SY- Steemit Ragequit Madlibs
Sit around my children and let me tell you of a time when Steem was so low that all the people just in it for the money wrote up a nice long post about how they were leaving the platform. Many moons ago, approximately seven months ago or around then, the price of steem dropped. It was almost as if the force of infinite inflation was too much for the little platform to bear. Those that had steem found they had so much more steem, but those that relied on post rewards found themselves making little more than pennies and the inflation didn't really impact how much steem they had. It was a dark time for steemit bloggers. An eeiry and lonesome time as many posters at that precise moment decided to write up some heartbreaking story of why they were leaving and often cried about how horrible their experience had been.
With the price of Steem falling again (most likely based on the value of BTC falling, which in turn is tied to the risk of SEGWIT due in a few weeks) I thought I would offer an opportunity to help a few people leave (again?) who are only interested in this place when the rewards are high. To that end I thought I would write their ragequitting letter for them so as to hasten their departure. Since more than one person is likely to leave I thought I'd just help you all so that you have a form you can use. I present to you:
Steemit Ragequit Madlibs
Dear Steemit (synonym for community or colleagues),
I have decided today now that the price of steem has dropped to _______ that I will no longer work for (offensive adjective describing low) wages and have decided it's time for me (synonym for to leave). While I have been able to find a few good conversations with (insert names of a handful of authors you probably didn't care for anyway) I have been (synonym for shocked) by how little this (synonym for community) undervalues my (flowery adjectives) work.
When I first got here I was filled with (positive emotion), but it quickly turned to (negative emotion) when I realized how much (synonym for work) I would have to do on this platform to get anywhere. I thought within (unrealistic short time frame) that people would recognize my (flowery) talent for (writing, music, art, blogging, politics, bullshit), but alas Steemit didn't immediately respond to my articles on (insert niche and unimportant article tags). So, while I have been (synonym for diligent) working to grow my account I've become so frustrated by how I have barely anything to show for it. It's even worse now that steem is down to ______.
I (synonym for refuse) to work on my (shit you did while here) for this platform any longer! I'm going to go back to (other social media company) and will continue to spread my (flowery langauge) content there where I know I'm (synonym for recognized or valued). I can't say I'm sorry it's come to this, but clearly if my posts aren't making (insert unrealistically high value here) dollars every time then it's just not worth my time.
You can find me at (insert links no one will click) here. I wish it could have been different.
(sign off),
(steemit user name)
This is quite interesting, @aggroed. Honestly, I wish they sign off very quickly with this letter that you've written. Tomorrow, I'll be 4 months old in steemit and have not learnt all what I've learnt so far from another social media platform. Before joining steemit, I was never a blogger, but my skills are getting better by the day and I'm happy. This platform has challenged me to be a better version of who I am. I've said it time without number that steemit is a school. If I were here for just the rewards, I would have signed off in my first or second month. Evidence of my 4 month reward is shown on steemitboard.
The amount you see there is nothing compared to my daily honorarium when I'm in the field implementing public health projects. Well, I'm here for a long ride. Thanks for helping them expedite action with the letter.
yeah, just hang tight. Should all work out.
Thanks for the encouragement. I hope it does.
Haha @aggroed this is awesome.. I agree let the ungrateful complainers leave and I will be happy to buy their steem if they want to sell and power up . Crypto volatilities is normal even all stock markets do crash in the red sometimes and smart pople buy a lot at discounted price and sell when market recovers. I am bullish about steem and have faith in steemit. My long term strategy is to continue powering up. Thanks for sharing and you earned my upvote again.
I used you and your post as example in my latest blog post of why people should invest in steem -pls feel free to see it
Yeah, my simple message would be btfd.
Good one. I agree..More success to you and lets stay in touch
Imagine if people did this with local currency swings? Hey zzz company if you don't pay me yyy more dollars since said local currency has dropped in value ten percent I'm quitting. I think my boss would just tell me don't let the door hit me on the way out.
Haha, I agree. I posted on this issue ie about steem today in my blog..pls check it out
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@aggroed - Lol. Fantastic satarical piece and a great support (in the form of a ready ragequit letter format' for the people intending to quit Unfortunately, I won't be using the letter since I am ENGAGED in Steemit and do not intend to quit.
