RE: Adventure in the Carpathians
although my motivation is much lower recently
You know, two months ago I applied for the Become a dolphin in the World of Xpilar Community initiative. The application is a comment to the article. Three hours after I wrote, in my opinion, a good and thorough comment, it received a 100% upvote from the steemcurator. At the time, it was $ 420 (actually more, as part is paid in SBD, well, you know).
I was shocked. I thought they liked my application so much and my intention to become a Dolphin.
My happiness lasted 17 hours. It turned out that this was a failure of the platform. After 17 hours, the steemcurator removed his vote and voted with 2%.
That's when motivation can really fall :)
If you were in a big group and if you were noisy, the bear probably would leave your route before you could see him.
This is exactly what we were trying to explain to our friend. But when a person is seized by fear, rational arguments do not work.
I remember that day. I know it was not the intention to give 100% upvotes to some users then (there was like 5 or 6 that received it and later lost it again), but the team could leave it like it is instead of downvoting everything and basically not upvoting anyone later for a whole day :)