Steemit: An apology / thank you / feature request / update
Hello everyone,
Today's update has been predominantly born out of a quick Wallet check last night where I saw an unexpected transaction which at first excited me, and then moved on to embarrassment, read on for more...
The past week has been hectic, the 1000 things to do in relation to moving house (country!) plus a weekend away in the south of Spain meant I didn't have much time for Steemit - I just caught @ned's intoduction to SMT (which looks brilliant for Steem down the line) and then drove to meet a bunch of school friends - 12 new people to talk to Steem/Steemit about at least and I expect to see some of them here soon enough :)
So yesterday evening I'm checking my wallet and I spot this:
Great! Errr, what? A payout relating to Charity? From another user? What's all this then?!
It turns out @uwelang had written a blog regarding 'Our project in Nepal' - a blog I had written, now 20 days ago.
And this is what he had to say:
As I was reading the post, I felt so guilty for my lack of knowledge about his kind words and support of the project. Clearly @uwelang is a modest man, who perhaps doesn't feel like 'advertising' his own blogs elsewhere. The commentators/viewers of his blog didn't think to drop a reply to me anywhere either. This is fine, and although 'connecting' people is something I quite like to do, it's not a duty, or the work of anyone else.
The real kicker for me is that the steemit.com interface has no 'mentions' feature either - I do think this would be a valuable addition, if only to avoid embarrassment for others in the future. I'm not holding my breath though, the talk around SMTs clearly shows this is priority now.... good, and bad.
I am aware there are tools (anyone got a link?) where you can check your 'mentions', but as a Minnow I don't expect to get any press elsewhere, so why would I check? This is a push notification surely!
Anyway, apologies @uwelang, and thank you very much. You are a star! And yes, I'm now a fond follower of your work :)
After 13 months in Valencia, Spain, it is time to hit the road(sky) again for a month long break in Mallorca, of Balearic Islands fame. To conserve cash, we've lucked out at my mothers small empty apartment on the east coast and this will be our base while we prepare for Steemfest 2, and then 5 days later, Nepal. What a journey we have planned - I'm scared, nervous, and pretty flipping excited! Fingers crossed all goes to plan for us!
Any travel tips or Steemfest gossip is welcome in the comments, or if anyone is visiting Mallorca in the next month - get in touch for a beer!
- I have my voting power back to an acceptable percentage! After a month in the 50's and lower due to a small voting addiction, the weekend away gave me a chance to re-fuel. Awesome!
My curation rewards analysis blog was well received again, so thank you very much for your support with that
And finally, I look forward to bringing some more travel orientated posts in the next month as we plan to explore some of Mallorca's 'calas' or 'coves' in search of some quiet, picturesque beaches
Thanks for reading today!
Asher
Thanks so much for highlighting - deserves of course 100% and a Resteem. Wen I did some other charity weeks I am pretty sure to support you another time. Good work you do! Hope Steemfest will add a lot of further support for you!
In addition - today I found this tool that shows all mentions after a post by @alexvan - check it out @abh12345 here: http://steemistry.com/steemit-mentions-tool/
Thank you so much @uwelang!
I hope you rise to the top of Steemit with all your kind work!
One of the most rewarding curations I do is when I find @uwelang's posts at the right time. Uwe and I are multi-platform friends for quite some time now! He has the life we all dream of and well worth the follow for his excellent posts. I wish mine had such good content and looked so good :)
Thanks for the mentions tip, uwe. I sure need that too!
Hitting one of mine at 25 mins should show a nice reward too 🙂
Great, the connections of good people continue to grow.
Hope you have seen the tool for mentions i added later in my previous comment - discovered today :-).
Ahh thank you!
I will certainly bookmark this one!
This comment has received a 28.12 % upvote from @lovejuice thanks to: @abh12345. They love you, so does Aggroed. Please be sure to vote for Witnesses at https://steemit.com/~witnesses.
Great post
Hey @abh12345! You probably don't know me but I've seen a few of your posts and your one about the curation tips was incredibly helpful, thank you so much! I followed you just then and good luck and have fun travelling! I swear every successful Steemian travels LOL
Oh yeah I have a question, is it worth it upvoting yourself? Like I know it's shameful but as a minnow is it more financially beneficial to vote for others or myself? Cheers!
Hello there!
Thanks for the kind message :)
I don't believe there's much value in a self vote as a minnow - the bigger players use it to boost them into 'trending' or 'hot', but i think as a minnow you are best using your vote elsewhere for now.
Cheers!
Ahhhh thanks! Just confirming, financially speaking this means you should only vote for people you know will get a lot of upvotes in the future right? Like vote for a popular person at around 25 mins for the greatest curation rewards?
I believe it's actually better to find a hidden gem (payout less than a dollar and 30 mins old), vote for that at full power, resteem it, and hope it makes it to $30+. If you are one of the top voters this will be more profitable than being swamped with big votes on a popular post.
Ahhhh I see! Do you have any data that shows like exactly how much that would give? Like how much an upvote worth 3 cents will return if the above situation happened.
Sorry about the questions, I really want to make a difference on Steemit and I think the first step is to get more influence.
Also I have a suggestion here about incentivising voting for minnows, if you have the time it would be greatly appreciated if you could read it and tell me your opinion! :)
The numbers are too insane to give an accurate number - so many variables!
I'll have a look at your post now :)
Looking forward to the travel blogs :-) Plenty of sun and beaches please!
Hi Sarah!
A bit more than Nottingham with any luck yes! Although it's the end of the summer, we should be able to scrape another month out in the Med.
Thanks for your comments and nice vote :)
Asher
Haha one of those nice surprises. I also have an upvoting addiction. Its just one of those things where there are a lot of great authors that deserve your vote, but each time you click that button a little bit of you becomes depleted. Like in life, its all about balance. Have a great move
Yes it was a nice surprise, and then followed by guilt that I wasn't aware of @uwelang's kind work prior to the SBDs being sent over.
I'm trying my best now to keep voting above 75% We shall see!
Thanks a lot dude, have a great day!
It's easy to lose track when doing so many things at once.
Right back at ya
UweLang is a great guy I know him for other platforms before here
Yes a better way to see notifications and mentioneds is sorely needed on here
Thank you @tattoedjay
Yes, looking at his posting history today and In full agreement with you!
Asher
Your welcome
You are sure a nice person, not everyone would have discovered this and even go to the extent of making a post to apologise,,, wish you the best of adventures in your travel,, 👍
Thanks for your kind words @tony-duke, I felt it was the least I could do.
Asher
This is just what I needed to read today! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks @firepower!
Glad to bring something good to your day 😁
i can iamgine these days are quite stressful and hectic no doubt.
Soon you are gonna be laying on the beach getting a suntan and drinking pina colada and the stress will be gone hehe
Yes I think we'll have a day or two of that if the weather is good to us!
Cheers!
I just got steem voter up and running, now I can kick back and drink beer while voting and I won't risk injuring my voting finger ! Thanks bud
Nice work!
Keep an eye on your voting power % - 75% and over, preferably 90%+
Yea I leased so before and went bananas before it ended
I should recharge a bit hehe
Hey I haven't read the post about the project in Nepal, just saw Sylvia's amazing pictures. I'm going to check it out later. But already wishing you guys (?) the very best, and also a good time in Mallorca - I'm jealous! Haha
Looking forward for the tips!
Hey!
Yes unfortunately some of the pictures in the Nepal post I did aren't displaying now :(
Thank you very much, we are hoping the summer stays another month for us!
:D