Orca! + The Road to Steem Fest | The Thai Life and what to expect
Yesterday I got the coveted badge I have been after for so long.
I don't think I would ever have got here but for the ridiculously low price of the STEEM token.
I just find STEEM a steal at 16c and considering we have to do very little these days to get a return, why not?
I mean curation. Before HF21 I was personally yielding between 4-5 STEEM a day. They told us curation rewards were being increased from 25% to 45% right?
Then how come I now get between 12-20 STEEM? I would have expected it to be in the region of 8-9 at the most.
Some people are telling me they have not seen any change in curation rewards. I have to ask if they have changed their voting habits?
Some of us have some accounts on auto-curation using SteemAuto or similar. I partake in some manual curation but auto-vote some trusted accounts.
Setting the voting time to 4 minutes seems to do the job and gains me the above yield. If you're still using the 15 minutes rules, then wise up and change it!
There are so many changes going on I can scarcely believe it. In the short time I have been blogging on Steemit (18 months) I have never seen such radical events.
So much abuse is being stamped out, some of it on-going, the downvote pool is being used profusely by many of us, and the bid-bot empire is not crumbling, but being forced to reinvent itself.
If anything it has reinforced my belief that STEEM is going to recover, but word needs to get OUTSIDE of this very small community that things are improving.
I see the more prolific accounts are getting bigger votes, but let’s not forget the small ones too. They need support as well, as many won’t agree with my perception that the HF21 is for the greater good.
Personally, I intend to keep growing my stake, not become a bombastic arsehole due to the new ‘badge' and try and entertain with my writings.
There have been a few new people arriving on the platform recently. I’ll try and find some more, and give them some support in the form of votes and resteems.
If any of you reading this are attending SteemFest 4 in November, then please approach me and talk.
I’m not the greatest conversationalist but will try not to bore you to tears with my droning.
I’m expecting the attendees to be somewhat different than Krakow, and I’m really looking forward to Bangkok and all its diversities.
I have quite a passion for Thai food but what we are presented with in the UK and the genuine stuff in Thailand could be quite different.
For example, what would breakfast consist of in Thailand? I am booked in the Prince Palace Hotel which includes breakfast but I somehow doubt they will be serving Bacon and Eggs?
How many people from the west will be attending? I guess a lot less than what we saw in Krakow. I suspect but hope most can communicate in English or I'm going to be a little screwed.
Today is Sunday 8th September and my mother’s birthday.
It’s also the last chance to enter the @blocktrades and @anomadsoul’s writing incentive on this particular topic.
Information about SteemFest 4 can be found here. I had better stop now and hit the post key before the date rolls around to the 9th.
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If you found this article so invigorating that you are now a positively googly-eyed, drooling lunatic with dripping saliva or even if you liked it just a bit, then please upvote, comment, resteem, engage me or all of these things.
Nice profile pic
How's it working out for you on Tinder?
I occasionally get offers from mental case crazy women who like to get kicked around, but that and the odd psychopathic female ex-serial killer, it's strangely quiet for me on there.
With SF4 coming closer I need to change it again albeit temporarily, people will simply get the wrong idea about my handsomeness :)
Happy birthday mum!!!
Oh, and congrats on the fancy new title!!! I’ll be joining ya before the end of the year. 😜
Thanks..!, I noticed your stash was on the up and up. I might calm it down a little now, the next badge is way out there somewhere.
Yeah. Slowly chipping away. Ever so slowly. Once I hit that I’m going to do the same and pull in the reigns a bit on the purchasing.
Either way, congrats. It’s a big move to the top brother and I super pumped for ya!
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Hope to see you in Bangkok, but are you going? We barely talked in Krakow.
Congratulations on your milestone!
Might join that rank one day, depending on how I feel about #NewSteem.
Thanks, there's nothing quite like here is there.., the drama ;)
Yay! Welcome to our side of the deep ocean. :)
It's like stepping into Mariana Trench...
Congratulations, Orca is really exciting news. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time at SF4.
Really looking forward to it, just seems a long time off somehow!
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Amazing Orca skillz!
Yeah I need to change my voting habits too.
Didn’t realise you were off to SteemFest 4. That’ll be amazing. Be sure to represent the North UK massiv!
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Yes, I'm committed now. Hotel, Flights and Tickets already paid for. @goblinknackers the same.
For the moment the new changes are going well also at my end, despite I’m getting less as an author it is compensated somehow with curation.
Congratulations for the new achievement.
I really think we are on the edge of massive changes. Not everyone will like them, and I wasn't convinced before it all happened, but love what I'm seeing.
Some might have gone down if they were voting on shite or frontrunning bidbot buys.... lols.
I can attest to this!! ;D
Pretty sure you will be fine there this year too, have fun.
And fuck, you did say you would give me a run to Orca and you were not far behind at all! Congrats.
I have never been a fan of bid bots, and was never comfortable with @ocdb either. Still there's massive changes in the air, and every day seems to bring something new right now.
Bleh!... I could barely get a word in... you never stopped talking..., and all in around 5 minutes.
I did..., when did you get there, around 4-5 weeks ago?
Indeed, keep an eye out ;D
It was the only time at SF I couldn't get a word in edge-wise.
yep, about a month or so back, a little more. I am glad that people who actually work toward the future are growing their accounts with more than words.
Again, congrats mate.
Congrats on the new badge! It's well deserved. I'm still grinding my way to dolphin, I'm almost finishing my accumulation of another crypto and after it I'll get some STEEM! Still not decided for how much I'll go for, at these prices I'm thinking either 5k or 10k... How much is dolphinhood? 10k?
Thanks!, 5k for Dolphin.. once it was out of the question for me to become even than, but now it's not that large an investment to become an instant one.