NEW CONTEST: Zucchini Contest (and some miscellaneous changes I am making)

The first change is that I am announcing my intent is to use bitchute instead of ewetube any more. Here is my first bitchute video upload, my example for the Zucchini Challenge!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/brKUEh6OQ8K9/

I am pretty sure I will be able to imbed them, I just have to dig in and figure out how. I tried dtube, it just never worked well for me. I know many are using dlive now but I have not had good luck with that either. I joined bitchute a year and a half ago, before steemit! This is my first upload because it did not work for me at first. Now it seems much better, so maybe dtube or dlive will be part of my future. For now, my primary goal was to get OFF ewetube. I am not a sheep or a potato, I do not want to be a ewetuber any more.

Now then, about that contest... It is zucchini season around here. The running joke in our community is that this is the time of year when you MUST lock your cars and homes or people will break in and drop off zucchini. I like them when they are small and tender, but those ones that hide and grow into Zukzilla are a challenge. Well, they USED to be. Now they are how I start a stampede (see video.) My "Zucchini Challenge" is to have you show me what you do with your Monster Zucchini. I will accept any format; video, slide-show, photos, or even plain text. You must post your entry IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. You are free to make a post and link that in the comments and I will probably give you an upvote there too. The winner will be selected capriciously by my whim and they will be awarded 1 STEEM. This is about having a little fun, not any of us getting rich. If by some miracle this post actually earns more than 1 STEEM there might be a second and third prize offered. Original work ONLY, that is the only official "rule." Upvotes and resteems are very much appreciated, of course. (Question: Why do I not get paid in SBD at all any more? I am set at 50/50 rewards which SAYS I will be paid in half SBD and half SP, but all I get is STEEM and SP now. What did I miss?)

Back to the changes... I started a minds.com account: https://www.minds.com/fishyculture
If you happen to be on minds, let me know! So far I am a little "meh" but I just got started, maybe it will grow on me. At least it is not tracebook. I am trying to just bail on the google / facebook / youtube trinity of evil for most of my internet activity.

You may notice I am not following you any more, but probably not. I unfollowed accounts that have not posted or commented in a month or more. I also unfollowed people who do not follow me. I am not clamoring about "follow for follow" but I am looking to increase engagement. If you are not following me, I am taking that as a sign that you are not terribly interested in engaging with me. It does not mean I do not like you or care about you, it just means I am trying to focus on the people who actually interact with me.

You may notice I removed you from my autovoter. This only happened to a few people but this is why: http://steemreports.com/votes-graph/?accounts=fishyculture%2C+longsilver
I ran that report on everyone I autovoted. You see how the arrow goes both ways, showing that @longsilver and I vote for each other? There were a few folks on my autovote who never upvoted me, there was a one way arrow from me to them. They are not on my autovote any more.

You may notice you get a bigger autovote from me. This may need adjusted but I tried to up the percentage I vote on my "fanbase" to at least 50% (except for one person who I have a 10% deal with.) Almost everyone is cut down to ONE vote per day to try to keep my vote power from getting drained. Since my 100% vote is only worth about 3 cents, you may not notice this change at all, really. It is an attempt to give a vote with some actual value at least.

I have dropped the qurator and openmic curation trails. I was voting at such low power they were not doing anyone any good. I seriously doubt anyone will even notice. I just don't want to be spread so thin that my vote has no value, and those large groups are more than my puny vote can support. I raised the vote percent on thealliance trail, that is the group that seems to support me the most (everyone likes their back scratched!) so I want to focus on having those votes actually doing some good. I will try to adjust that upward if my VP holds. I also dropped the youarehope trail, it was not really much of a trail and it sounds like sircork is going to be making some major changes soon. I still support YAH whole-heartedly, but I am trying to set an autovoter so it is most useful. If you actually notice that my vote has gone away, SPEAK UP. I do not wish to cut off any relationships, I simply want to make my upvotes worth having. I miss stuff though, for sure. Don't be shy.

Trivia... My reputation score is sitting at 58.99. I am very curious who will push me over the top to 59, and very curious if I will even be able to tell. I am watching steemnow like a hawk, if your upvote is the magic one, I will swing by and let you know and drop you a tip. That is, if I can tell - lol!

I think that is about it for now. I am not leaving, I am not angry or upset with anyone or any group. I am trying to roll with the changes. I set that autovoter up when times were good, if we get out of this quagmire I will get back on more trails. Now then, before you just click to the next post don't forget: ZUCCHINI. That was where we started, remember?

Here, enjoy a lovely photo of the sunset from back when we could see the sky. I am starting to feel like I have asthma from all the smoke. I hope it rains HARD, soon!

Photo by me or @longsilver using one of our cameras, I think me using the Kingear... lol!