Despite of the discouraging evidence, I'm going to waste some gunpowder in vultures with a good post tonight.
"Lately, I've been watching with kinda ball's ache a few trends happening here on steemit"
These issues have to do with the extremely low incidence of votes, comments and whatnots that are being obtained by the immense and ever growing majority of publications which appear daily under the NEW TAB on steemit homepage. Especially during the weekends.
I admit that the vast majority of those articles come from novices which have just been registered on the platform and that it will still take some time and effort for us to discover their existence in steemit. But this also makes me wonder aloud about the following:
¿Is this that no one here, (especially the old steemians) lately do not even bother to give a click on the New Tab to check what's going on over there and what's good to reward on what's lay in there, anymore?
Oh Yeah!, of course I'm sure and I know exactly what I'm talking about. ¡Just click on that new tab and confirm it for yourself!
Over there you will notice that even scrolling way down until you get to articles that have been posted hours ago, none of them has managed to obtain the necessary number of votes to gather at least $1.00 dollar. And most of them without a single comment yet.
«Wealthy Steemians & Old Users Holding Heavy SteemPower»
It occurs to me and I have the disturbing suspicion that those with high reputation (score above 55 and up) already with a good amount of followers and followed, they are only interested in reading (if by chance), their own feed exclusively and ignoring the rest. What I confess must already be an arduous task to catch up depending on the number of people they are already following. Okay, that's natural and understandable.
But...
And this is a big but. ¿Where did their curiosity go? ¿To where went their willingness to actively supervise and make sure the community is growing steadily and healthy? ¿Where are currently the wealthy watchdogs of steemit's platform spreading some words of encouragement and also some tinkling nickels of appreciation and welcome to beginners, noobs and new users who patently are in communion with the idea to participate into the creation and consolidation of the solidary community of the future with their contribution of time, dedication, knowledge, inspiration, art, content and whatever?
¿Aren't they and haven't they already proved to be faithful believers of the philosophy that the steemit founders and we all mostly have sold to them when currently, at the moment, they even have to wait until weeks to get approved their admission on the platform?
¡Uhmm Yeah! Click That Damn New Tab Button more often YO! ¡That's All!
Otherwise you will never know what you are missing.
¡I'm Watching You Whales!
Meanwhile, I will await patiently to witness a favorable change soon over here, while at the same time extravagantly & exuberantly I'm going to smoke a cigarette in my seat thinking about other important stuff also.
For example...
Imagine waking one morning and..
- All banks suddenly closed (for weeks)
- All accounts suddenly frozen (for weeks/months)
- All credit cards, checks, debit cards being refused.
- All suppliers/shops demanding cash only.
- All employees demanding to be paid in cash.
- All ATM withdrawals being limited to ~100 $/€
- Needing to wait over 5 hours to use an ATM.
Oh Yeah! after all of the above, I suspect you now prolly need a good bite of my usual...
'Abstract Aural Bit'
"Giggles, Smiles, Comments, Resteems & Upvotes will be highly appreciated"
Just a minnow here, but don't lose hope! There are a lot of good people out there. and from some of what I read,there is changes coming ... some new witnesses ,and a little time and we can survive...we do have a lot of political shenanigans going on behind the scenes ,but it is hard to get away from big money influence !! But we do stand a better chance on this site! It is a little more transparent here and brought to light!
I wish you good whale hunting and a pleasant night!
namaste!
Hey! Hi @jesse2you thank you very much for your comment. Excuse me for my delay to reply.
Yeah mate, I really hope good and positive changes are next to come. Prolly in just few days we'll see some of that peeking out soon. But yeah it's necessary that we take a close eye on the Big Guys here to know better what their real plans are. Because lately, they have not had much tendency to keep the community informed and updated about their current plans, progress and developments.
