I have something wonderful to share today. With amazing support and help from fellow Steemians, I achieved great results with my latest article. With Resteems from blhz, fulltimegeek, hopehuggs, travelnepal and valorforfreedom, my article got an incredible boost in visibility... And I just thought that I should break things down for you a little bit.
I wrote an article and I had the intention to shed some lights on certain things that happens around here. More specifically, I wanted to share some details regarding the trending pages. I published the article and it went somewhat viral.
My article bloomed and it started to spread like some sort of minor wildfire.
Let me explain what happened...
People decided to resteem my article. One user after another. I'm up to 5 different people right now who've resteemed my article and it's 24 hours old.
It looks like this. Some of you will remember this as it's similar to the "pay it forward" image I've used in the past while I was explaining the concept of the project.
I wrote the article. I published it. read it, rewarded it and resteemed it so his followers could easily find it. - Now, I'm not entirely sure that FTG's resteem brought the other four resteems, but it's very likely.
I have ~3270 followers so it's likely that some of my followers also follows FTG or any of the other Steemians who resteemed my article. Or vice versa.
However, FTG have more than 6600 followers. hopehuggs have about 3400, travelnepal ~1500, valorforfreedom ~3300 and blhz about 1600... - That's an incredible amount of eyeballs!
So, due to my article and the resteems, I did not only generate new followers and some extra rewards. We also managed to do something more amazing than that.
We Made A Difference!
That's right. We actually made a difference. Something happened due to this awesome team work. In the article I published, I wrote about a specific author who's articles can be found on the trending pages. I shared details and I explained that this user never responds to any comments at all.
- One year old account and not a single comment. Until 18 hours ago!
Honestly speaking, it's not the best comment I've read. It's pretty dull and boring... But, the reason for his comment is due to and our team work, which is awesome!
Take A Look At This:
meno borrowed one of the images from my article and wrote a superb comment on this authors most recent article. - Which he suddenly decided to reply too! This author has been here for one year without ever writing a single comment. Until meno wrote a comment. That was the deciding factor.
(Thank you
, and thanks to everyone that helped us achieve this!)
I know, this is literally nothing but it's still something we should value and remember. I brought this up, a random Steemian from Sweden with a little more than 1000 Steem Power in my wallet. The fact that I delegate 100% of my steem power to others or the fact that I'm the benefactor of the had nothing to do with this. This was not because I'm someone famous or someone with millions or hundreds of thousand of Steem. - I'm just some seaweed at the bottom of this ocean. I'm literally a nobody.
This was because of you. It was because of the exposure and the extra visibility my article got. It was due to the fact that we have people on Steemit who truly cares. This was the result of a caring community.
This nobody proved that we can change things on Steemit. No matter how small or useless we might feel... It takes time, some luck and dedication.. But most of all, it takes one small act of kindness at a time.