RE: OCD past HF21
Ha ha, yeah we so often seem to share the save insights Nik.
Working for $0.30 per hour does not compute in the UK! I mean min wage is 35x that in the UK so if it's just down to finances for your time.
Yeah, this is the reality I'm facing, and it's why I'll leave if I do leave. But I've put a massive amount of time and energy in to steem beyond the content I've written. All of the community (discord) work I did from mid 2017 through to late 2018 was behind the scenes and went pretty much unnoticed but I used to work 20-30 hours/day on steem... 7 days a week.
Anyway, I remember when the content from the community was a lot more varied and vibrant. That's what we need here, and the only way for that to happen is to provide inspiration to new tallent coming to steem. Both through curation support for their content, but also by them seeing that consistent high quality work will be rewarded consistently. This is what is lacking, and has been dwindling since the first bidbots were invented. As soon as that happened large stake holders found another way to avoid honest curation, beyond circle jerks they could now delegate to bots, and things slowly went down the shiter.
I remember watching it happen. You had whales delegating to various projects/communities almost to try and justify what they were doing on the side either delegating most of their SP to bidbots, or running them.
Ha ha, but I shouldn't really let myself get drawn into these thoughts as they only wind me up 🤣
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I'm sure when steem was worth more at the time you were working tirelessly on it, it would have been worth it but such is the volatile nature of crypto and that we have to pay capital gains tax on anything over 10k earnings in the UK (or income tax if it is our sole earnings) you really need to be earning a salary from it and that's not feasible for content creators no matter how much you interact, especially if your content isn't steem centric.
The travel feed community have consistently supported my travel posts regardless of it being my first or my 40th. Great content is great content and it should be rewarded whatever your rep, length of stay on here or otherwise. And I'm not being arrogant by saying I produce some gems from time to time (the Actifit posts I've ditched for the most part because the micro blogs were only useful whilst I was travelling and a quick way to keep in contact with the platform and earn some steem) - that's what curation from great guilds does, it makes you feel more confident in your own ability and you can keep going. Dsound, curie, steempress, c-squared... (The list goes on) when you get an upvote from all these places, you feel like you're doing something right... Why does it stop for some guilds? I'm sure a 1-5% upvote wouldn't be tough on VP for regular support of vetted authors from these huge accounts?
You don't have to answer, it's just curiosity. I'm slowly building my account now, up to 2,300SP and the tribes are really helping earn extra steem as well.
I'm not going anywhere as I'm still doing this as a hobby and steem has really helped me sharpen up my own website - I'm pretty much embedded here. I've been convincing a few halfies over to steem full time from EMA and it's worked.
But if the hobby can turn in to something more then it's smiles all round. Road to dolphinhood here we go!
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