I've been here 16 days so to say I'm new is a complete understatement. My initial approach was to treat this place like all the other social media sites and that was a huge mistake. I quickly learned that here on Steemit for the most part its about well thought of quality content that wins the votes.

I say for the most part because I've noticed no matter how well thought of you post is, you will need people to vote for it and that's where for me, as a newbie, I find engagement is key which is one of the reasons I'm here commenting on your post.

The other is I need to learn all this and I'm quite interested in curating. I found in my time here, I enjoy the curating aspect the most.

Maybe it's because it removes the emotional aspect of posting something you worked on for hours and seeing it go unnoticed? Or Maybe its the satisfaction of finding a gem and dropping a vote on it. I remember up voting someone after HardFork 19 and the price went up $10!! I couldn't believe it - I was click happy that day. I didn't know then that you voting percentage went down (not like I really understand it now either...) and that made a difference.

As for voting for yourself? I didn't know we could vote for ourselves!

All up.. I think it's great the balance of power is a bit more distributed after the fork, but ultimately to be successful on Steemit, one needs to maintain a balance of quality content, engagement with the community and of course it doesn't hurt to have a whale or dolphin friend.

Trafalgar upvoted one of my posts last week and Thank god I was sitting down.

I wanna be able to do that for people one day :)