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RE: Who Do I Follow on Steem & Why? - A Tale of Two Halves
A mammoth post! I didn't know you read those Kwiksave posts, It seems an eternity ago now.. and thanks, I remember the @curie!
Kind of wish I had saved those tales for later, they were truly dire times..., only the home computer boom kept me going!
Perhaps you could revive the Kwiksave Chronicles in the Sunday Showcase. They're worth a second outing.
Like a special edition with uncut extras added? I'm sure I could spice it up some!
I'd like that and it would be a lot of fun!
Is it allowed? Content is not supposed to be-rehashed..., I wrote it all so early when my following was small. Before there I worked at Asda, there are some tales there but not as outlandish as Kwiksave.
#showcasesunday is about bringing back posts from earlier - have a look at @tarazkp's blog.
Yeah man, I didn't read them all, but quite a few of them! This was the curse of being a curie curator during that bull market in 2017. There was so much content out there, and so many scammer/plagiarists, that all I had time for was writing my own posts, hunting for curie-able posts and then doing exhaustive plagiarism checks on them.
This resulted in me burning out pretty hard, but also in just reading a lot of posts without commenting. Not the best tactic on a blogging platform where networking is king lol
Haha, yeah the mammoth-est post I've written in a long while ;)
They are still tough to find, how do you find it now compared to when there was much more to choose from?
Lol, if I'm honest I don't.
I've not submitted in over 3 months now. I need to get on it to find my bi-monthly post. At the moment I don't have the time for proper curie hunting.
My tactic has been to find a (dead cert) gem of a post every few months just to make sure I don't get kicked out of the guild. If/when steem enters bull phase, and if my illness gets better, I want to have the option to go all out curating again.
Back in the day I used to use steemlookup and just hammer it every day 3-4 times a day. Even then it was a race to submit the real decent posts. I can't tell ya how may times I wrote up a fantastic recommendation supporting comment, only to hit submit in becemel and see that some other curator had beat me to it 😆
Even though there were more posts back then, it was cutthroat as the finders fee amounted to about $10 value! Unfortunately, I cashed out very little of my finders fees... but there were weeks where I made $80 - $90 worth of steem... When steem was at like $5 😆
In retrospect I made the wrong decision.
I think I have been beaten to it just once, I use steemlookup but have found other tactics. This week I'm on just 2 which is a bit crap. Another one would be good.
2 is ok. At my peak I was submitting 14 or 15 with an average of 10 accepted/week.
That was hard to maintain though and I burnt out pretty fast 😂😳
Your hard work did not go unnoticed or unappreciated, Raj!
Even when the value of @curie fell from 100 SBD to maybe 10, that message and logo under a writer's work brings more joy than money can.