RE: Perspectives in Looking at My #STEEM Stake
Great post @newageinv! Really appreciate your perspective on not just "jumping in," as I and many others did, but staying the course and remaining engaged, in spite of the market in 2018. As you well know, I have done the same. Time will tell how smart we were!
"Although I cannot give any figures yet, I can clearly see a correlation between stake and curation rewards as my stake has increased. That is despite me not seeking optimization strategies with curation as I continue to mostly manually curate content I enjoy without paying attention to when I vote. I have recently found a consistent stream of good authors that I have started to provide auto-votes but I still mostly manually curate."
I extracted this as it stood out to me, knowing how much of your time you must be investing "in here." $$ is one thing, time is quite another. Do you have any approximation on that? Daily, weekly, or however you might be keeping track of that? And if that is too probing a question, not a problem, as I respect that
You are among the small group that encourage me to keep going. Reaching dolphin status has been significant for me, as presumably it provides an indicator of how much "influence" we have in our engagement efforts. I think that is vitally important going forward. Again, time will tell!
Right now, I am looking at my feed 3-4 times a day for at least 30 minutes at a time. My morning and night routines are longer because I set myself to leave to work and go to sleep by leaving my feed engaged. It has been tough to keep up to be truthful and recognize it is not sustainable but I feel the opportunity is so great to accumulate at these prices and create a base now that activity is down that I press myself to do so everyday. Despite this, I still feel I miss incredible content but we can do but so much. The importance for me is how to adjust going forward by ensuring that my time is spent where value is added and for me that is motivating users with great content and educating newer users as well as supporting minnows to be.
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Unfortunate the disruption in our engagement here @newageinv, but my full-time job and family responsibilities come first, including needing to leave for work yesterday (and again this morning, in a little bit …). Unavoidable, at least for now.
Sustainable. That is certainly my key word. Coming to terms with how much time on Steem I can realistically invest. $$ are one thing. Time is quite another. Last summer, I knew the time and effort I was putting in then “in here” had too high a price tag on the impact on my life “out there.”
With that said, I am still honestly working on establishing a “rhythm” to what I am doing. After almost 7 months, it is still somewhat a “work-in-progress.
You are doing a great job on this, from my perspective. For which you should be commended. Do you find your interaction with new Steemians results in much dialog with them? That holds up over time?
My focus has been on the PIFC Community, but have been trying to figure out a different “rhythm,” so I can invest at least some time with brand new Steemians. Haven’t really got there yet …
Thanks for your feedback and engagement! It is truly of the most valuable I have here in the ecosystem. Unfortunately, while I do get engagement it is not as much as I would like which is why I try to go out and do it myself. I think it is more a fact of how low the numbers of users has been lately which I hope reverses soon enough.
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Thank you @newageinv ...
... right back at you! 👍
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