7 Things Steemit is NOT

1. A Charity
   
   Steemit is not a charity. You are not entitled to rewards because you are poor or are new. This is not a place from where the rich give, and the poor take, no, it is where poor or rich, you give or take, depending on how your content is valued by individuals, rich or poor! This is especially important for newbies/planktons and minnows that start lamenting about how unfair the system is because their posts are not rewarded.
   
   Charity Box, by Steven Depolo, flickr.com Creative Commons CCO
   
   Realize, everyone, Plankton, Minnow, Dolphin, Orca and Whale, everyone….wants and works to earn. Ideally, as a non – whale, your existential challenge is to be rewarded, pending, if like me, you are too broke to power up, the accumulation of your own steem power and therefore capacity to reward others.
   
   But meanwhile, what is your rightful claim to rewards? Well, none so strong or dependent on you! If you can’t invest in steem power - by the way now is the right time to do so as the value is really low – then invest in time that keeps the platform active, in content that adds value to it. That is your first and only claim.
   
   And please, so long as it is not rewarded, don’t lament but instead work harder and improve. Don’t qualify your own works as deserving to be rewarded; quality content is like beauty, it lies in the eyes of the beholder, others, not yourself. So get down and create quality content, interest, woo someone enough to earn a reward.
   
   
   
2. An Employment
   
   Go simple, and stop spending 24 hours on a post. Those utopian -style posts pay just fine I know, but if you are going to write a utopian-like post, make sure it fits their bill so you get rewarded; else, you will get frustrated.
   
   The most frustration we suffer comes from spending a whole day refining and fine-tuning, deep thinking and doing all sorts of mind stretching work to come up with a killer post, after which we post and despite refreshing the page every after 2 seconds, it still reads a paltry $0.02 from @hr1 or some other random bot upvoter.
   Employment by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images
   
   That gets you all worked up and frustrated, you start to picture other better maybe more profitable things you might have done with your time and effort, and whoop, you get angry! The reason is that you are treating steemit like some sort of employment, which is what it is not.
   
   Try this - and this is actually advice I got from a very likeable fellow @felixxx –instead of going on Google to search out some complicated topic to write about, and burning your internet and brain calories thinking, write simple every stuff, let it come from your inside, which means you don’t have to over think, over research and burn all those internet bundles….write as a by the way, about simple things, about life, people, places around you
   
   What such an approach does is ensure that you are less emotionally invested in your works and the rewards they get. And yet on the brighter note, such simple, quick reads about life and events are indeed what interest most people out there, and you might just as well indeed earn more.
   
   
   
3. Your personal Cow to milk
   
   Please have sense of community. Steemit is not your personal cow to milk however you like. Granted, the system has some cracks, some exploitable rules, but it doesn’t mean you should, because if anything, it is not only you who sees those cracks, but imagine for a moment if everyone, others with more SP than you by the way, also decided to exploit, and post 10 articles a day and self-upvote! Then what?
   
   by larsninoy, on Pixabay CCO Creative Commons
   
   This is especially good advice for the Whales, don’t just upvote yourself, check out and encourage others, We are a community here to live not to smuggle SBD’s and quit. Some of you are busy posting 10+ posts a day and self-voting them, and only them! You seem in a hurry to milk everything your stake can possibly enable you to without recourse to the general impact on the health of the platform.
   
   I know you have invested big – before you begin to ask who I am to question or dictate on how much the Whale you are can milk – but you see, there is a limit to which you can milk a cow without feeding it, before the milk runs dry, and you have nothing.
   
   So please, have some conscience, embrace community and work to enhance rather than destroy its health. It doesn’t matter how much you think you have invested in this cow, without feeding it – which entails feeding the calves! – this cow will die, and then all of us shall be deprived of milk!
   
