Every day I could quit steemit, every single day!
And I know some of you would be glad to see the back of me.
I see all the wrong people taking massive rewards, people that can write about an acorn and get guaranteed votes, while I see people that write quality articles getting 10 cents, take @arthur.grafo for instance, the very first person to speak to me on here. https://steemit.com/@arthur.grafo. Twice I have passed his reputation on here, yes with 2 different accounts, and it is sad to see, someone that writes top quality articles getting little to no reward, especially as he has helped so many new people and for free!.
Now Dlive migrates from steemit due to some of the same logic regarding rewards here. https://steemit.com/steem/@jimbobbill/dlive-is-migrating-off-the-steem-blockchain-the-reasons-why-should-concern-us-all.
But for the few people that talk to me daily I would be off like a gun shot, as so many before me have done. The value of this place is the sum of it's total parts, and it's parts are getting fewer, is that hf20 going to change anything? nope it just makes the poor a little bit more poor!.....
My bittrex wallet is also still frozen, the steem in it useless now, not until there is a positive consensus on hf20 will it be released, this is not leading the way from the front, it is more waiting for witnesses to be arsed to agree, congrats stinc on a sinking ship. It could have and should have been much better, though you get what you wanted, and your investment is now a bad joke. I feel sorry for the people that put £100's of thousands into here not long ago, I nearly did also, I decided to buy more land instead, and the land has risen in vlaue!
It is not criticism per se.
And also not a complaint, it is constructive criticism, something needed to change, and it did not, all I see is more of what there was before, for the haves of this world, as steemit badly reflects the real world. When I came here I was sold a bright vision, a place where you could write and be rewarded for being unique, the reality is though that you only get votes by hanging with the right people, by telling them how great they are every day, I massage my ladies ego daily, I will be dammed if I am doing everyone else's.
For most people the only way to survive on here is to use bibots or smartmarket, it is all by design and even that profit funnels all the way up to the haves, just like in the real world and the 1%, you are doomed if you do and doomed if you don't.
Add to this the many negative aspects of steemit with people being thought police, and deciding who's comment is good and whose is not, "nice post mr" apparently is worthy of a flag, though to me "nice post mr" is seen as a compliment, not the thought police though, oh no, not this year!
I will hang in here for a while, though the day a better alternative is found, I will be out the door faster than a race horse, and encourage my small group of friends to leave also. If nothing changes for the better!
I may sound down on steemit, and I suppose I am, I am not down on the people I talk to though, not now, not ever, even though some people when nudged will let you know all the negative things they think about you.
Since you mentioned me, I decided to give you a SP0.0001 worths of my opinion.
Why value so low? Because my opinion tends to waffle, hey yeah - and - oh hell no!
Under the Yeahs and the hell no's:
Having made a friend or two (actually, two) with you being one of them - this by itself makes hanging out here worth it for me
Seeing my friends popular, respected and rewarded is of great benefit (even philosophically). Why? Because I've always believed that we have organised our society so that we reward those who treat us like shit and penalise (or at best, ignore) those who are caring and helpful). I'm that stupid guy who stands at the supermarket till and having splurged on that one chocolate a month, I see a kid with her mum looking at my choc, or I see the teller , who I know gets paid peanuts, being friendly and helpful - and I leave without the chocolate, but with something far more precious: a feeling that I did the right thing and made life a bit sweeter for someone else. Had a puncture and someone stops to help me. If I know where to find them, I'll go to them a day or more later (going later is part of the good deed, for it always pleases them that they were not forgotten) with a box of chocolates or a bottle of wine or I'll take them to have a coffee and a chat. In other words, I believe in encouraging and thanking those who are good to me and as for those who are hurtful or bad? If I can and it was trivial, I'll set it aside, if only I was hurt, I may just show anger but let it go. If however, someone hurts someone I love, then I want fullblown revenge. - See? Luckily I am no angel.
I came to Steemit with different expectations. I had spent 18 years living daily in the world I created for a family of mutants who I love. Of course, being me, I messed up. As a fantasy/SF story, I should have had many readers as I think I sometimes write better than I see in some books that are published. However, I started the book with an intention: I saw how kids were thought of as bodies only by many pedophiles, so I made many of the characters be children, in the hope I can teach them that children, their hearts and minds are far more beautiful and precious than their bodies are. Did it work? I had one, a les girl lover, write to tell me that after reading about little Cherine, she found herself unable to seduce a 12 year old. Another, wrote about Cherine being exactly like his dead eight year old daughter and that I brought her to life for him. Another wrote to say he is in love with his 11 year old cousin and was planning on seducing her, then he read my book and it made him think of her - and whether she will hate him once she is a grown up, so he did nothing...and she and her family moved, so thank god she is safe from him.
