What I'm feeling right now regarding Steemit.

in Writing & Reviews3 years ago

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I wanted to write this post for quite some time now. I felt it was necessary at that moment, but I just wanted to avoid any sort of misunderstanding that might occur... up to now, that I'm starting to feel pretty bad about it.

I'm going to talk about my personal experience and if anyone relates to it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. I joined Steemit almost a year ago, when I was in the look for another website that would work as a blog for me, as Blogspot had already bored me. In that search, I found this place that has brought me so much fun, a great friend and many, many, many hours in which I really enjoyed my time writing and sharing with you all.

After a couple of months, @steemitblog picked me (and @belenguerra) as CRs for Argentina. We had already been working really hard for the platform, so it felt great to have that sort of recognition and opportunity. We created Writing & Reviews and, from that moment and on, we did engage a lot in creating new things and interesting contest so that we could grow. And hell we did, we're about to hit 5K subscribers, and we couldn't be more happy about it.

As well as that, I've been part of the Greeter Team since I was one or two months in the platform till today. I did traslate all of the achievements into spanish, greeted a lot of newcomers and I was also in charge of screening the applicants for the 500SP Support Program. Also, I wrote a lot of helpful posts for beginners, such as how to transfer their Steem into their Binance accounts, how to use the P2P market there, how they could write their posts in a better way... many, many, many ideas and things that took a lot of time and that I really enjoyed.

Lately, we've also started Steem Argentina community, so as to help and guide all argentinians that might be wandering in the platform and so far, it has been growing really nicely.

You might be wondering...

But where's the point in all this?

For what I'm about to say, I need to give just a little background about me: I'm Florencia, I'm a 27-year-old Accountant and I work in one of Southamerica's biggest and most promising fintech. My workload is really heavy and my job takes a lot of my time. And by a lot, I mean it. It's no 9 to 5 as most people do. It's mostly 9 till you get your things done.

What about this? I wish I had more time to spend here... but I don't.

I try to manage my best to keep up with CryptoAcademy, Writing & Reviews, Steem Argentina and other posts that I like to write just for the sake of writing. I get at least +150 notifications per day, just from people tagging me in different things (whether it's achievements, posts they do or cryptoacademy if that's my week to work). Time, as we all know, is a scarse resourse.

In the last couple of months, I've felt as if us (curators, CRs and community managers) are just considered as bots... as plain and simple as that, bots. Users get cranky if you don't check their posts as soon as they post them or if a contest closed just a couple of hours ago and you didn't post the winners. People complain if they didn't receive the support that was part of the program. We receive complaints if we don't do this or that... but everything's related to the same. There's almost no thing as being thanked for your hard work here.

More than once, I've felt chased, blamed and pointed at just because we "didn't do certain things"... and this time I'm not talking about users. I feel as if it was settled that you have to do this kind of things as if it was part of your job... and this is not my job, I came here looking for fun and a place I once felt like a shelter, now it all feels as a stress and additional pressure. Believe me, I'm trying as hard as all of you to help Steemit grow.

I'm not complaining about being part of CryptoAcademy, CR or community manager, don't get me wrong. I feel really grateful towards Steemit for what it's given me, as I said before. I really don't like this new "attitude" of pointing fingers and blaming things just because. It's so much easier to spread kindness and not always look for what's missing.

We all like to give our best when it comes to performing our roles as CRs, but whenever we receive feedback from the curators, mostly all comments are really harsh and just focusing on what you're not doing, what you're missing or what you're doing wrong. Is that a way of encouraging people?

From one moment to another, it all just seems as if there were two types of CRs, the ones that don't get blamed for anything... and us, the ones that always receive negative feedback no matter what. And I can give you an example of that, there was a CR that plagiarized content more than once, we raised the issue... and nothing happened :)

I don't mean to hurt anyone, 'cause that's not my type really... but all this just seems unfair to me. I don't even know if someone's going to read this, but this mostly explains how I'm feeling regarding Steemit right now.


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Mam your Post is so good .I really appreciate you.

Mam your Post is so good .I really appreciate you.

 3 years ago 

Thanks!

Madam I am regularly sending post in this community but you didn't response on my post

 3 years ago 

I totally agree with you, @fendit, I think we both have similar experiences about how we arrived at Steemit and we've been working together from the very beginning, in a clearly committed way.

It's pretty sad to see how sometimes it seems that someone is waiting to see our minimum mistake to make some comment, dismissing all the work there is, beyond a small mistake.

 3 years ago 

Totalmente, nosotras sabemos lo mucho que hacemos por la comunidad... es una lastima que algunas cosas pasen completamente desapercibidas y apagadas por los mismos de siempre.

I'm very new to all this including this platform but its good to hear from community contributors like yourself. Thank you for sharing this.

The attitude of only pointing out what is wrong is what also kills relationships and work opportunities. This is a common issue across the board that needs to be addressed and tackled.

Also I just subscribed to the writing & Review group before rewding this!

 3 years ago 

I agree with you, and sometimes getting that kind of comments is really discouraging.
Thank you for your comment!

Dear @fendit, you have a job and a salary that allows you to live well in Argentina, where the population is mostly poor and unemployed.
You have come a long way on Steemit in a year and achieved recognition. If you are tired, you need to give up cryptoacademy and a country representative.
There are many participants here who could replace you. And you will start to enjoy Steemit.

 3 years ago 

You clearly didn’t get my point.

 3 years ago 

Oh, you commented here too, but you don't follow @fendit 's work nor mine... that's interesting

 3 years ago 

Talk is cheap, lol.

Friend @vipnata, I think you really missed the point @fendit made in her post, she just disagrees with the attitude of some people who really don't value all the effort @fendit can put into the platform.

At no point has she said that she is tired of her duties as a RC, a teacher at CryptoAcademy and also managing this community that I am just getting to know for the moment.

Before judging and attacking, which we should not do, you must first read carefully what each person writes in their blogs, do you intend that in this way you are prepared to assume your responsibilities? If so, I think you are way below even if you have a lot of time on the platform like me.

This job is not based on getting so much profit for yourself, but to support the community and the platform and in turn for this good work, we will be rewarded, which so far @fendit, who I know as a teacher does an exceptional job, so in my opinion deserves respect and merit for the good work he is

Don't worry there are people who trusted you the most in this platform. We all have our share whether we get the attention or not, and it is best that deep inside you've a greater role! Huge thanks 😊

 3 years ago 

Thank you :)

Amigas @fendit y @belenguerra, es difícil por lo que están pasando, ser señaladas y criticadas en ves de ser valoradas, yo lo poco que se de ustedes me ha permitido saber que están realizando muy bien su trabajo, fallas, por todos lados ahí y a veces fallas terribles que cualquiera notaria y nadie dice nada, pero solo les quiero decir, animo y a seguir adelante, de lo mejor de ustedes como la han venido haciendo y cuando hagan algo no esperen recibir nada a cambio, así si no viene ninguna recompensa no se verán afectadas y si llega, pues bien recibida, no conozco mucho de ustedes, pero las aprecio mucho y se que el sentimiento es mutuo, y si se les pasa por alto comentarle o revisar alguna publicación de alguien, pues tranquilas si les dicen algo, yo a veces con mi cuenta, me han escrito y sin querer he olvidado responderles a los demás, que les suceda a ustedes es comprensible. Se les quiere mucho amigas y un abrazo desde venezuela. Bendiciones.

You are really hard working for steemit platform.I appreciate you

 3 years ago 

Thanks!

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