You don’t need to be a whale, this plankton’s giving back!
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So it’s my 87th day on steemit, I have probably been active about 80 of those days, the first week went by before I knew a comment counted as a post, and a month before I figured out that that I had voting power (VP) let alone it was connected to my upvoting habits.
That wait for 74 hours before my VP came back to a reasonable percentage was the most painful on Steemit. If you don’t know about VP, check out the post linked at the bottom, it’s important.
Giveback No. 1 EVERYBODY CAN DO THIS
I aim to reply to everyone that comments on my posts, I am human so even with the awesome @ginabot telling me what’s going on I do miss the odd one. I do reserve the right to respond or not as I wish to spammers.
Find out more about @ginabot HERE, I really can’t recommend her high enough, my husband @shai-hulud had been resistent and now he is in love.
I also spend time running through my feed, which consists of writers that feature posts that align with my interests. If I don’t follow you, please do not think it a slight on you. This by no means you do not have great quality as I am sure you do and I am also sure that many readers would love to read them. Unfortunately I just have limited time. If you believe your work curable and would like to be part of a great community keep reading as Giveback No. 4 wil apply to you.
Giveback No. 2 SOME OF US CAN DO THIS, START WITH GIVEBACK No. 1
I upvote all comments of value on my posts, I do this to encourage you to come back to my posts and engage with me again. Who doesn’t love an upvote? In the last seven days I have upvoted 204 times across 105 accounts, self-votes only representing 3.53%, I generaly only upvote posts, comments are left un voted on unless I think it needs to be seen in a barrage of others. How much you upvote is your choice, I rarely give 100% on comments preferring to share my limited VP with many Steemian’s.
Note I try to never upvote below 0.01 Steem movements can mess with this , I understand in the beginning this can be impossible, in that case I always recommend upvoting at 100%.
Found on Steemworld
How can I do this as a plankton you may ask?
To maintain VP at a reasonable percentage if you don’t know already, you can only upvote at 100% 10 times in a 24 hours period, so it takes 2.4 hours to recharge one 100% vote. Staying close to 100% ensures your votes have the most value to you and your followers.
A quick call out to @taskmaster4450 as without him, both @shai-hulud and I would still be upvoting like this was Faceblank or Instagoon with a VP at 50% or lower, “Pissing away my VP” and not helping as much as I could be.
You don’t know what you don’t know, it’s a steep learning curve but one worth climbing!
Third times a charm!
Back to how I can do this, this is now because of not one, but three delegations received from two awesome Steemian’s, @erodedthoughts recently threw a delegation contest out there for anyone stupid enough to play which was fun and landed me with at 170SP delegation.
This is a delegation contest open to anyone with the ability to make a stupid comment
This delegation was on top of the two 100SP delegations that @hitmeasap had generously given me that gave way to the formation of the @asapers. These three delegations combined with my own efforts in Powering UP pushed me past that magic 500SP Steemit slider barrier. This is super exciting as it gives me the ability to Steemit more effectively from all platforms.
Way more impressive than it looks!
Not at 500SP yet?
So I said this is how I do things now, but how about pre 500SP, at 400SP your 100% upvote is still worth 0.09 STU and 200SP, 0.04 STU. I prefer using steemit so my secret @steem-plus extension created by @stoodkev, it’s a bit fiddly to figure out but once I got it, Need help, ask below I could change my percentage to ensure I could upvote more quality work and encourage more people to preserve through the steep learning curve. Another option is to use busy.org. You have a slider option from day one and if you have a steemit account you have a busy account, it uses the same username and passwords.
0.02 STU upvote may be nothing to you but it can be the difference between a fresh plankton swimming or sinking.
If you haven’t been living under a rock and don't know who @fulltimegeek is then you would know that his #stewardsofgondor (SOG) program for better or worse got suspended until further notice. I wish him all the best in his endeavours but as a plankton, I would get swallowed up in the first round. This does not mean we can’t do anything, the suspension of SOG has hit many minnow projects hard. So while he is out there fighting the good fight, I along with the @asapers will continue to do as we are doing and build the platform up.
