Well for what it's worth I think you write great comments (but I'm sure you know that). And even if you didn't think you did initially I'm sure you didn't annoy the crap out of everyone. Everyone likes attention! And you made a lot of really great points here.
I'm not going to lie, when I first found this platform, I was really disappointed, mostly because I didn't know who to follow, so I was just combing through posts on "new," and there's so much nonsense there that makes so much money. It's when you find the community and start to get introduced to the real talent that exists here--and there's a lot of it--and really put time and effort into engaging with people, that you realize how valuable it is. There is no way in hell that I would have encouraged my "real life friends" to join (like, I would have been somewhat embarrassed), but now I'm actively trying to recruit all of my very talented writer friends to help up the quality here. I actually want to invest time in it without just seeking out the immediate gain.
Totally agreed very cool. I was so popular literally was creating articles getting multiple cent upvotes. Lol, apparently the steemit community didn't care about what the Chicago Bears football was headed this coming off-season, haha. I may have the least relevant first post in steemit history. That's great I too agree I have hit the point where I know this is for real and people are going to find about it REALLY SOON it may as well be the people I know and you know, right? The community is not nearly as big as you think. I live in Iowa here in the (United) States, and have yet to find another person from my state! Talk about being on an island, I joked steemit is where you wind up after you taken from "the facebook rapture." Total diversity in opinion, total diversity in background, world view, world location, exact opposite of the (anti) social media platforms I stayed off until this one. Great commentary, I look forward to the post, being 38 years old I still have a pretty good recollection of what was going on during those days you are documenting in the past. Too funny, thanks the comment, keep up the great work!
I haven't met anyone here who has heard of it either! I haven't asked my crypto enthusiast friends, though... they might know.
The only reason I'm not upvoting my comments yet is that I don't have the SP for them to actually be worth anything so it's just a throwaway vote. Once I have whatever I need to get over the 1 cent threshold at 70% I'll be handing out upvotes to my commenters for sure. I hope nobody is taking offense...
No I don't care about that at all. Absolutely no problem. Heck I appreciate when people reply at all. I am running a few contests and have run my voting power down so low myself I have started sending people treeplanter or other bot upvotes some of the time because I am running a curation trail and I refuse to pass on voting the posts that those who joined are putting up. I told them to set their voting power minimum to like 80% or even a little higher. I set mine at 50% and am getting there pretty quickly. Oh well, I was lucky enough to get a little delegation from asher's contest a few weeks ago, I'll recharge then. Haha, don't worry about that.