RE: Late Night Ramble: People Come, People Go... a Shout-Out to some "Lost" Steemians
Hi there @glenalbrethsen, I'm afraid you're quite right about some of these "disappearances" being game related. I know some of the people I no longer see have been sucked deep into DrugWars, even though it seems to me to be little more than a thinly veiled Ponzi waiting to collapse...
Most people are somewhat fickle, I suppose... chasing from one "great promise" to the next in hopes they'll hit the big jackpot. I'm probably just old(fashioned) because I came here for the social blogging venue, and I'm still here for the social blogging venue... and plan to continue precisely that for as long at there is a social blogging venue here.
What prompted this post was precisely that these folks had not powered down... they just stopped, and it wasn't just to shift strategy to curation, or to delegate their SP out.
Indeed, let's hope they come back, someday! In the meantime, enjoy new connections!
It feels good to know that others feel similarly to different things as I do. When I first heard that the game allowed others to 'steal' stuff others had accumulated, often paying for it to have some of the best stuff, I was glad I wan't participating. Especially since bots or some other gaming of the system has a tendency of rearing it's ugly head.
I, too, came for the writing part of this STEEM platform, so that's okay. I think we need more curators, not necessarily creators. So, if those folks who are off battling it out in the games don't mind curating in some capacity, too, that's actually okay. That I'm afraid, isn't happening as much as it could, though, either.