Giveback No. 3 Extraordinary circumstances
@hitmeasap is part of the SOG and as such had his delegation revoked. Following in his mentor’s footsteps he had paid it forward and delegated 100% of his personal SP to myself along with five other Steemians leaving him with none. We offered all our delegated SP back but even after suffering bandwidth issues he refused, so I found a workaround and paid it backwards and delegated him 100SP so he could continue to engage with his followers.
Giveback No. 4 This takes work and dedication but anyone can do it.
The birth of the @asapers, this was not a plan of the original delegations but it’s what fell out of it. My husband @shai-hulud and I have been working determinedly in the background to set up a foundation for newbies, something to help them A.S.A.P.
To date, we have started a curation post running that not only highlights undervalued newbies but *shares the profit with them. Yes, you heard right, we share the profits with our curated posts, 10% of each post by way of a benefactor payment in SP directly into their wallet. So not only do they see their post getting more upvotes from us and our team, seven days later their vote is worth more than it was due to increased steempower from our curation post.
This does have its drawbacks as we grow very slowly due to sharing our SP from day one, which also reduces the SBD we receive as this is converted into SP to be split amongst our curated posts as part of the benefactor payments.
We are extremely thankful for our current delegator’s @hitmeasap (150SP) and @wdougwatson (50SP) but would love to put a call out for anyone with some SP to delegate, we would appreciate it and promise to use it for the betterment of Steem as a whole. It doesn’t have to be much, 100 times 20SP delegations is the same as one 2000SP delegation.
Giveback No. 5 This takes work and dedication but anyone can do it.
We have a brand new post promotion channel on our Discord community, this is set up to showcase new @sooners (soon to be an @asapers), to post they are required to upvote and comment on a fellow @sooners work. No dump and run allowed, again another easy way to give and get back.
Plankton can give back.
I’m a plankton, but I am not invisible in this sea and neither are you. Together we can make a difference. I encourage you to learn from your fellow plankton, and if you learnt something good and you can expand on it and tell why it’s helped you then why not write your own post promoting the person you learnt from. Use your upvote for good and share the love around the blockchain, you never know who you could save from a Steemit Death.
Other amazing plankton’s giving back…
@whatamidoing
Although this guy is officially a minnow and not a plankton he has an initiative that I can’t go past in today’s giving back post. It called the The Deadpost Initiative. It gives those unloved posts a chance at a comeback.
Did you know that after seven day’s you post pays out and any further upvotes will be lost into the abyss?
Another thing I didn’t grasp for my first month. I know I am a slow learner. I think it was @arbitrarykitten’s posts that had a “If you found this post after day 7 please consider upvoting a recent article.” Which of course made me ask why and then proceed to research the subject, the list really is endless.
@davemccoy
This guy really is a plankton but he won’t be for long as his #newbieresteemday has been a huge hit and recently starting off @newbiegames as well. If you haven’t heard of these projects and you are a newbie I suggest you check them out now. We look forward to working with him and his awesome team in the future to develop more initiatives for newbies.
Now I put a challenge to you!
Who do you know that has a great initiative for newbies, plankton, redfish? Share them in the comments below, get their projects known to everyone reading this, plankton and dolphins alike.
If you’re a plankton, you now know you can make a difference, if you are a dolphin or a whale or even a minnow, what can you do to help these initiatives? Do you have one of your own that you would like to share?
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What to know more about @shai-hulud and I Check out these posts: If you like it please consider upvoting a more recent post as this one has now paid out.
Butt naked with 2500 other cruise line passengers! Featured in @qurator & @asapers
Love isn’t always shit free. Featured in @thesteemengine and #themagnificentseven from @catweasel & @enchantedspirit
How I got flipped Inside Out... For REAL! Featured in @thesteemengine
Did YOU know that your upvote needs time to recharge? If not check out this post below, if you like it please consider upvoting a more recent post as this one has now paid out.
Steem & Voting Power, how not to waste it!
One last thing! @asapers a new curation team has started a profit-sharing curation post promotion, follow @asapers to check it and more out!
Team Australia Banner @bearone, @asapers by @shai-hulud, Images are all my own or pixabays 1,2.