The Old Dog Asks Himself: Am I Really Doing my Own Personal Hard Fork 19?
YES! All good things come to an end! In life we need to be flexible! Most of us have heard these expressions but it was time for me to put them into practice.
Announcing a New Reward Program And The Results From June 2017!
For the past 5 months I have been running my program: "The Old Dog is Throwing You a Bone" in which I reward the best comments on all of my posts with SBD bonuses.
Between this, Steemgigs and other gifts I have been able to give away over 1,000 SBD since the program's inception. This month I reached an all time record of 284 SBD as reported below!
Why am I Changing The Program And How Will it Work?
- Hard fork 19 has made my votes have a lot more power!
- I have over 40,000 Steem Power and this enables me to give NICE rewards to my followers who comment!
- Even a 1% vote by me will give you 16 cents but I will give most commenters a lot more!
- All of my comments from those who vote on the post will get an upvote!
- The best comments on my posts will receive higher rewards!
Now, Here Are The Results of My Program For June 2017. Total: 284 SBD
Rewards for comments:
The Old Dog Explains: Where to See Great Live Music! Street Musicians: Steemit Wants You!
3.7.17 5 SBD @edje
The old Dog Celebrates: 33 Years of Marriage Today With My First Ever Open Mic Entry For Week 34!
3.7.17 5 SBD @rockchickjen
The Old Dog Demonstrates: How to Drive More Traffic To Steemit!
3.7.17 5 SBD @everlove
The Old Dog Enters: Tree Tuesday, A Special Bonding Moment With Man And Nature!
3.7.17 5 SBD @pitterpatter
The Old Dog Demonstrates: The Healthy Internal Steemit Economy!
3.7.17 5 SBD @sevinwilson
The Old Dog Discusses: When The Flight Itself is Worth The Trip!
3.7.17 5 SBD @best-pomchi-ev
The Old Dog Does It: I Hit 1,000 Followers! Celebrate With Me!
3.7.17 5 SBD @uruiamme
3.7.17 5 SBD @mk40
The Old Dog asks: What Was THAT Moment When You Realized..........?
3.7.17 5 SBD @jznsamuel
The Old Dog Examines: Space Saving Design. From Two To Ten People In Fourty Seconds!
3.7.17 5 SBD @kalemandra
The Old Dog Describes: Four Ways to Mentor Fellow Steemers!
3.7.17 5 SBD @magick323
The Old Dog Asks: Can YOU Succeed On Steemit Simply By Commenting? Meet @eric-boucher
3.7.17 5 SBD @eric-boucher
The Old Dog's Cleaning Tips: Do Vacuum Cleaners Really Get All of The Dirt?
3.7.17 5 SBD @englishtchrivy
Extra Gifts!
12.6.17 5 SBD @karenmckersie
10.6.17 2 SBD @airmatti
10.6.17 2 SBD @fisteganos
9.6.17 2 SBD @oluwoleolaide
8.617 2 SBD @airmatti
8.617 2 SBD @sardrt
4.6.17 2 SBD @onceuponatime
3.6.17 2 SBD @kwisness
Prizes:
2.6.17 100 SBD @airmatti first prize
2.6.17 50 SBD @tonyr second prize
2.6.17 25 SBD @nba05 third prize
2.6.17 25 SBD @karenmckersie third prize
That's a Total of 284 SBD for June 2017!
What About You?
- Are you enjoying your new found voting power?
- Do you like the changes with hard fork 19?
- Do you notice that you are making more on commenting than ever before?
I hope that you enjoyed this post about "My Own Personal Hard Fork 19!
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Remember, if you upvote my post and leave a comment I will upvote it with some of my 40,000 plus Steem Power!
very good project, Oldie! this is pretty useful for the community, as the old "bone" project was! :)
Thanks Good Strong Paul!
I am also enjoying the ability to give fellow Steemians a little something with my Up votes. Before HF19, all my votes were 100%. Now I have developed a new strategy that lets me up vote as many times as I want, while keeping my voting strength high.
I am doing 20% votes for posts and 10% votes for comments. I also do either 50% or 100% up votes for the occasional special post. Those 4 slider points make sense for me, and achieve my goals without being overly complex.
