Soundtrack for this post: City and Colour - Hope for Now
Yeah, I'm kinda new on Steemit. I'm struggling with getting upvotes also, like the rest of the beginners, even tho there's quite strong Croatian and Balkan unity on Steemit. especially from my home town.
More than 15 people from my hometown that I actually know in person, plus the ones who I don't know in person. Say hello to "The Whales Of My Hometown" @dumar022, @moon32walker, @alktoni, @fibra59, and say hello also to our female force @katarinazaja, @big.mama, @sanjalydia, @exanime15, and to my fellow fresh fishes @zija2022, @stefandimic, @schkure, @chr0nix, @budzy, @redrumtom...
As soon as I started posting on Steemit my expectations were high, guess it is normal. I thought that quality counts, but as weeks were passing, I realized that except of quality, how lucky you are counts also... a big amount of luck. Some older members say that it was way easier to progress before. Unfortunately, I can't say that it was, but if they say so, I believe them...
The thing is that I can see a couple of stages of emotions while I'm writing and publishing my post. It's the case of my girlfriend and me, but I'm sure to the most of the Steemit community also.
So let's see which phases we are going through, before and after we publish our post here:
Pre-phase 1
- Wondering if my post will be fun or interesting to everyone like it's fun/interesting to me. Usually this pre-phase comes also with positive thinking and sometimes with euphoria.
Pre-phase 2
- Choosing headline and photos that will attract people to click on your post - clickbait, and hopefully if you are lucky, read it, upvote it or maybe resteem it. Expectations on maximum, almost ready to engage the post...
Phase 1 - EXCITEMENT / EXPECTATIONS
- "I hope that BIG whale will notice my post, read it, and reward at least my effort or the post itself if she/he finds it attractive"
Phase 2 - QUESTIONING
- Post reconsideration and analysis, in the first few hours, when things are not going as you predicted it. Did I do everything right? Did I put correct hashtags? Did I post it at the right time?
Phase 3 - DISAPPOINTMENT / RAGE
- You realized that you put a lot of effort in your post and you didn't get even single one SBD. There's no comments, no upvotes, no sign of any activity at all, just a couple of views. Then you start to cruise trending & hot posts, other user profiles, and see how much upvotes other people earned, after what rage comes up, because you find a lot of these posts not so quality, but they earned a good amount of upvotes.
Phase 4 - DEMOTIVATION / ACCEPTANCE
- This is the longest phase in which you don't see any light in your posts. You don't have a will to write anything cause you think that you are just not good, that your subjects or post are not interesting to anyone, and that's all. You just accept thing the way they are.
Phase 5 - THOUGHT OF QUITTING
- Final stage. Nothing makes sense. "Should I just quit? Maybe I was just too trustful. Nothing comes so easy." Considering to quit. That's it. I'm done here.
Post-phase - HOPE
- "Maybe I can try again? Maybe I can change the subject next time. Probably it will do the thing. Yeah, I will try... just one more time."
... and we are back at the beginning of the Pre-phase 1- EXCITEMENT and BIG expectations.
Here is how it looks like from my perspective, do you agree?
Take care!
GG