Some people might not like me for what I talk about, what I say, how I say it, or even might not like the “success” I have on Steemit.

So, how did I get “succcessful”? Is it all autobots and autovotes or whatnot? If you want to know, I’ll show you with the data.

This is just data being shown to represent what is happening in reality. Here is the reality that my data shows. Judge for yourself.

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### Here are my total posts each day. I have 455 total as of Feb 4th 2017.

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### Here are my total payouts per post.
 
<center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/4kIcZ7l.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/4kIcZ7l.png" /></a></center>

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### Here are the posts above $50 payout (101)

<center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/SyVlBTD.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/SyVlBTD.png" /></a></center>


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### Above 80$ (41)

<center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/jKfFacd.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/jKfFacd.png" /></a></center>

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### Above 100$ (33)

 <center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/PUA8ivi.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/PUA8ivi.png" /></a></center>

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# To “expose” myself the most, it looks like January was the busiest, so let’s look at January.

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### Here are my payouts for posts in January (105 posts):

<center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Mhw3bCJ.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Mhw3bCJ.png" /></a></center>
 
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### Here is the most SP applied to my posts over the 31 days of January, per SP holder. 

**This depends on their SP, the weight of their vote, and how many times they voted in 31 days. All of these factors differ.**

<center><a href="http://i.imgur.com/UyBgeQx.png"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/UyBgeQx.png" /></a></center>
 
**This chart shows all the top SP holders (above 300MVests) who voted for me in January, equally represented in a 31 day period where all their vote power is calculated through their vests (SP holdings). They are sorted from highest vests (left) held in their account, to lowest (right) until the cap of 300MVests is reached.**

I have long-time autobot support from the duo of xeldal/enki, even back when I was getting under $5 on posts in November -- unless a human “whale” judged it and rewarded it with an upvote. au1nethyb1 is another long time autovoter. Another recent autovoter (since December?) is datasecuritynode. That’s pretty much it for the large SP holders who I know autovote me.

Dantheman has been a long supporter as well, but votes on what he judges to reward. He is honestly evaluating the content to reward it. So too is jamesc, who has also supported some of my content in recent months. The other whales sometimes vote as well, according to their own judgment and valuation of my content/posts (I presume).

Dantheman and dan voted on 18 out of 105 posts (17%), not all my posts.

Jamesc voted on 35 out of 105 posts (33%), not all my posts, and not all at 100% vote weight either as some were at 16% or 20%, etc).

How did I become a "success"? 

The data shows who upvoted my posts to make me a "success". Going back in other months, it's not like this. I was also posting a lot less back then, and the posts were not the lighter 'news' or 'tech' posts I have since added. In October I had 37 posts, which dantheman upvoted 10 (27%).

I am a "success" thanks in part to ***certain*** posts I make (often my original more important work), and also thanks to certain whales that evaluate and upvote the posts because they value or appreciate the content. 

Write about certain things that certain whales care about, and eventually you might get recognized for it :)

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So here is me being open and honest with my data that anyone can go verify for themselves :)

For anyone who wants ammunition to "take me down", well here it is.... lol.

For everyone else, I hope you see that the majority of large SP stakeholders (whales) who upvote me do so for my content. While there are some that support my posts no matter what I put out, they don't account for the majority of vests required for me to get high payouts. The high payout posts are from an evaluation of my content for the content itself.

If you want some specific data,please let me know and I will consider pulling it. But no guarantees ;) Either because I don't want to, or because it's too complex to do. But you can ask :)

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@krnel
2017-02-05, 1:20pm