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RE: SMALL TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED OUR CRYPTO COMMUNITY GROWTH ON STEEMIT
I enjoyed reading your reply and the response to it.
I tend to agree with you about having to constantly make yourself visible or be forgotten; at least that is what seems to be happening to me since I stopped commenting on the posts of others and for the most part have been concentrating on making replies to my own post respondents. I just don't have the time to read all those posts made by others lately. The only reason I'm here is because of the invitation sent to my wallet, same as yours.
I fell off the truck a few months ago too. I have always been big on commenting widely and really saw a bad result when I stopped. I think if you do a post each time you get here, reply to your comments, and then comment on others for XXX time, this gives the best result. Then if you have more time, post again, answer replies again, and comment again.
If you only stay on your own posts, your audience dwindles - unless you are big and can do big comment upvotes.
I use steemnow to find current posts to comment on and also enter contests that take comments. This way I am not spinning my wheels searching for places to comment on. So if I enter a contest with a post, I will open a couple of the other entrants and usually can find something quickly that way.
Yes, exactly! That's why I am agreeing with you. It's just that right now I need to decide which is more important: Earning a few cents for hours of work or doing something that has meaning? There are more important things in life than a few cents. If I saw that this platform was going in the direction Dan Larimer envisioned, I might be more inspired. Instead I see a few people that still hang onto that vision, but a lot more that are seeking only to grab as much as they can as fast as they can and to hell with the platform itself. That attitude is extremely disappointing and is probably what is holding the entire platform back. Instead of going forward, Steem is slipping in rank, despite it being a very good blockchain. They say that it only takes ONE bad apple to spoil the whole bunch. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of bad apples here. But I assume you already know that.
I ignore the bad apples as best I can and engage with the good guys. I do see a lot of positive developments in the last months and try to support those as best I can. The dapps I find promising, and the the current twitter campaign are the places I put most of my effort now.
We need new blood with money coming in here for sure. I look at @taskmaster4450 reports that show the rewards and stake being spread more broadly. It may be slow going, but it is happening. It remains to be seen if it will happen soon enough to keep this most excellent blockchain moving in the right direction.
You can most definitely earn more than a few cents for hours of work. but getting to that point takes a lot of focused effort.
I feel like commenting on good posts does have meaning. It encourages the people making them to keep trying. No one like to post to dead air. This is why I do it.
What constitutes a good post? It is very subjective. I spend a lot of time on my daily Zombie Adventure, but few people appreciate the effort. At least I enjoy hosting the games and rewarding my players for their participation. We have fun and that is important to me. I enjoy the interaction and get many good laughs from the comments. To me, that is my reward.
I do also enjoy meeting new people and having intelligent conversations with them, however, I need to curtail the amount of time I spend socializing so that I can do other things like maintain my household and cook and eat. As of late, I have not been getting any exercise and that is not good for my health. I should be taking even more time away from the computer to look after my own health because without health, there is nothing.
For me good posts are travel, art and food for the most part. Also I look at the winners in various contests so I can improve. I do not play games, so zombies would not be for me.
I hear you on the computer/life balance issues. I am an accountant and worked crazy hours for most of my life, so this is not much different. At least I do not have a commute :)
This platform seems to be geared to blogging-type posts, especially those geared to crypto-currencies and also to technology stuff. I find it quite amazing how many people have told me they don't have time to play my game, yet I find them heavily invested in the Steemmonsters game. My game is just too low-tech for them. At least you stated that you don't play games (which is far better than saying you don't have the time). I know many people that don't play games and I respect that. Not everyone wants to waste time playing games. In years gone by, I worked 3 jobs at once, while trying to raise my children, so I know what it means to be busy! I figure I have paid my dues and now it is time to stop and smell the roses once in a while. I deserve to take time out to play and have fun, because my days here on Earth are numbered. I need to enjoy the time I have left. If I can create or be part of something that leaves the world in a better way then I will feel accomplished. That is my intention for this platform. I have not given up on it yet. I'll stick around but just not put all my hopes and dreams into it. I'll watch and adjust my involvement as I see appropriate. I have planted a few seeds and am watching to see if they grow. It takes a community to make it happen and so far it doesn't look promising, but things can always change.
