If there was one account that if I was asked who I had the most respect for on Steem, It would be @fulltimegeek.
Whilst many suffered The Haejin Effect, he ignored the bollocks behind the 'its your own stake, shove it all up your own arse if you wish' mentality and continued in ways he saw fit to counter greed, and share what he has.
Currently, I have 12000 Steem Power issued to my account, for free, which is payed forward to around 250 accounts each week.
I, and many others, received wallet gifts from this guy, without any prompt, just as a token of his appreciation.
His #fulltimebots currently roam the blockchain, voting content creators and people he considers to be putting their best foot forward.
@fulltimegeek is a man of the community, a developer, and has Steem close to his heart.
Vote @fulltimekgeek for witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Mana Time
Over the past 24 hours or so, I've received more than a few messages from worried account holders. The summary of these messages is that there is fear that the new Resource Credits implementation will have a severe impact on engagement, particularly for small account holders. This is the situation for an account with 200 Steem Power:
As things stand, this account is unlikely to hit top engager of the week. But at the same time, @spammyjoebloggs isn't going to be able to up-vote his own comments 50 times a day either.
Concerned Red Fish:
I'm not even worried about the league, I've just been using it for fun and stress relief ...I understand, keeping spam down, and quality, etc. but most of the rest of the world does not ...I'm more worried about Steemit in general, then everyone on every board etc. I see this as pulling the crush the little guy card. Sorry to bug you, you are about the only witness I really interacted with other than @themarkymark. Thanks.
My reply:
I agree with the little guys feeling the pinch the most. The issue of abuse, although widely broadcast, isn't taken seriously by many as they do not see what the spam squad and people with eyes on the chain do. We have been taken to the cleaners both SP and bandwidth wise by abusive accounts for a while now, and the hope is that this will counter that somewhat.
It will be tough to start from 0 with nothing to invest, but not impossible. What new members wont be able to do is dust vote all day for curation, and spam meaningless comments all over the place. Finding a balance with regards to Resource Credits / mana was always going to be tough, but I'm going to reserve judgement for a little while, and suspect that if there are clear signs that what the 'real' people have in place to interact is not enough, adjustments will be made.
This has not been a perfect roll-out, even Steemit Inc. have admitted to that. And I hear talk that it's not just the smaller accounts who have issue.
I advise 2 things, patience, as @tarazkp put beautifully yesterday: https://steemit.com/philosophy/@tarazkp/indecision-and-indigestion
And, a little bit of humor: https://steemit.com/hf20/@markangeltrueman/am-i-the-first-person-to-post-one-of-these-surely-not-fuhrer-hf20
Let's wait a couple of days for the Equibalanceilibrium to take place, and see where we are then?
Asher
I learned of fulltimegeek from you back during the days of #stewardsofgondor. It was stewards such as you and Lyndsay that showed support to us small fishes, and since FTG delegated all his SP to the stewards, he was also to thank. He is now showing direct support to many of us with his fulltimebots (which I greatly appreciate!).
Additionally, he took action against certain individuals that cyberbullied others on this platform. He has my fullest support, and I hope @freedom would stop being a passive investor this one instance and come through to show his witness support.
Thanks for the kind words @beeyou, I'm glad that you and others of similar joining dates and community are still here, showing the early support was useful, and in the right place.
FTG is going to need support of every active minnow, dolphin, and orca if he is to reach the place he deserves. I suspect much of his witness earnings will be distributed in the same ways as his stake this past year. Is this a worry for the greedy ones? I think so.
It's a long shot, but I sent a memo to @pumpkin to show his support to FTG and steemcommunity. Advised him/her to buy Steem Monsters cards too. :)
I like your style @beeyou 😁
I've collected some monsters, waiting patiently as always.
I too share the concern for smaller accounts as I know that comments tend to be a more convenient way to get votes and some rewards; it certainly was for me starting. However, not all small accounts can go out and invest to get the bandwidth and that could truly disengage many whichbis counterproductive for the ecosystem especially considering the amount of DApps continuing to be deployed here. However, I agree that we should give it some time to figure out the path to adapting to this new economy. If it becomes detrimental to the system, changes can be suggested. That is why we need more witnesses with the vision of @fulltimegeek to be the voice of that change.
Yeah it's just too early to take a side I think, and the rules of the game can change with a patch overnight.
FTG is an essential witness choice.
I've got a lot of respect for @fulltimegeek for the work he has done to counter greed on Steem and to help others. He has my vote. Note that there are a lot of inactive witnesses in the top 100. Some may just be upgrading, but others have done nothing for months. People need to re-allocate their votes.
