I try to be a role-model steemian, but feel like I've been terrible recently, I've been ignoring most of the comments left for me and have never really consistently upvoted them. Not because I wanted to ignore them or planned too. I read them all and enjoyed them, but just never got around to replying.
It's time to change that and I need to keep uping my game. I think it's important for anyone giving advice or suggestion to people to model those good behaviors. As my reputation and following keep increasing I hope to be a positive role-model. I try to help, support and advice new members and new communities here on steemit and this role has become a new passion of mine here.
Replying
There was a 2 week period when I just couldn't keep up and haven't been properly responding to my comments. For someone who's always telling everyone new around here that their best way to get started is commenting as much as they can, it's kinda an ass-hole move to ignore my own. So that's going to change and it already has, I've caught up on all my active posts. I also plan to start following more people who come by and comment regularly on my posts.
Comment Voting
While I'm at it, I've never been much of a comment voter, but that's going to change now as well. I've always found my voting power so low and just didn't feel like I could properly reward anyone anyways, but as I approach dolphin status I finally feel like I can start properly showing my appreciation. My 5% vote is worth $0.02 currently, but I'm still waiting on some delegations to come back to me, so it should be about double very soon. I know it's not huge but I feel it's a good start and maybe enough to help some people get started. Heck if it's a really good comment and I drop a 100% vote, that would be over $0.50.
The pledge
So starting now any "good" comment that is left for me will get an upvote from me and also a proper reply. My plan is to review my comments before making my next post, I think that will be a good way to stay on track and stay on top of everything.
The Challenge
I know most people are probably already doing this, but I do challenge people to stay up to date with replying to your comments. Also be sure to reward some of the best comments with upvotes and even better with follows. There are a lot of great underappreciated new members here struggling to get noticed so give them a chance. It's pretty easy to just unfollow them if it doesn't work out, but just maybe you'll find some great new content to read.
Anyways, off to leave more comments and find some more to reply too!
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