Are you retired from accounting now?
Yes, I am almost 60 with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I just never played games - even board games or cards as a kid. It's not in my personality.
The reason people play monsters here is because it is part of steem. You will have a hard time getting them to switch. And gamers already have other games they play, so they have limited time. If you cam make your game a steem dapp, you will have better success with this crowd and attract others to steem at the same time. There can never be enough games, as far as I can tell.
You are a bit younger than I am. I've been retired for 10 years.
I'm sorry to hear about your Rheumatoid Arthritis. That sucks.
You are the 2nd person who said that. I don't really understand the difference though. My game is part of Steem too! So is Steempunk and so many other games that popped up more recently.
Yes, if only I was a programmer! As I said, people here like the technology. They enjoy gadgets and ignore the basics. To me it is like food (something you stated you were interested in). Basic foods are the healthy foods. All these NEW processed foods are fake food and foods that contain additives that poison us and contain ingredients that the body doesn't know what to do with. This is why we suffer so many illnesses now. Many are caused by inflammation of the digestive tract, which causes a variety of symptoms as the body struggles to react and repair itself.
Similarly, the simple games allow you to use your imagination and interact with other players in a way that can't be done on Monsters.
I'm very curious to know how you managed to get that army of bots from fulltimegeek to upvote all your comments. What a huge support that is!
I feel you @happyme. It surely is discouraging to lose your engagement.
The truth is that sending memos seem to be currently the best way of letting people know about your publications. Just know your limits. Don't over do it with to many memos. And mostly keep somewhere list of all accounts that are engaging with you and focus on sending memos only to those people.
And most of all: try to make your posts encouraging for discussion. Most posts are strictly informative or full of strong opinions. It's hard to comment such a posts.
Yours, Piotr
That's true, except for others who may have strong opposing opinions; then you can get a good debate going. Although it does tend to discourage those who are too shy to challenge a strong opinion.
Not all posts need to have discussions though. If you have been watching my feed, you would have noticed that I post a weekly place to let others advertise their own posts. It could be considered our own little classified advertising section if enough people began using it as such. It needs to overcome that critical hump where enough people use it to make others want to also use it. Without reaching that hump, nobody wants to post there because there aren't enough OTHERS already there! How can one get over the hump if the few that try it drop off before others find it? If you and your followers all consistently advertised their posts there, that weekly page could potentially become a central place to advertise and we would be creating our own community right there! Unfortunately, it seems everyone wants to be the creator of their own communities and as such, nobody cares to assist anyone else in building anything.
This is true - it is much easier to join the efforts of others more established. All initiatives I have tried like this have failed. This is why I focus on supporting other people who are trying instead of trying to create my own thing to compete. The only time I have success is when I have comment contests and give sbi shares but that is a huge ton of work.
LOL... I'm totally shocked at the number of people that go for SBI. I really don't see what the attraction is. I would way rather have someone vote directly for me than buy me a share of SBI.
It is way past my bed-time, so I better get moving. Whatever part of the world you are in... I wish you a good day/night.
It's the middle of the day in Malaysia.
I am happy for all votes and after winning many shares, sbi is one of my top performers. They are not buying the share for you - they are buying it for both of you.
It's a concept called universal basic income. As an accountant, I am not too much in favor of the theory. As a steemer, I will take as many as I can get.
LOL...Me too. I own 9 shares but they pay very little and just once per week. Of course when the value of Steem picks up, those shares will be able to produce a bit more.
Haha! It's all about the pennies here. I think I have close to 200 now, but I hunt them aggressively and also use them as prizes in contests I hold on occasion.
Wow! 200 shares... that's a lot. And I see you are awake. I was expecting you to still be in bed. I just got up a while ago. I guess it must be warm in Malaysia. We have below zero temperatures for the past couple of days here on the west coast of Canada, but I heard that other parts of Canada had something like minus 20! Yesterday we sat at minus 2 which is cold for this area since the ocean provides some warming effect most of the time.