I'm sure by now, no one is really doubting if @papa-pepper can produce a high quantity of high quality posts in a short period of time. Based on the feedback to my posts, I believe that has been proven.

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However, just because something can be done does not mean that it should be done.

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Just over two months ago, I was completely new to the steemit community. In that time I have climbed from a minnow to a dolphin and have gained an incredible number of followers, but I think that I am attempting to take a piece of the pie that is too big to be good to the community.

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Recently, @thecryptofiend posted THIS followup article on etiquette, and the second thing on the old list was "don't over-post."

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That really got me thinking some more, because I had already been thinking. You may have heard me once speak of posts as if they were lottery tickets and encourage newer users to make four quality posts each 24 hour period if they are capable of generating that much original quality material. This advice was given in an attempt to help them get noticed and catch some attention on this platform. I do not disagree with this advice that I have previously given.

However, @papa-pepper is no longer trying to get noticed.

Papa has been noticed, and has achieved such things as getting the most votes in a day and being in the "top 20" users getting the most whale votes in a week, multiple times.

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That may be great for me, but what does that do for you.

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There certainly was a financial enticement that drew me to steemit in the first place, but this community has become something more. If you've seen the Translation Opportunity offer that I put out there, you already know that building up this community and investing in it rate pretty high for @papa-pepper, even if there is no financial benefit in doing so.

Simply put, I am going to be changing the way that I blog again.

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Three main reasons exist for this.

• There are only a certain number of whales that exist.

• There are only a certain number of full-power upvotes available.

• The value of STEEM is worth less that it used to be.

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Only so much STEEM is available and each user's potential piece of the pie is limited.

For me to generate multiple articles on a daily basis that have the potential to draw away some of the votes that could have been invested elsewhere does not add to the sustainability of this community. In fact, it takes away from it.

I am only one man, and I have already gotten noticed and have been getting paid. This has worked out incredibly well for me, and for that, I am most grateful. However, I do not want my success to prevent yours. Many of you desire to get more of a payout. Many of you desire to be voted on by whale, or to even have a whale choose to follow you. If I continue to distract other users and take away from their limited amount of time available to invest in steemit, it will be harder for others to get noticed.

I'm always looking at ways to help and encourage, and I do not want to absentmindedly or unintentionally hurt or harm others.

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Because of this, I will strive to submit one quality post per day.

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Those posts will vary in content and length, and I will attempt to still be consistent, just less frequent. I enjoy blogging here and interacting with all of you, so I will continue to attempt to "feed" those who are following me, but just not as often.

If you like my post for the day, upvote it. If not, then move along and seek out something else. Enjoy my post if you can and while you can, and then move along and try to find even better quality posts from users who you can relate to even more than me.

You may have noticed the lack of a "Daily Adventures of the Last Bigfoot" yesterday. These comics will either continue, but be far less frequent, or perhaps I will open another account and dedicate it solely to the Bigfoot comic series. In a conscious effort to cut back on the number of posts that I make, I cannot afford to keep those coming out every day if I have anything else that I would like to post as well.

Of course, what @thecryptofiend really meant by "Don't over-post" was not to be posting a crazy amount of posts to flood the platform, and numbers higher than 4 posts per day were give as examples. However, I believe that in my position, posting 3 or 4 times a day could be seen as "over-posting." Opinions may vary, but I think that it will be best for this community if @papa-pepper rarely even posts twice a day.

If this effort provides an extra slice of the pie for others to share, then indulge.

Since many of you will most likely have some thoughts to share, I might as well ask for them.

What do you think about this idea?

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