The #SupportHonesty Challenge

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This morning I received a notification that @organduo had tagged me in a challenge, called the SupportHonesty Challenge. Originally started by @guiltyparties, the idea is to post about supporting honesty or fighting abuse on the Steem blockchain, make your own challenge promise and nominate 7 other people for the challenge.

Though I feel honoured @organduo thought of nominating me for the challenge, it took me a lot of thought to life up to the challenge. It caused me to reflect on my own involvement with the Steem blockchain, why I am here and why I intend to stay.

My steemian adventure is only 14 months old. In may 2018 I made an account on steemit.com and started crossposting the publications of my own website. My idea was to perhaps generate a bit more attention to my publications of new scores of organ music and perhaps make some money out of it. My expectations of the money making part were low, and indeed, I never made more than a few cents out of one post. Steem was not my main focus of attention, so it did not really bother me. Then suddenly, four months ago, one of my posts got picked up by one of the curation trails, and the return of that post was not a few cents but several dollars. Understandably, that piqued my interest.

That was the moment I got more involved in the ecosysteem Steem is. I started reading more about it, reading other peoples post and sometimes comment on it. Upvoting with my 25 SP did not have much of an impact. Like so many steemians before me, I realized that if you want to have some impact on the platform, you have to invest in it. With small portions at a time, I started buying Steem and powered them up. At the same time I started participating in @organduo's contest. There are not many organists active on the platform, yet it is stimulating to create together a continuous stream of organ music related posts.

Participating in that contest, has greatly advanced my organ playing. Not the technical side of it, rather the performance side of it. The idea of presenting my playing to the world always scared me of. I'm glad I took the dive and started participating. I hope my performances have contributed some value to Steem. Posting my performances to Steem has certainly contributed something of great value to me. It has greatly enhanced my confidence in my playing and as a consequence my ability to share my art with the world.

My involvement in the platform evolved from a rather passive poster into a more active participant.

Then suddenly out of the blue (to me at least) PalNET arrived on the scene. I was lucky enough to sit at my computer when the airdrop happened and people started selling their tokens. I gobbled up a rather large portion of it. The distribution of PAL became a bit uneven in the first week of its existence which meant that my vote was suddenly worth 15 PAL. With the value PAL had in Steem in that week, that meant something between 2 and 4 Steem per vote. Believe me, for someone whose vote was worth perhaps 0.1 Steem that was rather shocking. Where I was (and still am, by the way) a minnow in terms of Steem, I became something larger in PAL. Where I was working on growing my own account, I suddenly had the ability to help grow other accounts.

My involvement in the platform evolved from an active participant into an enthousiastic curator.

That post four months ago that suddenly got a lot of attention and upvotes, sparked a chain of events that lead me to where I am now in my Steem adventure. One spark is enough to turn a passive poster like I was into a far more active supporter of the platform. My involvement in the Steem blockchain can better be called evolvement, and it's that evolvement that is worthwhile to me. If I can help to create that first spark in others it can contribute to the platform as a whole. If in doing so my evolvement continues and deepens, it contributes to me.

And that brings me to my pledges:

• I pledge to continue my evolvement
• I pledge to support the growing of smaller accounts
• I pledge to keep investing my earnings of the platform into the platform
• I pledge to keep creating what I think beautiful or worthwhile

My nominations are in the same line. I nominate:

• for his important support of classical music on this platform: @bengy
• for their initiatives to help grow accounts or investments: @investinthefutur, @mermaidvampire
• for their low lever games which I like a lot: @tggr, @guifaquetti
• for their initiative of creating a tribe for creatives: @swelker101, @isaria

Pfff, I'm done. This was the most difficult post to write of al my posts so far...

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For more information on how you can join the #SupportHonesty challenge go here: https://steemit.com/supporthonesty/@guiltyparties/the-supporthonesty-challenge

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