Winter Cleaning On Steemit

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It's Time To Do A Little Housekeeping

In my morning routine of setting up the Hive account@qurator newsletter edition, I came across a post by Hive account@themarkymark and his response to a fellow steemian questioning how to make money on steemit. OK.. let's see what he had to say. After reading it (which I kind of already knew about being consistent, persistent and dedicated) I took away from the post that I may be cluttering my feed and missing out on some GREAT posts and steemians.

So, me being me, I decided today I will slowly start de-cluttering and downsizing my following.

I am still following MANY members from day one and it may be hurting me instead of helping me.

@themarkymark had a post about an entirely different topic, but, me being an over-analytical person, I read into it more. After all, there's more to read than just the surface and headline.

Hive account@themarkymark's response about followers:

Following 32,000 people is problem number 1. You just absolutely destroyed your feed. There is no way to make sense of anything at that level. I am very selective who I follow, I like my feed to represent things I care about and am interested in, not a firehose of everything posted to Steemit

Yes, I need to harness my "firehouse"!
It's time to rid my feed of steemians that don't share common interests or are posting fluff 'n stuff.

Steemit's Homesteaders Online

Hive account@pennsif's post featuring a list of current homesteaders on steemit has almost 300! WOW! That's unbelievable!

But after going through the complete list, I see that some haven't posted in quite some time; months even. But, being a true homesteader and committed member to the homesteadersonline group and community, I just can't axe them... yet.

I mean, they may come back. This is the slower season when it comes to homesteading and gardening. Right?
So I will do a second sweep of the list come April and May of 2018.

Using Dead Followers

There is a website called dead followers that you can see who you follow and when his or her last post was.

NOW.. keep in mind, they may still be active with UPvoting and making comments, they just aren't making there own posts; so be careful here!

Looks like about 24% of my following is D-E-A-D!

Here is just a sample of my account...

Hive account@goldendawne

1474 Total followers
373 Dead followers
1101 True followers

Who Are Your Dead Followers?
a-3 2 months ago since last post
a-a-a-a 2 months ago since last post
aarkay 3 months ago since last post
abdel-ali 3 months ago since last post
abhishek.pandey 2 months ago since last post
abkktk 2 months ago since last post
abner914 2 months ago since last post
academix87 3 months ago since last post
aceton Forever since last post
addiemae 2 months ago since last post
adeel99 2 months ago since last post
adforce83 2 months ago since last post

The website lists your followers alphabetically and with the longest NOT posting first. If you look at mine, Hive account@aceton has NOT posted in FOREVER! Ok, yeah, that one's got to go.