When I first joined Steemit I didn’t have a clue. About what to post, about how upvotes worked, about how your voting power decreased. Nothing. That was me in the photo above. Smiling but confused. Until I was lucky enough for another Steemian to show me the ropes . First he worked me through getting Ginabot for discord which is your own personal Steemit PA . Then he told me to signup dustsweeper to that brings upvotes over the .02 payout threshold. Therefore dust from steemians with very little SP pays out. Great idea.
On my earlier posts the upvote yourself was at the on position which meant I upvoted all my own posts. I didn’t really agree with it but I just went along with it. It was only until a few days later than I found it was frowned upon by some. If you upvote yourself within the first 15 minutes then all the curation goes to yourself which leaves your upvoters with nothing. That’s a bit controversial. Imagine clapping myself after singing a song . I decided from then on I will bring my everyday morals into Steemit and never upvote myself again . I know for noobs you need ever cent you can get but in saying that, my parents were never rich but they weren’t tight with money either. I think new steemians should start with good habits as a means to go on. I’m getting to a point now where I check if someone upvotes themselves before I upvote because all my upvotes are sacred and I want to give them to the guys and gals who won’t peel an orange in their pocket. I don’t like tight people by principal.
A good friend of mine was tight with their money. Myself himself and a few friends went to a 40th party in a house near where we lived. We were in college so we weren’t cash rich let’s say. We all bought 6 cans of the cheapest drink you can buy each . Dutch gold it’s called ( you get used to the taste ) . When we got to the door the father of my friend , the birthday boy , answered. He took our cans off us and gave us back good quality drink instead. We had around 8 cans of heinekein and then decided to go back up town. It was a good mile away. When we reached the pub one of the lads went “shit I forgot something” . About 45 minutes later he came back with the 6 cans of Dutch gold” . He was a disgrace. We destroyed him with grief and no one of the lads sat him down for a serious chat about his actionable . I was talking to the birthday boy about this a day later and he said that he couldn’t believe when he answered the door and your man asking for his cans back. It was no problem but he definitely was a tight f#%ker. This story went around the town where I lived and my friend still lives with that reputation today . It’s hard to lose. So in summary don’t upvote yourself. There we are. All sorted .
But there’s lots of politics that I still learning about.
I found out the other day that some steemians frown upon crypto traded steem. That proof of brain and writing posts should be the only way to grow. I myself started out with a few hundred steem from Bittrex . It was resting there, why not just send it to steem and have a go at blogging. Having a zero cent upvote for 6 months wasn’t going to help me or any of my fellow steemians grow if I had liquid steem somewhere else. So I’m one of those guys . But how did whales get to where they were and who is giving out about them ? It must of been crypto traded or bought at ico ,with wait for it , crypto. If some person wants to go off and pay 10k and buy 15000 steem then good luck to them . I shall pray that steemian is a friend of mine and that they upvote me.
Bidbots are another grey area. I couldn’t see how some trending posts were actually trending with the poor content so I looked into their trails. Lots of paying bidbots the equivalent of 200 steem at a time giving them back 250 steem of upvotes . Sounds abit like cheating to me and not in the spirit of Steemit. Profiteering mainly which leaves the trending section look like who paid the most money.
I used a few of these upvote bots at the start but you are paying for nothing really. These bots are not loyal , they don’t upvote you ever again. It’s a bit like paying a prostitute. You get a temporary fix with no passion and if you want to do it again you will need to pay the same amount the next time. And the answer to your next question is No I have never contracted gonorrhea off a bidbot! .
I did try resteem bots also to get a post more traction. Same old story. Waste of money in my opinion. Now that I know it’s fake advertising I frown upon the pay for upvote bots.
A lot of whales are apparently delegating to bid bots which is causing controversy on the platform. What’s worse upvoting yourself everytime or delegating to a bidbot to gain maximum profit from their SP. who would blame them but the bidbots are bad for Steemit as a platform so there aren’t a lot of objections to this l won’t get into this on this post as I am still only getting to know the platform Andy I am not qualified to speak about something that happened before I arrived shall we say! I have heard lots about flag wars which is not something I would like to get into with anyone touch wood. Better not kmowing for now .
Hope some of the beginners may read some of this post and get a few botanical and pieces from this post. Any questions just Leave a comment.
Blanchy
