@skyochica came to me last night to ask if I would help find struggling users on SteemIt to encourage with a small tip of 5 steem. The intention is to find some people who are working hard on SteemIt, but maybe just haven't found their sweet spot yet. They are perhaps becoming frustrated and the tip is potentially just an act of encouragement. You can find sykochica's post about the initiative below.
I have received 25 Steem from sykochica and will be matching her contribution. So, that leads me to the point of this post. I have some ideas in mind, but I want you to help me. Please nominate someone for a tip in the comments below. Please include a link to one of their underpaid posts. I will review all accounts suggested for effort, time, and engaging articles. The article does not have to be engaging to me personally, but something I think someone wants to read.
sykochica's article below.
Are there rules? Not many, please nominate someone who you feel is struggling, who might need some encouragement.
Pretty simple right? I look forward to your ideas.
I don't ask this very often, but I would sure love it if you would resteem this.
*post update - I have also received 25 steem from @virtualgrowth and I will be spreading that around as well!
Not really worth saying but I feel that lots of users are going to nominate themselves. Seeing the hunger ? :)
and re-steemed :-)
I nominate @zeroshiki because he lost all of his bitcoins
@playfulfoodie @jonny-clearwater @foxkoit @orrslaw @thatsnumberwang @gktown @clevercreator @dalt @steemitqa @battleaxe @magick323 @antonchanning @solomonservant @granturismo89 @dimarss @lazariko12 @kids3dogs3 @no-more-boxes @dana-varahi @businesswri @ruddyred7 @undocumented @brimax @aishwarya @errymil @bitgeek @p5ych0path @jennswall @sunildkavuri @stonedfood
and me @sinned lol why not.
@sidwrites as well I am thinking of more
Thank you for thinking about little buddies like me!
Thank you!
We need to all work together i think if we could work together we could be a mini whale we just need to organize
@sinned @whatsup Thank you for mentioning and taking this step! )
No problems at all! You are welcome
@darth-azrael
Awesome. I love it. Thank you for looking out for your authors and bringing more people's attention to this. If you feel like it. Resteem. Thank you much.
Will do
All of them deserve this.
Thank you @sinned
Your welcome bud we gotta help each other out
You are appreciated. Way to make the dream work.
Thank you you have helped me out and whatsup made a post I asked her permission to feature everyone and she gave me permission! You deserve love on here everyone of these posters are amazing in their own ways
We do have an amazing community.
@kryptik
Transfer 25.000 STEEM to whatsup 25 Steem matching contributionPlease feel free to double these payouts on my behalf.
Thank you for joining in this idea @whatsup. Would like anyone who joins in our shared idea of finding people to give me a list of names as I will be matching these contributions in some way with my shared love of the spirit of giving back.
Also thank you for the nominations and best to everyone who joins in on our shared efforts.
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Awesome, will do. Thank you so much @virtualgrowth.
You're most welcome @whatsup.
You're amazing thank you so much !!! :-*
Re-steemed... ;)
😄😇😄
Much appreciated.
You're welcome! Sounds like a great initiative! :D
a very nice initiative. would be great if you could check out my blog. thanks!
That's what's great about this, everyone willing to help! We need you guys.
Love the effort....resteemed
Thank you for thinking of those of us swimming upstream as best as we can to earn dolphin-hood!! Enjoying my time here, STEEM on all!
Good idea and a great way to pay it forward!
Thank you!
Your welcome!
My friend does professional model photography, and I encouraged him to share his work on Steemit. He only has around 35 followers, so his posts don't get many views/upvotes. I'm not nominating him (would prefer that it goes to other people's nominees) but if anyone who might be interested could check out his blog and possibly follow him - it would be greatly appreciated!
https://steemit.com/@jeffhiedeman
I will be visiting and following him as well. Thanks for sharing his profile!
Awesome, thanks @merej99!
I just followed him :) He is quite talented!
upvoted some of his posts and followed also. his photos are incredible.
Cool, thanks!
I will check him out, I have all ready followed him.
Awesome, thanks!
@timcliff I checked out his blog and his photos are great. I am now following him.
Awesome!
Anytime @timcliff :)
Mr Tim Cliff is rock solid gold #hunterintuition :)
Awesome initiative... resteemed so a lot may know. May I be nominated... That few steems can really be encouraging for newbies like me. :)
When I get ready to review blogs, yours will be among them. Thank you.
Oh thanks... I appreciate the attention you just gave me.