As you can see, I continue my quality blogs and my healthy interaction with other Steemians. I am more into wildlife and travel (having stepped back from the rut of being a successful executive), I continued my observations today of nuggets of wisdom from wildlife and wrote a blog 'Dueling Duo - How impalas manage conflict' with my wildlife photos and musings with a twist. I request you to take a look at it when you have time. Your comments, would be an encouragement and incentive for me to make better blogs. Thanks
Haha....funny. I'm sure that's how a lot of people feel but that it soooooooooooooo short sighted. Sure, we all love earning steem but crypto land has always been extremely volatile and will likely to be that way for some time. That doesn't matter to me since I have a long-term focus and am excited for the future of this platform and the whole crypto space.
I did, however, lose interest in the entire crypto space around three years ago when it went through a major crash that made me wonder if the whole thing was going to collapse. Watching it since recover to the heights it's gone up to has instilled a confidence and resilience in me for this space and now I never sweat the bubble/burst cycles anymore because I have more understanding of them.
That was a great, funny post!
Remember though: buy low, sell high 😉
Yes, absolutely! Doing it the opposite way = not fun. On that note, have you checked out Civic? They had a successful ico where it was $0.10. It just got released onto Bittrex this Sunday and is now trading at around $0.20.
I love that it has a real use case (identify verification on the blockchain which eliminates the need for passwords) for their working app and just got a whole bunch of business partners to sign on and start using it. I think it's going to be huge and I'm getting the word out to all crypto enthusiasts that I know to just check it out and see what they think. I just bought a ton of it and my goal is to focus on buying up more of it through my dollar cost averaging approach for the next couple months.
It does sound interesting. I guess I started to suffer from ico fatigue. Probably also got a bit swayed by Reddit:ethtrader, where they were saying that the guy wasn't that committed to ethereum (and of course that's an ethereum fan sub, so not surprising !). Might consider getting a small amount at som point though, to add to my ERC20 collection! Though my fav tokens are gambling: rep, GNO, edg, PPY.. also have gnt, icn, mln, snt, and eos :)
Hope you picked up some civic before the price increase?!
Also, completely agree: opposite way indeed =not fun! Hah.. :( :(
Yeah, I hear you for sure. I was actually going to go into the Civic ico but backed out at the last minute because I just didn't want to be part of the whole ico craze/bubble. It was only after I did more research about it and the importance of network effects that I realized that this is a legitimate, really good opportunity. So...that means that no....I didn't get in at $0.10...I got in at around $0.17.
Since I plan to hold for a long time I should be good though. If the product gets used and achieves the proper network effects, I see the value going up a lot.
It might be true that the founder, Vinny, is not that committed to using the ethereum network. I don't really know to be honest. I think originally it was going to run on top of the Bitcoin network and then it got switched to ethereum. As I understand it, the whole idea is just to leverage existing cryto infrastructure. I guess the decision was just that ethereum is the best blockchain to use for this. Maybe that changes in the future....I don't know.
Either way, I'm basically taking the advice of this guy...Cedric Dahl...who got in on Bitcoin and Ethereum early and is now focusing on taking large positions in Civic and File Coin. Only time will tell, I guess but I'm excited about it at any rate :)
Ah, I love cryptos....even when they fall horribly as they've been doing lately. Now they're getting back up though, which is nice.
Sounds good! Also low prices shouldn't matter for dollar cost averaging - provided the overall long term trend is up, of course. Good luck! 😀
Thanks, you too :)
I will be using this as my goodbye message in the following weeks ... yeah right! 😂😂😂
I love how you have places for synonyms and fill in the blank so everyone can have their own unique version
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This is a wonderful post and my 3 rd time of reading it . I used you and your post as example in my latest blog post of why people should invest in steem -pls feel free to see it. Thanks for your good work here.
Sir Price of Bitcoin and steem are going Lower and Lower :(
which is the worst thing, I guess
right now the price of bitcoin is 1918 dollars and the price of Steem has also been decreased below 1 dollar
we can only wait for August now
hoping to see rise in cryptocurrency price :(
Lmao! Satire at its best. Some people just don't get that there is no such thing as easy money.
such comments
Love this, Thanks for sharing!