My opinion... +To Boot: Vol. 1-21
My opinion...
I think a growth in the great Steemit platform is dependent upon greater engagement in its participants and a dedication and adherence not to superficial rules and formats, but to a vision of ever-greater quality. Quality posts will live forever, regardless of their value in money and cryptocurrency.
The rules by which things are up-voted for any real money, and I'm speaking here for the English-speaking portion of the platform, are meant to encourage a certain etiquette. CSI, for example, encourages a broad-spectrum voting pattern, with a consumption of posts from all over the different communities.
Powering Up encourages further engagement and dedication to the platform, and it is an investment in your voting power. Yes, I did power down 700 STEEM in 2021, I'm not happy in retrospect but at the time, I needed the cash. But the fact is, I could post 365 posts a year for 10 years, saving every last SP, and I'd probably still have a vote of dust. My lost friend @owasco gave up due to that frustration.
Yeah, people need to engage with posts across the platform, but what is that if not my To Boot curation magazines? Which no one ever reads or engages with.
I'd be happy to write one up, once a week, if it didn't feel like I was just talking to dead air. Sometimes it feels like this platform is very self-absorbed, and hardly anyone takes the time to even read anyone else's work. I think we would all have more fun, if we slowed down a little, and really strived for a collaborative dialogue of creation. Vague as that sounds, I think it is important to have an ideal, something to envision.
I want to discover everything all you great users have to offer, and I would personally really like it if users took greater lengths to offer up their achievements in creative ways.
For example, maybe someone could start a community where users are encouraged to curate their own work, as in My Week on Steemit, or My Monthly Magazine.
I feel like so much potential is being lost, and there's a lot of lonely voices out here, waiting to be heard.
Please, what do you think, dear Steemiams. If you read this far, please leave a comment.
P.S. Sorry to be confrontational. I wish only the best for every last one of you.
+ a Collection of To Boot: Volumes 1-21
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featuring the works of @ssnam90 @albenis @lighteye @cjsdns
Check out Volume One of To Boot: the Rag Rebooted --
featuring the works of @green07 @anroja @elliamor1 @steem-ghana @seo-boss @lyubovar
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featuring the works of @muncuss @predomina @ididid @steemwomensclub @yurilaya
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featuring the works of @yohan2on @sawang.sochau @shohana1 @amjadsharif
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featuring the works of @bans @emmali @caleb090 @randulakorlage
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featuring the works of @ghostfacer99 @y0gi @ecotrain @nainaztengra @tggr @knight4sky @cancerdoctor
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featuring the works of @juichi @selimreza1 @stefant2007
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featuring the works of @lfgiaa @papa-pepper
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featuring the works of @blacks @clitadias @stella01
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featuring the works of @nainaztengra @godingame @puncakbukit
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featuring the works of @unbiasedwriter @milaoz @ultravioletmag
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featuring the works of @nigelmarkdias @nattybongo @arshad3046
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featuring the works of @levoyant @amali20 @cryptokannon
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featuring the works of @nainaztengra @munaa @kawsar
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featuring the works of @protosun @toukirahmed02 @lucky4karmen
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featuring the works of @cliffagreen @abmelon @shanek
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featuring the works of @itsmahmud @mgaft1 @besticofinder
Click HERE for Volume Seventeen --
featuring the works of @kgakakillerg @cyberrn @strecoza
Click HERE for Volume Eighteen --
featuring the works of @nishadi89 @mukada
Click HERE for Volume Nineteen --
featuring the works of @rishi @tvm @xiao-aine @wakeupkitty.pal
Click HERE for Volume Twenty: the Art Edition --
featuring the works of @afriart @cloudlines @theinnocent @kgakakillerg
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featuring the works of @sinthiyaa @kiwiscanfly @nazomimatute1998 @veronicalee @uzma4882 @asi1993
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Hi William! Sorry for getting back to you so late - I'm not online that often at the moment...
Of course you're right - there is a systemic problem with generating attention. Many, especially veteran Steemians, have complained about this and continue to do so. There are many good approaches that could remedy this. Unfortunately, they are not being implemented. You are not the only one who is frustrated by this.
I'm not in a position to give you hope. I think your initiative to make outstanding posts visible is wonderful. Other users and Communities do similar things.
I find it a bit difficult to rehash very old posts. These mantra-like repetitions fall on deaf ears, at least for me. And when I'm annoyed by one, I don't look at the other. In other words: I don't think you're doing yourself any favours.
I have no idea what criteria you used to choose the location of your publication - why don't you come to the Suggestions Club with such concerns? There are more open eyes and ears there ;-))
Hi! Thank you for your thoughtful response. I am probably just expressing what a lot of people are feeling, in my own way, and I probably should've just kept this to myself.
I thank you for your honest criticism. I shall have to think on it.
As for all the great Steemians keeping the initiative up, I am grateful for you all.
Hi Friend @william8wayward
I always welcome your personal needs, which can advance everyone's creativity. All continuity has a good side, a lazy side, a moving side, and a necessary side. Among them, the necessary side is very cruel. Which can sometimes slow everything down. Still everything works.
I apologize for the unwanted discussion.
Hi Friend!
I appreciate the discussion. It is not unwanted.
Isn't it the lazy side that is slowing everything down? Or maybe, it is the cruel necessary side, after all?
Can you describe the for sides of continuity in more detail? I'm really hoping to understand better what you're saying.
Thanks again. Have a blessed day.