Steemit is a Test
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7 years ago in #steemit by stellabelle (75)
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Great post. thanks for sharing.
What stage am i at if i spent far to long watching the man fall into an endless supply of cauliflower?
I've recently emerged from the long dark tunnel of giving a shit with regards to the $ next to my post. Now i just write a bit, go find some cool readings and comment a bit, and now, stare at the cauliflower a bit.
I decided to upvote one comment at full strength and i chose yours. It cracked me up! Your bluntness was really refreshing....I"m going to check out your blog now....
Thank very much, am happy to get a laugh out of you, and anyone really!
My blogs need a little work but I think I'm slowly improving. I should take one from your blog ideas list and give that a go...
Thanks again, Asher
That made me laugh, I was too hypnotised by what I now know is cauliflower lol
Could be smoke? Naaa, cauliflower!
hehe
it was funny lol good post @stellabelle. I'm a newbie, I am glad I stumbled on this post. Cheers see ya on the steem boards.
Hi @brad-saunders, what are steem boards, just curious. I'm also a newbie. Have a wonderful day, following you!
He must be talking about the Discord Channels.
Yeah I bet he is. Just curious, how did you get into comics illustrations? I hope you have a wonderful day, following you!
Hi, sorry for the LATE reply. I haven't been very active lately.
I've always drawn since I was a kid. And when you draw characters soon you'll get the need to see them doing something more than just stand there. And that's when you start wanting to tell stories through your drawings. I think that's how I got into it.
good article .. i like it . need your support and blessings
Do not know why I am feeling a bit dizzy :D
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I was about to comment almost the same thing... instead, I'll just upvote your comment instead! lol
It is a really cool hypnotic "trippy" pic though, think I'll add it to WhaleBoT's "trippy" repertoire!
Thanks Alex! Remember not to stare too long :)
Funniest comment I've read! I laughed far too long. LOL
😁 thanks! (Does look like a cauliflower though eh?!)
It does! It does! LMAO
It is cauliflower tho! I know because I spend large amounts of time peering into cauliflower IRL :D
This was indeed hilarious @abh12345. Have a wonderful day, following you!
Thanks and you too! Expensive and cauliflower are two words I didn't think I'd see joined together, still cheap in Spain as the locals live off meat and olive oil!
The price pretty much went quintipled. Restaurants here even make pizza bases out of cauliflower now. You have to pay more, but it is huge. We are very fat nation, so the diet has caught on like wildfire.
The results are amazing, although some doctors and dieticians warn against it. They say it has serious side effects for your heart. But hard to say if that's because they are lobbied by pharmaceutical companies to say that.
Where in Spain are you from? Meat and olive oil sounds good to me...
Thank you so much for this. Following you. I hope you have a WONDERFUL day!!
I like the sound of a cauliflower pizza base, sometimes the dough is just awful and the worst part.
I'm living in Valencia, but i'm English - here for the sunshine and to escape politics (its easier when you don't speak the local lingo very well!)
Have a good day too!
It tastes better than flour dough in my opinion. That is if they do it right. Skill is required. Where is Valencia?
Yes it does sound better, if the chef knows what they are doing.
Valencia is east coast of Spain, plenty of sun and the city is by the sea :)
Well, yeah they better know or they shall be fired.
Sounds like a fun place to live. Why do people love Mallorca so much?
Hahhaa ! Amazing and oh do I relate and continue to stare at the cauliflower with you.
Meanwhile I colour my days.
What's your PinkISPunk?
https://steemit.com/colours/@mammasitta/why-we-need-more-colour-days-pinkispunk-2017816t193946112z
Hi @mammasitta!
I've read your blog, it's a very open message - I'll add my pink and comment when I reach the laptop later today :)
haha nice post!
Cauliflower is getting expensive here in South Africa because of the new low carb hi fat diet craze.
I think I got hypnotized for few minutes! no more cauliflower for me!
I'm still not past that stage yet, but at least I'm focusing on and posting content which I strongly believe in.👌
That is rhe right attitude to have!
Haha, always good to read your view point..Point!!!!
But.. but.. Where can I find this endless stream of cauliflower?! I must know!!
Ag no man. Lol, the gif only loaded after I made my comment! :D
ha ha!
how do you do that?
I haz cauliflower... (vacant stare... drool...)
I had spinach and peas, but there's a cauliflower in the fridge that's been starring at me for a week or two now :)
lol, you guys are funny! poor cauliflower, when is she going to get her peace! I won't be buying one in while
let's be part of the future, keep fighting, that's the spirit.. better than nothing , right ?
goto http://steemfollower.ga to get more follower and upvote as well.
