It was actually a pretty boring weekend for @mrsbozz and I, so I was mildly worried about what I was goign to blog about today if anything.

I just commented on @robertandrew's post that I don't feel a overwhelming sense of failure when I don't post every day during the week, but it still nags at me a little.

I have some thing that have been kicking around in my head lately and I figured this might be a good time to get them out.

Steemit

The first one has to do with Steemit in general. I know there are a lot of poeple that have been upset lately that @ned has been a bit non existent. While I don't disagree with this sentiment, I just commented on a post by @exyle that I can also kind of understand it.

I work in the tech field and I am bascially a department of one. I have no secretary, no staff, it's just me agains the world. When we have issues or outages, sometimes I will physically "hide" in my server room so I can focus on the issue.

My reasoning for this is pretty sound. The more I have to explain to each person that comes to me what is wrong and how I am going to fix it, the more time that takes away from me actually fixing the problem.

Ideally, I would have a secretary that could get this information out to everyone while I work on the problem. Sometimes I shoot out a quick email letting everyone know how things are going, but people still stop me in the hall or come to my office because they didn't bother to read the email.

Although Steemit inc. has more than one employee (albiet less now), perhaps a similar situation is happening there. Instead of explaining everything that is going on, they want to focus on fixing it first, then they can fully and thouroughly explain to everyone what the issue was.

I am not saying that is what is going on, or that it is even right (we have seen the power of a pinned post lately and I don't think it too much effort for them to do that again). My theory might be something to keep in mind though the next time we wonder where @ned has gone.

Post Rewards

This one has been "bugging" me for a while now, but I haven't been able to articulate it yet. Hopefully I can do an okay job of explaining my concern today.

Take a look at the picture I posted from Steemworld.org of the post that I published a week ago. You can see that my total reward is $1.88 which really isn't that shabby these days.

My main concern is that $1.46 of those rewards are from groups that I delegate SP to. I am pretty careful about who I delegate my SP to and I usually only delegate to groups that I am a member of. Sometimes in return for those delegations said groups offer upvotes for your posts in return.

I understand that Steem is down right now and people aren't as active as they used to be on the platform. Perhaps I was a bit misguided to think that by a year on Steemit and growing my account to close to 2000 SP, I would be getting more than $.42 in organic votes. Quite honestly it is probably even less than $.42 because some of those votes are from trails that follow the delegated votes.

I have to believe I am not the only one struggling with this and it concerns me because what "alternative facts" does that lead you to believe about the value of your content. I will be honest, it is really nice to pull in $2.00 in rewards for a post. I know some people can't delegate or choose not to and their rewards are much less. The sad part comes when you start getting in your own head and tell yourself that probably less than 20% of those rewards were from actual people that maybe follow you and made the choice to upvote your post.

I don't know how to fix this. I know there are quite a few dolphins out there, even more so now that the price has been so low. At first I thought more of them should step up. Then I started to realize the more they step up, the more they have to spread around the same amount. People like @slobberchops have found a way to help with things like his @chops-support account that auto upvotes under appreciated authors. I am trying to do something like that with the @mrsbozz account as well.

If you read this, I want to hear from you. Let's start a discussion in the comments. Maybe a debate (though I am horrible at debating). Am I right in feeling that 20% is demoralizing? Should I just "get what I get and not throw a fit"? Is my math wrong or my viewpoint in general?

That's my mind today, hopefully you can find your way back out!

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