Hi @yabapmatt! I was welcoming newbies and saw your comments welcoming them too. I thought that your taking time for doing that is awesome.. hence got curious about your blog. What you described here is related to behavioural finance and it's fascinating to realise how our brain works building a selective reality, biased from past experiences and traumas. We need to learn recognising these dynamics, which are part of our most primitive self defence mechanisms, and be able to counter them. I think to phenomena like the risk propension after a loss and to the cognitive bias effect, between the many. Back to Steemit, I focus on using it mainly to create value both in human relations and artistic content, trying to forget the economic side in the short-medium term. It's been nice to "discover" you and I will sustain you in your witness role.
Thank you for your support! I really like to spend time looking through the #introduceyourself posts and finding new users who I really think can help contribute to the platform and giving them as much of an upvote as I can to start them off on the right foot. I wish I had more time to spend doing that actually.
Thank you for your time and kind reply! I can figure your feeling, although I'm just a minnow but chronically drained in my VP for voting everyone hahah. Trying to start something and gain critical mass here is not easy at all. I wish one day my fiction contest will be sustainable, as I think I found a nice way to spread some wealth and making people push out their creativity at the same time. It was nice to talk to you, keep up the good work for the platform! :-)