I should not have been a popular visitor at these sites, for I was always fighting to make it impossible for them to want to actually hurt a child. It did lead to many posting private messages, confessing how they just tried to commit suicide because of knowing they will never be loved.
Living in South Africa on a govt pension means I did hope, for a while, to make some extra cash, but I kept forgetting about it as I found much else that filled my life. Friends I made, as I mentioned, even the acquaintances are nice to have; helping a few newpbies, especially those I feel may have some talent or are nice people. I have been offered ways to make money, by joining communities, but I have always been a lone wolf. However, I have seen it work. A young man who writes pleasant little posts about himself, his family, his walks to work, all with photos, because he is a loved member of his community and is always nice to everyone, he has risen in rep far above me and often makes 15 to 30 steem/SP for his posts. Each time I see him do well, I am so glad, for I know how frightened he is, having a wife and child to care for, that he might not earn enough at his job or even be fired and then fail his family. This gives him a small safety net...
My dear friend, Steemit, as with all things idealised, will not and cannot live up to our expectations and hopes, but we can still get value out of it - it all depends on what we want and what we offer. You have been an inspiration and helped others - even at a cost to you, so I cannot believe you have not been rewarded by being at Steemit, even if it has not been in the ways you hoped for.
I hope that my opening up about my books has not lost me my few friends here (as it lost me two of my most loved family members who no longer want to know me), but if you have tried reading any of the posts about Cherine, you will have been wondering, so I felt I owe the explanation to those who have stood by me. btw - I am writing a silly SF/Fantasy story, my first real attempt for years now. It is a light story, about what makes any specie a 'human' and the effect of any specie setting rules as to what qualifies others as human. I will not start posting until I see I am well into it - or else I will start to feel I cannot live up to the expectations of others and give up :)
Whether you, ultimately, go or stay, I will always think of you as a friend.
I think I have just read the most inspirational comment on steemit ever, and if only for that, my negative post was worth taking the time to write, I salute you good sir, keep up the good fight!
Whenever my reward payouts get me down it helps to remember back to how long it took to get my first cheque from Facebook.
You would do well to have a read of @taskmaster4450's breakdown of the reasoning of the dLive Team's jumping ship in the link below.
https://steemit.com/busy/@taskmaster4450/dlive-is-leaving-the-reason-a-farce-and-steem-won-t-miss-it-a-bit
What we need are the users that want to be here for the community and getting rewards as an extra perk. The amount of those on my follow list who have fallen off the steem map since the drop in steem price has been surprising. Even more surprising is finding some of them quite active on FB during my first visit there in two months about a week ago.
To dLive my opinion is good riddance. DTube now has live streaming, which makes one question dLive's motivation.
For those fair weather users that are only here when the price is right, then good riddance to them too.
Fair comments indeed, I guess I keep reading too much negative stuff on here, and it takes me along with the thinking.
Wait till you read my review on tyrbe.one, it is scathing to say the least.
Looking forward to it. At least we have dLive To thank for the spike in recent postings. 😎
Here is my answer - It's a blog and a window into people's beliefs.
I have a wordpress blog too and that pays nothing at all. But I've actually done OK from Steemit - not from the payouts but from the insights
Steemit is just like the rest of the world - a bunch of sheeple getting shafted by zionists and rich fuckers. That's how the world works, and any platform that doesn't work that way will crash and burn.
But we can do anything we want, and hold any expectation we want. I like it when you say Steemit is shit because it reminds me that for some reason none of this bothers me and I don't give a toss about HF20.
I don't know why but not having put any money into Steemit probably helps! All my cryptos are 100% profit.
And I get a few laughs from it.
Because of Steemit I bought bitcoins for $1000 and sold them for $17000.
And because of Steemit I wouldn't buy bitcoins now for $6500 (or EOS for any amount) - not because of what is said but because of what is not said. What I'm getting is an inside line into what other people think, and if they think complete shit that is often more useful to see than anything else.
Top comment (s) Though my thoughts still stand, it is hard to watch so many talented people leave, due to low/no rewards, when I got here there was steemtruth tp and p/flaws all making top quality articles, plus many many more, now there is only 1, and it looks like he is hardly posting now also.
I do care about hf20 as it takes more money from those with the least to give, and has locked up my wallet on Bittrex, and that is never a good thing.
