Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 10/01/18> Oh yea, it is fall now … grumpy old man syndrome kicking in.
Starts really flaring up...
This is the time of year when the GOMS condition I have starts really flaring up and I had a big flare on Sunday afternoon. For those of you who aren’t familiar with or don’t know someone with GOMS you are so very fortunate.
First noticed the signs...
I first noticed the signs of GOMS when I reached my upper forties in age and it has stayed pretty steady since then. This year though it looks like GOMS could end up being pretty intense since the flair up on Sunday was a little earlier than normal for a full blown episode.
For readers who were here last fall when I first got here I made mention of the fact that I hate the time change and how that screws with my body clock but that is only the half of it; fall here in south Texas is generally cloudy and usually pretty wet and those things just add to the problem. So just what is GOMS is the question I can hear you folks asking and so I will give you the explanation.
GOMS is the...
GOMS is the acronym for Grumpy Old Man Syndrome. Some folks are afflicted with it year round so I consider myself and my family lucky that it only seems to affect me in the fall and winter time of the year. I like spending time outdoors even in the heat of the summer, there is something about sunlight that just has a calming effect on me and lack of sunlight and shortness of the daylight hours in the fall and winter is a bad combination with me.
The wife and kids...
The wife and kids know this and tend to give me a little more space at this time of year and up until about the end of March. Plus my Parkinson’s seems to get a little worse each year in the fall and winter time. I tend to eat a lot more sandwiches at this time of year because my hand shaking gets so bad that it is hard to keep some foods on my dinner fork while I am eating, at least with a sandwich I can put both hands on it and not lose anything from the plate to my mouth like I do when eating with a fork.
A full blown...
Sunday though I had a full blown episode of GOMS syndrome and I couldn’t hold back over on WeKU and I blasted a person over there pretty damn good, they deserved it though. Well, they deserved it as far as I am concerned, we’ll let the WeKu community decide if I was right or not by how they react and if the folks running Weku do anything about it.
Sunday afternoon in Puerto WeKu...
If this were real life and you saw a person committing rape you would do your best to try and stop it and at least summon the authorities to come and arrest the person or at least give them a description of the assailant so they could be on the lookout and arrest them when they can. Well I happened to see a rape taking place on Sunday afternoon over at Puerto Weku, and rather than turn a blind eye I spoke up and sounded the alarm on the account that goes by the name @mdfisal.
That account is a scumbag in my opinion and should be banned from the WeKu platform and I am pretty sure there are several others just like that one, but that one happens to be the one I witnessed in the act.
Pretty sure we have...
I am also pretty sure we have some of those same scumbags here on steemit but I guess I haven’t paid any real attention to it since rape here on steemit seems to be an accepted practiced since it goes on so often; and not a damn thing is done about it. WeKu claims to be different so we’ll just have to see if they actually will be or if they are just blowing smoke up the skirt as we say here in Texas.
Just ten accounts...
@mdfisal has ten accounts that I was able to find linked to that account for the sole purpose of collecting the sign up bonus and to upVote @mdfisal’s main account.
The lazy bastard won’t even take time to make a post, he or she, (so maybe bastard wasn't the proper adjective, we can put bitch in there if need be) just makes some comments on peoples posts and then proceeds to upVote the comment from their account and the other ten “dummy” accounts.
Here on steemit that wouldn’t get you jack shit in the form of steem or sbd in earnings since accounts with no post, no earnings and no REP other than the 25 we start with, vote is worthless. It is a different story though over on WeKu.
A new account ...
A new account on WeKu with all those same things of “nothingness” does have a value of $0.75 or so, well that one little comment voted by all of @mdfisal’s accounts added up to the tidy little sum of $9.34 WeKu. If that isn’t rape of the rewards pool in broad daylight I will kiss your ass at high noon on the town square.
Now if that alone was enough to set my GOMS off let me tell you the icing on the cake of this story.
The icing on the cake...
I have worked pretty steady over there at WeKu since I started 22 days ago to build my REP score up from 25 to 50. Getting to 50 here on steemit damn near took me a full year, and I am proud of where I am at here with a 58.71, and you folks know that it isn’t easy to move those REP numbers up but can easily be torn down in no time.
Over on Weku that scumbag account of @mdfisal has a better REP number at 53 than I do, that really set me off.
Only made one post...
That account has only made one post, and that post wasn’t even worth a read. The post essentially said, this looks like a good place to get some money. Well banks are a good place to get some money too, but I guess @mdfisal wouldn’t think of going and robbing a bank because that might involve some effort which that person clearly isn’t about to do. It might also mean they would get their ass shot too.
Locked and loaded...
Well, I loaded my six shooter and fired off a post about @mdfisal and invited them to come upVote that post just like they upVote their own comments and also asked for community support on where and who to contact to report this abuse of the WeKu platform.
Put up or shut up...
