Rant? ๐
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So... I'm jumping out of my comfort zone.... No cover image (What the hell?!) and I'm not planning any signatures...
If you're new to me and are so inclined, visit one of my TOPICS & TUNES posts for more about muh connections. Dat link will take you to STEEMPEAK, which, if you're NOT using PALNET (yet) ya should be using STEEMPEAK (it's the tits). ๐
Now, let us begin...
I'm feeling cranky... Well, considerably LESS cranky today than yesterday. Yesterday was a battle. ๐ Mostly with myself, as they generally are. Anywho, I've been feeling quite frustrated because I wanna post more, but NOT up to the standards of what I've been trained to believe STEEMit (the blogging side of things) is/should be.
At first, I was super pro a place for HIGH-QUALITY blogging (that could potentially be rewarded by our peers), but because of the many imperfections of humans and our basic trial and error approach, it just didn't/hasn't worked out quite like that.
During this time I found and grew to LOVE the community... mostly off chain. And I do. I love you. I can't imagine or don't want to imagine life before STEEM. That's because of YOU. ๐
I now find myself sneaking back to Instagram and Twitter (Facebook can suck the big one... with warts. ๐). I don't post on Twitter, but DO enjoy little blips and blurbs. I'm ACHING for more interaction. I'm quite active on Discord, but still feel this missing link.
Minds.com
Yesterday, during the height of my crankiness, I went back to Minds.com. Minds was the first place I fled to after leaving (mostly) other social media. I hung out a minute, but the 'community' didn't seem to be there. It was, after all, mostly those who were being demonetized and kicked off of other platforms. And I was still scared to share... even there. So I mostly lurked.
Minds has updated! They began as a simple alternative to social media giants and now are on the Etherium blockchain and offer ways of using crypto (tokens) to 'get more views'.
Now, why am I seemingly pushing Minds? I posted there THREE TIMES yesterday! And I DON'T GET PAID!
Wanna know why? I just wanted to spit out a little something into the ether. Nothing groundbreaking or life-shattering. Just a basic 'yo'. ๐ I mean, I did wee little updates about why I'd not been back to Minds in a while. But really, around here it would be called "A Shit Post".
And it felt GOOD.
For real. I have no idea why. But it was quite freeing to be able to post without the possibility of my tiny stake being destroyed because some (very sexy, I'm sure) whale decides to flag me into oblivion... on a whim.
So... I don't really post here. Not that many are really reading lately, so no harm, no foul, I suppose.
Oh!
Talking about chatting about stuff and things...
I'm pretty excited about the new SPLINTERLANDS FORUM. Because it's a forum I feel like I can 'shitpost' and it won't be frowned upon. PLUS! It's got the new SPT (Splinterlands Talk) tokens behind it, allowing you to GIVE and RECEIVE for participating there too!
And!
PALNET!
Dudes. For real, this is like the best thing. I LOVE that ONLY what is created here or tagged palnet will show up in the feed. It's like all muh friends in one place!๐ PLUS! (LOL! See a pattern?) I really like that we can use our newly dropped PALPOWER to upvote (on TOP of STEEM) and boost our posts with PALcoin... and it really works!
In conclusion...
Yes, I'm cranky, but even that can't bring me too far down. ๐
I still can't believe I'm going to post this... it's so raw and unfinished... it feels wrong... for STEEM, not for me. This is VERY ME...
My blog is only the best in quality. LOL I wish. We all have our shitposts, but as humans, that's how it should be. You do you and have a nice cranky day now =)
LOL!
My blog is the best blog.
I've honestly never shitposted... and even this has CONTENT at least... al beit content only good for me and my FOLLOWERS. That's right... stalkers. Weirdos. All of you! You make me WHOLE.
I will continue to enjoy my crank.
Though annoying, I'm able to laugh at me. I'm so funny. ๐คฃ
I can still destroy your stake for fun or out of spite. It doesn't need to be on a whim.
I'm having most of my fun right now on the satoshi discord but on the plus side it gives us something to do everyday and to post about while doing it. It's still the STEEM community that makes it worthwhile.
