Steemit Advice: Do Not Ask For A 'Follow For Follow'
Hey everyone,
If you are new here and are trying to find your way around , welcome :). Put your feet up and tell us about yourself. But what you shouldn't do, it you want to succeed, is comment that you will follow for follow. Very few people will do it and none of them that do have a lot of steem power. At best you will get ignored and at worse you will see more flags than a U.N. meeting. People on here do not want to see your follow messages.
Personally I don't care if you leave me a comment that says it. You would have to leave me something very egregious for me to flag you, and still, I would probably ignore it. But what I won't do is follow you, I won't even click on your profile. I will just ignore you and move on through my comments. And I am not the only one. I'm sure lots of people do not care about these posts or worse, they think this person is not authentic. Or they might even flag you. You can be a very interesting person with lots of things to say but it doesn't show in your follow for follow comment. Or, the even lazier follow 4 follow. It is the same if you make generic one word comments like nice. People on here see through it and you are only doing yourself a disservice.
What should you do? Actually write something that has anything to do about the article. Even if you didn't read the article and scanned through it, writing anything on topic is better than follow 4 follow. I am not saying kiss any one's ass, people can see through that to, just make an effort. It is your profile and you do what you want but you might be wasting your time if you think this is the way to success.
I'm not calling any one out and wish the best for anyone posting. But you might want to switch things up.
*my upvotes/rep disclaimer: https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/my-steemit-account-where-i-stand-on-bots-self-votes-and-multiple-account
Thank you for this post. I am completely new to Steemit, and I just got my account approved yesterday. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how all this works. I have heard about the “follow for follow”, and even people upvoting their own posts and then buying more Steem power to keep getting more money. I knew that sounded suspicious. I’m guessing the only way to really get something lucrative going is to write great content with some value to those who read the posts. I’ve heard someone else give the advice to “treat this like any other social media, interact with people, and the rest will come in time”.
hey follow me ;)
follow for upvote ? LOL
lol
this post was fun made me laugh
follow me too
me too .. lol
LOL
what can I say? you have said it all.
Well said. Now go ahead and feel free to follow me. lol
Yeah I was waiting for those jokes :p
Yea I think its lame. Why would you want someone to follow you when they probably won't care about your blog. As long as you keep blogging right followers will find you and that will be more fruitful in a long run. This gave me an idea for a another blog post :)
follow me too
I came here to make these jokes, but I'm 22 hours too late.
I did the "follow for follow" thing once, and then I looked at the dude's content. Crap. Immediately unfollowed. I do use the minnowsupport/banjo bot though, as it does give me some votes. But of course none of those votes have much steem power, so the system is taking care of that well. I post quality content and so have made some money. I take pride in my content. The "follow for follow" stuff doesn't mean crap. I may not have a lot of followers, but when I get an upvote from a whale for my good content, it means something to me and it pays out. The concept of whales and minnows is a good one. Whales generally have good taste. That might be the smartest aspect of Steemit. It's not just about getting followers and upvotes, it's about getting upvotes from people with Steem power. That is the genius tweak that gives this site some interesting potential.
I will follow you if you 100% upvote me, deal?
Also follow me for free please.
Do agree with your opinion.
The most effective way to get a lot of followers, is to write something worth to read.
Do not waste your time, to leave a lot of rubbish in other people's posts.
I am a follow for follow steemian..but now..i think your right..havr to work on my Public relation skillls..thanks.
Great advice! Helps us new streemers. I've don't this once sadly on my first post lol. No more
i was thinking of commenting follow me jokes then i saw the comments..