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RE: Spectral Cittadina, A Tanka Couplet in Honour of the Cinque Terra, 100 Days of Poetry (Day 17) @d-pends & Digital Art
Wow. Sometimes haikus are recognisable because they are forced. I didn't spot it, they flowed so naturally. Beautiful x
Thank you, GBH. With some real haiku purist, they follow some pretty stringent rules and these rules can sometimes hinder flow and imagery. I often prefer to add two more lines of 7 and make it a tanka ... this adds for more expression and makes the haiku less vague and more 'poetic' or accessible. So glad you enjoyed and really appreciated the visit. Wishing you a wonderful day:)
There is a contest here that talks about the history of haiku and how the western interpretation is not necessary correct. They promote flow ahead of rules applied to syllables. Have you seen it? I will track it down. I just woke up, will have coffee first. My son wakes early. We have an airport curfew, I tell him he has to stay in bed until the planes wake up. 6am they have to circle above Sydney before they can land. It sounds crazy for a major city.
I'm rambling. Back soon. Caffeine.
Steemit has been quite BTW. It happens when it dips, hang in there it is across the whole platform.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of minnows have not enough SP at the moment for even a penny vote. It is disheartening for them and they abandon ship.
Yes, it's not just minnows either. The slightly larger fish that are accustomed to earning dollars then drop to cents drop off too.
I have seen a few dips but this is a very quiet one for sure.
It is coupled with an unresolved problem of a group or an individual who is fleecing the reward pool.
This recent post by papa p and over 400 comments discusses the problem.
https://steemit.com/abuse/@papa-pepper/open-letter-to-steemit-inc-the-witnesses-and-the-whales
The increase in new account comments that are irrelevant, don't make sense and up vote themselves irritate me too.
I thought it was pretty standard practice that people up-voted themselves. I am not sure this bothers me so much. I think I know who you are talking about. He is not breaking any rules but he is gaming the system, for sure. There are a lot of people that I have witnessed that follow a pretty similar pattern. But I do think maybe a limit might be a good idea or some way to way to encourage and reward those who use the platfrom closer to how it is intended. They need to make it profitable to support the platform. Maybe rewards views, raw upvotes and comments and author-responses and not just upvote value. Reward authentic traffic and interaction.
Yes, you are quite right, it is better to comment and upvote rather than plagiarise entire articles, which happens way too much.
Up voting your own post is completely fine as far as I'm concerned, particularly in the current climate, people put a lot of work in. I up my posts, not my comments, but it is not prohibited.
Self up voting multiple brief comment puts me off. I like to up vote if people comment on my post, because I truly appreciate the interaction, but it puts me off when they have given 10 other people the same compliment in the past 10 minutes and rewarded themselves for it.
There is a fat walleted account with linked accounts that is wiping out the rewards pool with multiple rubbish posts.
People who get many votes and don't make much should somehow be recognised too. The trending pages do not reflect the community.
I haven't been to the trending page since I first got on here. I usually check out who my friends follow when I want to expand my circle and feed list.
I don't look at the trending either. 😂 It doesn't represent the community. If it were truly decentralised ... Perhaps it would.
I have never engaged in politics here, this is the closest I've come to commenting.
I love steemit. It is human, no human society or construct is free from reflecting human traits, issues and qualities too.
Some really interesting reads are linked on the subject of structuring a haiku
https://steemit.com/haiku/@dbooster/haiku-contest-4-warm-again
Thank you, GBM. I looked into dbooster when I first arrived. I wanted to seek out the haiku folks:) He's cool:)
Well, I'm glad somebody things so ;)
Ahhh ... the walls have ears. Nice to see you:)