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Great Goat. But what are you Goating at?

Nice job on your post. The llama was really funny by the way. Every once in a while Nemo catches a whale. Sometimes the whale catches Nemo. In other words, you might make a lot of money on a post for little work, or you might work really had on several posts and get very little money for it. Make sure all your posts are 100% for Steem Power, rather than the 50/50 option before you hit the post button. Even if you don't catch a whale every time, you can still collect your own vote, which will be bigger every time your steam power goes up. Best advice I can give, is be honest with yourself. If you want to do this for work, then post 10 times a day, and vote up all your own posts, and collect all the important bots to get noticed. If you just want to grow over time, collect followers you will actually enjoy conversing with, and share content whenever you feel like it, then don't stress out about how much you earn. Let it happen, and it will reward you with patience.

I don’t have any answer. I do see some very good content just slip through the cracks. I am new to Steemit as well. I try to resteem anything that is worth anyone reading; I also post it on Twitter. As for myself, I honestly post because I want to share with others. If I gain Steem along the way that’s great!

Yeah, it all feels like a bit of a catch 22 to me. It's like I want to post solid, good quality content, yet you put your heart and soul into your work and generally nobody sees it anyway. So you try to build a bit of a following by going out and interacting but because I have no Steem power, nobody tends to really want to associate, so you try to post more quality content, but nobody sees it and it just goes to waste and around and around I go... At a bit of a loss really and don't know how much more time to invest here before I cut my losses and head elsewhere.

This is definitely a difficult nut to crack.  

Some of the frustration people have is automatic voting.  People, especially people with lots of SP, will set automatic voting for people they want to automatically support.  I've had a couple people with decent amounts of SP do that for my posts.  They are not doing it anymore, but they did.  It helped me get started too.  I am thankful for their support!

Some whales use steemit.com as a crypto bank account.  Who can blame them?  This site has very high security with ways to lock your money away very securely.  Even if your account is stolen, the thief has to wait for weeks to withdraw your SP.  That is pretty good protection.  Therefore, take your profits from elsewhere, and lock them away here.  It makes sense.

Some of them are pretty bad though, and they will repeatedly and regularly upvote their posts AND their replies to feed themselves more and more SP.  Those people are known however, and there are tools to easily reveal them.  Just ignore them.  Who cares?  There are plenty of whales who do support quality content when they see it.

There's the real problem too.  What is quality content?  How do we decide?  Because of auto voting, we see utter crap being paid high amounts.  People support their friends regardless of the quality content too.  That's how this system works, and I kinda like it that way.  My SP gives me a very small piece of the daily crypto to hand out.  Who's going to get it? Well, I'm going to support my fellow Liberty Professionals first.  Then I'm going to give the rest to quality new accounts and other quality content.

It's my choice, right?  We are in control as individuals over our small piece of the pie.

I don't think there's an easy answer to this issue.  One thing that has been pointed out by a friend of mine is that whales who want to sell STEEM need STEEM buyers.  How do you get STEEM buyers?  You entice people to invest in their own SP.  The more SP, the more you can give out, right?  That draws in buyers, and then the sellers have a way to sell.  It's a reasonable theory too.  Again, I don't blame those people for wanting buyers.  I'm investing a little of my money into SP, but I'll never invest too much of my wealth here.

No one should.  Keep your investments spread across multiple baskets to minimize your risk.

I posted something that took me a week to think about, write in my head, and do the research for it.  That post made pennies.  Then I've posted random topics that I, at the last minute while standing at my computer, took only minutes to write.  Those posts did really well.  Trust me.  It makes no sense to me either.  LOL  I won't pretend to understand what is valuable to others and what is not.  

Quality matters unless you have auto voters.  Engagement matters more than posts too in the beginning before your reputation is high.  You want good quality followers too, not just random ones.  The more quality followers you have, the better off you'll be in the long run both in reputation gained and pay outs.

Anyway, that's my two cents...  I'm not sure it's even worth that much. haha  ;-)

My experience has been that it takes time and effort to get anywhere on this platform, but it's very rewarding and fun.  There are so many interesting people here, it's fun to interact with them.  I think you will find that most people here are very engaging and willing to hear what you have to say.  Steemit also encourages replies and interaction, more than any other platform i've ever used before.  There's always more to learn and grow, but be encouraged.  If you keep posting and replying, you'll be amazed where you will be after a few months.  @ironshield

Saw this in the libertyprofessionals chatroom. So, my question is this then, from a strategic point of view. Should I leave my "best" content for last and start with "cheap/quick" content first? I did notice that some of my posts that I learned how to properly format and make it easy for the eyes and filled with content actually received no attention. While posting a small picture that could have been a stock image (it wasn't, all content I post is mine) got me paid and was upvoted by many...uncomfortable to watch. So what should a minnow do? Resort to garbage posts and save the best for later or start with quality (time consuming at least) posts right off the bat?

Oh yes ! That`s exactly how I felt, and I hope you have over come your fears by now

Good morning @jinmi17 , I would like to share with you my thoughts on this subject...  https://steemit.com/steemit/@meno/in-defense-of-steemit-s-and-its-whales

I agree with what you say,  still it is an interesting platform if a bit frustrating at times.

Yep, seems like a fair assessment.  If I only had 50k steempower and a  silly picture of a cat i'd be raking in the upvotes

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Thanks for voicing your concerns @jinmi17 - I think about this everyday too. The way I see things now is that while $ being such an incentive, thousands of minnows are voting for dolphins and whales, hoping to catch their attention and earn nice curation rewards. However, I believe this way of voting is pretty much useless as things stand, as curation rewards for minnows voting for whales is next to nothing. If minnows only voted for each other on their posts the balance would shift to some degree, and then more and more. I think it's a mindset problem and a misunderstanding on how to make the most of one's vote. I'm three months in here and am still scratching my head about what's going on too. Cheers @steemmeupscotty

And P.S - Have a read of this post which gives great advice on voting strategy :)
https://steemit.com/bisteemit/@abh12345/curation-how-you-doin