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RE: I'll hack a mainframe to be your friend
Hello, Nicholas, and Welcome to Steemit.
I have no idea re most of the tech jargon you use, but I understand your passion for biking. If I can ride instead or drive, I'll always ride. Thru snow and thru humid heat, altho a cool day is always best.
Anyway, with your various passions, you'll most likely have plenty to offer to this platform, and also find much of interest.
Below are a few basic points of advice re posting on Steemit.
- Longer posts are more lucrative than short posts. If you make a post of 20–30 paragraphs, it's more likely to earn rewards.
- Include some photos, images or graphs, to complement the text.
- Make sure the text and photos are formatted properly, so that your post looks attractive and appealing.
- Be yourself.
- Be interesting and informative.
- Create quality content. Steemit is intended to be a platform of quality content. (You will see many insignificant posts with meager content and no quality. Most of those of posts [called “shitposts” by Steemit whale Stellabelle] will earn few rewards and soon pass into oblivion.)
- Get online and start curating. Read various posts, comment on those posts you find interesting, and upvote those posts. That’s the best way to attract followers.
Hope this helps for now. Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead!
Thanks for the advice! I love the idea that this medium thrives on long-format content. A breath of fresh air in this 120 character post world. Will do my best to apply your points. :-)
One more point. Submitting photos in the various photo contests is a great way to earn a bit of Steem and to attract followers. Here are links to 3 contests.
@photocontests, organized by @juliank
Daily color challenges, organized by @colorchallenge
#tepchallenge, organized by @theexplorer
For entries into those photo contests, short posts are OK. But it's a good idea to add a bit of text explaining the photo, to give the post some meat and to make it more interesting.