Thanks for this. Following you. Have a WONDERFUL day!!!
Dear Steemit Users..nice to see you have started earning here.. my sincere request is to have a look at following post and share (help/support) the needy..at least share a portion of income from the earning at SteemIt..you will be contributing in developing children's future..
https://steemit.com/poverty/@lifeisfun/need-support-support-education-support-poverty-better-world-a-small-story-of-patient-of-cancer-who-has-already-lived-100-lives
Thanks for this. Following you, have a WONDERFUL DAY!
Tribes! That's exactly how I see the future as well, tribes that develop their own culture but make peaceful relationships with other tribes in order to coexist in a pleasant fashion. I am also looking for a tribe here. I've found a few great people and I'm trying to get them together outside of this scheming, bot driven, crypto trading mode of talking to each other in the Be Awesome discord channel which is linked in all my posts.
You know I marked you for a potential tribe mate early on, but it's always hard to get the attention of popular people. It'd be great to get you in our chat. We have language practice rooms as well, だから、いつでもどうぞ。
Even if you don't make it over there and fail to see and upvote all my awesome undervalued posts, I know it's because you are spread quite thin. I still appreciate your presence on steemit X-D. At the very least your comment section has proved very helpful in the search for tribemates whenever you talk of a gift economy and community and tribes and everything else.
Keep being you!
(Your assessment of the different stage at steemit remind me of Maslow's hierarchy of needs)
I have noticed you very often, and I am interested in getting to know people better....nihongo o hanasu koto ga dekimasu ka?
Steemit.chatで話したことあるじゃん! 覚えてないね、Stellaちゃん ;-)
i have a very bad memory with people.
Meaning, i cannot tell or remember conversations....facts i can remember, but people elude me.....I always feel bad about this trait, it makes awkward moments.
It's ok, I don't take things personally or feel awkward. The more attention You get, the harder it becomes to distinguish people, especially on the internet.
Make a bigger effort with the people you appreciate most and I think you are already doing a good job, that's what I tell myself anyway. I'm the same as you sometimes.
i am focused on trying to bring Steemit to my city and meet as many people face to face as possible...time to come out of the cave!
If I ever get a chance to go do a road trip around my home country, I will for sure make a stop a stop at your cave X-D steemit world tour!
This is our chat , a bit more relaxing than steemit.chat, for talking about #deepshit , including language study.
Be Awesome discord channel
Where are you from?
日本にいますか？日本語をれんしゅをしたい。東京とカリフォルニアに住んでいる。よろしくお願いします。
今日本に住んでないけど、戻りたい。僕としゃべって練習していいよ。 僕は毎日be awesome - deep shit discord channel にいる。 いつでもどうぞ :-)
Be Awesome discord channel
Hi stellabelle I am trying to figure out what whales want, I am blogging on shipping.
glancing over your blog, i believe you need to post twice per day.
Duuuuude this stuff drains me! I try to dig deep, if I posted twice a day I'd just be writing about picking my nose.
<3
I know what you mean. I did then posts the other day about articles I read.
I'm with you, brother/sister.
This platform has hooked me, hard. And while I see that anything of value will end up being gamed, I still get rather indignant and upset at people exploiting it for short-term gains.
Humans making messy human decisions to weed out the abusers can work, but its hard to scale that expertise into something that can combat a large automated force.
I don't know what the ultimate solution is. By having something worth stealing, people are going to do their best to take it.
On the flip side, there will also be people that enrich the platform because of the potential for rewards above and beyond validation and adulation from their followers.
The only partial answer I have is flagging down any accounts that are harvesting self-votes and making spammy nonsensical comments. But again, human judgement is needed.
Thanks for your post, gave me a lot to think about. Maybe a solution will present itself in time.
Amen! Steemians vs Bots (Part I).
"Steemians! What is your profession!?"
Spartans do not ask How many is the enemy? but Where are they?
I need make more photos. :)
wow nyc
#revolt
Maybe it really comes down to culling bots somehow?
Just don't upvote their content.
Easier said than done!
and spammers. So many. Just go to the New section, 1 out of every 2 posts is someone posting a photo they found on the internet. No comments or anything of content. Just a picture.
Posts like that do nothing to benefit anyone. They are the equivalent of a begger on the side of a street asking for money just because they know you have some.
the bot farms harvesting steem is my main focus.
@sherlockholmes research into this is horrifying. It is a tsunami that cannot be met by users, but has to be dealt with on programming level. It also calls into question the supposed "manual" approval process for new users.
