Hey guys, you might not know it but I try to do a lot of manual curation. I do have some autovotes going for certain accounts that I want to continually support but they are very few. I am also part of the OCD project and a big chunk of my Voting Power, especially during these low price days, is very limited.
But the thing is, I realized sometimes - especially during these times that no one is posting - I go through 12 hours of my Feed within half an hour and even though I am following more than 300 people, most of them are high rep users.
I know that 99% of my follower base - More than 8,000 Steemians - is made up by minnows, but my following base is hardly 25% minnows, so I want to change that.
I don´t want my feed to become unmanageable where I´m not able to read some of your posts on a daily basis and I definitely don´t want to browse my feed for one hour and realize I haven´t got to the 4 hour old posts, you know?
Well, of course my post title was click bait. You don´t have to convince me of anything, but I had to get your attention somehow!
So let´s do this, why don´t you leave in the comment section a small paragraph with some info about what, how and why you blog about with a link to the post you are the most proud about - preferably one that I can still vote on A.K.A less than 7 days old - and I´ll read your comment, if I´m interested about the topics or the way you write or why you do it, I´ll click on the post, if I enjoy the post, I´ll start following you.
Why do I make such a fuzz out of this when I can easily just browse the newbie section and follow some people?
Well, I owe a lot to my follower base, you are the ones that participate in my contests, you are those who comment on my posts and votes on them and if you are reading this, you are probably already following me, so I want to start following those who are already engaging with me.
If my request of you leaving a comment on this post sounds outrageous - who does he think he is to have me commenting to see if I´m worthy of his follow? well then, you are missing the whole point of this post, but you are in your right to not engage here.
One more thing, a few days ago I had some negative feedback so I wan´t to make something clear: If you comment here, thank you so much I really appreciate it and rest assured that I will read it, but I am not obligued to vote on your comment nor vote on the post link you leave here, nor I must start following you just because you left a comment here. I appreciate the engagement and I try to encourage it a lot - between you and me, but also between other users - but I, as anyone else on this platform, am the owner of my choices and I choose to (not) vote or (not) comment wherever I want.
As I said, this is not only for you to interact with me, but also for you to read the comment section and to start following and interacting with the Steemians you have something in common or that you enjoy reading them. This is a chance for me to follow you, yes, but it is more important to get this chance to visit other people´s blogs and to follow them!
I will stop reading the comment section around April 4th - otherwise I would never finish :P -, I hope you get to see this post by then :)