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RE: Everyone's a Critic ... #ZapFic
The sequelquill to Everyone’s A Critic—Everyone’s A Solution. 👍🏿 How’s it going, Savage?
The sequelquill to Everyone’s A Critic—Everyone’s A Solution. 👍🏿 How’s it going, Savage?
^^ I did not mean to upvote myslef, that was an accident, I clicked the wrong arrow thingy before I clicked the right green arrow thingamajig.
@dandays,
Well, I just upvoted my comment as well. That way, we'll do our time together. Misery loves company.
Quill
Thanks for the vote sympathy, Quill. Eh, I gave it time before I asked this but what’s the deal?
After all of that pleading and all of the resteems for two weeks, tou were even writing love letters to Dan, they don’t even upvote your work? I don’t get it. 🤔
@dandays,
Hey Dan.
@theycallmedan gave me a few big hits during the Contest. And, since then, @mariusfebruary has given me some juice as well.
The Good Whales have got a lot of people they're trying to feed and, like everyone else, they have limited upvoting power. The problem is that there are very few whales even bothering to curate content at all.
Instead, they're generating Passive Income by delegating to bidbots, leasees of SP or their own pet projects (SMT-ICO dream-schemes).
Alas, as 85% of SP is owned by Whales and Orcas, this leaves precious little for the purpose of which SP was intended: Rewarding Quality Content.
It's frustrating ... and it's not sustainable.
Curation Awards were supposed to be the mechanism by which large stakeholders generated Passive Income. That fact that it's not is a fatal flaw that will destroy the blockchain unless it is quickly remedied.
There is, perhaps, a glimmer of hope. Over the past two months, there has been a huge Whale Power-Down. Many of the Old Guard Whales are Whales no longer. Of course, for them to sell, someone had to buy. Who are these new Whales and what will be their priorities?
If they have even a modicum of business sense, a lot of the side-projects will die and there will be a huge re-focusing on Steemit. We'll have to wait and see.
I'm writing a post about this very subject.
Arrgh ... I'd far rather be writing about something else. Indeed, almost anything else. This 'blockchain governance' stuff is soul-destroying. Why do people need to be convinced about the necessity of 'playing fairly?' Weren't we supposed to have learned these lessons in Kindergarten?
Quill
I’ve seen you write several articles on the topic, my wife and I both all about the same topic, what do you mean by “unsustainable?” Certainly you don’t mean that I’ll only see the same people on a daily basis and upvote the same people because I’m not getting new feeds and receive the exact same number of upvotes from the exact same people without attracting new followers when I post—naaah. That can’t be what you mean by unsustainable. Unsustainable, as in, one of my favorite initiative’s leaving the platform, @comedyopenmic, along with countless others?
Great! Now I’m depressed first thing in the am—danget, Quill!
Congrats on the @mariusfebruary tip, I’ve seen that name three times now, in the past week, all three times were good things like Dan. Maybe it’s a changing of the guard?? Or, like you say, maybe the few good whales out there are realizing their passive income is, here it comes again, Quill: “unsustainable.”
Happy Saturday, Mr. Savage, eh,
speakingtyping of being cool—have you heard about this contest? It’s the one @lynncoyle1 called both you and I out on last weekend—remember? I think it’s a good thing man and I’ll be curating two people today, actually, feel free to join me. 👍🏿However, back to the origin of this conversation, so.. Steemitbloggers /powerhousecreatives doesn’t even Upvote your work after that week long over load of “ooh! Pick me, pick, me... ooh! Look pretty please mister, please please pick me, sir, pretty pretty please!” -got it!
Hope to see you both become regulars in the contest. We have a good time and have had the opportunity to help more then a few struggling steemians find a good community to call home.
As for the topic of the whales, @quillfire I can't remember who posted it but the number of whales is pretty much the same as 3 months ago. But there has been an increase in minnows and dolphins which gives me a lot of hope of where things are going.
Honestly I'd love for the largest accounts to all dump 10% of their stake and drive prices down again. Let more of the minnows and dolphins increase their stakes at low prices. A more even distribution of stake will make for a better future of steem.
To me it was funny everyone was complaining about Steemit Inc selling off so many coins...IMO that was the best thing that could have been happening at that time for the blockchain. They owned and still own far to high of a percentage of the coins out there.
