RE: STEEM: The Time For A Minnow Uprising Is Getting Closer: Overwhelm The System
I'm a very discouraged minnow these days, but I still post 2-4 times a day like I have been since Nov 2017. Prior to that I was not so prolific. Once I started posting more, everything got better for me here at steemit.
I've been writing a series of posts about my time on steemit for the last year. I never "went after" the big accounts and I still do not know who most of the whales or top witnesses are. I was doing well with getting upvotes from people who had maybe 5000+ sp at one point, but that has dwindled as many of those steemers have left, powered down, or delegated their sp to bots.
One of my posts about this year talks about my "poor networking." I feel like I should have tried to get connected with some of the top 100 accounts. Instead I posted minnow tips that no big account cares about. I get all kinds of praise and thanks from the little guys, but that does not pay my bills.
I too follow the arcange reports and I am dismayed at the drop in redfish in particular. We were getting close to 170K in that category at the beginning of the year. Everyone I have brought in this year is gone and will not return. My steemdunk is not voting, because most of the people I support are not posting now. I wake up to almost full power now and I used to be fighting to stay above 90%.
The only person I do have still on steemit is by son @bxlphabet. I can barely get him to post right now since he is in discord working on the steemmonsters green team as a writer. I hope that is a good move for him and I'm thrilled to see his excitement about this game. He is my reason for living and why I am still posting and trying here even though financial ruin is upon us both.
I like your idea and I hope the minnows will do as you say. Many I am connected to are as discouraged as me or worse, and are posting about it now.
Thanks for your reply @fitinfun.
It is discouraging to see the discouragement take over.
@whatsup wrote a great article about this earlier.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatsup/we-have-37-whales-and-129-615-redfish
This is the key and sums up how attitude effects everything. The reward pool does not change..the same STEEM is still available. Yet people posting less means that the bigger accounts that are consistent with their activity only benefit more. It is counter-intuitive but it seems that when things get bad, post more.
I hope many sign on and start posting...it would help smaller accounts. There is a lot of STEEM available each week for the taking.
I will keep going and trying to help my friends to do the same. A few of them are no longer talking to me at all after letting me know they did not appreciate my getting them sidetracked to post over here, but I will go as long as I can.
Thank you for the link and I will go look.
Oh wow honey. This is the most genuine thing I have read today. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I personally I'm not even a minnow yet but I am pushing myself to the limit. I am trying to do atleast 4 posts a day and I've noticed the more I share the more fun it becomes.
I stopped looking at it from a monetary perspective as that was becoming very frustrating. Not I look at it as a social media platform with added benefits.
I hope things look up for all of us, we are investigating time and energy and hopefully in the long run we will be glad we stuck it out.
I will be closely following your journey. Very nice to meet you once again @fitinfun
Thank you so much @elsiekjay. Unlike many people here - social media posting is how I earn a living. I hope I will be able to continue with steemit because I like it so much. But I can't do any of my work if I am out on the street.
You have really awesome posts and if you don't need to earn money from it, I know you will continue to succeed :)
Haha. Thank you hon. I was very fortunate to have a great mentor like @energyaddict22 weeks after joining. I believe that is how we got acquainted. I do also work fulltime online but not entirely on steemit, I do some CPA Affiliate Marketing fulltime so I can understand where you are coming from.
I would also like to do Steemit Full-time, that is the end game I am aiming at, but for now I resolved to have fan instead of beating myself over it. It makes things so much easier.
I would suggest looking into another opportunity to supplement that which you gain from here. That way you willfor have a peaceful head space to be creative and focused on your steemit goal. I believe that is Partly why Jerry is inadequate on this sides, he embraced what he calls the job pf his dreams :)
Steemit is truly a worth it long long term investment, and even though it maybe frustrating at times, I believe if we continue being persistent we shall rip in the end.
Feel Free to Contact me if you need a friend to talk to @fitinfun
Thank you so much, @elsiekjay. Right now I am scrambling to pay my rent and bills for July on two continents, and should have come to my senses about this place much earlier.