THANK YOU
I have been on the Steem blockchain for more than a year now. I have met so many new and diverse people, learnt new things about the world, about people and about myself. I have written, oh how I have written! I have spent almost every waking hour of this one year plus, composing poems, crafting fiction, penning nonfiction just to sate the demands of the content creation premise on which the Steemit platform stands upon. I think, if I had not discovered Steemit, I would have stopped writing a long time ago.
The steem blockchain gave me a reason to believe that writing is something wonderful. It has given me what no other blog, literary journal, literary contest has given me, which is the knowledge that my skill is appreciated and even celebrated. There is nothing sweeter to me than opening my ginabot notification bot on discord and finding notifications of votes and comments on my posts. It is a great emotion that I can’t seem to get over despite the number of months that I have been posting here.
One of my favourite notifications are those ones where the Curie curation team come in like SWAT and pump votes into my post. To see a post that had little or no votes some few hours before, suddenly become a top earner on my lists of posts is an amazing thing. I still get a tingle whenever Curie visits my posts. It is like father Christmas just came through and it is not even August.
Ocd also bring goodies to my posts every once in a while. I have no idea why and how they decide when to pay a post a visit but I know that when they do, they change people’s feed from dreary to sunny. It is a wonderful feeling, having all these altruistic projects coming into my blog and celebrating my skill with me. I can never truly explain how much they have contributed into my growth and my presence on the Steemit platform.
Despite this, I have had issues with interaction. Most of my curation are automatic. This means that it is rare for an individual to actually read my content and share with me their thoughts on the comment section. Last week, I was shocked to my bones when the Pay it Forward crew marched into my post about dealing grief. They came with not just the votes but with words. My post had comments up to twenty and none of them were simple comments. I am talking about comments long enough to be posts. It was amazing.
On that day, I saw the power of interaction, community and interest at work. This was not the work of bored surfers just clicking upvotes and resteems. These were real people taking their time to engage with me on what I had written and shared. They wanted to exchange ideas with me and come to a better understanding of life. Is this not one of the primary tenets of the Steemit platform – interaction and community? I have misplaced rewards for interaction for too long that I have become jaded. I was no longer sure if anyone was still reading posts on the platform except the usual suspects whose comments I find everywhere I go.
I was lucky to have experienced such genuine interest and I hope the Pay it Forward crew will continue to leave impacts in their wake as they propel little rewarded posts to bigger and better plots. Thank you @simplymike for this eye opening experience. I will never forget it. Good night.
©warpedpoetic, 2019.
The pay it forward crew do a great job on Steem and I think your words on grief hit home with many of them as they lost a friend and I lost a friend a couple weeks ago. There are many people who are here interacting despite the money attached, but not enough. You have a gift, whether people read or not, it shouldn't stop you creating.
Oh they are wonderful for what they did. It is sad to lose friends, good friends. I hope he is in a good place.
Oh I don't really bother if it is read by many or not. I know I have a core readership base. They may not upvote all the time or comment at all but they are reading and that's fine enough for me.
Now I'm double as happy that I curated your post for @pifc :0)
It's like I said before, we almost have the same SteemIt age, and although your username is very familiar to me and I have read a couple of your posts (not enough), I think it's one of the first times I actually interacted with one.
For me personally, personal posts or informative posts are a lot easier to leave a comment on than stories or poems.
For example,my comment on A Corpse's Tale:
There was not a lot more I could say about it, even though it was an awesome post.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should change your way of writing. I'm just trying to find an explanation for the fact that you didn't receive a lot of engagement in the past.
I'm sure a lot of people do read what you write - because it is good stuff - , but I think a lot of them just find it hard to come up with an insightful comment.
It's like @tarazkp mentioned: the Silent Grief post was very personal, and it resonated with a lot of people. It made it easier for them to leave a comment.
Anyway, again I agree with @tarazkp:
It seems that a good portion of things on steem are automated now, unfortunately. There is nothing more satisfying (Ok, a few things. ;) lol) than having a stimulating back and forth with someone on an intellectual level. Unless it's some advanced A.I., you're not going to get that from automation. When you remove the human element from being directly involved, to a passive onlooker, it changes the very shape of an ecosystem.
It can be a double-edged blade though, as you can see it turn for the better, or the worse. I think, with things like this anyhow, it just takes time to find that equilibrium. When things are run by the community and people who actually care about what they're putting hard work, time, money, etc into, it is only a matter of time before they come to conclusions as a collective, as to what is best for everyone involved. It is the beauty of the thing we've been taught since childhood (most of us anyway), teamwork. :)
That's wonderful! That's the best type of interaction and that's what I look for here on steem. I haven't been here as long as you have, by far, but I am learning about things around here and I've had some decent comments in reply to some of my postings as well. I think that the curiosity you seek for the input of others will be satiated over time! As, here I am, another individual who has read your content because I was curious as to what another individual would write, and it came out to be that we are the type of people who seek the same potential interactions with others. Intellectually gratifying ones. :)
I will be sure to check back into your posts when I have the time and observe more of your content!
Hey @lookplz, good to see you here. I think the benefit of automation is that people have so many accounts they follow, whose content creation they enjoy but do not have the time to read, so they delegate to community projects or to the accounts they love or they simply follow their voting trail and as such they upvote the aforesaid posts everytime even if they did not read the post.
I think the issue is how often does a big upvote equate with the comment section. That's a rarity. Not even a whale discussing the price of crypto gets the same amount of comments as the upvotes he or she receives.
I would love to be sated with words and to even find time to write more comments because I too am guilty of the same. 😂
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The truth is alot of persons have given up on steem especially with the low price, but I think with the new developments there are gradually coming back to steem blockchain. I guess I will also try as much as possible to keep join up before it's late ☺
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TrufflePigThis post is very true and I can relate. One wants interaction NOT just bots. I enjoyed reading this and I popped you a follow. My voting power is on leave.. So unfortunately I cannot upvote this. But thank you for sharing.
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