(Also mini rant about you not joining our twitter chain yet. For shame.)
Either way it's nice to have an constant activity. Blogging isn't an all day thing and sometimes you just want to be active.
Don't make me shake muh fist at you!
Since fist shaking is all I got. ๐
I pop over in the Satoshi Discord, to see what's shakin', but I'm so outta that loop that I just get confused and wonder away again.
And I KNOW ! I KNOW! I need to do the Twitter video thing (cause my face... it is HIGHLY sought after), but I really need to know more about the challenge thing... #somanyfunthingsinthecommunity #isthatarealhashtag #see ? #immissinghashtags #help
And yes, I think that's my thing. I've decided (long ago) that working online with folks and computers is my cup of tea. But... I'm still living paycheck to paycheck (mostly the hubs) so we can try to make ONLINE work... So I'm home all day working (quite diligently at times), but just wanna CONNECT a little on occasion. I'll find that balance.... and maybe even make it over to the Satoshi Discord.
"Sees fist shake and tells off face of the community for not showing face to the community. "
This satoshi clue is easy. It's building a human blockchain with each tweet a block making the STEEM "S" while showing the last video in the chain. It's a fun community one rather than a complicated technical people one...
Funny example here.
https://twitter.com/realsociology
I just like learning new things. Challenges, targets. That sort of thing. The best thing is how we learn new things here and the willingness to help each other do it.
I think we should all post exactly how we wanna post ๐ You do you and everybody else does them. Anything else is just stress in order to avoid judgement and thatโs wrong! Hope to see you guys at the cripple creek donkey race on the 22nd!
$rewarding 100% 15 minutes
Ahhhh! I think that too! But I hold me back!
It's really the 'social score' that does it to me. Because of our Wild West structure of the blockchain, it's scary to be honest... I guess. But only because of the very real possibility of being destroyed (monetarily). Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's what does it... LOL!
These are lessons I must learn and hurdles I must bound (stumble) over. And I will. I mean, just LOOK at that post. ๐คฃ
And yes! We are stoked about DonkeyFest! Still need to find a place to sleep (had one, but need to triple check... people change their minds), but worst case we just drive all the way to Co Springs.
I'll see you on minds! Also I always wanted to test this out.
!dramatoken
I do like Minds. A LOT of options. It's kinda like all socia media smoooshed into one.
Not too bad.
And ho! I don't make no drama!
I counted only 2 bitmojis in the whole post!! who are you and what have you done to Carrie???
Ahhhh! You're so right!
I told you I was cranky. ๐คฃ
But you know what? This post? Making this post was the LEAST stressed out I've EVER been about posting. #whatiswrongwithme
I kinda like this... But, yes, I DID have to hold myself back and not use A MILLION Memojis (that's what I call her)...
It's all good, they all in the comments!
I might be tempted to use palnet more often, just because the tag makes it so much easier to go through my feed.....
All these tokens are making my head spin. There's steem monsters tokens now? I really need to get back into playing! But first, homework!
Trying to be a responsible adult during the summer is hard
Don't do it! It's a trap! Adulting is way over-rated!
I love the feed on PALnet (right now)! So much easier to navigate.
And yes Tokens! Tokens! EVERYWHERE!
There are a few SM tokens...
The one I spoke of is SPECIFICALLY for the new forum.
Now... Do your homework!
You really need to shitpost like this more often! This is how interaction is done around these here parts.
It seems so. Unfortunately, I'm from the 'old school', where PERFECT POSTING was a must. I mean, that's still a thing. I saw a post by someone (with the best intentions) saying that unless the posts were PERFECT for their community they would get nothing.
I think that has to do with language barriers too though... They'll get the memo that it's okay to shitpost must later.
But, I may give this a shot for a while. This post didn't take me much of any time. It felt good.
If you have to write a perfect post every time, what's the point of making the effort to post? You can't please those kind of people. If you look at my posts, you'll see just how imperfect they are, but I write it the way I see it.
