What sort of Steemian are you?

When I first joined Steemit I sat and thought about what sort of persona to create. I'm a simple chap really, but there were still many ways I could develop my profile - some of which would lead to success, some of which might not.

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The quick and easy buck would be to post porn, or at least pictures of girls in bikinis. It's a time proven method of making money and all I would need to do is troll the Interweb for bikinis and post links to them. Dead simple.

I'm not good at dead simple.

I could post memes, and a bunch of mindless stuff, like stolen quotes from famous people. Or I could post links to videos on YouTube that I watched. All of this requires little effort, and with bots voting on my posts I'd be making enough for it to be worthwhile.

I'm not a meme fan and I'm not good at mindless either.

I could come in guns blazing, posting controversial content and really get people stirred up. I've thrown a few verbal hand-grenades in (mostly flat earth posts) but only for entertainment.

While I like a good argument, good argument was not what I was getting. So I stopped doing that. I'll still drop in a loaded question now and then, just for fun. But mostly I let their posts pass me by now.

I tried to find out what worked and what didn't. Photos worked really well, until they didn't. I posted sort stories i had written ages ago. They went quite well, so I posted some more, and got nothing.

I posted some code related stuff. That sort-of went ok.

I posted long articles. I posted short articles. The pay-out, votes, views and comments bore no relation to the content i posted. Stuff that I worked hard on got nothing, while a random photo got a good pay-out.

So I stopped. I just stopped.

I stopped wondering, I stopped trying, I stopped dreaming of the big payday, I stopped trying to succeed. I started just writing whatever I felt like at the time. I spent more time commenting and reading and trying to survive Hive account@papa-pepper’s games.

So what sort of Steemian am I?

I'm the chilled out Steeman. I write what i want to and post what I want to, because that's what I want to do. I'm not bothered by the pay-out. If i get a good one, awesome. If not, i don't care. I posted what I wanted to say, and that's the end of it.

I'm not chasing whales, and I'm in no hurry to be a whale. It will happen in its own good time. Being chilled out means I can actually enjoy Steemit so much more because I'm here to have a bit of fun. This is not my livelihood. I'm not desperately powering up or powering down, or desperately searching for the hidden secret to making millions..

I like being on Steemit, but that does not mean that it owns me. I like Sola too. And it will be interesting to see how the two platforms develop over time.

I'm happy with my strategy for doing well on here - be nice, engage, be positive and supportive. This is the path that i think will be the most rewarding. I don't ask for votes or follows (although i think i did on one post that was soooo close to earning a dollar, early on). I try to be someone that you would want to follow, that you would want to read and interact with.

In that way, I hope I will be attracting followers who are like me - people who I'd like to meet one day in real life. And if you ever did meet me in real life you'd see I'm just like the guy in your feed, only shorter.

So what sort of Steemian are you?

Check out my stories here on Steemit

Also don't forget to check out my Dad's blog

Who else can tell you stories about impersonating an officer, stealing a military aircraft to go on a booze run, or steal military aircraft and go on an unsanctioned bombing run - and that's all before he turned 18!

Check out Hive account@len.george and find out what other madness he got up to!

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What sort of Steemian are you?

Check out my stories here on Steemit

Running Deer

Charlie Rabbit

Little Peppers Adventures

Dark Angel Regiment of the Space Marines - Mission Files

Other stories

Also don't forget to check out my Dad's blog