I would like to nominate @flatrider and @johnny-clearwater. Thanks for doing this you guys. It's a struggle being new here. And all the help we can get is appreciated haha!! Let me know if I can help in anyway!!
I nominate @blunderbabe , I want to give her some motivation to share more of her writing and stick around.
https://steemit.com/travel/@blunderbabe/the-adventures-of-blunderbabe-barefoot-in-koh-tao-purgatory-in-paradise
Thank you for the nomination.
That's an awesome and cool idea. Encourages new users who might be struggling.
Another way we can all help: be welcoming to new users. Tipping is great, and so is socially tipping - be friendly!
Agreed.
Thanks for the post! I don't need it, though I'm still below the thousand mark. But this is a great idea!
The reward system needs to be fixed a bit. I find the more I upvote, comment and post (despite being well received) I too often get 0.001 SP instead of what I used to get (50-100 dollars a day).
This is long and painful to a lot of people. Would love to see this change to some degree.
Either way, there's no doubt we're on the ground floor of the future of social media here. The untapped potential is incredible. But we definitely have to work to make it more user friendly and give more incentive to post and keep posting. :)
Cheers!
Agreed. I had a very rough start. If I hadn't found SteemSpeak, I don't think I would have made it. On the other hand, I made some mistakes as a minnow, they were hard to live down.
I hear you. We've both been on since August I see. My problem was I got restless and didn't post for 5 months or so which definitely hurt my potential. We just have to stick to it and not shitpost. lol
I'm pretty new and still learning... what is Steam speak, if I may ask?
It is a voice chat community where we talk about many topics, including Steem and SteemIt, but not limited to all things Crypto. It is a group of interesting people, places, and things. It is a free speech zone, and not for those easily offended. But it is really great for understanding what is happening. https://discord.gg/mTgnCT
thank you! I just created an account there. Will definitely see what its about.
I would like to nominate myself. I have only been around for two weeks but I feel that I have already contributed to the community with some great articles and I have already began some STEEM developer work, releasing my first application today for OSX:
https://steemit.com/steem-project/@zcgolf16/project-announcement-steemticker-osx-a-simple-steem-price-ticker-for-osx-toolbar
Thank you. I will check out all nominations. I am going to let them build up some before deciding. :)
I nominate myself. https://steemit.com/inspiration/@mz-fisteganos/one-stab-too-deep-when-a-wound-won-t-just-heal
I'd like to nominate @alfredegrate
https://steemit.com/music/@alfredegrate/my-semi-pro-part-time-guitar-playing-life
Thank you Seablue, I will add this to my list of blogs to check out.
I don't want to join the nomination but I'd like to expose my project around Steem. It's a plugin that allows Steem to be accepted as one of the payment method options for WooCommerce (It's an ecommerce site plugin for WordPress).
You can follow the project at:
https://steemit.com/steem/@recrypto/woocommerce-steam-1-0-0-beta
You can also contribute to the public repository if your are a techie. We're still in beta and approximately 2 days from now, I'll be requesting this plugin to be added to WordPress Plugin Repository.
Thanks!
Project noted.
Thanks, greatly appreciate it. :)
@recrypto is there any way to make a stand-alone plug-in for Wordpess? WooCommerce (as far as I understand) takes credit card information before passing the customer off to the payment gateway. This means the shop owner could be liable for any security breach where credit card information is stolen. In order to avoid that situation, many small entrepreneurs choose to use Simple PayPal Shopping Cart, where the customer is passed off to PayPal and THEY collect the credit card information. If these smaller businesses could trade directly in Steem, I think it would be a huge plus.
@happyme WooCommerce doesn't work that way. Once a customer checks out, the customer is presented with list of accepted payment methods set by the shop owner.
If you choose Paypal for example, you will be redirected to Paypal landing page for paying your order.
If you choose Steem as payment method, you will be redirected to the internal WooCommerce Order page with the payee, amount, and memo details so you can send your transfer.
You are NOT asked NOR required to input your credit card information BEFORE choosing a payment method as that would be absurd. ;)
Thanks! I guess I misunderstood the process then. There are so many open source e-commerce platforms / software; any plans to spread to some of the others?
No problem at all. :)
Yes, I'll be looking at different e-commerce platforms that is built in PHP programming language. Once I finished a stable version and release this on WordPress Plugin Repository, I'll move on creating another extension for other e-commerce platforms.
Sweet. I wish I had the smarts to do something like that. I'm totally ignorant when it comes to programming.