I suppose that if I was hired by some company to write, I'd have to do it better, but this is recreation, not work for me. :-)
It's true! And I think that's why it stressed me out. I tend to hold myself to a pretty high standard, as I believe my presentation of myself tells others a lot about me.
But this "you must be perfect" crap? I can't handle it!
I think I'm finally getting a thicker skin or realize that not only is it impossible to please everyone, but I don't really want to anymore. Sure, I like to be liked... I may even NEED to be like... but not by everyone. ๐
That also may be my problem. This IS work to me... or I'm really trying to make it so. It's literally what I spend my day on: STEEM. I long and image the day that it pays my cost of living + some. So I felt I needed to take it more seriously.
HOWEVER! I think I'm learning that 'seriousness' can mean very different things... And people like flaws, cause we all have them. It makes us all easier to understand. We ain't perfect, but we try. ๐
Thanks, Amber!
You have
DRAMA!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.I'm cranky because I'm not on the palnet whitelist. I'm guessing you have to actually be friends with the people from palnet and not just a good active steemian. I think that's kind of a bad policy if that's the way it really is.
LOL! That's not true!
Did you do ALLLL the things to sign up in the PAL Discord?
I believe (way back when) I had to do something to be 'whitelisted'.
And you have to be ACTIVE in the PAL Discord too, not just on Steem. Though I think I saw that the claimdrop had to do with your SP (Steem Power), rather than engagement in Discord.
Now... As you can tell from my post, I can be a pretty big Debbie... BUT! I would never spread FUD (Fear - Uncertainty - Doubt) before doing my due diligence... and even then, I'm less likey to bitch.
Have you reached out to several people in the Discord? Or did you ask once in general and feel like you were ignored? Cause that's unlikely. Being ignored. It's just a fast-paced world, ya gotta keep putting your nose in til you get an answer.
I know that PALnet and Steem-Engine were having issues earlier and everyone was working on that rather than answering individual questions.
Ya can't give up! Well, you can... and then you'd be 'right' as you'd be misinformed... but you could potentially still get to 'feel' right. So that's something.
While I don't have anything to do with all this... I could help. If that's what you're after. ๐
And if you're not after help- that's okay too. Rant away! It feels good sometimes!
I hope you get it all figured out.๐
Well I had an argument with them a couple of weeks ago and I'm pretty sure I got banned. I was trying to promote my book. I may not have been in the friendliest of moods. If it's about being friendly with them though and not about making money then I'm sure that I'm not going to be on the whitelist. Oh well.
Oh! You're not in the PAL Discord at all now? ๐ฌ
Then, ya... ya banned.
HOWEVER... they are very forgiving and accept apologies.๐
So, if you were really interested in being a 'part of the community' (that may actually mean being friendly to people)... then you should reach out.
Alternately, if you're ONLY wanting back in for 'the money'... then maybe PAL's not your place. (Sorry, if I misunderstood you here... but it seems you are ONLY interested in the money, not the community... from your last statement... And that's okay too!)
Generally, the idea behind PEACE ABUNDANCE & LIBERTY is to be friendly and supportive. A place to really get to know the community. People tend to care more about interactions than their upvotes there. (of course, that's not ALWAYS true)
I totally understand just wanting to keep your head down and post. Like, for real. It's just not how PAL is set up. It's now offering rewards for interacting, even OFF chain. Just like any community may offer different incentives and rewards.
Oh! But! If you are looking for communities that just give upvotes (for like delegating and such) there are a LOT of those out there. While I'm not a member of them I bet I could get a list for you to check out. Just ask, and I'll get to work for you.
We all have our spot where we feel most comfortable and it's okay when they are different spots. ๐
Maybe I can help you find yours. โค๏ธ
Well I've been a member of PAL since the very beginning. I remember the founding people when they were in the low 60s. I've been on the site for 2 1/2 years now posting every day. Itโs not that I'm only interested in the money, but I do feel kind of slighted. I think you can imagine that feeling. Perhaps I'll go back there and talk to them but I do feel like it was at least a little bit of two way street.
I appreciate you taking the time to write a detailed response.
I 100% understand. โค๏ธ
And agree.
Maybe I'll see you around more. ๐