Dog walk diaries: Steempressives

in #steem6 years ago

Markets are driven by sentiment and the Steem community is depressed. The feeds are full of Steempressives, those whose writing depends on the price of Steem. When the Elliot waves and fractals are pointing up, they are happy because 29 dollar Steem is inevitable. But, when the triangles are inverted and the bear grabs the bull by, well, not its horns... Power down. Run.

Ok. I admit. I have no bloody idea what an Elliot wave is. For a long time I thought it was what the ladies called the glorious locks of @elliotjgardner's hair after seeing him sing.

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The platform is in a bit of a funk though and the mood is definitely not like that of the Golden weeks of 'December 17'. Those were the days Bryan Adams would sing about.

Perhaps we could FUD the market and turn tge bulls with a concerted push of Fake it til you make it posting. Everyone just shill Steem like our lives depend on it. Oh. Some people's lives DO depend on it. Those people should really be taking the lead on independent development by finding ways to make Steem attractive and better. That job is usually left for others though. Everyone wants to be given freedom

You can't freedom by force either I think. Perhaps freedom is a symptom of creating an environment where flourishing can happen. Where freedom itself doesn't require work, it is the tilling of the soil, the planting of seeds, the tending of the garden. Freedom is the fruit of labour and each season, the work must be done again. Freedom is not a destination, it is part of a cyclical process.

Maybe it is when the markets are down that we see the difference in personality here. Who are the miners looking to extract and, who are the farmers looking to grow. Perhaps the environmental scars the earth bears from humans is testament to which most people choose.

Am I a Steempressive too? Maybe. I am a simple farmer after all so, the weather plays a large role.

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Taraz
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True, you know, the fair weather people and all that. I am digging in deeper and deeper all the time and remind myself that when the seeds are cheep is the time to buy and work even harder as to harvest a higher profit crop.

Is that not how it suppose to work? Buy low, sell high. Get the soil ready for when the rain does come? Hell yes it was nice seeing my account pick up pace at one point there and it made me very excited, and then it dipped. No worry I tell myself, it's crypto, what goes down will come back at ya honey.

Stop whining all of you and get back to your farming, the rain will come.

The community is depressing the community. If we fail at raising the price of Steem, it will be my opinion that people couldn't mind their own business, and focus on building instead of complaining and whining.

I'm tired of trying to preach the positives through the voices of negativity.

Just venting.

What do you think would be a healthy approach to this?

I have my stake and my voice. Each day I use it to try to point out the positive, support those I want to retain and I mind my own business and don't tell everyone else what to do.

If I don't like something I flag it - if I get flagged I shut up and continue on with my life.

My sense this morning is we just don't have enough people who are mature enough to handle the combination of Freedom, Personal Responsibility, and Decentralization. People don't seem to understand this is our responsibility.

I've been trying to be an influencer, keep people focused on what they can control. Which is their own stake. The price is fine with me, just going with the market.

I'm just not enjoying the constant complaining, constant fighting and unreasonable expectations that money is going to fall from the sky. I know my mood will sort out. Right now, I feel like I am tired of trying to combat all the negativity.

I just do my best to be negative, or rather critical, in a funny way, and keep on posting, but I must admit I don't know for how much longer.

alright i just have to reply!

in many threads over the past few days that i've been reading around steemit, i keep seeing you there and i just want to let you know...

how much i appreciate your voice and perspective!

we just don't have enough people who are mature enough to handle the combination of Freedom, Personal Responsibility, and Decentralization. People don't seem to understand this is our responsibility.

definitely! this is our responsibility and all this whining isn't getting us anywhere. i love always seeing you shining through the bullshit with autonomy, standing for freedom of choice and positivity. thanks!! :)

why are people so discouraged? cuz they keep reading all this crap and are influenced. steem is a LONG TERM social experiment. like so many things in life, we can choose to participate or not, but i feel the incorrect expectations so many enter the platform with paired with lack of vision/understanding of what is possible here just make for a bunch of whiners.

let's stick with it, wrap our minds around that and try to make it awesome together.... haha it is in our hands!!

For me I agree with a statement I came across earlier. Let's take this as some kind of culling. It's simple really - those who don't belong here should be allowed to leave

Perhaps it is like a trolley test except, we can save one valuable one by pushing 5 others in front of a train. ;D

Farm on :]. Im gathering my peanuts so i can jump in. Little more time imho.

At the moment I am not sure what my next crop is going to be :)

Any particular ones you like? I have a couple but they're controversial.

You're definitely not a 'steempressive'. If anything, you're still here while others have bolted. Life is usually this way I guess - no one wants to do the dirty job but everyone wants in on the harvest

no one wants to do the dirty job but everyone wants in on the harves

This is essentially it. People are too used to having everything purchasable from a store.

Elliot wave - I thought it had something to do with TS Eliot :D

Guess the golden weeks of December are past and we are in slow painful walk towards death........... when we'll reach the brink of death we'll probably recover. Deosen't matter either way to a person who is here for the crypto and not for the dollar

when we'll reach the brink of death

I think that is the terminal end of the 5th elliot wave. Keep stacking.

Always the best time to farm more. I was really impressed now that the rewards of Steem and SBD are already back to where was it back then: close to 1:1

that is part of the problem really considering SBD would perform better at 1 from what I understand. So, it should be 1 SBD: 0.6 Steem or something like that now.

This could happen in the near future. And then after that probably SBD will inflate again back like how it did last year. I actually prefer that my posts earn more SP than SBD. I'm thinking of a longer term of growth in here.

jajajjaa. Those final paragraphs, @tarazkp. I believe that many are here to fish and not to sow. I have even seen how, with this drop in the Steem, they have stopped not only publishing but commenting, knowing that the reward may be lower than expected. Then there really was no such need to write, no sincere desire to read to others. It's just a market and we're going through a downturn. This cannot demoralize us and bring us down. Let us continue with the same interest and dedication. The time will come to pick juicy fruit. I'm not from the pessimistic group. A hug

they have stopped not only publishing but commenting, knowing that the reward may be lower than expected

yes, comments have dropped off here for me also considering how many I often get.

Hi Taraz. Head down and don't look. The price shouldn't change ones attitude to posting.It obviously does because the platform is a bit of a ghost town compared to a few weeks ago. Like a farmer you deal with whatever weather is thrown at you. It will rain soon and everything will be back to normal.

Fantastic Nature

Great post; but, I beg to differ. People have better things to do with their time and energy than watch whale bots run off with the biggest stakes without recourse.

I believe in telling the truth and shaming the devil: I made a commitment to do this experiment for a year of observation. I have seen so many things that should have been addressed, totally ignored even at the rooftop shouts of the hard-working Steemians of all levels.

The reputation one creates is based on not letting the 'rich' have at the pot only because they ughm, have invested more monetarily than most.

Personally, I choose to speak the truth, no negativity intended.

Sadly, scams have caused some to suicide; and, others to attempt. So, to stand buy and put lipstick on a pig line is folly.

Peace.

People have better things to do with their time and energy than watch whale bots run off with the biggest stakes without recourse.

Truth, regardless of the price of Steem or of market expectations!

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