro
qonq99
riounh34
cryptoninja
chonesta
daysaiyan
cryptos
rickydevil
dervish
Out of the 5 who will get free STEEM POWER only one -
The Conculsion
I kind of expected more people to take up the offer, way more as even though 0.1 SP is not that much it is not that little either and if you just started using steemit and don't have a lot of STEEM POWER anything you get should be welcome. Especially if you get it absolutely free with no strings attached, but it seems that it is easier to beg or complain. Or maybe it is because people want free Steem Dollars and not free STEEM POWER...
What I know for sure that I will probably not be repeating the same experiment again as the results were not what I expected and were not very encouraging, or maybe this is just not the right way. Anyway, I should probably focus on creating better content to help users than to do things like that failed experiment. What do you think?