Super, and please consider the advises given.

Indeed! Hope this post and other on the same topic will create a better culture again.

Likely indeed!

> I think over the last two weeks there has been an influx of newbies who seem to be spending their time hustling for follows and upvotes for zero input.

Indeed, I saw somewhere to ID counter at more than 200k and I think it jumped from 150k/160k a months or so ago, maybe 2 months ago. Issue is that there is not a Wiki or something in Steemit with all the information on what is out there, including the guilds, including Steemit.Chat including all the Discord servers with people to help promoting posts and votes. All need to be discovered through posts, and some of these are very good and informative, others not so got and may even give some not so good info. Takes a LOT of time to go through that, and I understand not so many users do actually take that time. I just hope we can make this better in the future, better UI, a library of information within Steemit UI, not outside as it is now, and quite fragmented.

> I do welcome newbies who bother to introduce themselves and post good content.

And I do as well. When respecting the community, then I'm there to help them.

Super!

It must be said out loud indeed. Some others did already, but I think mostly higher SP holder. Anyway, hopefully the users who are that aggressive will stop. Not sure if it is desperate, some of the new users do actually get some rewards already and start their tactics after 1 or 2 days on the platform, submitted maybe a couple of posts. Invasive it certainly is for use who receiving those requests all the time.

Thanks for the support!

Maybe you can write about your progress with your book? Something that should be able to flow straight from your mind through your fingers on the keyboard into a post. Your thoughts you are having writing your book, maybe very interesting read for nobody who likes to understand the mind of a writer. Promotions of the post, when having some experience with Steemit.chat and Discord, is maybe 10 minutes posting into the appropriate channels, and then commenting to the incoming comments, when possible (near) realtime ie respond (almost) directly to comments, this may take 30-60 minutes time (that is the minimum I would recommend).

Success with your book! What is it about?

Respect is key to any community! Thank you for reading and your comment.

Super, glad to be of help.

Correct, there are no rules on Steemit other than those implemented by Technology. But I can tell you, NO community works when not respecting each other. I just hope this is getting clear to those who are just here for their own personal (money) gain.

Hard work pays of! And I agree, less post on topics like this would be fantastic! But for some reason they are required. I started to post my post as a comment to those who send me links in private chat. Sometimes they come back to one of my posts and I help them further in understanding what RESPECT is and how to go about at Steemit. Those who do not, well, I ignore them.

Feel free to write a post yourself :)

Thanks for stopping by and your comment.

Thank you! Just hope those who abuse read it and follow through :)

Thank your for the link in Steemit.Center. Glad I could be of help.

Put your link in, click some links of others, read and when you like vote for it and place a good comment. just look at "promotion" folder how users do it.

Thank you! it is not so much about good or bad posts, but when getting quite a few of these requests in, it is getting annoying. There are so many ways of promoting, and best is to write comment, relevant to the post, add value with that. You can find recent posts with the same topic you wrote about, and comment on those posts and give your link (as a clickable word, like "maybe you are interested in the posts I wrote about this topic here), and make the word here clickable with the link to your post. Copying URL into the comment may not be appreciated by some of the authors as well, I know for sure some of the Whales hate that, so always respect others, dont advertise, but add value and when a post of yours is relevant to your comment, you may mention it. To more value you add, the more you will get noticed. Also take the time to post your articles in the post promotion channels at Steemit.Chat and Discord AND also read other posts that are promoted in those channels, when you like it, comment on it and upvote it and mentioned that in the specific channel mentioned the authors name in the comment so he/she gets a notification. Avoid mentioned anything like, also please upvote my post. That is to much begging and I know quite a few Steemians who will not do it because of that.

Success with finding your ways here on Steemit. And thank you for your comments and upvote.

Post discovery and staying visible with your posts is indeed a MAJOR issue at Steemit. For some reason Steemit INC is not addressing that; I have no clue why. That is one of the issues I have with them. I think they are a bunch of techies without any idea how to support the majority of the Steemians, namely those with low Steem Power. But they may have their good reasons not to invest in good post discovery and promotion tools, I just dont know. Lets see what the next couple of months will bring.

It is indeed though, and being here for almost 6 months and about 3500 posts and comment further, I still have to work my butt of to get some votes in. You can view my posts and their rewards. It is much higher than in the first couple of months, but still each posts with real content cost me at least 2 times on post promotion, including commenting etc etc to get some votes in. But as you can also see, some posts gets pretty ok rewards! Trick is; Like the interaction, like the discussions, like to create a good post, and the rewards will follow. Being here for the rewards, is the wrong approach, then I can assure you, you will be feeling a whole lot negative about Steemit. BTW, most of the higher rewarded post I have are given by vote trains, guild type of voters who have a lot of follow-on voters (SteemTrail and the likes). I also get sometimes dollars on a single comment, from some high power users or several smaller users. But this generally inly happens when the comment is good. What is good is left to the author of the posts and others who may read the comments, but best is to add value to the posts or comments to the post.