November is here and it is time to see where I am at in the STEEMit World.
Here are my previous posts:
I get my data information for this post from SteemWhales.com and SteemDB.com. Also, I will be including information from Steem Supply, which is a great tool for seeing how you are doing in the short-term.
Last month, STEEMit has some major issues. I even joked about why there was a DDoS attack and what was going on. Why Steem Went Down - The Truth. Because of those issues, as with many other people, I wasn't as active as I wanted to be on STEEMit. Also, October was the first full month of 100% Steem POWER on my posts, mentioned in the Dr. SteemPower article. Well, almost full month, because right near the end there was a conversation on 100% Steem POWER and bots, so I did a test to see if bots preferred 50/50 articles. Do Bots Hate Full Steem?. I am almost done testing that out.
On to the stats. Let's see where I am with Vests.
Last month, I increased my Vests by 277k, this month I increased by 100k, so it looks like October's issues took a big hit on my Vest earnings. Here is another way of looking at my Vests from Steem Supply.
I can't say that 0.0013% of the Rewards Pool is all that impressive. What is less impressive is my active days last month.
Good grief!! It's amazing that I earned any Vests at all last month. The graph looks like a picket fence. I started an article in September that is sitting in a note file. I didn't even bother trying to finish it for October due to the issues with the site. It was painful enough to just get my regular posts out. I hope November will be better, because I assume going into the month, the site won't have as many issues. Whether I will be able to push out as many articles, I don't know. At a minimum, I won't be frustrated with the daily articles, if I don't have to repost them three times for STEEMit to recognize that they are there.
Rankings from SteemWhales
Steemians Tracked: 221807
SteemWhales is tracking 20,798 more Steemians at the end of this month. That is less than the increase from the previous month, which was expected due to the site issues.
Note: this number isn't an accurate account. There are roughly 25,000-35,000 Active Daily users on STEEM based on tracking by 
Reputation
Previous ranking was at 3,775 I am now at 3,801. Well, somehow 26 people passed my 57.3 reputation last month during all the craziness. I guess big votes must have been focused in on a few people.
STEEM Power
Previous ranking was 5,735 and now I am at 5,630. So, while more people were getting upvoted, I was stashing away more Steem POWER. Can't say that going 100% Steem POWER helped with that or not.
Posting Rewards
Previous ranking was 3,917, new ranking is 3,917. Well, okay. I didn't move up in the rankings on that one. Stagnation and everything due to the issues with the site. Hopefully, that will change in November. Still, that's just shows you that very few people make a ton of money from posting.
Curation Rewards
Previous ranking was 4,349 and the new ranking is 4,273. A modest gain of 76 spots for something I don't fully understand how to maximize. I try my best to curate when I can and give upvotes at close to 100%. But, giving $0.05-0.07 just seems like chump change. And, when I do hit an article that might get popular, it seems like someone else with much more Vests comes in an takes the majority of the curation percentage. Oh well, I guess I am doing better than most.
Post Count
Previous ranking was 512 and the new ranking is 501. It looks like I regained most of my spots for October, even with the site issues. With over 200,000 users, this ranking puts me in the 0.23%. Yes, I'm a 1 Percenter in my posts. Heck! My lowest ranking, Steem POWER, I'm in the 2.54% range. That should tell people something about how easy it is to get rich quick on SteemIT.
However, on September 24, I reached 500 Steem POWER. That's about a 13.4% increase by October 31st. I am going to start keeping track of how much Steem POWER I add each month, since I don't plan on powering any amount down any time soon.
October showed downward spiral of STEEM. The more I earn, the less the value, because it dropped below $1 during the site problems and has struggled to get back above that point since the site was fixed a few days ago.
Finally, I still gained about 80 followers in the month of October, despite the issues with the site. Of course, I find that a hollow victory, because the Dead Followers app tells a different story. I highlighted that in my What if ALL of my Followers Upvoted My Article? article.
42 upsteemers during the last 7 days, total followers: 0. There is a big difference between a Follower and one that upvotes articles. As 
The final thing accomplished, I managed to earn a Personal Award on Steemit - Board of Honor. There was an award giving to posting an article on Halloween with certain tags and words in it. I created Happy Samhain! Happy End of Summer! Happy Halloween! and Double 'Extinction Level Event' Near Earth Objects for Halloween, but only one got the 10 votes needed. But, that was enough to earn the bade.
I look forward to trying to earn other badges and I definitely look forward to putting October STEEMit issues in the past.
