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RE: Whimsy, a nonsensical poem that somehow makes sense.
I found a community dedicated to problems with all these new communities! hive-144703
https://beta.steemit.com/hive-144703/@connecteconomy/i-keep-posting-in-the-wrong-place-by-mistake
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@marketinggeek in Communities Feedback • 6 days ago
This is a cross post of @uwelang/communities-series-thoughts-and-mainly-questions-edition-1-tribes by @marketinggeek.
Valid question on whether Hivemind communities kill all existing Tribes? Thoughts?
Thanks! I'm still contemplating leaving this place. Maybe they can talk me back from the ledge. All the work I have done here, but the curators still mostly ignore me, the malevolent forces have now harmed me, the bickering among the communities is stressing me out, and figuring out the changes has sucked up my life. Why do I need this?
I can't answer "Why do you need this," and I can't abide the way you're getting the short end of the stick. Can I talk you back from the ledge? Can I explain why I myself am still here? There are people here that I like. You, for starters! And I'm here for the people who've been good to each other. The politics, upvotes, downvotes, challenges, community loyalties - just flotsam and jetsam floating past me as I ride the current. Have I helped you decide? If you leave here, I'll still be here, but I'll continue following you wherever else you may go. Meanwhile, maybe if you just put forth less effort here, you'll feel less like there's no reward? "No good deed goes unpunished," so do fewer good deeds? I'm a slouch. I make no effort to compete, rise to the top, conquer, prevail. Just to stay afloat is my m.o., and I repeat, I am a slouch. So, there's that... Don't try too hard is my awful motto. And stick around but keep a low profile. Hang in there!!!
Thank you!
I'm working on a post that will either make or break me here. We'll see. I came here for kindness and have received an awful lot of that, especially yesterday, but I can not support some of the general trends going on. It's becoming too dog-eat-dog for me.
Is anyone else rushing here to talk you down from the ledge?
In my experience, nobody does that - you wanna go, you go. Next?
Not to feel disposable, I learned not to feel as much, period.
@raj808 has a lot of information in a post I'd missed earlier:
Justin Sun's steemit.inc account @justinsunsteemit posted this open letter:
https://steempeak.com/hive-174578/@raj808/tronit-the-great-amorphous-merging-of-blockchains
You're the only one who knows. A BUNCH of people came to my rescue though, and some upvotes on Raptor are still coming in. But I'm afraid to post anything now, I'm afraid the big bad bully will just do it again.
Thanks for the link. I tagged him in one relevant post, but of course no one from the likes of him bothered to read it. I don't have enough skin in this game to bother their caring about.
I tagged justin sun with a question in one post(you already saw it) last week which I wrote after reading his open letter, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet.
If we didn't feel like we had to fly under that radar, we'd be read more. Or would we?
I've kinda/sorta abandoned hope of being widely read.
But hope springs eternal, and if anything could shut me up, I wouldn't be a writer. I hope you never give up either!
Well, I thought this was a masterful poetic exercise in nonsense writing. Sounds like a paradox I know... but I love the way you weave the words and images here.
I don't know how to help with that infusion of enthusiasm for steem, I've been where you are many times with feelings of dissatisfaction and unsure if I have any audience.
If you post a poem in The Ink Well I promise I will read, comment and appreciate it. And most probably curate it too. This is my small effort to try and alleviate that steem malaise that we all go through at one point or another.
Much love xx
Thank you @raj808. I appreciate that very much.
I am really struggling today. How does one choose a community to post in? My solution has been to post even more so that I could spread my love around, essentially chaining me to my computer. If I tag the ink well will it appear to you, or must I use theinkwell first or post directly to it? I'll pop a poem in there soon.
Today I am working on a diatribe of my gripes which hopefully will not incur more wrath from an overlord.
I sure wish I had posted Raptor in the ink well, because that one is curie worthy big time.