I’m famous for interrupting, don’t trip, I do it all the time—it’s just a little more difficult from behind the screen of an illuminated device. 😉
How’s it going @thedarkhorse?! I don’t believe we’ve met. About the first thing, I couldn’t help it, I went and found
twothree authors I’ll be curating for the competition—keep an eye out for me this afternoon! The second thing, yes’ir, $0.28 and $0.25 cents... back on the 6th and January 9th. Good timing. 👍🏿Now then, as you were, you two.
Looking forward to seeing your entry when I get to checking the last of them later today.
Don't think we've met either. Have seen you comment on a few posts where I also commented, but don't think we've had the opportunity to interact. Looking forward to getting to know you.
Your timing was great! That was when I wanted to buy, but my hot water heater started leaking. Have had a string of real life issues stop my from adding to my holdings and that hot water heater happened to be the last one right as I had rebuilt up some cash. At least it happened before I bought the STEEM as it's not exactly easy to pull $1000 out to cover an expense like that. Couldn't be without hot water...15 hours was bad enough from the time I had to shut the water off to the house to having hot water again. Naturally it happened at night when there was no way to get it fixed right away.
@thedarkhaorse.
In 100% agreement with your assessment re: broadening the ownership profile.
Respecting the Whale Power-Down, take a look at @hendrikdegrote ... the traditional power behind @curie. And, there are plenty of others.
While the number of Whales may be roughly the same ... they're NOT the same Whales. Many of the Old Guard are being replaced by ... who knows.
BTW ... I will definitely check out your contest as anything recommended by @lynncoyle1 or @dandays is automatically of interest.
Quill
1.3 million sitting there in liquid steem...if only he would sell it and drive the price back to 20c. I missed the opportunity to buy more at those prices due to real life and really want someone to push it down again. Need about 2 more week....lol
I remembered what I was thinking about and it was a post that showed total accounts at different levels by @tarazkp.
https://steemit.com/steem/@tarazkp/steem-growth-update-february-200-accounts-with-100k-steem
It really didn't take into account who and at the high end only was focused on 100k sp or higher so many of them would still be in that group as they aren't gone, just lower total SP.
@dandays,
@steemitbloggers (that's still the upvoting account for PHC ... not sure why) will hit it. But there are more than 100 members in PHC. So, to make the rounds, while maintaining an upvote of any significance, @jaynie has to limit the number of each day's votes and then allow for a VP recharge. Day 1 or Day 7 ... what do I care? Moreover, I am part of a team meaning that I must be as happy to see my teammates getting exposure, and rewards, as I am for myself.
Plus, my post that preceded this one was featured in PHC's "Rally Upvote," meaning all PHC's Members are to upvote it. Commentary is not obligatory but many chime in anyway ... and it's not just "nice post" stuff. It's honest engagement. @jaynie also hit it with her personal account and that of @theluvbug. She gave me all that she had to give.
https://steemit.com/powerhousecreatives/@quillfire/steemfest-4-the-whales-vs-the-minnows-chess-takedown-100-000-or-1-steem-prize
STEEM/Steemit has managed to get itself into a quagmire and extricating itself won't be easy. That said, there are many people engaged in the effort. And, the numbers are growing.
And, this includes some Whales and Witnesses. The Whales and Witnesses ARE NOT a homogeneous group. Indeed, some of them hate each others guts. But here's a reality: The Good Whales have to tread gently lest they set off endless stupid Whale Wars, none of which have ever accomplished anything beneficial.
One Last Note: No one has been more critical of self-serving (and blockchain destroying) Whale/Witness behavior than I. That said, we must be careful to distinguish the Good from the Bad. And, we must be willing to support those who dare to stray from the pack, making themselves targets in the process.
To be fair, one's pen must be as ready to write in tribute, as it is to write of tribulation. And, from what I've seen over the past few months, @theycallmedan, @nathanmars and @maruisfebruary are deserving of the former, not the latter.
Quill
Understood, @quillfire, each of your explanations—say no more. By the way, well said! 👍🏿
I only have one thing to add—about “stupid wars.” That’s what happens when a bunch of living things are stuck together in stagnant water for an extended period of time. They start to fight amongst themselves. Well, only with all walks of life since the beginning of time is all.
@dandays,
Sequel ... Sequill
I LOVE that. :-)
And "Everyone's A Solution" ... that's a damn fine idea for a sequill.
Brilliant! Thank you.
Quill