PSA To My Steemit Buddies - An Open Book.
Hello Everyone,
I hope you are well, pleased to be sitting down and sharing my thoughts with you today. However, there is always that question of which one, what out of the many threads do I grab onto today.
I decided to run with this.
You see, I have been feeling rather guilty about neglecting you all. Sometimes I have the time to actually comment and and reply back to everyone, but lately things have been very very very busy for me. And to be honest, a little overwhelming.
I want to reply to all of you.
I want to be the best I can be.
And believe me, I am trying, trying my guts out.
I have been extremely active within @minnowsupport as a Sr. moderator and community leader of sorts, running the botty, managing existing projects, streamlining processes within msp, spearheading various projects alongside amazing, dedicated, creative and intelligent people such as Julia, Stitch, Crimson, Sir of the Cork, Dbzfan, Et, Ausbit, The Aggro-man and so many many more. I have also been onboarding users to Steemit like crazy, bringing in real world friends and family, alongside some digital buddies and even some randoms. (you know who you are, thanks for popping in!)
This is alongside dealing with my own issues in the real and online. I have always made an attempt at self-reliance due to various factors however since becoming so involved in many projects I have found that (duh?) teamwork makes light work.
I fear I have abused that in some ways, this team we all belong to.
Be it Minnow Support, Be it SteemIt, Be it friend, family or acquaintance or even just sharing this fragile little marble hurtling through space.
I'm going to do my best to be better at all the things. By this, I mean balance.
I fear I have been overzealous in certain directions and I wish to rectify this.
I felt spread too thin and so focused my attention.
Something had to suffer as a result,
It was you, the person reading this post. I have neglected responding to some who have taken the time to send their thoughts, words and even love at me. I have pushed my own agenda in some ways and ignored others to their peril, got caught up in the moment or burnt the candle dim and lost vision of the bigger picture and I am aware of this and wish to make amends.
I'm sorry, from the bottom of my heart and I hope that you can forgive my laxity.
I am going to be setting up an automated voting bot and balancing it much the same as I run the creativebot on my account to give me more time to manage my projects and ensure that the balance is kept up. I'm investing my own money in having the creativebot codebase completely rehauled and shaped into the exact specifications I had in mind since the start and I'm going to put more of my attention into maintaining the balance between all the things.
Some of you may get less attention as a result, and to you I apologize twice over, but hopefully things will be more better for all including myself.
<3 @sammosk
It takes a real man to apologize and post something like this. So for that I applaud you.
I've been in a similar way in the past myself so I understand where you're coming from.
Focus on the important things, maintaining those great relationships you've built, and the big things you're working on man.
Life goes on and people forgive and move on. I know you and I werent on the best terms after our last convo and after some screenshots a member showed me -
But - its water under the bridge as long as it remains that way. I'm cool if you're cool man. I'm working on being a better, more level headed leader, so this is me owning up and also apologizing for our past encounters. I honestly dunno if this post was directed my way in any way but if so, we are good man.
If it wasn't, well, either way, I'm cool man. No hard feelings.
Never any hard feelings, I say what I feel at the time, this changes from moment to moment if you really think about it. I try not to overthink things too much otherwise you end up caught in the moment of choice forever and not actually do anything. So yeah no hard feelings and I'm not sure if there really was any in the first place. Misplaced or illusory ones perhaps but who really knows?
I'm just wanting to clear the air with anyone I potentially annoyed and just reinforce that I'm here in more ways than just here quick read/do/think/join this while I rush off to the next 'thing to do'.
We are more than just tasks or numbers.
We are people.
And I'm going to do my best to support as many of you as I can. :)
Start small think big. That's something I heard once.
Have a lovely day, thanks for stopping by.
Much love.
Appreciate the positive attitude and response amigo, and I completely agree.
Start small, think big.
Stick with that and it will take you far, man. Hell, if we all adopted that, we could all go quite far in life :)
Take care, mucho love
What an honest post!! I totally understand what you're saying. Life all the sudden started moving really fast! I'm having trouble finding balance myself.
I wish you all the best and success in all your projects. Like, that bot one you described that I didn't understand, for instance. 😂
Thank you for the tremendous work you're doing!!!!
Oh it's just an idea to take the load off me having to worry about manually voting for the posts I like, this way I will be able to just add people to a list essentially and it'll do it for me.
I'm really just trying to acknowledge that if there is a way that I've done wrong I'm trying to improve on it. :)
I wish you the best in your dips into the steemit ocean!
Much love. <3
hugs sammo - too many people and projects all needing attention. i wonder at the need for PAL to grow so quickly and exponentially. i believe in quality over quantity and so before i get involved in any direction i take time to watch the people involved. i also wonder at the worlds proclivity for doing instead of being. i feel it's important to remember we all have a choice about how to get involved. wish you luck and success on your path.
Well there are many factors I think, one being the attrition rate that new users suffer, it is massive and there is an obvious need for support. And in this area we are or were recently lacking. Hence the push for delegations, the need for additional moderators and so on.
I also agree with you on the quality over quantity but I find that I struggle with balancing verbosity alongside comprehension, time management and effectiveness of the communication. I think it really depends on what you read as quality?
I just hope we all do well.
Thanks for stopping by. <3
Much love. - Edit : Squeeze hug
absolutely. agree we need to do better on education vs attrition. the one thing i see working against us is having educational information on the blockchain where it cannot be edited. And yes, yes, yes on all you mentioned. Having clear, concise directions available in multiple languages might cut down on the need for mod support. Within the last week or two I have seen increased need for night mods and a better way to monitor the registration channel so that new people arent lost in the scroll when general is overwhelmed. a bot that helped to curate would be welcome, but also limiting. coins are truly multi-sided items.
Don't give yourself such a hard time buddy, you're a truly great bloke. You've done so much for the community if you didn't ever do another thing you'd still be a legend.
It was great to talk to you earlier too mate 😉
Stay true to yourself bro and I know there are times that you are extremely busy so don't mind me feeling ignored...(I won't feel that way :) :P)
Stay close to your own heart Samsam. We all love you and understand that you get busy! Reflect, and breathe in some new fresh air. Rebuild and smile.... You are loved
Yeah I'm doing the best I can, and will only try to be better tomorrow. I want everything to be balanced though so it's kind of hard to find the best way to achieve this with each activity having its own worth and so on.
Worth pondering.
Hard to choose between the heart and the head :D
Much love. <3
Every day is a new beginning.
I guess as a small fish in this big pond, I never noticed any of these things because I feel like you are always there when I need something. So for that, I am grateful. Always.
You are one person trying to do so much. I say one thing at a time and grab on to that thing called balance.
Oh, we all still loves you. You know that! And - I am late to the party again. I need to stop traveling and stay home once in a while!
Mwah!
You have nothing to be sorry about, you're great in every sense of the word. Everyone appreciates the hard work you put in. We love you- even if you ignore us 😜 Your ideas and work are awesome.
To your credit, you're not being burned out from general life busyness, but by recklessly giving your time and energy back into the community. I wish I could bear that same medal of honour, but I'm stuck in the mud with life and my business, etc.
What I wouldn't do to be a multi thousandaire again and be able to give back every day here! It seems I have to take care of my sinking ship first XD
So props to you!
Totally agree with the sentiment of the comments. You are human ... I think :-). Maybe superhuman... But in this world we have so many distractions... Too little time and the need to appease. I think everyone sees and feels the benefits of your work behind the scenes. Checking in every now and then is more than enough. From my and I'm sure many others perspective is... It's all good man. carry on. :-)