My Situation and Problem With Steem
Finally I feel like I can breath better with clarity of thought after changing some of the habits I've built over the past year. Turned off 99% of my notifications, switched my reading screens to e-Ink displays, reduced my obligations in projects, and now being more selective with my communication channels. To be honest, I've never had to maintain a blog with such a following before so it's all still pretty new to me.
I felt like I wasn't in my flow.
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One thing's for sure, being highly social isn't part of my domain. I do spend time and reply to a good chunk of my messages and comments, but quite frankly, it's taking a toll on me.
While I've also been keeping an open-communications channel, I figured that it's near impossible to be truly responsive on everything. It just takes time to read, think, and write. Imagine taking a few good minutes to process one channel, multiplied by dozens to a hundred a day. I'd simply have no time for myself anymore. The math just doesn't work out. And I'm the only person operating this account. So I'm making a hard rule for myself from here on. Messages of the following nature will automatically be neglected:-
Requests for me to visit your link or do something for you. Especially if it's your first message.
Always messaging me with your post links. I'd be happier to see link of another person you want to help. If I haven't been responding, please stop sending more links. Personally, I've done this before as well, privately messaging my links to others. But I've never persisted after if there's no response. It's perfectly understandable.
Wall of texts about you, you, you. Please post that up on Steemit.
Asking me where I'm from as your first message. Does it really matter? Maybe it's a common question but I just don't get it. Will it be more favourable if we're born in the same "region"? For your information, I don't believe in nationalities (or forced associations) and think such a concept should be eradicated.
Sorry for sounding like a prick. Maybe I'm one. But please don't feel alienated and such if I don't respond or reply to your comment. Time is simply limited. Just being more selective with myself now. However, I do enjoy reading and I'm always looking out to support good and honest contributors on the home feed I've curated for myself (so please let me use that in peace). That's what I've been doing all along in my post comments and feed. Just putting my situation out there.
Thanks for reading. Looking to really post more again. Since most top authors are just posting frequently about whatever and milking it, I figure I'd do the same and just use the platform freely myself. To be honest, I really had a hard time over the past few months trying to be considerate, spending time thinking if I should post this or that content. For sure, I'd like more Steem but I'd also like to think I've really contributed something of value whether by content, relationships formed, discussions spurred, etc before I get paid.
With @jesta's response to this post recently https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/you-are-all-a-bunch-of-fucking-cowards, it looks like I'm nowhere near top earning for the past few months maximising all the opportunities I have on Steem. Totally unacceptable lol! Sucks seeing asshats just exploiting the rewards pool day in and out without much self-control.
Wow, what did MOST of these guys do to earn $100,000 USD - $200,000 USD in 90 days on a blogging platform? Must be some world-class top notch stuff. (I'm not singling out anyone and mostly just joking.. by the way)
So to all the inconsiderate #rewardpoolrapists, a capital F, U, C, and K to you guys! Wait for me lol. I'll just set up a bot to do random technical analysis on random shitcoins 24 times a day and post up some randomized hourly complaints too with some bonus screenshots included while I'm at it ;)
All said, remember that it's not about ME. It's about WE and what WE can achieve together. So just put me up on your autovote bot. No exploits, I promise. I'm not that greedy!
Well done .. good work
This was a short and useful
Benefit and enjoy it is best to succeed with a little patience
This was really funny to me especially this
People are just used to that form of starting line for all convos hehehe.!
Damn those guys have earned an insane amount of money in the last 90 days,my dream currently is even to earn the money they earn in one post so that I earn it in a month hehehe.
Yes it haven't occurred to me it might be a cultural norm!
Oh well, just cover the $$$ and use it to form relationships and write whatever sparks your interest.
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Man, you should just enjoy spending time here and interacting with whomever you feel like whenever you feel like it and ignoring all the random crap that wears you out. If I were you I would terminate ALL my obligation and travel the world and blog about it on steemit, period.
I'm seriously considering a change in my career path in order to have more free time to write quality posts ( which I feel have been lacking lately) and earn more steem in order to one day become a full time blogger.
I hope you will take care of yourself in the future :)
P.s You're on my autovoting list since forever, if only the darn thing would work all the time.
If I can travel with my best friend easily, I'll do it more often for sure lol :)
Here's a pic of my BFF
I'm now on a quest to remove unnecessarily long quarantine times for dogs all over the world, but it's not so easy.
