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RE: Creating Content on the Blockchain Part 2 -- Taking Your First Steps
Don’t expect follow for follow.
Don’t ask for follows
I would also add
Don’t expect upvote to upvote.
Don’t ask for upvote.
Organic growth is healthy and sustainable.
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thanks @nathanmars I haven't talked much about upvoting yet, will do that more in the posting part and will keep your comment in mind.
Tell that to @clixmoney, he will disagree.
If you really drop a lot of time into creating, it's probably ok to ask for likes and follows.
Yeah, I do my best to write quality content. Even if I'm tired, or don't have many ideas. The web is so big, and we can always consume something to create, or just share our experience about anything. Also, I'm doing my best to support tags in hive. You can see how many participants we have in #dcc. At least 10 people are participating every week. I wish more people join us, but even now it's ok. So, if you'll have any opportunity to promote the contest I'm running every week, you can do that to help us. I usually upvote all the entries with my account and @dcooperation. I wish to see more of those entries, so I'll be able to support more people. Because I'm not that active curating, so at least I have some time to check #dcc tag every week. But it's not a general tag, we have some rules to use it. You can check the tag we are supporting this week, and we support a new tag every week : DCC tag contest - Let's support #travel.
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He can disagree all he wants, its rude and not at all encouraged on Hive. Earn the follow.
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I understand why people would feel unsure about asking for an upvote or even a reblog, yet there are Hivers going back to the earliest days of Steemit who still ask for either or both. I just figured "if it's good for them, it's good for me."
It's like selling a product in a store and then near the end you "ask for the sale." It seems obvious, yet it's amazing how many people go through the trouble to sell a good or service only to then drop the ball by failing to follow up by asking for the sale.
In both cases, here is what makes the practice of asking OK: you provided value with your post. You answered a question, addressed a concern, pointed the reader in the right direction, gave good advice, engaged well with others, made the reader LOL after the reader had a rough day, etc. If the reader felt good after reading the post, the reader won't think anything about being asked for an upvote or a reblog.
If a post is just tag spam or emoji soup, though, then asking for an upvote or a reblog is asking for trouble.
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