I couldn't wait until I hit 1500 followers to do another celebration post, but today I ran across a tool developed by @Sircork called https://steem.agency and it made me a little sad.

This is a tool to see how many of your followers are still active in the steemit community. I was shocked to find out that I had many hundreds of followers that are no longer active. After sifting through most of the data that this tool offers I realized a lot of my followers just had given up after not getting any meaningful up votes or constructive criticism.

Okay so it's fair to admit that some of these folks never really gave it a fair try, but on the other hand I saw some amazing posts that were so good I could only dream about writing that well. I'm almost ashamed that I couldn't keep up with all of this, on the other hand we all know it is impossible to help everybody.

Okay so what are the solutions to this problem?

Should we spend hours curating and upvoting new people to give them motivation and should we put all of our favorite people on auto vote so we have more time to curate new people.

I think the answer to all of this is communities, when somebody joins steemit and starts showing an interest in your community we must encourage them and give them support, I know with this next hard fork were supposed to have something about communities in their, but until that happens we need to step up and support these people that are just starting out!

I know I'm just ranting here, but a lot of people don't even acknowledge the folks that comment on their posts. New people are trying to start out and make connections and some people wont acknowledge them because the reputation is too low and they havent learned to put more thought into it. (let's help them with this)

Some of the time we are so busy worrying about upvotes that we don't take the time to help others.

Solution number two, acknowledge your followers on their comments (if it's a good one) and give a little upvote!

I hope I have given you all little something to think about because were all invested in this community and if it don't grow we just lost all of our marbles and our investment ended up being a big waste of our time.

If you need an example of communities, like my good friend at @goldmatters once said, #steemsilvergold was a community before communities were invented!

P.S. 1,000,000 registered accounts on Steemit! WOOHOOO!

Please leave your comments and sugestions below,we can do this!