The Old Dog Advises: Be Very Calculating And Watch Your Comments Add Up!
The Final Tally is in And Commenters Are BIG Winners!
In one of my latest posts: The Old Dog Asks: Can YOU Succeed On Steemit Simply By Commenting? Meet @eric-boucher I wrote about how Steemers can get a good start toward being successful here on Steemit by COMMENTING.
Thanks to some great support, not only was the post quite successful but so were the commenters!
I added up the value earned on all of the comments and the results were very encouraging!
Here is The Raw Data!
- Post Payout: $350.27
- Total Payout on all Comments: $163.71 (not too bad!!)
- Total value between the post upvotes and comment upvotes: $513.98
- Commenting payouts to @eric-boucher $41.73 (one of Steemit's commenting experts struck again)
- Commenting payout to @kus-knee $27.77 (add this to my post pay out and I can't complain!)
Is Upvoting Your Own Comment Ethical? Is it Frowned Upon?
This was asked by several Steemers based on what they read in my article. Here is what I wrote about it in the post:
Some good questions were then raised. Notice my response to one of them:
This little interchange was a nice sharing of ideas but it also netted @cryptokash $1.64 (not too shabby!)
What Do You Think?
- Have you realized that commenting is a great way to earn on Steemit?
- Are you beginning to get noticed by your comments?
- Are you surprised to see the high total paid out for comments on some posts?
I hope that you enjoyed this post on being very calculating and then watching your comments add up!
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Remember, I reward the best comment(s) on each of my posts with my "The Old Dog is Throwing You a Bone" program! So please re-steem and follow so that we can spread the wealth!
Wow... Your kindness and teamwork keeps on rising us all to the moon! Thank you from the bottom of my heart and, as a crypto musketeer to another, all for one and one for all!
I also see the trend where people are starting to write more creative, positive and useful comments while seeing the voting on these same comments rise in value. This is a great sign showing the health of our platform gaining in sustainability.
Namaste :)
Newer steemians especially are constantly trying to find new tricks to "drive more traffic" to their posts. I also keep telling them more or less the same thing (this one from a comment regarding randowhale votes):
They could also learn a thing or two from @eric-boucher, and from @kus-knee as well! :)
I love the quote you just shared with us and really appreciate your kind words regarding our work together here.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Good points made!
hmmm... i was supposed to really unplug but i remember you
suddenly having skimmed this made me change my mind
perhaps i should log in daily
even for an hour - lol :)
Thank you both for your kind words. Sometimes the best "tricks" are just staring us right in the face, if we choose to put in the "time and effort" to realize them! :)
BTW, welcome back from your trip @kus-knee, looking forward to some kewl travel stories too!
Nice post, you always write captivating articles!
Hey thanks!
I've found that timely, insightful, supportive comments tend to do much better than mine.
Hey, you've got 4 upvotes so far on this one. Way to go!
Clever!
I have yet to make the big comment pay-outs like some of your examples, but I am learning how to do better.
I would like to add my two cents to the upsteeming your own comment, and how important that can be.
On an unrelated post, I asked a question to the OP. My comment came in 8 minutes after the post. I did not upvote it. A different user commented the same question about 3 minutes after I did. He upsteemed his own comment.
The original poster saw his comment, acknowledged it, upsteemed it, and the two of them interacted for awhile. It netted the comment around $4. My comment sat in the background and did not generate any $. Lesson learned :)
Been there!
You gave a very good example. Thanks for sharing that!
@kus-knee, first off-- hope you had a relaxing and fun time on your "technology break!"
As for comments, I think you know how I feel about comments-- for me, they are the very essence of Steemit; the way we have "dialogue" about things, and with each other. It's how we connect; it's how we end up with the sense that there is a community here, not just another social media venue where people "collect likes" but otherwise know nothing about the people who interact with their content.
The question of "Do you upvote your own comments?" is always an interesting moral dilemma for me, and I have to frame my answer in terms of "value." I generally reserve upvoting myself for particularly interactive comments on very "busy" posts. And the reason I do it there is mostly to "bump up" my own comment in the comments area... since comments tend to be ranked (I think it'e the default sort) by their current rewards. So it offers visibility. Otherwise... I tend not to, mostly because I'd rather use my voting power to benefit someone else... it's a "pay it forward" thing, I guess.
Thanks for your detailed and honest input. I know some Steemit investors also upvote their own comments to increase their ROI.
I'm new here so these are great tips. Thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to participating in this community!
Welcome to steemit, you'll love it here. I went and looked at your posts. Good start! I upvoted and then sent 2 SBD to @randowhale and got one of them up a bit more for you. I've written you a few suggestions on one of the posts.
Thanks so much! Appreciate your help and guidance.
First of all: Welcome back! I hope you had a nice time without steemit.
Second: Your article about commenting was very interesting for me and surely for all others who participated by reading or commenting.
Third: Your rule about voting your own comment is considerable. I will do so if I had some effort to write it and somebody else voted it.
Forth: Commenting with good content and related to the main pst is the best way to get attention.
Buona giornata, cane vecchio.
Four good points made by you and so the Cane Vecchio is forced to upvote this comment at 100%
@onceuponatime upvotes his own comments, his full power vote is worth around 10$.
That's an excellent strategy to earn lol
I agree, especially if you've invested in Steem which I believe he has. It's worthy of noting that @onceupontime upvotes MANY other members comments as well. @trafalgar did that a lot in the beginning but much less now that he is one of Steemit's most successful (highly deserved in my opinion) authors.
Oh yes! He up votes other comments as well and he's very generous, just checkout his recent giveaway ❤
This post received a 2.3% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @libert! For more information, click here!
lol feels a bit weird commenting on a post about commenting. I believe that anyone can click on a post to upvote it but commenting is where the real connections are made and it is where the "goodstuff" is.
Now I'm commenting on a comment about a post on commenting! :)
thank you so much for this post! i've seen a bunch of people who simply plug their posts on their comments after a no-effort "thanks for sharing". it is very discouraging for authors who receive mostly these kind of comments.
think about the author when you are commenting. they put in effort to make their content, so at least read through it and put some thought into your comments!
Some of the comments are so good that they are worthy of a post on their own!