You can chose countries with a lot of stuff to visit and make your stay there as long as possible. That could make the long quarantine times worth it I guess. Are we talking day or weeks of quarantine?
It’s mostly weeks afaik
woah!! cute!!
What a cute face!!!!! ♥
I want to travel too. I'd love to blog about going to new Countries and trying the local food and do that all year round. I don't have a job from disability though so it's tough finding much of a purpose online. Ha, I just wish I had a more interesting life to blog about. I have no money, but nothing but free time.
What do you like to write about?
You don't need money to make your life interesting - just start by going to places in your city and documenting your visit, then blog about it! Those are places that most people would not have a chance of ever visiting but we all like to learn about new places / things / people - especially if it's inspiring. Document the day that you volunteered at the zoo! In no time you will be a pretty interesting person with a pretty interesting life!
@kevinwong I don't blame you about the entire communication channel thing. I think everyone hits a point at least once where it can become all consuming. From my side it's part of the reason why I have posted less frequently here on Steemit.
I'm glad to see you have chosen to focus a bit more on writing and I know we've talked about the shitposts receiving huge rewards for basically running a bot and churning out a report. I think that problem of "rewardpool rape" could best be solved by having the enablers stop with the quid-pro-quo implied vote for vote guarantees among orcas and whales. It's the unspoken elephant in the room which is the heart of the problem. Personally, I don't ever see that ending because who would want to take a haircut from $200k plus per quarter which requires no work?
Kudos to you for not succumbing to that, and still putting up great, original content. As always, I will continue to support your content and the content of others who produce great , original work which I feel adds value.
It's probably an issue when it comes to expectation of a social / content ranking site, but not so much an issue when it comes to Steem as a fair consumer product. Might be a good thing to have a currency that doesn't impose any standards with what people wanna do with their votes, so I guess here we are today. We should all just post more and use the platform however we wanna use it!
I will agree with you on that point about posting more.
Personally, I have no issue with how people use their votes. However, I do have an issue with hypocracy when the same individuals who preach to everyone about a person’s freedom to use their vote how they like is good only inasmuch as their own rewards are not impacted.
One thing I’d love to see implemented is an easier way to discover more content. Guess I’m finally schilling for communities. See what you’ve done to me? Lol.
This platform is a newborn compared to others out there. So much change will still take place here - but it's not going to happen if everybody just throws their hands in the air and say "f@ckit! I'm joining the dark side cause everybody else does and it's easier".. BE the change..CONSISTENTLY!
You seem like a good guy (I say "seem" because I don't know you from Adam), but your integrity shines through in your posts. Feeling despondent usually comes with feeling overwhelmed but the feeling will pass. Just don't become Sheeple (sheep people). Just following the easier route doesn't make the world a better place. BE the change you want to see.
Sorry for the sermon, but maybe you needed to hear that ;)
Dont pressure yourself too much. Enjoy it!
Any chance you can give our #runforsteem Challenge some support? I have been hosting this weekly challenge and paying all pariticpants equally for running and posting about their runs and we are looking for some more exposure. We have some passionate runners here and it would be cool to gather them in this challenge.
Best wishes,
Jumowa
🙌🙌🙌
Much respect for this...
Both these issues, I personally see as significant hurdles to be overcome before Steemit can really ascend to new heights. I just made a post a few hours ago ago the topic of such beggars flooding the comments section with shit - it’s getting ridiculously annoying, and what professional investor in their right mind would want to buy into a platform where that is a common quality of conduct? Of course, it’s kinda difficult if not impossible to install cultural standards that everyone will conform to, and there are bound to be people who treat this place like a lottery / numbers game where if they just ask enough times, they might get a few pennies - though if no standards are set to minimize such behaviour, can we really expect enough people to find this place enticing enough to invest billions in this playground that’d push price up? And of course, maybe we oughta focus more on the social aspect more than the money - though I’m also finding myself less interesting in wading through the increasing amount of garbage comments, so that stance ain’t the strongest it’s been, either.
And the rewards pool... yeah.
Unless we’re talking about some celebrity that brings in 50,000 followers, it’d probably be tough to get consensus on the idea that anyone deserves such ridiculously high payouts, no matter how good their content. $100,000 for 3 months... that could replace the income of 100 QUALITY writers and community leaders in third world countries who’ve been busting their asses to grow their local Steemit communities.
Of course, that might be an ideal. And maybe this could be considered complaining. And perhaps, these are some of the downsides of decentralization. Would love to be optimistic, but gotta be realistic about the systematic faults.
