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RE: Gold showing bullish signals
Hello @drutter,
I just saw your post today (many days after the fact). I am here to ask you about your intention of not accepting the nomination to join Steem Silver Gold. I am one of the mods for the community and want to confirm your decision based on the last section of this post.
Are you still declining your nomination? If so, I will make sure our member list reflects your desire. ☺️ Thank you for the clarification either way.
Hey @dfinney. I don't actually know what nomination (or membership) entails.
I don't buy, sell, or trade upvotes on Steem. No upvote bots, no curation trails, no delegation, no vote partnerships, etc. I'm a simple content creator with a focus on monetary theory and precious metals. I'm on Steem to provide the content I create on a regular basis, and earn upvotes from other members. I've been educating people about silver and other physical monetary metals for over 10 years on YT, FB, and now Steemit.
If you think there's a way we can meet our mutual goals together, please let me know! If not, no hard feelings, and I wish you the best on your way.
Hi @drutter,
I saw fishyculture nominated you for membership and that seemed to be your first intro to the steemsilvergold community on steemit. At least in a formalized way. Your nomination was seconded and approved. So technically you are in. If you are interested in being in. ☺️
We are a random assortment of stackers, coin collectors and wannabe stackers/coin collectors who are all here on steem. Some folks are long time stackers, some are very new. We have a discord channel. Surprisingly most of the chit chat in discord isn’t Precious Metal related. It tends to be general banter.
We have a vote trail which all members benefit from. Some members have added their vote to this trail, some members delegate a small amount to the trail. This trail votes for all member’s posts whether they contribute to the trail or not. I personally delegate 10SP. The hope of course is that each member would contribute in some way, but it is not required. We also have a voting bot that is exclusive to members. Contributing to this bot is not required. Folks may choose to delegate or pay liquid steem for a tier. Each tier votes member posts at a percentage equal to their contribution.
Every few months we hold a raffle. During the raffle members donate silver or gold. We sell raffle tickets for steem or SBD to all of Steemit. The donators will ship their donation at their cost to the raffle winner anywhere in the world. We use the steem raised from the raffle to pay for leases to boost our vote bot. The event is fun. We hold it live on discord. It takes a couple of hours. People get silly and generally have a good time. Around Christmas we also have a secret santa silver exchange. Community members will host raffles during the year exclusive to Steem Silver Gold members.
For those that are interested, one of our members does a group crypto buy. I have never participated so don’t know all the details. Obviously being on steemit means people are loosely interested in crypto.
Participation in all of these activities are optional. However, our community is of a decent size and it seems the same people participate a lot while others maybe reap the benefits with less contribution. Personally I like to see members interacting with one another’s posts. Interaction builds community.
In an ideal state every member would be interacting on steemit, chatting in the discord, donating to the raffle, getting on the vote trail and utilizing our bot. In the real world it nice to see members contribute in a couple ways that feel good for them.
What do you think?
Also, if my long ramble above has given you more questions please let me know. ☺️
Cheers,
@dfinney
Thanks @dfinney, you're an excellent ambassador for your cause! :)
I appreciate hearing more about the group. I tried to find a website or a "this is who we are" type post, but couldn't. The group (not members, but the group infrastructure) seems to be spread all over the blockchain in little bits here and there. I guess that's kind of how a lot of Steem-based groups are. Anyway, now I know what you do, membership details, pros and cons, etc.
I should have investigated before agreeing to nomination, sorry about that. Due to personal beliefs and limits I've set for my own conduct, my membership in the group would exist only as my name on a list somewhere.
No offense meant at all, but the only thing SSG and I have in common is "interaction". I like to browse, read, and curate exceptional content whenever I can find it. I produce exceptional content, and I'm always looking for people who want or need it. But I don't do much Discord chat, and I never accept votes obtained by membership in something, or on tiers, and I never delegate. I'd never be part of a curation trail (neither to give or receive votes), and I don't do contests or raffles. Lastly, I'd have to sit out of the crypto buying pool, because as a stacker I know "if you don't hold it, you don't own it". That goes for cryptos as well as PMs - I'd never store on an exchange (crypto bank), for example. If you don't hold it, even if a trusted community member is holding it on your behalf, you don't own it. I'm a little shocked that any stackers would participate in such a thing.
I've been told that members posting outside the "steemsilvergold" tag is pointless, because the members may not find your post, and the bot may not upvote it, etc. But to me, dropping knowledge should be done where it can be found by those who need it. Group members already know most of this stuff. I'm trying to reach the unwashed masses, the sleepy majority, the people we can potentially save from ignorance and financial ruin. Posting inside one tag feels like it is preaching to the choir.
I try to post about precious metals in various parts of the blockchain, and I find it brings in new interest. Tags like gold, silver, metals, economy, news, mining, finances, money, bullion, and so on. I even talk about silver and gold within posts about other topics, such as cannabis, philosophy, science, or politics.
I mean no offense to you or the group. I'll continue to browse through the member list for exceptional channels to follow. I can't participate in any way beyond that, and it isn't fair to just have my name on a list somewhere (not contributing like other members do), so I'm afraid I won't be of any use to your group.
I'll continue to interact with and support high quality original precious metals enthusiasts and monetary theorists. Many of them will end up being SSG members, I'm sure! So I'll see you around the blockchain. :)
Steem (and stack) on!
☺️ All very respectable and well expressed reasons. We definitely look to engage with folks who share an interest in metals so being in the group or out of the group doesn’t change this. ☺️
As for finding info... the decentralized nature of Steemit does make it hard!
Have a lovely afternoon! See you around the blockchain!
Cheers!