   
   
4. A begging bowl
   
   Now don’t confuse asking for help, with begging. Steemit is a great community where we get to know each other and basically share and help each other in our daily life challenges, financial, moral, and academic etc.
   Begging, by 3dman_eu on PixabayCCO Creative Commons
   
   We can, and should always ask and give help in those regards, but that doesn’t mean you should send wallet messages to @ned or any whale for that matter, telling him all your family and/or community problems and how he can, and should with a snap of his finger take them all away.
   
   
   
5. A broken family
   
   I hear some people asking some others who made them the ‘police man’ of steemit. Those who are castigated apparently take much interest in the quality of content life, by for example flagging posts whose rewards they disagree with….but did you know that these is actually acceptable?
   Max PixelCCO Creative Commons
   I mean, there are no specific written rules, but where community is, there is code and conduct, written or not written that is subconsciously grown and cultured. So don’t go about posting rubbish and pushing it up to trending and when flagged, start barking ‘who made you the police man?’ This is not a broken family where you get to do whatever you want without recourse to the general health of everyone else. Just get your act together and reflect on your actions and re-image yourself…
   
   Next time someone disagrees with you because you are self-upvoting too much, pushing shit posts up trending page, plagiarizing…and you get yourself barking: who made you the policeman of steemit? Well, have the courtesy to ask yourself: Who made you the villain of steemit!?
   
   
   
6. A library
   
   The only business that takes place in a library is reading and writing! But whereas steemit is a content based platform, there is, just so you know, more to it that meets the eye, that is, if you wish to build a life here! Live your comfort zone.
   by Pexelson Pixabay CCO Creative Commons
   Go out of your blog and join some chat rooms, find a niche in some discord channel and meet others, connect and interact. What do you have to lose? Nothing. But there is a lot to gain. Chat rooms are a powerful place to make acquaintances that, just so you know, in deed translate to support on your posts.
   
   Besides writing and reading, please join some discord of your interest and have some breath air beyond the book!
   
   
   
7. Dying
   
   Well, some of you are too frustrated with @ned, apparently there is so much, this and that, which you would love to see fixed, and the nut is there busy doing nothing!
   
   Well, if steemit was your responsibility, would you idly sit by and watch it perish? I mean, this is a pioneer project of its kind, for heaven sake, would any architect behind it be that dumb to idly sit by and watch it burn away? I guess that answers you.

By M.chohanCC BY 3.0, Link

So stop lamenting and crucifying @ned and steemit.inc and give them some breather! You cannot love steemit more than @ned! So trust he and his team are up to something. Sure make some recommendations here and there, but don’t shove it all up there throat like they are some imbeciles doing nothing. Do you know @ned stands to lose the most, investment but above else, his Reputation if steemit tomorrow fails?

Do you think he is busy working to soil his own reputation as the man who oversaw a failed project? C’mon get serious and cut some slack for @ned.

And one more thing, just in case you think steemit is irredeemable and you have better ideas how it should and should not be, why not try coming up with something of your own? Competition is good for consumers after all, no!? So cheer up my friend, steeemit is not dying.

But its value is dropping, you say! Well, if you are too worried about the value, then again I suggest you spend more time on Facebook! It pays more.

Anyway, satire aside, So long as SBD value does not drop to -1, it is still the best project of its kind out there. And you better stick around. I mean, if it drops to $0, it is still on the same level as Facebook and other social media platforms….i know no other that pays!

So stop worrying about the SBD value drop, I would want to encourage you that it will rise again sooner – because it will, but I guess you already know that, or have at least read it elsewhere. So stop yapping and steem on! Come back to me when the value of SBD drops to below $0, then maybe I will give you an ear and we can compare how without a reward incentive, steemit compares to other social media platforms.

Until then, I find no other platform to compare it with, even if it went to Coma! A lion is a lion, he always has the final say, and steemit will, when this crypto bleeding finally dries up.

HAPPY STEEMING!

And by the way,speaking of stepping off your writing ad reading, why don't you join us in the @asapers discord for some break time! Here is the link https://discord.gg/


Follow the @asapers for exposure and curaton benefits

If you are too busy for that, then at least follow the official @asapers account so that your quality works by default qualify to be curated.