RE: Steem account holders have transferred over $300,000 to one Venezuelan exchange since it opened at the beginning of 2018
I have curated a lot of people from venezuela in the past and still do and support them in other ways, sometimes randomly donate, etc. One thing that kind of breaks my heart is when I see some accounts only post 1 post per day, attempt to get it as much votes as possible through spamming discords, dms, etc and then they go afk. Not to sound harsh but that doesn't really help Steem, no activity, no spreading the word about it just that one post and then gone. Like where do they go? In many cases they would earn way more by being active, commenting, building relationships, etc, like you for instance. I see you in many posts on the chain and it's awesome and I try to acknowledge your comments with a comment or vote when I read them.
It's sad that some either lazier or unappreciative users tend to just try and take out as much as possible without giving anything of value back. They've just managed to find the ways of how to get some votes on their posts and that's it for them. It's also sad that these users give a bad reputation to the rest - but that happens everywhere in the world, it is just more loud from the places it is the most desperate from right now as there are so many trying to take "shortcuts" by "asking for loans" or spamming links in people's DMs etc and instead end up damaging legitimate users or take the upvotes of those that deserve it instead who try hard but don't rely on cheap tricks.
Anyway, just my thoughts after having observed things on Steem for 3+ years now, I wish they would try and help out around here and realize that if they do it will help them back even more.
The problem is that they come for the wrong reasons, try to hunt the rewards and that's it.
So did I. But I dared to look further, also for the help of a user who guided me to better understand what it means to be in the blockchain.
That we are part of an ecosystem, we must contribute with our work and effort so that the rewards can arrive in a constant way.
I still ignore many things, but reading authors like your @acidyo, @abh12345 I'm learning little by little. And every day I try to make an effort to leave something positive to Steem.
I still remember those days, many Venezuelans were happy, today the greatest weight of vote goes to the @cervantes community, it is the only one that votes in large numbers for Venezuelans and I think they have done the best job to support quality.
It's true, many people take advantage of this situation and go to private messages, or just publish and leave, I've seen it. I think I've mentioned several times that since I've been in steemit I've been working in steemit, before it was 12 hours, now it was almost 18 hours a day from Monday to Monday, and I can tell you that I LOVE, interact and feel useful knowing that this way I can also contribute is great.
I have been able to meet people who have helped me to grow, and that same growth I have been able to invest in tokens, by the way, I have reached my first 1000 sp, I'm still excited, for a Venezuelan who is almost impossible to invest properly is very good.
If at any time your excellent project @ocd has a plan for curation in Spanish, look for me I'm on order with no interest to continue being useful (I've waited a long time for that with anxiety), at times I continue to invest part of my profits in tokens, is the only short-term way I can give a good vote and support my people monetarily.
Thank you very much for all the support you give us.
Excuse me for getting into your conversation @roadstories and @acidyo.
But I consider that to a great extent that is our big mistake (Venezuelan community, Latino). We're focused on getting the trails to vote for us and we think that's all the work.
Without knowing that, we must leave our blog to interact, to give opinions, to make constructive criticisms, to support other users (our steem brothers).
We are a social network, so we must interact with each other. We are happy to vote for a trail of 500 people and we have 0 comments.
No immediate plans of bringing back language curation right now as we are attempting to onboard content creators with half of our focus moving forward (more news on that soon), but I am hoping that with a higher Steem price it will leave us with more "voting power" to spread among more people and thus bring back the most active languages that could use the curation.
Also congratulations on 1k! I'm hoping for you and many others that have grinded it out for a long time that you will never have to sell the SP and with an increase in price can instead make a living off of the rewards or returns. Let's see what the future brings, we have a good shot considering what Libra are planning.
@acidyo Hi, it's nice to meet you! I am Victoria, Venezuelan and I live in Venezuela, it hurts me to refer to us as "some lazy or of little interest in the Steemit chain", in Venezuela the economic crisis has marked a before and after, I need to say without entering specific points or reasoning, that we Venezuelans, our children and the children of our children were accustomed to living well and comfortably without making much effort that was no more than a comfortable office job with a schedule from 8 am to 5 pm and with that I reiterate we lived well! Most of us Venezuelans are not lazy, we are used to having more with little effort because the nation's economic system allowed it, now things have changed and we are suffering a lot, because our efforts in a daily life work are a office or any other job is worthless, it does not reward anything the effort we put in and Steemit happens exactly the same thing I have here 3 months and I tried hard to publish, comment, vote, meet people, interact in the Discord in some servers and in my last publication I only won $ 1.07 and for me it was a success my first pain in Steemit after so much effort, without taking into account that I have to deal daily with the problems of internet connection, electric light among others things that prevent me from enjoying my stay in Steemit, so these things make me not an active user as I would like. Venezuelans face us every day to many things that make us the hard way and fighting in Steemit sometimes seems not worth the effort. I take this opportunity to thank all the friends and acquaintances who have given me their support during these short 3 months here at Steemit. I am Venezuelan and I live in Venezuela. Thank you.
I wasn't trying to generalize everyone nor direct it at only Venezuelans so don't be hurt by my words cause they were not meant to do that.
If you have bad internet connection, then work on a post that you can publish once it's back. If you have no electricity then write it on a piece of paper and take a photo of it and post it after. You say you make nothing at your jobs anymore but at the same time that you "only" earned $1 on your latest post, that seems a bit contradicting to me.
Anyway, don't want to get into this again and I understand if the citizens are used to having had it well before and suddenly everything changes and they have a hard time to adapt. There are many people all over the world though, many suffering and in similar situations, not everyone blames it on their country or economy all the time when asking for assistance and expecting help for it. They work for it instead and see where they can make themselves useful.
I think the problem here is that the two different mindsets are just not matched up. The people that hate the content clutter and all that don't need to make money from posts, its like a social thing, an investment or an ideology. Spam harshes your mellow, I get it.
But when these people that come to Steem to support themselves make content, they have a time crunch. They need that post to put food on the table, which causes people to try additional tactics to catch some eyes if possible. Its very understandable, and frankly, I'm glad Steem is useful.
They don't spam on the chain though, that's the thing, if they would be active here and build relationships and their account up they would do much better than bugging people on discords and direct messages. I understand the need for that too but many get stuck on that part while many others never do it and don't make the rewards.
That's right, it's a question of mentalities.
But it is also a little exaggerated with time.
Where is it reversed? A possible answer this, in the previous comment!