Great comment and great post @stellabelle this is mad food for thought ... Its amazing that steemit can act as an income conduit into the 3rd world ... but the downside is its feeling like an app for panhandlers =-p
I think we will be fine, humans make the bots, so we can make anti-bots. Following you, have a wonderful day!!!
Im at stage 0. Just started using steemit. Feeling anxious and excited at the same time.
Stick with it. It takes time to acclimate. Don't spend too much time in the "new" section, there's a lot of chaos there. Look at people and see who follows whom. Its a good start to populating your feed.
Thanks for the tips.
I think we will be fine, humans make the bots, so we can make anti-bots. Following you, have a wonderful day!!!
This is really draining my brain! I wish I don't know how to read!
Whoa... SHINY! I got momentarily distracted by the concept of Colonel Sanders falling face first into an eternally receding ocean of cauliflower...
OK, so brilliant and true... and yes, Steemit is a test, and a microcosmic social experiment in which we can build a better alternative reality around this whole idea of decentralization. As I read I realized you just pinpointed something HUGE, that lies at the heart of the problems (or "growing pains," if you will) we're looking at:
We have had centuries of training in believing there is always a "they" at whose feet we can lay ultimate accountability.
In the brave new world of Steemit, the old Hopi saying is the truth "WE'RE the ones we've been waiting for!"
Yes. Yes, we are. And that also means ALL of us get to step into personal accountability; to step up and "be the ones" who flag spam and plagiarism when we see it. Because there's no "they" standing by to fix the problems, which makes this place uniquely beautiful AND uniquely challenging.
hopefully you support who deserve as much as you flag spammers . there lots of people struggling out there they're not spammers they publish quality original content but unfortunately they're newbies in a place there is no place for minnows. if you truly want steemit a better place you can do anything to those who leave steemit everyday because of they got no attention at all and I don't mean upvotes I mean any kind of attention comments views . minnows vote for whales whales vote for whales . there many ways you could help the community grow but you guys choose war @denmarkguy
@mostafa1, I am actually a fairly active curator, and that includes "minnow content," and I especially believe in supporting those who sincerely want to become community members and contribute here.
When we talk about "the war on spam" we're talking about the many people who go around and copy-paste the SAME comment on 100s of posts. Some... have little interest in learning, sadly. Either they never come back to read helpful comments, or they simply don't care. And we are also talking about those (UNlike yourself) who just copy content from around the web and pretend it's their own.
I agree with you am just realize its roo hard to get attention in this loaded feed. What should i do? Do i have to post thousands of times to get noticed! Why there no project like resteembot wgich the whales follow to see the original content and flag the spammers @denmarkguy
And it will get much harder than it is now.
I agree. @stellabelle I think the only way to really get far on this is to build a true loyal human following. But look, we are once again debating bots LOL. Not that this is not interesting hehe.
true and scary
or uplifting if faced correctly
but scary as shit to this bait-fish
I do. just ask around.
Well said, especially like the reminder of the Hopi quote, "WE'RE the ones we've been waiting for!" ~ljl~
I'm still pretty new on Steem. How does one flag spam or plagiarism? As long as I'm reading stuff I'd like to pick up the trash when I see it.
I am new to Steemit and this is my very first comment on a post. Within this post, I found advice and recommendations on how we are all responsible for maintaining the integrity of this new community. Your passion is what has inspired my first comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you and believe in the concept of freedom through decentralization and self-regulation. I admit that I originally joined Steemit with the lure of monetary gain but reading posts like yours has shifted that focus. Thank you for this and please keep writing.
This is excellent @stellabelle I love thats you're relating this whole place to a shift in mindset, which it really is. I really enjoy reading your articles.
A really good article for newbies (like myself) to read. I've been blogging on the net for almost 10 years now and I have been looking for another place to blog, which is why I'm on Steemit. But you're right - there is so much good stuff, world-changing articles, magnificent photography, articles that educate, and so on, in amongst the "dire mire". We just need to stick to our principles and be active in weeding out the abusers - I'm all for that!
That's one of the things I hope to find, like you called it a tribe, but I want to say it's a community, where we have unspoken rules but everyone knows how and why to comply with them. We are the ones who create the value for others. Teachers and, well, executioners when we just don't think some work is worth our time. I hope to read more from you.
I was excited to point numo.2 of your second stage explanation. I though that many people need more income by joining this blockcoin one based on SocMed. But I agree with your statement. For me, I am a writing addict, and I keep writing on Steemit. I will write, I post it, and I am happy.