Appreciate your bluntness in addressing this. 🙏
sometimes I wish i have a little Sp to curate some minnows who dedicated their time, energy and thinking, putting so much effort together writing quality contents, that are educating, original while I see some posts that are not that beneficial to the platform earning so much.. such things at time discouraged those who have the heart of giving so much efforts into this platform. and sometimes its so annoying when you see some others writing irrelevant comments or giving spam comments to posts.
I so much enjoyed reading this comment.. how i wish this very comment can be seen by many fellow steemians.
someone like me is still a minnow but I wish there can be certain measure to keep in check and correct somethings, so that steemit can grow and be a better place.
You earn my respect @rok-sivante
If you allow it, Steemit will take all your days and weekends easily.
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You are one of the people with the kindest heart on this platform, and it is an honor to know you. I truly mean this. Things you have done for this platform and the community are invaluable. People might not know this, because you don't advertise that. There is plenty I have learnt from you and your personality. Simply put you are lead by example.
If anybody deserves making tens of thousands of dollars on this platform, that would be you. We actually need more people like you making more.
It is good that you will be cutting down on some parts of communications. You can't help everybody all the time. Sometimes you just need to say no, or ignore. That said, I will try to bother you less too :)
I actually want to see you posting more, your posts are always well thought and interesting. Long or short it doesn't matter, I really enjoy reading them and sometimes learn new things, especially when you start your crypto talks.
Thank you for being a kind and honorable person. Much love and respect.
Thanks @geekgirl for the nice words. Been paid well enough here being a lucky early adopter and nowhere near as hardworking as most contributors on the platform. And no don't worry, you're not bothering me at all lol. The curie team is doing awesome :)
Thank you for your very authentic and honest post!
You don’t have to excuse yourself.
I can understand that it takes a lot being extremely active on this platform on this Level.
It takes a lot of time and effort to create original high quality content and reply to the comments and so on.
One has to be careful not to burnout.
Sure it‘s a nice possibility to make money, but after all this is a social media platform.
And shouldn’t we enjoy social media instead of feeling tired by it?
I like the fact that you don’t put non stop shit posts on the platform but rather post less, but therefor with quality.
Please keep this up.
I did a post recently exactly about this greed on steemit that wie can see clearly since the prices of steem went up that much. It can not be overseen.
(No, this is definitely no ask for checking it out ;) )
You don’t have to reply to all comments and talk to people you don’t want to.
Spend your time for the people you want to communicate with.
All the best for you buddy
Thanks for the kind words @infinityroad! I really like reading comments and responding to them. Stuff like this keeps anyone going on a social network.
Thing is the Steem network (and participants) have a short-term memory and more than willing to look past any exploits done by any of the accounts. Well, "exploits" anyway since it's not clear cut all the time when money's involved.
Steemit is about three things: Community, investment, and community.
All the people who see this platform as just a "thing" for making money, fast and furious and whatever, are really missing a world of possibilities here. There are amazing projects going on, incredible posts with great info, terrific initiatives for helping people around the world...
That is why i follow steemians like you. The ones that actually care and the ones that actually **add value ** to this platform. Your posts are informative, entertaining, always on the very last of investment and thechnology and, heck, you always take your time in making them readable and care about the comments.
So, please, keep a rythm that works for you, and i will be following you right to the beat of it. :)
Thank you for sharing!
Ups, wrong place... :)
Thanks @flashfiction that's really kind of you.
What are some of the most interesting projects/initiatives you've seen on the network by the way?
Thank you!
Well, i'vee seen (and participated in) small initiatives like this and this very often. They are, by themselves, an example of what this platform is really capable of, if used for the greater good.
But there are a considerable big number of large, ambitious, creative and amazing projects going on that actually blow me away. These are just a couple of them:
The Writers Block : Being a writer myself, this one really hits home. This project is a combination of writer's workshop, crypto club and (soon) publishing house. Their webpage is here
Mining the Year 1918 : Man, this is so awesome. The First Steem-Powered University Course. They implement the use of steemit as part of the class! Later, they will use it to advance educational projects.
The Teardrops Smart Media Tokens : This is one of the best i've found. This guy, @surpassinggoogle , is an initiative by himself. And this is is his magnum opus. I literally don't want to spoil anything, please, GO READ IT if you find the time.
A lot of other projects are in development. Here is an epic list of some of the most important.
And this is only beginning. So, yeah, i'm excited and stuff. :)