On being truly humbled by the wisdom of the steemit crowd
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I've moved to Hive, along with most other people, following Justin Sun's takeover of Steem in the Spring of 2020. I believe hive is a lot more decentralised than Steem!
Cheers!
Whoa, straight from the bottle sir!
Solid points, a quadruple whammy of community support, and what - x10 less than what is required to hit trending.
Need we say more!
A resteem and a congratulations for that achievement :)
Cheers!
I only drunk out the bottle for dramatic effect - you'd never catch me doing that with a bottle of single malt off camera - that's hyper-reality for you!
Cheers!
Straight from the bottle; a man after my own heart :)
I went back and read your "Why I Quit Teaching" post and not-so-oddly-enough, those are pretty much the same reasons I quit teaching in Canada. I taught high school for many years (ages13-18 ish) and loved the majority of it, but the politics eventually sent me packing.
This says so much,
I spent the last 10 years of my career at a Fine Arts School (Grade 1 - Grade 12/ 5 year olds-18 year olds); there were so many great things about that place, but let me tell you, the artsy folks bought into that "positive psychology movement" hook, line and sinker!
Your comment on your own post didn't go over my head either...that guy with his $500+ intro post (a collection of photos with him holding a sign ugh!), and yours being quadruple hit by @curie, @ocd, @steemiteducation and @sndbx-alpha not even coming close to that total, is so so telling.
Why isn't everyone up in arms, or at the very least, swiggin' from the bottle too? :)
Have a look at this post by @denmarkguy and his "modest proposal to solve the trending page issue". I think it's something you will find interesting ;)
Cheers!
Interesting to hear that you've 'left the building too'. Thankfully none of my department buy into that positive psychology BS, they're all way too deep for that, and I've got a few cynical old lefties in their 40s yet to hold the fort with.
I've settled on the strategy of just avoiding the trending pages.... part of the reason I did the post is because (a) I want to do one weekly vlog and (b) while down the pub I got my 4th community upvote and then (c) the line about 'wisdom of the crowd' which @ned used in that recent video gave me a title... I wasn't ever intended to do a sarcy/ ranty video but a conflation of factors just sort of fell into place.
I'm actually quite into personal-vlogging as a thing now, I quite enjoy it!
I will check out that post at some point for sure.
"I left the building" partially because of politics, but truthfully, when we found out my husband had cancer and the writing was on the wall, so to speak, I simply decided that my time was better spent elsewhere...with him. We moved from Canada to Mexico and here we are :)
I too just avoid the Trending pages; it's way too controversial and superficial for me to get too worked up about, but your post focused on the irony of if all...something I just couldn't ignore.
Vlogging. Hmmm. Does it surprise you that you like it? It's something I have not considered, and I'm not sure I will. I will have to unpack that one later because I don't really know why haha but I am curious as to why you "quite enjoy it" :)
Cheers to 'leaving the building'. There's an Elvis reference there somewhere :)
Definitely the right move to quit then, sorry to hear about your husband. Cancer gets so many people, half of family died of it when I was a child, and then many more since, it's grim, but acceptance and making the most of the time lief is the only way to go with it!
As the vlogging (sounds a bit trivial going back to it) it makes you think a bit harder and cut all the crap out when in the process of scripting.. and it makes you think differently too.
Karl.
Thank you for that; live life in the now. That's all you can do.
And no, your vlogging is not trivial now...it was trivial before haha. Just kidding, it's something I keep thinking about, but it never seems to go any further. I totally understand having to "cut all the crap out" though. Maybe that's what's holding me back :)
I guess there seems to be two parallel things happening here in Steemit.
There is the 'viral' trending content, which seems to be more disconnected, and less about Steemit. On the other hand people deeply embedded in the community are making a different kind of content. It get's noticed because it's good but it probably wont achieve the same success (monetarily).
I'm curious as to how this eco system will evolve, I am hoping real stories from real people will start to become the new trending, not just a bunch of gaming streams. Good to see @larrymorrison on trending talking about some real shit.
You have it spot on with the first point, and yes it will be interesting to see how the platform develops.
As to @larrymorrison.. never heard of him but I just checked him out, noticed he uses bid bots and that just puts me off.
Zen's my thing anyway, so he's got nothing to teach me.... I'm perfectly capable of just sitting here by myself, or with others, if they care to join!
A cup that is full is useless! Only the ego believes it has nothing to learn because evolution can be painful and so apathy becomes your shield to the percieved pain of growth.
Yes thanks, I know that... all I was saying is that someone who uses bidbots on a social media platform is unlikely to have anything to teach me. As I see it bid bot use contradicts N8P 5 and thus 3 and also 6 and probably thus 7 and 8 too.
However, I continue to stumble across numerous teachers out there! Quite often just oridinary people.
Also, evolution is a mental construct which I belelieve restricsts capacity for growth.
Anyway, there are many paths.... so I'm not gonna carry on nitnpicking!
Peace !
Wow, @phillyc, thank you! I'm humbled that you appreciate me putting "real shit" out there. I love talking about that kind of stuff and hoping I can find others who like it too. I honestly choose DLive as the platform, not just because of the disarray and problems I see over at DTube, but because I was hoping that my content would set itself apart from what everyone else is doing. Thanks again!
Now I want to drink dammit! Probably wait till the weekend though....
It was just a mid week weakening on my part.. I do love my real ale local!
@revisesociology you got me laughing.
Have been hearing about Charles Dicken's book but haven't read it. Do it think it's nice for me to get some from a book store and if yes, I would also like to get some titles you think is great by the writer.
Hi - Absolutely recommend some Dickens... Great Expectations is his best novel IMO!
Although TBH I'd recommend reading them in chronological order - he gets better with age, shame to read the best last!
Okay..
Thanks would see if I can get it here in Nigeria..
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