Hi Steemians,
Every one of us was once a newbie; a struggling fellow looking for some sort of support. I was a newbie six months ago and I was wondering what to do. When I started interacting with previously strangers, I realized how powerful that interaction was.
Everyone wins in this contest. No losers!
I not only gained more visits to my blogs from the comments on others' posts, the authors upvoted my comments too; sometimes in multiple dollars. I can understand the struggles of newbies because we have all been there. But I have a very honest offer for you.
Leave a good comment on any of my posts and get an upvote ranging from $0.10 to $0.25 vote from me ($0.50 for excptional comments).
Read on to understand what benefit it has for you and your reputation.
Monetary Benefit
The real value of these upvote is way more than it shows. If you study Steemit reward system and see current market rates of SBD and Steem, you'll see that my 15-25 % vote will be equal to $0.40 to $1.00 in value. Exceptional comments may get $0.50 vote as well, which means $2 in value.
Increase in Reputation Score
If you haven't read my Reputation Score 101 guide, please do it right now. You will get to know that increasing reputation is easier in the beginning than it is at later stages. What that means is that my upvote will significantly help newbies gather some reputation points.
To guage the increase, see your exact reputation on Steemnow.com/@username before you comment and after you get an upvote. There will be some significant increase in it I am sure.
Rules of Engagement
For a start, it would be helpful to read my post on importance of comments in which I explained why valuable comments are the best thing to do on Steemit, especially in the beginning when you do not have a following. It also teaches how to comment. But here are some rules to participate in this newbie support to ensure healthy participation.
Whichever of my posts you comment on, please comment only after reading the entire post.
Resteem this post so that your followers can participate too. (Please do confirm in a comment)
Avoid comments like nice post, good post etc.
This post is included in the contest of course. Anyone who comments on this post is eligible for an upvote. The worth of upvote will strictly depend on the value of that comment in my opinion.
You can comment any way you want. Here are some ideas though.
- Give feedback
- Summarize what you learned
- Ask questions related to the topic of post
- Point out errors
- Criticize what you didn't like
- Suggest improvements
Whatever value you deliver in your comments will be translated to rewards in your wallet and increase in your reputation; a phenomenon I call rewarding Proof of Effort.
Invitation to Established Steemians to Support Healthy Interaction
I am doing this alone but it would be amazing if you can chip in by rewarding good comments with a small percentage upvote. Every cent is a big support to newbies. By reading posts, they will develop a good habit of reading from authors and will also learn a lot considering many of us have written detailed guides on Steemit.
To support this initiative, please click my Replies tab and upvote valuable comments done by newbies.
Conclusion
Steemit is all about healthy interaction and community development. This post and the little contest is purely intended to achieve just that. By helping the newbies learn how to interact, and then rewarding that interacion, we can make Steemit a better plaxe where new users wish to stay.
Please support this initiative in whatever way you can; at least a resteem.