You make a great post here sir, I agree with you... Ironically, I think this post deserves a resteem!  XD

I resteem posts but I post as well. I see some users that have nothing but resteems on their blogs and their account is much bigger than mine and not a post of their own.

that is in fact not a bad idea, au contraire, being able to put a text above your resteem would be awesome!

Totally agree man!! I've seen people who have really good posts but then they resteem like 30 posts a day!! Unfortunately they quickly get an unfollow from me :(

I resteem because I've found that curation of good content is a way to increase my steem power. It's not always a resteem for curation as I also like to think it's a way to help the little guy get more exposure. 

If...well not if...I **know** I lose followers because of the amount of resteems on my feed. I look at it this way; if I spend hours creating my own original content and it has 6.5 days to to earn very little in the way of new followers and upvotes I'm really wasting my time creating that content and I can't very well pull it back up at some future point when I have a strong following who supports me and my work.

If a follower can't take the time to spend a few extra seconds to skim past the obvious resteems to find original content that interests them and made them follow you then perhaps they really weren't that interested to begin with.

I find my time is much better spent surfing my feed and the feed of others I find interesting. All doors are open here at Steemit and I kinda like that. I got here from my feed and I'd have to go back a few to find exactly how I got here. All I know is it was from a tangent I took when I saw something about a successful couple of Steemians  who are now being called out for running ponzi schemes through YouTube and Steemit. Something I never would have found out about had I not decided that feed surfing and leaving my thoughts in the comments section of posts that actually engage my thought process.

Would it be more advantageous for me to just start posting my thousands of photos one at a time? It certainly would take less of my time but then there are those who dislike such content and would unfollow me for that.

No, as a noob, I think this is my best strategy going forward in an effort to gain rep and steem power in order to further reward the content I find in the future.  We all have the same six and a half day window to have our content read, appraised, upvoted and hopefully create dialogue in the comments section. And there are many different strategies to playing this game to win.

I do see it is a game and yet I feel no pressure of competition. I remain aware of my place and those handful of true followers who both enjoy my thoughtful comments as well as *some* of my content when I choose to lay some down. But it's silly for me to think that pouring hours and weeks...even months...of my time not to mention the blood sweat and research involved in putting up decent content would do me any good at this time.

The main objective here is to have fun, first and foremost. The second is to learn new things and meet new people. Thirdly  and no less important is to support the community...newbies, dolphins and whales alike.

L O frig'n L I just had a peek at how long this comment is. ~smiles~ Oh well I don't really get the TLDR tribe within the community and they'll certainly never take the time to get me so that's no skin offa my nose. **};-)>**

So, @steevc I'm curious...and this is not an attempt at getting a response from you...what kinda music does a self professed *geeky guitarist* like to play? I'll keep my eye out for guitar picks for you in my RL travels.

UVed/Followed...lol...not RSed...hahaha...jk...or am I?

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My big problem is people tend to resteem a lot in a short time, like 3 resteems in 30 mins.  A few people do this and your feed is full of posts by people you have not followed.

Maybe it's no big deal but it annoys me.

It's a shame when I want to follow somebody but their feed is 80% reposts. Its like, I didn't want all your favorite posts in my feed! I just want YOUR posts.

But like you said it's cool to resteem sometimes. I try to do it no more than once per day, and often don't do it at all for days at a time. A little resteeming adds variety to the feed and can be fun.

Balance is key, in this regard, as in so many others in life. I have seen, especially a number of n00bs, making this error. I have unfollowed folks because of this in the past, and will continue to do so. I try to keep my own resteeming to a minimum, as I think a lot of authors do not consider the fact that they are **burying their own content** by resteeming everything.

I wish more Steemians took the opportunity to make a weekly (or however often) post about blogs they enjoy. It really makes all the sense to go about it that way. 

When I helped close to 20 people onboard a couple of months ago, rather than sharing their posts via resteem, I composed a post about them that included tons of links to their posts from which readers could dive into these authors further. The featured authors had a good followership jump from the post, which to me, just proved that features indeed *work,* and are beneficial to essentially everyone.

Great post, @steevc. Always enjoy reading your thoughts.

I only resteem if it's something I find really intriguing...or something that I wish I had posted myself.

I think that resharing is a vital part of any social network. and in its best manifestations it is a way to heighten the quality and help profiles that need a bigger audience. It does have a lot of problems and I think that on Steemit the biggest problem is that it fills up our own blog, making it difficult for your audience to get an overview of what your own things is about.

I have considered what to do and I reblog quite a lot, with the intention to heighten the quality. It can be a big deal to a new profile. The reblogs from other users in my own stream are mostly interesting posts, so I don't feel bothered by it myself.

But if someone could come up with a method that prevented spamming, and let people choose to see your blog without all the reshares, that would be nice.

I wrote about it here:

https://steemit.com/resteem/@katharsisdrill/about-the-importance-of-reshares-and-the-problem-with-reshares

My blog is full of resteems lol

I've seen users that do nothing but resteem memes

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. i also think about it and why it should be necessary though i think resteeming isn't that necessary unless you find the post so interesting and you wanna voice out their post too

I believe there are also some users who just don't know the usage of the re-steem button! You will find it mainly with the newcomers, maybe they have been so used to do it on FB , that's why! 
In the beginning I was re-steeming quite some posts, then I stopped as my own posts were not getting noticed! Since then, no more re-steem at all and I even decline to participate in contest that force you to re-steem their post! 
Now I have a very clean looking page where you can easily find my contents!

upvoted.. good point I am backing down on that some.. I realized yesterday why did I resteem someone I followed.. doesn't make sense since they are in my feed already ..then some people I follow resteem a lot.. and some of it I am not interested in and it clogs my feed.. good points you made.. minnows are all figuring it out .. I know because I am one. :)

I think my problem is the opposite.  I think I resteem a reasonable amount, no more than 1 or 2 posts a day, and usually less.  But I don't find enough time to post my own content, so my own stuff still gets buried in resteems on my profile page.

OTOH, I have unfollowed some people for flooding my feed with resteems, so yes, I do think it can be overused.

My own rule of thumb is one a day is fine, twice you can get away with if they are good, but if anyone does three on my feed they are an instant unfollow.

Until there is a separate tab for resteems, I think they are mostly a bunch of crap cluttering up my feed.

When there is a separate tab I will generally ignore them.

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmafmZuqfDy53JkxbgrKjcUhSg1SFxYYoo941kvciqXyyG/image.png)

I resteem what I think is important for people to see. There's a pretty easy way to spot resteemed content:![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdYz9X6V2KYh5Uor2xPhk1VmgJ7yvD1Aqao9VEeuc9bvk/image.png)
With that said, I realize that a lot of the content I choose to resteem is a series of posts and that I can probably cut way down by only resteeming one of the  posts (assuming the author will link to the other posts in the series).

Thanks for getting me to actually think about this @steevc I will keep this in mind going forward.

Yeah some people resteem way too much. You can barely even find their content because it's filled with resteems. A resteem here and there is OK but too much is annoying.

I concur with you @steevc

Totally agree, I've come to the point where I rarely resteem anymore.  If I see a bunch of resteems in my feed from the same account, I'm likely to unfollow that person.  It can be a bit much.

Just have fun man, like... whatever. If someone spams just unfollow.