Hi Hive account@jameslparis. I, like so many others, are also rather new here. I joined beginning of March, and don't have an established history of successful publications or sustainable followers behind me. Steemit is actually the first place I've ever blogged on. I've never seen any real value in it, or perhaps not how I could contribute value to any site.

After being unemployed for over 6 months, I started looking into crypto and especially the opportunities of making money online. Living in a country where high speed uncapped internet is really expensive, I am limited in my capability to produce high quality content on a regular basis, especially video material.

Judging from this and other posts you've shared, I can tell that you have good experience in blogging and also you seem a pretty decent writer as well. You can have a look at my profile and you'll see that I have only a few posts that resemble good quality blogging, as I am still learning as I go. One thing I want you to focus on however, is my comments and votes tabs. You'll see that I spend quite some time purposefully and transparently to other people's posts. This is like networking really, and it creates opportunity for conversation and ultimately, relationship building happens as a result. In the famous wise words of Hive account@unknowntemplar, Is getting help from a whale any different than getting a big name author et cetera to endorse your work?

While I can respect you as an author and contributor to society, as far as Steemit etiquette goes, your profile is bereft of any real attempt to encourage others to post as you seem to only comment on your own work, and this leaves a bland taste in the mouth similar to an unknown contributor in any form of content production. You will just remain the passed-by poster, as you don't engage with others but rather you just stand on the corner and play your instrument hoping that someone will throw coin at you. As an example of your inactive commenting to others, you did not respond once to any of the users which posted here: Hive account@whatsup, Hive account@greer184, Hive account@edy01, Hive account@unknowntemplar or Hive account@evernoticethat. And as a test to (hopefully) prove my point, see how many of them will comment to this comment!

Apologies if this came out offensive; it was not my intention but all of this is true, in my opinion, if you want to make it out here. Alternatively, yes you do need to be stacked big time and buy your way in.

Blessings