If you're interested, you can start the basics. It's never too late to learn. :)
@happyme As for credit card information as payment method, WooCommerce has a tokenize mechanism that handles this for added security measures when dealing with this type of sensitive information.
@happyme I don't blame you as you might have experienced this with some CUSTOMIZED WooCommerce shops but by DEFAULT WooCommerce doesn't behave like this. :)
I've never actually used Woocommerce. I only read about it while trying to find something suitable for a friend of mine to use on his WordPress-powered site.
@whatsup, too many to lists. Good people..doing good things.
Hello, we remember the early minnow grind. It was tough.
Ok here is a post i made on Leadership Using a Wolf pack as a Case Study, it has dawned on me in my 2nd month on steemit that only Techy post and Game and all those Wizardry post gets the biggest reward on steemit, motivational and real life applications don't!
Thank you, I will check it out. I am letting the post brew for a bit.
Thanks a million for checking in @whatsup
Good idea! Have no one yet, got to say, but Will keep my eyes open
VOTED and RESTEEMED.
AWSOME Idea and very generous.
Kudos to MOTIVATION and Support.
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Thank you so much. Appreciation.
Great and kind offer! Well done!
I like your, "My Lifestyle Of Self-Sufficiency!", @thedeplorable1.
Simplicity.
"Investment to Lifestyle" or "Sufficient SELF"
Following and voted.
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I appreciate that! I returned the favor.
You guys are awesome! This is what community is about!
I'm scrolling through Steemit today. Hopefully I find a few gems to nominate.
@syrne because he always writes how to guides and they're always helpful!
Can i nominate myself?.....
Yes!
LOL.
Gotta Love ENTHUSIAM!!!
Great STEEM (horse) my friend.
Following and voted.
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Thanks buddie
Awesome post!
Wow very generous of you. I am new to Steemit, having joined on June 2nd. I have submitted two articles and also been curating and commenting on the posts of others.
Here's what I have produced so far:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@clearshado/the-shoe-shine-boy-and-the-impending-crash-of-bitcoin
https://steemit.com/life/@clearshado/blacklisted-concert-is-blacklisted-by-china
Thank you so much.
No, thank you. It's good that people like you are donating to make Steemit better. And not just for the elite few, but for everyone.
yesss
@animalbenefits I am nominating you
Thanks for doing this from all us newbies!
Resteemed
A very nice masterpiece my friend .....@whatsup
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Thanks for doing this. Reesteemed and upvoted. I nominate @silverstring.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@silverstring/taking-time-to-appreciate-other-bloggers-and-what-i-learned
https://steemit.com/lol/@racryptospace/meowlin-furballs-of-crypto
Thank you @whatsup for the steem! Appreciate it. Following
This is very charitable.
Generous idea, that's what makes steemit community awesome, helping out plankton.
Good luck, resteem'd
I'd like to nominate @ddschteinn. They have great photography and a unique perspective on life, often with humor that ranges from the under-stated to the absurd. Here's an example of an under-valued post: Shoe Shots: A Confab of Zebra Stripes
Are we allowed to nominate ourselves?
Yes
Oh SWEET! Then I nominate myself. I don't have a lot of posts because I'm spending so much time commenting and replying to comments, but I will be adding more when I find the time. Please take a look and see what you think. I would also appreciate any criticisms and or tips. 2 solid weeks of work for $3.50 !!!???? And 2 of that was a prize! My work is just not getting enough eyeballs I think. In fact, I think a resteem or 2 would be more useful than cash!
I nominate 2 newbies who have a fun adventurous spirit!
@modernsuperior
https://steemit.com/blog/@modernsuperior/striped-bass-fishing-in-the-small-tributaries-of-a-salt-marsh
and
@fellowhuman
https://steemit.com/life/@fellowhuman/the-anomaly-of-anne-frank-a-collection-of-her-moving-words
My friend is relatively new and could do with some more page views of anyone is passing by...
https://steemit.com/life/@wisbeech/the-shadow-over-ravenstone-and-a-small-break-from-crypto-trading
Well, can i join? Am not a minnow,, im just a red fish in a bowl..
And following,
Resteemed.
I would like to nominate myself and @mericanhomestead. We are trying really hard to reach out to those who want to learn to do more for themselves. Gardening, food preservation, foraging, animal husbandry, solar and wind, homesteading, home schooling, and saving money etc. We don't just preach it, we live it! I would be honored for yall to check out my little blog and I'm sure you would like how informative and nicely done American Homestead is!
Thank you so much!