My First Month on Steemit

Do you upvote?

So glad you have been enjoying your time on steemit! You pose some good questions and ones that I will try to answer.

1. It really is up to you, but I like voting on content I like. I havn't participated in that stuff, I don't like it, seems cheap. Do I chastize peeople who do, no, it's their choice, but I won't be following them that's for sure.
2. There are a couple places to get steemit development some of the creators @ned or witnesses have good updates @heimindanger is great for updates on dtube.
3. I like the 50/50 rewards, but generally go for more steem power. SBD is suppose to be $1.00, but for reasons that I can't completly understand it broke that peg and rose to the price it is now. I think it will return to$1.00 sooner or later. Steem was suppose to be the token to rise and value and be speculated on and steem power increases the power of your vote. More steem power means the more your gives every upvote. Also reputation is based essentially on how much you have been rewarded on the platform.

well I've only been upvoting stuff I like, but seeing others who are doing very well upvoting anything. Is their a strategy i should be using?

thanks, the first answer was pretty consistent with my own practice so far. I've just seen so many crapy accounts rise in pwer and reputation and I'm wondering what they know that I don't.

Right now, doing 100% power up is a silly thing to do by the way. As long as the market price of SBD is > 1 USD, it's /always/ better to get SBD and swap it for STEEM in the internal market (it's better than blockchain internal conversions).

Even when SBD is < 1 USD, I would still use 50/50, and use the internal "convert" mechanism (which by the way is currently disabled in the steemit website due to people not understanding they are losing by using this right now).

Should I be participating in these like-4-like systems or should I only be upvoting content I find valuable?

I find that I prefer communities that interact more actively than just vote systems. For instance, if you know discord there's lots of nice communities for that, especially: The Steem Engine, feel free to check it out.

Should I aim to gain more steem power or SBD? How does reputation play into this, and how do I grow my reputation?

If you're in it for the long haul, STEEM POWER is better, because that increases your influence as well as assists in the payouts of your own posts. And if you believe in the platform, that STEEM's price will grow, you want to accumulate more of that as well. You should work with the assumption that SBD will eventually be worth around 1 USD though if STEEM continues to grow. The higher the STEEM price is, the larger the payouts become / more SBD given out.

Reputation is all cosmetics, really. You gain reputation by getting upvotes from other people with high reputation. I hardly pay attention to this number, though it does correlate with influence. Each rep level takes much more effort to get than the last as well.

Thanks! that's very helpful

Welcome Anthony.

I just followed you. lol If you hadn't upvoted I wouldn't.

Thanks again. Do you want more subscribers?

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Hey fellow wino! Keep up the awesome posts, I love that we are both travel/wine junkies! Followed :P

Thanks! I'm very happy to see more winos on here