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RE: 1st Art-Trail Contest: The Official @NoNamesLeftToUse Digital Art Entry
I need that incentive back that pushed me to create things like these. I thought about entering one into this contest but felt it wouldn't be fair to the competition. I'm looking around. Seems like the arts died here. There's a huge difference in what seems to be getting support. It takes two seconds to screen cap a chart from the internet. These massive artworks took hours upon hours and used to be appreciated. I'm baffled. Those charts are obsolete tomorrow.... This is so strange.
I used to sweat out writing a story chapter every night, and edit, find pictures or create dioramas for the chapter, then post at right after 7 am the following day. I had to quit that, the quality was being sacrificed for consistency, and I was having to make up the story as I went along, it got out of control. It was always based on the rewards increasing in the future though, and $5 here and there got my attention some how. $1.40, not so much. I still think that could change back to the old old days soon, but this is a long month refilling the pool.
Those images above are still tall, even reduced!
The refilling of the pool. It's a tough pill to swallow. I'm witnessing something with my own eyes. Some don't seem to be affected at all. I find that odd. I've also been led to believe that if a wealthier member of the community does enjoy my post, the police will come and take it away. I missed everything, I was gone. It's all one big mystery to me. If this place is going the way of "participation awards," I won't be able to handle it. I hate it when some dumb parent tells their kid they're the best singer in the world, when the kid can't sing. Tell the kid the truth... is that so hard? Rambling over...
It happened to me; three flags one day on a post because it had earned nearly three whole dollars by itself. No explanation, just triple flagged by whales. Smooth even drove back by and riddled my post with an adjustment flag later, just so that it was more fair for those who were sharing their favorite hummus recipes and such. I thought to myself 'I should set an example by continuing to post my best work, so that there would be something besides charts and graphs and hummus here.' That attitude lasted a good few hours. I started seeing the flags as rewards, 'my post was so good it had to be curbed, or therealpaul would drain the pool by himself'. And then three dollars became one, or forty cents, and the flags stopped coming on my posts. They'd put me in my place; the starving artist. My incentive to keep posting is all but gone now. I think about quitting, but I don't. The temptation to make sarcastic posts about Steemit is strong, but then Steemit becomes 'charts about how well Steemit is doing, and rants about how bad Steemit sucks.' Unsustainable formula. I'll be here at least until there is evidence that there is a pool to refill. I'm glad you are back, plain and simple, it's nice to have others who recognize the frustration. Also your stuff makes me happy by itself.
Lethargically steeming on,
-therealpaul
No matter how many different ways it's explained to me, I'm still left with more questions than answers. I left when the place was normal. I can legitimately say I feel like an outsider, someone new, not understanding the situation, not knowing what's going on. I can say, it doesn't look good.
And when it comes to the arts and independent artists, this place was a godsend. So much potential to revolutionize the entertainment industry in it's many facets. So many left... the new ones aren't on the auto vote lists so therefore struggle to get noticed, struggle to find incentive to be here. ...and why are they copy pasting the news! If it isn't charts its the same damn news story someone else got paid to write. Imagine how successful youtube would be if it consisted two channels and a one track mind...
After you went on break, it happened and I thought, "how did he know?" People started getting attacked by whales with mad cow disease, and lots of posters scattered. I actually thought at one point that if I was the only one posting, I'd get ALL of the rewards, and that the tough ones like me would thrive here. Fifty cents is a lot more than I would make on Facebook or such, and sometimes I have as many as 20 views on a single post, so I don't even know why I'm complaining here. ;) I could understand the point of the unpopular 'Whale Experiment', in that while it was fresh, regular minnows could see a difference in the rewards when they voted by a penny or two, but that translated into posts being worth pennies instead of dollars, and the excitement of penny votes was brief. The pennies are probably a more accurate representation of a lot of the post's values here, including my own stuff much of the time, but it's hard to be inspired when it went from $ to cents overnight. /rant
I gladly worked my way up to earn enough SP to be able to drop a penny on a comment. I've never been a fan of social assistance. I noticed a few who complained about things like voting power would actually cash out instead of attempting to accumulate enough SP to achieve what they wanted. They speak of the wealthy being greedy, yet they are the ones always asking and wanting more. Odd. Not many seem to see that.
As for how I knew. I didn't. The last post before I left was a bloodied up flag though, so maybe I did know and chose not to listen to that part of brain that predicts things.
This comment has been ranked as one undervalued mofo in the second half of this day, compared to a world where everyone gets a participation trophy for playing and being so brave as to hit 'post' for their recycled current news stories. If you would like to stop receiving these pointless reminders, move to Somolia.
That about sums it up nicely. I better get to packing. I'll send you all a postcard of something unrelated and the original name scratched off.
I think I might be depressed now. That's hard to accomplish with me. I did notice however, that during this entire conversation both of you forgot that while the rewards on our posts have tanked in the past month, our accounts themselves have quadrupled in value during that same time period. 649.00 is what I had in the steem bank the day he @nonameslefttouse went on break. 2550.00 is what I have in the steem bank now.
Depression passing....smile returning....facebook not looking more attractive...phew.
If you happen to still be up, I could use your advice on this post I'm making. If not hit me up in chat when you see this and have a minute :)