Oh man that last image!

Howdy and long time no see Bandit! Found you in my feed and was happy to stop in on this one! What you say is true for me too, I try to get around and visit all the great friends, and I am still meeting new people too! Plus real life has its requirements!

Your experiences have value, and I see you are still radically undecided on many of the 'main' things people like to fight about! ;p

That's great in my book, just keep an open mind and steem on! Incidentally I'll upvote my comments but not usually my posts! I have upvoted my posts, but after about two days, and only if I'm going to use a bidbot. The reason is to maximize the curation rewards for my voters, and still get some from that bidbot lol. Anyways, comments only if I need to 'raise above the noise' on a busy post with lots of competition, not replies as I too have seen. Its like, what are you telling me, the guy you are having a conversation with when you do that? Anyways, as you say, people can do whatever with their stake, but its all public and it tells me a lot about you!

Steemit has been such a journey, and my favorite memory has to be the selfies, and you had some of the absolute best! Would you do it again if papa starts another round?

Good on you for helping new users, and for being 'sticky' with those who have helped you! I know that a lot of new users consider us to be 'OG whales', even though we are still minnows ourselves.

And congrats on 60 rep! Did you ever get your byteballs back in the craze, or did you hold out for 60?

Community(ies) is(are) key, and although I float between several, without interest groups, niches, contests and like minded users I wouldn't still be here!

Which reminds me, I recently applied to join the alliance! So cheers brother, thanks for making this great, well thought out post, distilling your year of experience into wisdom for us :)