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RE: Pay It Forward Contest Week 57 - These Promising Newcomers Can Use Your Support
Thank you @simplymike for your efforts in trying to build our Steem community.
Delegation is donated for influence or to help new users perform actions on steemit.
This has long been stated on the wallet page, and it's good to know there are people who still believe it's something that needs to be done.
Thanks, @abh12345. I learned from the best 😂
It's not about believing. If one pays attention to what is going on since HF20, it is hard to miss the fact that the entire RC system is killing the platform.
Like I said in the post: it's not a matter of generosity, it's about survival.
I don't get why they are intentionally locking out new users. I would probably understand if the price of Steem would have skyrocketed since HF20, because everyone was buying Steem to get on it. But it hasn't.
Sometimes I get so frustrated: we didn't cause the problem, but still we need to try and fix it.
It takes up so much of my time to select the people to delegate to (maybe 'gamble' would be a better word), do my round at least twice a week to check how they are doing and engage a little with everyone, to keep track and retract 7 out of 10 delegations after 3 weeks because the member dropped out anyway. Can't blame them, because my small delegation isn't enough to keep them from running out of RC.
But I'd hate to see this place go down, so I do whatever I can.
Thing is, it is not only about delegation... Idk if it has always been like this - thanks to @newbieresteemday I got a little traction pretty soon after I started - but people's intro posts get like 50 comments and +$25 payouts, while the rest of their posts only get a comment from Steemitboard. The lack of engagement with the smaller accounts is a problem that is just as big as the RC-thing...
Fortunately, there are still initiatives like @pifc that try to make a difference. But after more than a year of hosting the contest, there are still so few participants... It makes me wonder if all those people that are high up in the clouds even care...
(And than I read a post by @tarazkp and I realize they don't. Because in spite of everything, they are still here for their own personal gain 🙄
Sorry for rambling, lol. Sometimes the frustration takes over, which results in a reply like this 😂
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