I've been using steem for 25 days now and haven't really earned much except for donations i received for Baby David's medication as my charity work here.
I have accumulated around 13 steem power in that short span of time with 49 score in reputation. And i thought i should power up to improve on my results. Bought 123 steem power for 0.36 BTC in the mean time and if it brings good results i might power up even more.
I Have Questions
-With what I just did, will it increase visibility of my posts?
-Will it have a significant effect in my curation rewards
-Will it have a significant effect on my voting power?
Thanks in advance...
We shouldn't look after empowering ourselves, we should look after empowering others. When you help others grow, you help yourself growing too!!!
Basics
You can't pour from an empty cup.
You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone else. This is why on a plane, they tell you to put your mask on first before trying to help someone else.
If someone powers up their account, they can then be a bigger help to others here, and empower them.
I think that Steemit will succeed if and only if there is a distribution of the power from the top...
It is why I called for a charity project based on Steemit!!!
Where is the top, and where is the bottom, and what sort of charity are you looking for? Why are you posting here when you can be carrying food to the food kitchen down the road or the beggar out on the street? Personally I think anyone using the word "charity" on steem is a hypocrite. Less talking, more doing.
@pyrocolada Im using steem for some charity work. didnt know it was bad
I've been down the street several time. I've been giving money away... I'm talking about giving solar power and water pump in the third world countries. Providing them some knowledge to give them the ability to grow their own food.
All that using people with power. It's a thing to nourish the greed of people. It's another to nourish their mind!!!
@hoopatang thats what i thought of powering up. il just try if it works then maybe i should power up more
@alexoz thats basically what ive been trying to do this past week, getting active on other author's posts unfortunately i feel i dont contribute enough specially on blogs i find to be very useful in promoting this platform. i rarely see my upvotes give value to other user's posts. this lead me to decide to power up a bit, test if it could help others. ive seen good posts with 75 upvotes that rarely earn that much and thought if i had power behind my votes , it would have made a difference.
People talk about powering up with their SD, talking about putting money into the system to lock them for 2 years or so.
What makes a ponzi scheme?
That is The Question!
I agree @alexoz
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@bergy why do you say so? could you elaborate it for us sir? newbie
@bergy is right!
Unless of course, a whale will help you out. lol!
If you want to earn more, get more steem power, I mean a lot more...100 BTC might be a good start.
Or, just create good content with a prayer that it will get whale's attention.
Sorry to say that this platform is just simply to be played at the whales' whims, or to be one of the whale.
@carlgetalada have you tried getting in touch with these whales?
It will have some effect on your voting power, but I don't think that your amount of Steem Power would be enough to increase the visibility of your posts
thanks, i also think the same way, i'm just testing the waters. if this brings me good results then maybe i should transfer all my steem and sbd from polo to this account. Ive lost so much when i jumpped in to SBD. I thought the upward movements would hold up. its been crashing for weeks now.
it's a good time to invest in steem power because of low price of steem at the moment
yup unfortunately im out of BTCs.
It will but I'm not sure you will notice much difference yet. The STEEM price has been falling so as time goes on you should be able to buy larger amounts for less. Just keep adding to it slowly, make posts, comment, help people out and you will probably be better off than just buying it.
Thanks. Im just waitng for sbd to recover. Its been crashing for weeks now. Half of my nxt went to sbd. Will keep on being active. Thanks for the donations by the way. Baby David is out of the hospital already recuperating for his open heart surgery.
I am not sure but if it works, let me know :)
will give you feedback. i'll see how it fares in a week
I have 16 followers before i powered up.