I'm letting my VP recover, but still spreading a few votes around. It's good that new accounts cannot spam the system, but I feel for those who want to do good stuff as soon as they join up.
He certainly has, and for the community over the past year, I can't think of anyone more suitable to hit top 20.
Pretty tough to come up with the right algorithm first time out, I suspect there could be tweaks made to find the right balance here.
Yeah, the sheer amount of votes going to people like Jerry is astonishing. Maybe the voters are now inactive too, but if they aren't and want the best for this platform they need to treat their witness votes as a way to influence the direction of the platform. Maybe that's naive with the whole "freedom/pumpkin" thing going on in the top 20, but the people can surely make a difference.
This is why your witness has my proxy. I know
I lack the time to fully research and then keep up with who is doing what.
Being one of the tiny fish myself I feel the impact when things are out of whack.
Hopefully we can all go back to engaging, growing, and supporting our communities in time.
For now people are speculating if you will do the league charts this week.
I for one would be even more interested than usual to see what that would look like.
Equibalanceilibrium I am so gonna steal that :)
Nice one :)
Yeah just a few more days to get settled, then we can take a good luck at how it's all going to work.
The Leagues are on, 100%, and feel free to take my hack-job word :D
what?? the Leagues are still on sir Asher? ok well the last 2 days I've only been able to comment 5 times each day so I guess I'm starting near the bottom! Thanks for a great post!
You will do better than you think. No body else has much comment RC either. I bet you got in more before the fork than most of us would in a full week.
See latest @steemitblog @janton, this should be a good more for key engagers.
You may not be at the top this week, but could be back in the running next time 😊
Wonderfully put! How does Taraz rant in such a poetic way btw.. 🤔.. it’s a true gift.
Everyone needs to watch Mark’s video.. then relax a bit ❤️
Bring extra hair bobbles to Steemfest so we can see how he rocks them. I agree though, 'prolific thinker' is spot on for his profile text.
@markangeltrueman's video should be trending right now.
Its been a long time since i had any post trending. Not sure The Fuhrer can do that.
FTG has my vote every day of the week.
Sunday, Monday happy days....
I am using you as a proxy :D
:) Nice choice on fulltimegeek
He has been helping alot of people in the community, including me
Grand :D Thanks! Let's get him in a position worthy of his commitment and selflessness.
Thanks for sharing, he has my vote!
Great stuff, he deserves a big push in the ranks
I am giving it the week that they said it would take to find balance, but right now it's not looking very encouraging regarding the comments! This is me right now, with a little over 500 SP that is wholly mine:
I can vote and transact as much as my little heart desires, but hardly comment at all.
I did think, WWJD? (that means, What Will @janton Do, of course)
Also, "lord of the Steem" made me LOL. Gave him my vote yesterday, but now somebody with more skills than I needs to paste FTG's head onto Lord of the Dance's head in a gif.
haha! howdy there phoenixwren! I'm doing nothing! lol. essentially . I can comment about a maximum of 5 times each day the last 2 days!
Ohhhh, ouch! You must be going through withdrawal! Thank you for making one of your precious comments to me! :)
haha! no I've been having a great time getting work done outside, it's been a wonderful break and change of pace, how about you?
You are very welcome..it doesn't matter much at this point since I can't get back to people and I'm basically starting near the bottom as far as the League is concerned, I guess it will be a "bigger accounts game" for awhile.
Thank's for getting back to me so fast, now I gotta go pick one or two people for my final comments of the day. lol. It IS a very strange feeling.
I too have been trying to get other work done. Yeah I think it's going to be a total toss up this week in the engagement league! A dark horse will win with 100 comments or something maybe, lol.
haha! yeah this is one week I don't even care, I mean it would be nice to be in the top ten but how ever it works out is fine, I'm just glad we got some rc back, yay! People are going crazy on steemit tonight trying to catch up! lol.
You can 10x those totals soon too, see @steemitblog for details - the red fish will soon be able to breath again 😁
I'm a small account too... Less than 200sp. Not sure how I can survive with all this change.
Guess I'll have to be really careful on who I vote
Good news, see @steemitblog for details 😊
Need to check on the list of the proxy I use then, I have read so many good things about ftg lately. Maybe I didn't get the direct impact of his good deeds so far but at least he supports you and the community.. so, would change the proxy if needed.
Yes check your proxy 😊 See @steemitblog - 10x more transaction ability coming soon!
Just cast my first batch of witness votes. Guess who's on the list?
@fulltimegeek and my witness, @steemcommunity? 😁😁😁👌🏽