It will be interesting to see what kind of response that post gets, people can talk all that crap about wanting to make WeKu a “better place” but it is time to “put up or shut up” as I see it. So I have put up an example of just how the abuse works and we’ll see if anything ends up being done.
Prime example of ...
So right there is a prime example of GOMS, and I apologize for airing some dirty laundry from another platform over here but that is just how PO’ed I am when the sun doesn’t shine enough and the daylight doesn’t last long enough each day.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
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Guzbuckers (gender doesn't matter, that's a good word) like that just get me cooking. That is just blatantly obvious and has to be called out.
I know that we have to allow multiple accounts here on steemit because the bots have to have a place to live and work from. Wouldn't be good to foul your own nest, would it?
If that sounds like I might be pissed about that you'd be correct. I am. I spend time every day chasing and flagging asshats like that. They just can't help themselves when they see the size of an adsactly payout. We keep them in check pretty well in house and when appropriate get steemcleaners and a few blacklists involved.
I spent a year chasing cheats and multiple accounts at a Pay To Click site. Those guys can take multiple to a whole new level. I unraveled several strings that were over 1000 accounts.
I guess the point is that it is doable. But it takes some serious will and determination. I really hope the HF20 tweaks caught some of that comment self voting crap. It's really awful.
One of the reasons I moved to Arizona was the winter sun. I was a bear when I lived in the north, I just wanted to hibernate. I still don't like the short hours, but at least I can get in the sun pretty much every day. Reminds me, I need to check the weather. It's been raining pretty steadily for over 12 hours, and our little corner of the world was said to get 2.5 inches in one hour during the start of the storm. Flash flooding for sure.
Ahhhh. It's good to be back in the saddle. Thanks for a great post.
Wow, over 1,000 accounts in one ring, that sounds like organized crime to me. I don't put a lot of faith in HF20 in reducing spam and bot strength, but hopefully it will. My thought on that is, if what they were doing in the past under the old system worked and they didn't run out of bandwidth, how will changing the name and raising the RC's by a factor of 10x change what they are doing, I am told that if I just do as I was doing before and didn't have a bandwidth issue I won't have one with the HF20 system, would that not be the same for those as well?
I guess time will tell.
Sun is natures way of recharging are batteries in my view, and it does have an effect on me and the family knows it as well. They don't see it themselves because with EDS they don't spend as much time outside due to the heat, that really screws with them and their bodies.
Glad we are back to our normal routine now too, tighten that cinch partner, we are riding again.
I often describe the Steemit platform as "genius" - and this is exactly one of the reasons why. Morons like the one you describe generally don't get far on Steemit, as you point out. Of course Steemit is not perfect by any means, but when others try to create a similar platform with what they perceive as improvements, quite often they are not really improvements at all – they just didn't think it through as thoroughly as maybe Dan did in the early days.
GOMS (or GOWS) – I don't think I suffer from it... yet. Too busy hillwalking. Though this year has been weird - a hard winter followed by a couple of months of dazzling sunshine, then weeks and weeks and weeks of rain and a sudden, early approach of autumn. Sometimes it feels as if we're living in a dark dungeon, but we're allowed out for a couple of months each year. I think it would be unbearable if it wasn't for all the winter fun me and my friends are looking forward to on the hills.
I think the other thing besides lack of sunlight is that I haven't quite got my timing figured out now that I have joined #steemibloggers and the extra time it takes to do those daily things has been cutting into my sleep, it is 2:15AM and I am still trying to finish up so I can get to bed.
I know exactly what you mean! I'm going to set up a lot more auto-voting, which is sad because I love doing manual curation and reading everyone's posts (as well as trying to listen to Dsound when I can get it to work and finding which device will play Dtube). But I simply can't keep up. Usually it's about midnight when I finish. I'm going to set up auto votes, and then binge-read, binge-watch and binge-listen while I'm doing other stuff.
I will never go to auto voting on posts of people I read, that I know wouldn't work for me. Where required I do it but I like reading and responding as well and that is the real enjoyment of all this to me.
If I do start autovoting I will still read their posts. But I'm away so often, my voting power sometimes gets up to 100%, and then I have to vote everyone I like 2 or 3 times in one day... I'm always playing catch-up!
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I suffer from GOMS, with frequent outbreaks of GOML (get off my lawn) symptoms flaring up.
But man, people are kinda dumb a LOT of the time. It's not us, it's them. This is an environmentally caused disorder, in my opinion.
I have only had one bout GOML, it just doesn't bother me except when the one time the neighbors cows got out and tracked up the whole front yard. It was really funny though, on a Saturday morning I was trying to sleep in and we had some friends over for drinks and dinner and they ended up spending the Friday night. That morning Bill holler's from the guest bedroom that there is a cow staring in the window at him. I told him, "you are still drunk, go back to sleep."
