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RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues ๐ - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! ๐
Congratulations to all the usual suspects and the new ones.
Unlike @lynncoyle1, rather than being off out I'm off to bed shortly! ๐
Thank you @abh12345 for the second place and to referring to me as "The lovely @gillianpearce". That made my day! ๐
Thank you @curie for the sponsorship.
Well done to @janton for another win and to @themanwithnoname for making it into the top three.
Good work @glenalbrethsen. There seems to be no stopping you.
Right. That's it. I really need to get off to bed now.
Have a great week everyone. ๐
Congratz again this week! Amazing how good you guys are at this. And you are going to bed? for real? here I was thinking you top engagement people never get to sleep. ๐
Thanks for the congratz @headchange. It's true I do go to bed later than I would like if I get caught up commenting and then it makes it harder to get to sleep so I end up getting up later and later.
It is not recommended and something I am continually trying to curb. The time one differences are the problem. I'm just out to go to bed and suddenly everyone gets very chatty. ๐
Exactly! I do the same thing. I have been known to lay down and think of a good comment so get back up lol Warning never ever forget to mute the Ginabot at bedtime. Don't ask me how I know this ๐
Well that makes me feel good @headchange I have never even come close to doing that. And whether I mute the Ginabot at bedtime or not makes no difference to me at all as she would be nowhere near my bedroom.
In fact, it's not uncommon for me to forget to check my phone until lunch time.
Ah. I'm feeling so much better now. Thanks for that @headchange! ๐
I guess us slow moving types just have to make up the extra time somewhere. Then again could be why I seldom catch you typing at the same time as I do. Not much Steemit stuff gets done after lunch in my world.
Glad to be of service.
And where is lunch in your world then @headchange?
Not in my stomach if I stay on Steemit lol
Lol! I think the top five never sleep haha!
Good eventually they will all need a nap maybe the rest of us can catch up some lol
Even if they do, we still can't catch up lol!
I wish I could say with confidence there was no stopping me, because I don't feel like my numbers reflect that, but I very much appreciate the kind words. I'm still plugging along here, trying to make a go, and I think in some part succeeding.
Congratulations to you for Zenning your way to No. 2. I think that's a new verb I just made up. :)
I'm still striving for the balance you've been getting closer to striking than I have. Sometimes it might not eem like that, but I think you are. The ongoing struggle, I find, is to continue to recognize things as they are. They are good. Could things be better? Of course. Could things be worse? You bet they could. So, we keep going, doing what we do, finding ways to contribute that makes us happy and fulfilled, and let the chips fall where they may, because what else can we do? And in the end, isn't that enough?
Good luck to you this week. :)
I like the idea of Zenning my way to number two @glenabrethsen. In fact, I like the idea of Zenning my way to anything. ๐
I'm glad you can see some balance that I am striking here. That's one of the positives of having fewer people around as far as I'm concerned. I definitely feel more relaxed about it than in the early days, that's for sure.
Whether or not it's worth the effort is still a question I haven't answered for myself. Right now it is because it's not stopping me doing other stuff I want/have to do. ๐
Just need to crack the late nights thing. It's three steps forward and two steps back with that one! ๐
Good luck to you too this week! ๐
Well, I don't know how much you have invested in STEEM, but if all your SP is through rewards, that's quite the feat in under seven months. That's not necessarily the only measure of success here, but it is definitely one of them. And with as many comments as you make each week, you're definitely getting out there, so people get to know who you are. And doing all of that coming in and out of things while you're doing what you want/need to do in the outside world is pretty amazing. I know you're not regularly writing 1000-plus word posts, but posting in the upper 20s each week is still amazing. So, Zen away, I say!
I suppose we all have to answer that question. I guess it depends on what you're expectations are and whether you're fulfilling them, getting closer to fulfilling them, or you see yourself able to fulfill them in the future. Do you?
Yeah, I've been staying up a little later than I want, too, but there's a bunch of folks who come online in the evening for me. I guess it would be early morning for you. So, I'm not sure what to do about that except to keep going or calling it a night. So far, I've kept going. :)
I've bought about 120 Steem @genalbrethsen, back in March.
I was going to buy some more when it went below $1 which of course it didn't do.
I'm at a point of reassessing this because I've realised this last week or so that my expectations were unrealistic as to the time it would take to build Steem Power.
And on that note I really must go to bed. I'm late again! ๐
Back in March. Okay. Still, that leaves a pretty good accumulation of SP from posting, commenting and curating, which I find amazing. Well done. :)
I haven't done exhaustive research, but it only stands to reason that no one here has made whale status (500,000 SP) simply by posting and curating on Steemit. The payouts would need to be extraordinary to get there in two years. Let's say someone pumped out 25 posts a week. They would need more than $192 SBD/SP netted each post to get there by now. To be an orca you factor down by ten to $19.20, which is still rather ambitious, but possible. Maybe there are a few of the Steemit made orcas floating around.
In reality, though, the vast majority of those who have been working for the last two years here aren't going to be much more than mid-sized dolphins. And because retention is lousy, the number of those still hanging around are going to be dwarfed by the potential dolphins there could be now if they'd found their community, hung around and worked away.
So, in my case, I've been doing reassessments on a regular basis, and it's been helpful. Step by step and little by little, we get there. If we stop though, we don't. It might not be quite that simple, but it's not that far off.
I'm doing the same very shortly, it's 11pm here and this post has taken up much of the evening.
Still, it's great (with the help of @curie) to be able to give out STEEM to some of the most engaged people on the platform, and one of those happens to be you :)
Thank you and good night :D
Thank you @abh12345. You put a lot of effort into this. I'm glad it feels worth it to you and @curie recognises what you do here. ๐