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     6 years ago (edited)

    I put a lot of effort into my videos!! I wanted an alternative to YouTube so I started a Dtube channel. The Blog (Steemit) came with it which I got used to over time. I was being patient while Dtube developed and solved the many upload issues it was having. Meanwhile I met people on Steemit and learned to be a blogger of sorts and uploaded videos when it was working. It was a growth experience for me as I am not normally a social gal. Then the hard fork happened. I noticed some things during that time that concerned me about those at the top and how the hard working content providers are viewed.

    Then there's the issue with usability for new people so I was concerned about growth and sustainability. Again, videos are time consuming to make. I stopped using DTube about 2 months ago as the upload issues continued and were wasting my time. I found other platforms I could use smoothly and efficiently. They are video based-no blog. I am happily growing those. Slowly but they are growing. I was already coming to the conclusion I am wasting my time and effort here. Not with money but with audience, my time, and future use.

    Then this current nonsense happened and I watched and waited while I looked around and did some research. Crap rolls down hill. I continued snooping over this last week to see if I can get a beat on the real deal here. My account isn't worth cashing out at this point in time so I can just let it be. I don't know how to anyway. I figured if it ever accumulated enough value I would look into it and find out. None of my crypto based platforms are cash cows for me. Not really the point of making the videos I do.

    I feel bad because I begged some people who wanted to leave after the hardfork to stay. I already apologized to them.

    Sorry so long but I figured other folks I know would ask as well. Thanks @baah.

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     6 years ago 

    I gather from what you say, that the last straw so to speak was this harassment that let's say "visited" your friends even though it seems you only hinted at it with "crap rolls downhill", so I gather.

    I had made about 660 steem last year in my first 6-8 months, by and large from comments. I cashed out (in wallet page under your SP you initiate a powerdown, turning the amount you chose into liquid steem, it takes 13 weeks, each week you will get a 13th of the total powered down) around the end of July '17 and probably made a good $1000 after trading some in August and then again at the end of December, taking pretty much full advantage of the markets. Needless to say, after I started the power down I left the scene untill December or so. When I started here a year before that in Dec of '16 Steem was not even a year old and it was very promising and even at 6 cents at the time engagement seemed of higher quality than a year later when I had come back. I'm not a blogger, I'm a curator and consumer, and every once in a while I might make a post or two about my experience as such. Engagement has never been as great as it was in the first half of 2017. During that time we had the whale experiment, when our voting power literally increased by a magnitude, as the whales were neutralized by @abit and @smooth and others who were flagging them since, after @dan left (the creator/dev of steem), the much anticipated HF 17 (later dubbed hf 17.5 and finally hf 18) didn't addess the main issue that the community was vehemently proposing was absent from the changes (n^2 voting power curve making an account with 10sp 100 times more powerful than an account with 1sp). That experiment lasted weeks and then months and ultimately I think was responsible for the surge in price in May of that year. Like I was saying the engagement had never been the same, people started losing hope despite the price because of malicious flagging and that only worsened with bots. I'm telling you all because it might give you a new perspective on the community before you joined. It would not take much effort to link your work on here, use up your VP on curating content (maybe even delegate it to fighting abuse) and collect the rewards or simply power down but still continue to cross post your work for the benefit of the audience you have here. Leaving because you've become disenchanted with the development or because of the behavior of one person harassing your friends or a combination of those issues is understandable yet if I were you (content creator) I'd be hard press to not cross post to the platform, even if that means including a disclaimer about those issues, as when it comes to alternatives to publish and monetize your work as a content creator, this place still has a lot of potential and still continues to hold it's first mover advantage for what it is. Yeah, steem wasn't created with "youtube" alternative in mind, but even if dtube is being buggy I'd consider cross posting here as you have build yourself an audience and I doubt anyone will consider it disloyal or otherwise not cool to do so. Just my two cents.

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     6 years ago 

    I appreciate your 2 cents. I really do. Thank you so much. I will consider this. Listening to folks is important. I will take my time and carefully consider what to do with this blog. I may just take an extended break. There are some really awesome folks here that I enjoy supporting their hard and creative work. Really really good people. Thank you. I appreciate your advice.