A couple hours later when we got up and went outside it was pretty obvious Bill was right, there were cow tracks everywhere, including the flower bed right in front of the window of the room he was sleeping in. That was over thirty years ago and he still brings up.
I bet he does, that's a fantastic story.
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Ha ha ha, that is good. I may have to send him that photo, I can't remember the exact date, but it was the Friday that the space shuttle Challenger blew up coming back into the earths atmosphere so it will be easy to look up. I will send it on the anniversary of that Saturday following that date of the crash. Thanks for sparking that idea.... "Bill remember when..."
Oh my mr Papper, people like that also rile me terribly and I don't even suffer from GOMS or rather GOWS!
My mother definitely has this condition when we have day after day of no sunshine, it's like the 😈 himself goes and sits on her shoulder!
Sorry to hear about the Parkinson's.
Yes, I need the sunlight and I really do see the difference in the fall and winter and so does the family, the tell me I should just hibernate and it would be a lot better for all. The Parkinson's is just an inconvenience at this point, don't know how long it will stay that way. I try and use mind over matter with it and it has stayed pretty much the same for the last thirty years with just minor shakes of the hands and trembles but over the last year my balance has been noticeably less stable as well. Thanks.
Well it will be a better place if they can nip it sooner rather than later, so when I run across it I am speaking up and sending emails to the [email protected] email account with the details, my first one went off last night to them so we'll see if they really mean business or not on that.
Are you bothering with weku? It's currently non fungible, unexchangeable, last I checked the witness page was blank and it's apparently a literal copy of steem code at some unknown older version level. I'm not convinced it's worth anybody's time given copycats rarely have anything to differentiate or new to offer....
I'm not investing much time into it. Just checking it out and will definitely not stay if I don't see something different come of it soon.
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Doesn’t the daylight stay relatively consistent there in south Texas? I’m way up north where the sun sets as early as 4:30pm during the winter. Talk about a short day!
I don’t get the hype over Weku. I have a feeling it will just be another sola. But hey, I could be wrong.
Winter time we are dark here by 5:30 in the evenings. Right now the sun goes down a about 7:15 or so.
The summer time we are light out at 6:00am and the sun doesn't set until around 9:00 so we aren't as consistent as you might imagine.
I suffer from GOLS. A similar set of circumstances, lack of light, cold wet weather and generally asine people. Luckily for me, my cold isn't as severe as it used to be but is enough to kick the arthritis into high gear. We get 12 hours of daylight here, every day, except when it is cloudy and overcast with rain. I loved summers where we lived in Canada as we had 18 hours of sun every day, but winter was a killer, dark at 2:30 in the afternoon...
It is hard to believe just how much it does affect you when you are outside most of the time, there is nothing better than sunshine in my opinion for making me feel good.
Sunshine is like a burst of energy for me. No sun, I am dragging...
Ahh, it's GOMS! I'm glad you cleared that up for me @sultnpapper. I turned 47 this year and have been beeping my horn and using expletives a bit more in traffic these days. Now I can tell the wife it's GOMS. LOl. Have you tried CBD oil for the Parkinson's? It's 100% legal and the CVSciences brand is the one I trust the most - https://pluscbdoil.com/. The stuff works miracles. If you Google "CBD for Parkinson's" you'll see some of the testimonies. I can attest to the fact that it works for GOMS too. Hope you have a great week, man!
Yep, those are some of the first symptoms you are describing. I will have to look into that oil, but not so much for me but for Shortie, she is in constant pain lately with her legs from the EDS that she has.
I can live what I have right now, it is more of an inconvenience but at some point it will probably get a lot worse. I had a customer named Skip that had it and near the end he was a total wreck and it weighs on me knowing that could be me as well.
That was one of the reasons I felt it so necessary to get some things on block chain. You just never know when you won't be able to something any longer. I will check that link out on Tuesday, no prescription necessary?
Sorry to hear about your daughter's pain. CBD should help and there's no prescription necessary. The regulated component, THC, is processed out of it and only the cannaboids are left. We give it to our beagle for his seizures and it works wonders. It's also helped my mom with arthritis and anxiety.
I will surely look into that real soon, the wife and girls are going to Disney in November and it would be great if that would help her enjoy the trip even more. I am afraid she will get over there and not be able to enjoy it because all the walking and she really doesn't want to have to use a wheel chair. Thanks Eric.
You're welcome! I hope this helps her. We've tried the gold and the green versions of the oil. The gold is the strongest and may be best in her case. I'd recommend that she try it for a few days before the trip to figure out proper dosage. My Mom takes the green version for her arthritis and anxiety. The stuff has brought her blood pressure down by twenty points.
My wife is researching it right now, I appreciate you letting me know about the colors, we definitely want her to be able to try it before they go next month and our oldest girl has some bouts with the anxiety as well so may be able to help her some as well. Good to know it works for that. Thanks man, your the best.
You’re welcome! Hope it helps!