RE: [STEEMGIG] PREPPERS Identifier Badge - Customized FOR YOU! 😎
This is awesome. I have sent $1 SBD for @Preppers. I am also upvoting, resteeming, and inviting others to get this badge. We aren't just a random person who's using this username. Our websites include Preppers.org, AmericanPreppersNetwork.com and others. We have been very active in the prepping community since long before anyone knew what a prepper was. Back in 2009 a group of us worked together to put the word preppers into the mainstream. We were one of the 4 original sites on google with the namesake "preppers". That was back when google blogger was brand new and people still only used the terms survivalist or homesteader. We saw the need to have an encompassing term to include anyone into homesteading, survival, or preparedness. That's when we stumbled across the word preppers. We used that as an opportunity to bring the mainstream on board with a fresh understanding of survivalism. I'll post more about this on an introductory post, but my research dates the term "Preppers" originating back during Y2k on old bulletin boards. Then it was later kicked around a bit on James Rawles Survivalblog.com. The very first "Preppers Network" was http://texaspreppersnetwork.blogspot.com (which unfortunately hasn't posted since 2014), That was started by Riverwalker who helped us with our project. We were featured in the first major news article on preppers in Newsweek, we have helped promote many of the expos, and have done casting calls for most of the reality shows. Now we have recently found steemit and hoping we can help the movement here as well. This account is primarily for resteeming and upvoting posts for people in the homesteading and prepping community. So we are here to help anyone who considers themselves a prepper however we can. We'll be looking for this badge and recommending others get it as well. @AmericanPreppers will also be resteeming and upvoting posts as well as sharing articles on Facebook and an e-newsletter to bring more people to the steemit community.
Thank you @preppers for being a leader in the Preppers community. Thank you for supporting the Steemit Preppers community with this badge!
If anyone would like a badge (Homesteading, Gardening, Beekeepers, Woodworkers, Dads, Moms, Food Preservers, Preppers) please submit $1SBD to @daddykirbs with a memo stating what it is for :)
Whatever we can do to help, let us know. We've been curating posts for years on other formats, so we see that as our calling here as well. We'll focus our efforts on steem power so we can give those good upvotes to the preppers community. I'd like to see Preppers and Homesteading tags in the trending column on the steemit.com home page. I think if we all work together we can make that happen.
Having you and others point steemit preppers to this post to get their badge is a good way to bring continuity. Someday I even hope to offer real life embroidered badges so they can be worn to community gatherings :)
I'll do that, I'll link my badge to this post so that more people will get the badge. I won't be doing very many posts from this account though. I'll be doing mostly resteems and upvotes. But we do have several bloggers that we are sending over to steemit.
Do you comment often? You could toss that badge with a link in your comments on other posts. It's an idea.
Yes, I comment every post that I resteem. Good idea. Thanks!
How do you include an image in a comment?
Same as a post. In this case too can save the code then just paste it in everytime... or just right click on the image and chose copy image, then paste. I think that will work for you.
I appreciate that. Bring this community together here on steemit is exciting. I'm happy to have my badge art as part of that process!