Ah how I love the steem community – Or do I ???
The last 6 months have been a struggle for me here on steem. When I joined, we had not fully reached the boom so I have been here for the good and the bad. As things began to take a downturn, I stayed. I continued to support the community, to support authors and creators and to support the ecosystem.
Steem is still very young. The ecosystem needs time to mature. And Cryptocurrency needs adoption. I am not frustrated with steem, but the community! Actually, I'm not frustrated with the community, I am frustrated with myself for the choices I made. With all the community effort I put in, well I guess I was expecting too much when I thought the same people would eventually support my project when I launched it. That never happened, yet I continue to run a community league at a loss. Foolish me huh!
I hear people give out that no one supports them and here I am doing the same. But I get it. I understand why. These people once did support the community, but when they launched their own project, they needed their SP and their time to make it work. I have powered up my earnings, and I have purchased more SP. But instead of doing what others have done and stop supporting those not involved and engaged with my project, I made the mistake of continuing to support the general steem community.
Now I am tired, and I also feel sad! Today I start my first power down. The account I am powering down was used to vote for other community accounts and initiatives that supported the general steem user. I’m not powering down to cash out but to consolidate my SP so I can support my own project and I feel sad that it must be this way. Soon, I will be removing the last few delegations too.
I appreciate what you do with the growth leagues as well as the support you've shown me along the way.. I have found some interesting like minded people here but I'm certainly not a part of any community..
I'm not convinced there is any discernible culture or tangible bond that could constitute or support what is known as community. The only commonality we all share is we would appreciate seeing steem as a coin and platform for expression succeed.. Nobody has any idea how to galvanize these endeavors and I think the harsh reality is that success exists outside of our inner sanctum. Getting this infantile experiment beyond our current confines seems a long way off... Less than a quarter steem is definitely not instilling much confidence but it also makes it silly to quit at this point so I think like many others I'm cautiously optimistic and not void of hope, yet..
Best wishes on your project, I'm not sure what it is and I'm pretty active so perhaps you need to publicize your vision. It's possible it's getting lost in the abundance of muck..
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Dear @skramatters
Lone wolf? :)
Most definitely, I'm not opposed to hunting with others every now and again but eventually I will take my own path..
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Aw... yeah, that can't feel very good. I know how you feel, hon. I have this little motto that I picked up along the way that helps me through this kind of thing. Maybe it'll help you, too. It goes something like this: when you've got a not-so great situation going on and you start losing hope that it'll get better, try to imagine it as a bad T.V. show when you've lost the remote. Just hang out a while and it'll change on its own eventually. For those of us who are devoted to the Steem blockchain, you're a shining star even if you're feeling a little tarnished. Things will get better one way or another.
Thank you for the delegation and the kindness you have showed me.
I know my random upvotes, comments, retweets and comments on Reddit where not much. I hope you find some support and are able to take things to the next level.
Running a project is tough with the sheer volume out there. Which is why I left or gave up on curating and running a community I was involved with a number of months ago. 60 hours or more a week was not enough to feel like I was making a difference or do much. Everything is so time consuming with an endless amount of people expecting more and more out of someone is frustrating.
I hope this means you are finally going pull the delegation from me (I have asked before!) if you have not already and will put it to better use. Sometimes you just got do what is best for yourself first.
So many seem to be running off and starting a scot tribe these days. I wonder what is going happen to most of them when the new feeling wears off and 6 months from now many are still exactly where they started.
I am sorry that you feel that way. I have so much going on here that I just don't keep up with other projects. There are also just so many things going on with the top end of this system right now. I have enjoyed being part of the growth leagues you run and am sorry that you take a loss in those. I do hope that this can get better for you. I have a lot of hope that those new things going on will lead to a stronger steem.
"I have so much going on here that I just don't keep up with other projects."
Same story with everyone. To many tiny islands with no population.
Yup, my island is pretty small all @contestkings and @steemmonsters so I lose track of the other stuff.
I believe we joined around the same time. I've always loved your energy and devotion to the red fish. One thing I've learned is do your own thing and try to turn Steem into the blockchain of you. (I am having limited success.) these bear times for me are more about making foundations. Hopefully when things pick up they can be built on to amazing heights.
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Sorry to hear you feel this way Paula, but I sort of know how you feel. I've seen your delegation being abused and used to self vote more than vote the cause it was intended for, and that is just quite despicable. Personally, I feel having control over your own SP and project is the best way to ensure it achieves what you want to achieve. Good luck and I;m sure things will get better.
dang that is sad....
i don't know what to say..
hope you success wit everything you do.
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i felt similar. @threespeak gave me new hope in the steem ecosystem.
well, I guess it's transition time... not much can be said about the old model working, that's for sure. things evolve