I'm not going to lie, I'm feeling some kind of way about Steem today. Anyone that knows me, or follows my posts, knows that I'm one of the most enthusiastic people on here concerning Steem and the prospects we have.

Things are going amazingly well in the background - in terms of development and infrastructure. There's a lot of work being done and so many exciting things coming up, that's for sure. I must, however, admit that nearly nothing is happening on the public facing end of things. We are in danger of building a very nice house on a remote island where nobody will ever find it. And if they venture upon the house by accident, they will find all manner of weirdos lurking about in it.

Shooting ourselves in the feet

I noticed something troubling in the past week or so. Some of the efforts made by some members of the community to put us out there for the world to see are being sabotaged by the community itself. Sort of like a you won't do it, but you wont allow others to situation.

An example is what's been happening with Appics. I've mentioned this before. There's a lot of internal resistance that's come up against the efforts being made by one of the most loyal dapps we have on Steem to onboard new users.

I saw Steemcleaners go after one of the accounts created for an Instagram model. To be fair, that wasn't a clear-cut case. Said user also refused to respond to numerous attempts to verify their identity, but then, she had only posted twice before she was already on the blacklist.

I also noticed that Spaninator is flagging Mrs.Seemit, one of the founders of Appics. By design, Appics posts are brief on text, and are often just one photo or video. For whatever reason, it's been decided that her posts are spam, I guess. One of such posts was the one she made asking if anyone wanted to help test the new version of Appics.. So all of her promotional posts made on Appics, which automatically propagates to Steem, have been flagged by Spaminator, and I don't understand why. I noticed that she's stopped posting them, and perhaps taken the engagement elsewhere. I'm not quite sure what the end game is here.

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Bored

This is the other thing. I'm growing a little weary of the way things are going. I am starting to understand what Nathan Mars was talking about, and some of his frustrations about Steem. I also have to admit to being a little bored of Steem.

I don't know if you've noticed, a lot of the fun people on here have either left, or pulled back a lot to go do something else with their valuable time. For many, of course, it's to do with the Steem price and how it's not worth the effort at the moment. For some, however, it's just not as rewarding as it used to be, and I'm not talking about monetary rewards.

A few of the people I used to enjoy on here have gone back to creating content for free on the centralised platforms, probably because they find the environment more conducive. Or, perhaps, they've just had enough of the Steem community's toddler-like personality.

Off to do something really cool

As it so happened, I've been invited to help out with an extremely awesome project. There is some content creation involved, but mostly in real life - video, photography and what not. This time last year, I would have turned it down, probably, because I was too busy steeming. I was knee deep in Discord communities where I spent the majority of my awake time, and I loved it.

I think I'm going to enjoy this project. It's completely for free, so it's not a job, but it will take up the majority of my free time. By the way, my free time is when I create content for Steem, so if you do the mathematics, it means you will see less of me here until the project is done.

What does this all mean?

I'm probably going to set up a whole bunch of auto votes. I have been following a lot of people on here for a while now so I have a great idea who to put on the list. I don't want my SP to idle away, plus I'd love to earn some curation rewards too, thank you very much :)

Of course I've got Appics and Partiko on my phone so I'll probably become a massive consumer and manual curator of your content. By the way, what's the deal with Partiko? It's been a little unreliable of late. Also, as SteemFest is coming, I can't bare to miss your posts.

Also, the emperor, A.K.A the village idiot, can catch a little break from having to manually flag all my posts and comments. It's been fun to watch this toddler "crypto coach" throwing his tantrum on here, and then going on Twitter to pretend to be a grown up. It also means, sadly, that some of you are now going to get flagged more regularly since one of his top enemies, adetorrent, is taking a little posting break.

Having said all the above, the last time I announced a little "hiatus", I made a massive 2 thousand word post with videos and photos just two days after. So, don't be surprised to see such a post from me as soon as tomorrow.

Ciao

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