On other hand.. I see you describe yourself like a minnow. That's fine, we've all been there. However, I'm going to dare to give you a premature little advice about this quote next. :)
No No No No!! ¡Prick mate! prick, poke, nudge, push, jab, hit, pinch and twist everyone's nipples as much as you can, interacting on tutilimundi content & stuff. Especially with steemit's mammals and the big cetaceans of this eco-fauna. These last days, that seems to be the only way to get noticed and flow through the platform in a steady fashion and faster pace to build us a valuable list of good allies and loyal followers asap. }:)
Cheers!!
:-)
lol...
appreciate the response! I understand how life and time collide...lol
I think we just may get along.
I am a smart ass ...but I am trying to be nicer...lol...something about sugar and vinegar.. :-)
and I have already seen the politics in play... certain people getting censored and flagged,or worse but others go on unnoticed,. some of it I may agree with,but this is supposed to be uncensored...
I am just trying to be smart about this and not intentionally be rude or abusive .
I went ahead and followed . hgd
Hoooly Crap!! @jesse2you I guess now you are doom mate. Way more than we both get along I suspect you have just been responsible for allowing me to achieve an important & exceptional milestone in my ten months fucking up around steemit.
Hahaha, with your follow I have just reached the figure of 100 followers.
You will not escape unharmed from this!! NOW.. I'm following you also! }:)
oh shit at this rate I'm going to get popular! then they are going to make me a martyr!
This could be the begging of the end!
some start calling me the Anti-Christ,and.... this isn't good!
lol!!!
Thank for the follow ,but I think you may be in just as much trouble!
:-)
namaste
Oh! ho ho ho ho. That's just pure humongous happiness mate, being in the know that I am not the lone weirdo/wacko on the block anymore.
¡Welcome to my tribe buddy! Allow me now that I baptize you with my outcast seal of guarantee and extreme quality.
Now don't dare touch that strip of tape to swap spots in your sanctified body to please anyone. }:)
ahh butt he is not on stilts!.. and alas no horse of course!
would that be a wee bit funny?
hope it is no syn to be punny!
;-)
Well, I'm afraid a pair of stilts or a horse would heighten the right perspectives too much.
You gotta keep some unattainable stiff distance at the beginning. LoL
I like this. has good ring to it, as Quasimodo would say.
Haha @franks, thank you a lot for your comment and the reminding. :)
I make it a habit so far to check my feed for my followers AND new ones. I'm new yet so I hope to continue to be consistent with this. As I understand that the only way for a community to be strong is for both old and new.
You seem to have the reins correctly picked up for this wild steemit's rodeo @srtiyea.
As a community of major minnows, at the start, we must swim in giant shoals together to appear bigger and stronger than the predators who try to devour us in just one bite.
Yeah! check the new tab more often mate and engage more with that unstoppable legion of potential minnows who after finding you, surely they will wish to join to your own army of followers to build in a snap your invincible shoal of loyal warriors.
Thank you very much for your insightful comment. :)
I admittedly do not check new very often. I do sometimes scroll through and give votes there though in the hope my one cent will encourage people though. Occasionally, I manage to leave a comment.
As you know, I am not great with the engagement part of this. I will try harder.
Oh my dear @tarazkp. No surprise for me mate, that at the end of the day does not remain not even a single minute available on your hands to check out any tab at all beyond your own feed page to look for and read something eventually.
You are a well known restless and very prolific author, thinker, content creator and writter of copious brainy and sensible material which must surely exhaust you daily. Routine which I imagine will just leave you barely with some free minutes to check some of the posts of those you follow and interact with them leaving some votes and comments every now and then.
And C'mon! you may well not be as much a wordy babbler beast on comments as someone I know pretty well Haha. But without a doubt you are always a generous and splendid commenter who is not always successful in hiding the stunning sense of humor he possess. :)
Thank you a ton for your sincere and frank comment my friend. A fraternal hug to you!! :)
Very good post :)
I only pray your comment has been snatched off by something more than just a naked smoker in black-and-white. LoL
Thank you for commenting!! :)