Steemtruth was brilliant but wasn't there other stuff going on there?
https://steemit.com/life/@steemtruth/caring-for-a-dying-parent-that-i-don-t-like
There are still good posts - beat this!
https://steemit.com/truth/@perceptualflaws/the-fake-big-business-green-energy-revolution-power-to-the-people
Yes, I spent many a long hour on disco talking to him about his father, in confidentiality I shall not repeat a word of what was spoken. Apart from to say his father passed away around 5 or 6 months ago.
Old percyf is a friend, and I respect all of his posts, losing my old pc and discord was a huge loss for me, I also spent time talking to pf on there too.
Sounds like you have had a awesome ride from steemit, and to that I have to tip my hat and say "very well done"..........................................
I never know how you have time to do all this stuff - Usually I barely speak to anyone privately - if I'm going to type I at least want to be seen if not paid!
In 2016 I made good $ on Steemit, and in 2017 good money on cryptos. But I'm not writing off 2018 - if the last three months are anything like 2017 I could potentially do very well.
But a big difference now is that I'm not naive about cryptos and I won't only be taking out 20% of the gains. Which was awesome, but this time it will be 50% as my std default, and more if I can time riding the big manipulations right.
Well the time part comes from not having to work for someone else. I have a healthy bank, and take care of my daughter during most of the year, as my good lady is forced to work, if she does not, there is no medical care for her and my daughter, I tried letting her help herself to my bank account and not work, it ended in low self esteem, for her, maybe something I should not be writing on here, who knows eh.
So yes, in the school terms I have all the time in the world, I try to maintain my bike projects, though family comes first, and that's me bro, thats where I am now.
LOL - does she read your posts?
Some, if they are in depth, others not, is she on steemit? nope, she tried it, she did not like it. She does like my longer form posts though.
It's sad but true. So many of the inspiring individuals who were here when I joined Steemit 18 months ago have disappeared into the wild blue yonder, finding their well-researched and compelling content going unrewarded.
True that, and that is my point, so many talented people falling by the wayside unless willing to "buy their way to trending!"
I know a few of them people, and I know for a fact they will not be coming back.
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STOPThere is a lot of negativity around D-live's decision to leave steem blockchain and open or work on their own blockchain. I think a lot of the reaction is shock, and I do not think people are looking at it as a business move. They started on steemit with the hopes of building and testing their product. Imagine if more companies could find a method to vet their products to see if it works and if people would be interested in it. Look at the view from an investor point, now an investor knows that this product this company is trying to get me to invest in works, the investor can now make a very well informed decision as to whether they should invest in it.
I myself am a little leery of the accounts that are shouting the loudest about what D-live did, especially the very large accounts. I looked and read over the reasoning post from the "w" something guy, and found it to be a well laid out reasoning.
If steem inc did not take measures to protect their interest in the development of this product then it is a lesson they may learn not to repeat in the future.
Every day there is a lot of negativity on steemit, there should be more positivity for d-live, they had a desire, they worked within the system, and they created what they feel is a successful product and now want to take it to the next level. There is nothing wrong with that.
Lots more to say, but I will end it with once again saying I do not think they deserve all the negative internal press they are getting from large account (whales/orca's) on steemit.
I have been reading "their" posts all day, the orcas, the positive steemit people, always banging on about how good everything is, and it defies logic that not a single one of them sees reality, until it bites.
Have a superb weekend my fellow "realist".....................
U are one of the top accounts I look to whenever I log onto steemit, please never leave! It would be a dark day for us all, losing u or another truth teller among a sea of bullshit can not happen, I have thought to stop myself, but in the end our voices have to be heard no matter the cost...
Thank you for the compliment, it means a lot, and I am not going anywhere, I just get a bit down about steemit some days, like a lot of people do.
Keep it real bro, and lets "let the truth be known"...................
I don't know how i missed this post mate. Yes steemit can get you down sometimes. I am glad you are still here posting great content thanks as i look forward to your insightful thoughts and research. Have a great day mate :)
Cheers my friend, right back at ya.
It just winds me up seeing great writers go unnoticed sometimes, especially when they leave.
All good though for now bro.
Yes i know mate i had some i followed early in my steemit days and a fair few have long gone now:)
I was sent something by Gab, in my email. They do not ask that we keep it confidential, but I decided to choose an older post of yours, just in case:
And here is the url; I do not think you can download the leaked documents, but by scrolling through it you'll get a good understanding how they BS themselves.
Gab.com Cited By Google As A Threat To Their Censorship Plans
https://www.scribd.com/document/390521673/The-Good-Censor-GOOGLE-LEAK#from_embed
Enjoy
:-)