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RE: The Inbox Runneth Over -- Special Edition -- Announcements of Policy Changes
My votes are not worth a whole hell of lot but you get 100% of it each time I vote. I had brought this subject up before in one of my daily doses about up voting the group account posts on a regular basis but evidently not many read it or decided to adopt it.
I actually came up with another way to thank @thesteemengine and maybe some folks will follow along and do the same, I just bought a share of Steem Basic Income in the group account name @thesteemengine which should get an upvote for the account from SBI each time the Daily Whistle Stops is published, if each of us in the group would do that it could really help in improving conditions, it is only $1 steem for a share in SBI. So who else is going to follow sult?
I'm having @catweasel do ours now. We kind of got side-tracked yesterday. You know him. If the refrigerator starts calling his name, I have to round him up again.
I'm astonished at how many times you've upvoted the account -- using the comments in addition to the group post itself. That's extremely generous. I've recently commandeered the TDWS comment from Cw, so I can start doing that too. (I wish Steem would rise so my vote would be worth something again. Honest, I do. Lord, this is depressing.)
Contrary to some recent implications, I don't just sit and "keep books" on the various member accounts. It was just that our group posts have been getting such miserable payouts lately (and all of a sudden.) I decided to look into what had changed, because doing several hours of work a night for a < $3.50 payout on an account I don't even own was really starting to bruise my morale. Especially when you consider that Ethan's vote alone makes up a quarter of that total.
In the beginning, we got more than 10x that amount and were growing nicely. Of course, Steem was really booming and people were excited, etc. But these miserable payouts with more than 100 votes on the account (and more than 150 group members, as you've noted) were really bumming me out. Especially when I found people giving 150% like you and some generous others ... and some then wanting rewards who weren't giving much at all.
So I've tried to be as fair as I can to everyone because what I just described ... wasn't.
The first thing I do when I see the notice from the Whistle Stops is click the upvote button and then I try and respond with a comment if I have the time. I have always felt that I need to support the group any way I can and I just don't understand why everyone doesn't feel the same way, an up vote costs a person nothing to make. To me it shows that there was at least some appreciation but like I said, I watched for about a week straight a while back and not one person on several days upvoted the Whistle Stops even though they were featured in it.
I wonder if it is because some folks have so many groups they belong to and this might be as not as an important group to them?
Thanks for following the suggestion on the SBI share, I think it might be a good thing to consider going forward as a "one time" initiation fee or even an application fee at sign up.
It will be interesting to see how many folks actually step up and donate a share since the suggestion has been made . I have received some responses that people have done so, so that is encouraging but no where near the numbers I would like to see yet.
Good idea. I followed your advice and bought a share for SteemEngine. About the least I can do for a wonderful group of people.
Thanks Tom. Now if we can get 100 more people to step up we will really have accomplished something and improved conditions for all at minimal cost to each person.
I will follow you with this honey, what a great idea! I just bought a share for the group account too. Thank you for thinking about this! 💚
I actually had done it prior to even reading this post by @enchantedspirit , it was part of my SBI weekly give away and I even wrote in there encouraging others to do the same. Thanks for stepping up and helping to make @thesteemengine a better and more solid group. Very much appreciated.
Thanks for this great idea @sultnpapper...I just followed it and brought a share for the group too!
Thank you.