Recently, I was asked to help some minnows by tipping them. The engagement level was quite high. I got one strong message from some of the minnows I really want to support.
"My content stands on it's own, could you please just Resteem my work.", said the minnow.
I have heard the arguments and I get it. I follow you, because I like your work, and I don't want to see what you are resteeming.
I am attempting to respect the balance, but I think because the UI is young, it can be more difficult than it should be for new users to get traction. My conclusion, I like to resteem. If you need to unfollow me for that, I completely understand.
Why do I think it is beneficial to help the new-users? My opinion is more eyes, more types of content (not just my type) is good for the value of Steem. There are many opposing views and many of them valid. This is the stance I have decided to take.
I love discussion and debate, so whether you agree or disagree I would like to hear your opinion.
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Well I have moved a lot in my life and my friends and family are spread out. FB is a really nice way for me to keep up with my "Real Life" people.
I love it for that. I have friends from nearly every job that I have had, most of the schools I have attended. I am not good at snail mail, so I love it for the social aspect.
Here, I have met new interesting people that know different people, different cultures, etc. Also, as I said, I am invested. So, two different things. (just my view)
Man, they (Steemit.inc) need to come up with a new UI. So many users, followers, resteems... i can never keep track of who im following or who i care to follow anymore...
This is the first post ive seen from you in my followers section in like a week.
Idk, i agree resteeming is good, and its fine to do as long as this rule is followed:
"Use in Moderation"
-some people i had to unfollow because of the hot finger resteeming action. I couldnt take it anymore lol
I don't like to see feeds that are nothing but resteemed content, so I personally try to have no more than a 50/50 balance of original content and resteemed material in my personal blog.
Resteeming is definitely good for the community though, and I welcome the idea of established users who carefully resteem quality content more heavily as well as minnows sharing the posts of others as they explore.
I have found many interesting posts only because people I follow shared them.
I resteem here and there, but very haphazardly. No real pattern, sometimes it's people I follow or who follow me, sometimes it's just good content I stumbled onto at the New page. I suppose that by the time if/when I become a dolphin, I might be more systematic about it.
Somewhat off-topic, one of the whales I follow and resteemed is showing up greyed out on my blog page all of a sudden. Has this happened to anyone else?
There are three things I can do to support good work, as I see it. One, I can upvote. It's the easiest. To me it says, "you did well here and deserve to be rewarded." Two is the resteem. It's also fairly easy, but it says "not only should you be rewarded by me, but my followers should also see what you have to say, so they can reward you as well." Three is the comment, which says "I want to personally encourage you to keep going, and to post more things like this." The comment is the hardest, and rewards the creator in a different way, not necessarily with money.
I think your attitude about resteeming is fine, and serves to boost the community (which is why I follow you). Anything that does that should be welcome in this space.
My own very rough rule of thumb, is that I only follow people who post more content than they resteem, and a total of five posts and resteems combined each day is the maximum.
I make exceptions, but not many because I want to choose what I see on my timeline and not be overwhelmed by anyone else's choices.
We are all different, I like simplicity, space, and a very interesting timeline
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@yakuhi | June 24, 2017, 10:23 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [
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I think resteem are good, I just think it's bad when resteeming is ALL someone does. I am trying to get a contest started, my aim is to give new users an opportunity to earn by creating original content. It's not doing as well as I'd like but I'm young here and not as connected as I need to be, still I'm going to keep it going.
I agree, the platform GUI does make it difficult to get noticed, especially as more people join and posting rate goes to the moon.
Last week, @samstonehill resteemed my contest and it shot up in views and votes, so resteeming does help a lot. I suppose finding the balance is what needs to be done, like you said. It does annoy me when I think, hmm, imma check you out, go to your feed and find loads of resteems and very few original pieces.
Having an isolated section for resteems may sound like a great way to sort things out, but unless one makes the effort to periodically CHECK that section, it is likely it will become forgotten and all the good posts that were worthy of a resteem will have been missed. Its a catch 22 situation in my opinion.
In the month that I have been here on Steemit, I have only unfollowed one person and that was not because of resteems, but because they were posting way too many articles each and every day that were just not worthy of my time.
On the other hand, I have discovered many really good posts via resteems, so I think it is worth it to sort through my feed and have the opportunity to at least evaluate what the people I follow think are worthy posts. For the most part, I'm not disappointed in what I find.
On my own page, of course I want people to be able to readily recognize my posts from those that I resteem. The resteem icon does that, however it could be made a little more obvious (especially for new users). I think that change would be better than having an entirely separate section for resteems. I don't just willy nilly resteem stuff; it has to be something I think is worth resteeming, so if its on my page, its probably worth looking at.
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