RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues 🏆 - STEEM prizes available! 🎁
That's nice of you to say, @bashadow. I'm just hanging out, trying to have fun and do some encouraging along the way. Congratulations to you and your placing. It's amazing to me how so many of you are keeping your commenting numbers up when I've been scrambling around to do it.
The drop in STEEM is definitely in play here. And, I think about a third of the people I follow have been publishing less than normal, so that's not helping. While there doesn't appear to be too many bulls in sight, hopefully they'll start chasing off the bears soon.
Upvoting is just going to take a hit. I managed to do a little bit more this week through some rationing, but I don't like it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but the amounts I can leave have been cut in half, so there's not really much I, you, or most of us, including the higher SP can do about it, other than to try to keep going and wait for the bull run.
Today I noticed a very slight uptick in my account value, so it seems hings are getting a bit better, first time in a week it has gone up, even if it was only by a few dollars (13), it is still better than going down even as rewards come in. So tomorrow, Hopefully still a tad bit higher. It's he slow times like this that people should be posting, more chance of being seen, because of fewer post.
At least it is not like last year in may, I looked at a couple of post and comments from then, there were big name people with 9 votes and only $0.02 in reward, It was rather sobering to see those small numbers. At least we have @dustsweeper to help us out, what a fricken God send that was from Dave and Daniel.
Things have to go up at some point, right? We've been in the downturn for a little longer than the other times since I've been here. So, hopefully, we're working through all of that, whatever that is.
It's true that things can always been worse. Having nine votes for $0.02 is almost as bad as having no votes, because you know people are trying to help but they just can't, so you feel bad for them and the post. :)
We do need to hang around and do as much as we can. Hopefully, things will work out. Not much we can do about it either way, so we might as well do what we can with what we have and see what happens.