Disclaimer: This is not intended to denigrate or in any way disparage developer's efforts. I have a lot of respect for the design of Steem and its incentive structures as I understand the role in which they play in ensuring the sustainability of the system on a macrocosmic level.
If you are a newcomer who for some reason is consistently struggling to get work noticed, it is only human for envy to develop as other authors receive 10,000% more on similar content, or on content that you may regard as valueless altogether.
Read on the important role whales play on Steem here!
However, I think it is worth ignoring these very human emotions as they can put you in the wrong frame of minds to improve your situation.
Worth avoiding
1. Tag spamming (which, ashamedly, was my preferred strategy as a newbie):
- Tag spamming just incites hostility from semi-influential users who will flag you, and bury your post.
Moreover, It will probably attract a lot more flags now that @neoxian @sigmajin and I are paying people to flag such spam.
2. Mass producing sparse content:
- On the highest voted posts, I would assert that no more than 40% of voters on the most highly voted posts, actually bother to read the posts. However, a minority of very influential users will at least skim through the content, and disburse their votes based on its general quality.
In which case, while mass producing sparse content will increase the probability that a whale will at least skim through one of your posts, should a whale read your post, the probability that the whale will upvote it would be plausibly be so low that producing more of such content would make little difference.
Of course with a sufficiently large sample size the probability tends to 1 that a whale will upvote it. But how large must that sample be? 1,000 posts? 10,000?
3. Spamming the same comments:
- Same reason as 1, it risks getting you flagged. Especially now people have a financial incentive to flag spam.
If you are relying on a combination of the 3 methods I mentioned above to receive Steem, I want to offer you another approach.
Join our flagging program and upvote unique content - that has been posted for at least 30 minutes, or you won't earn much
With our flagging program the more work you do, the more likely it is you will win the bounty.
So in that sense flagging can be scaled where mass spamming can't.
With the rewards from flagging and from upvotes, I recommend you power up a proportion of the Steem or Steem Dollars you will be rewarded, as it will ensure future posts are more likely to be well rewarded, as I explained here.
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