It's great that we now have the power to come up with plans like this, since we now have more effect on the reward pool. I've been Very Happy with HF19!
It sounds like you have a great strategy!
If everyone focused on helping each other it would help Steemit as a whole. Sometimes when there is money involved the greed factor takes over. Here on Steemit three are many altruistic members and that's nice!
So true!
Yes, we have to spread love! This is one of the differences between Steemit and Facebook.
The more love we spread - unconditionally, without expectations - the more we get from other people.
One of your questions is "do I like the changes of HF19." Before I say too much, let me give my conclusion - it is really too early to make an accurate assessment. Ok, now that I have that out of the way,... to be honest, I'd like this place to have a set of parameters that we can plan around. Or another way to put it, I'd like to spending way more time on content and way less time on figuring this shit out. ( Sorry, the 2nd cup of coffee hasn't kicked in yet ). With HF19, there are a completely new set of 'strategies.' Perhaps I should find some entertainment in that, but I'd prefer something a tad more consistency. The overall concept of HF19, which correct me if I am wrong, was a redistribution of power. Don't we have a history book or two laying around that indicates that's not always such a great idea?
To quote @aggroed, from his post Reward Pool is under 1Million Steem - - - "The percentage of the reward pool seems to have increased on the top accounts. Trending is mostly the same faces, but now those faces get an even larger portion of the pool. That can't be good. Like the world needs another mechanism to shove rewards to the highest earners."
Do I enjoy having more 'power?' No, not really. At the end of the day, in reality I'll have the same amount of 'power' as I did before. The reward pool is being drained at an alarming rate. Perhaps before it's over, we'll return to the same amount of power as before HF19, we'll see.
Sorry for the little rant, I 'never' do that - LOL
To repeat my conclusion, "it's too early to make an accurate assessment.
I sense in your response a concern for other members and I like that! You seem to be doing very well with your posts and so a good way to share success is upvoting comments. When I wrote "power" I meant that your vote adds more rewards than it did before. Now go and drink that second cup of coffee! :)
That's funny. Ok, I am the third cup now and all is well
It's a really truth! Great comment @gringalicious! (;
i think you drank more coffee and caffeine hit you but its true that its too early to conclude anything.. let see what will happen..
My....aren't you a generous old dog....I wish I was married to you....oh wait!....I am!!....lucky ol' me!!!
hahaha! What a joker! Lot's of fun traveling through life with you!
You are a very lucky person! :D
Hello! Congrats for the sharing initiative! I personally think that HF 19 has good points as some weaknesses. It's good if we do use for share more and if we give more to those we think they deserve. But if our main goal is auto-upvote or upvote only few profiles at full power we'll consume all the power soon and it remains just the crumbs for the others. In long therm this will be Steem-destructive....
You bring up some good points. A key is to find a niche and then grow a group of supporters. I think that in your case there are many artists that should be able to help one another. Keep up the great work @airmatti
For me the HF 19 was a tragedy! I'm doing steem power down yet, because I didn't gain nothing else with my posts in the last months, and I must have to pay my bills. I see that the big fishs are so more big now, and the little fishs are disapearing (like me).);
Wow sorry to read that! I value you my friend!
Thanks my friend! Me too! Don't worry my Old Friend, for me it's indifferent if I gain money or not, because I enjoy what I do and the Steemit community! (;
You're a great Steemer!
Thanks! (;
Old dog always doing good things. Love it man. Seriously your reaching out to people like this is what makes this platform so amazing. Thanks for being a good human.
What a nice thing to do. I didn't knew about this. I will participate this month as well!
I don't wanna be picky right away though, but shouldn't it be the results of June 2017 instead of July 2017. Typing error ;)
Your right about it being June and for spotting the error you get an upvote at 20% my highest of this thread!
Haha thanks! Wasn't ment for money purposes. Just for a heads up but I really appreciate it! So again, thanks :D
Excellent advice @kus-knee and practical ways to help. We all do better when we practice those techniques you had cited and use. Thank you for teaching us. I know I have a lot more to learn and I consider you one of my instructors.
Oh, and yes, I have upvoted you 100% and just love what you're doing. Hope you have a magnificent day!
Wow @terrybrock that is a much appreciated comment!
You bet! Hope you have a great day, kus-knee, you old dog you! Cheers!