I have written several things of my own which got hardly any recognition. That's the problem, it's not that there wasn't a effort it's the part where everyone is more interested in people who have the money to dole out to them and the ones who have the money are just interested in those same consumers maintaining their blogs for profit then spending any time out supporting new people when they first hit the platform. I don't recall but have you ever looked at any of my post and made a comment, you know they don't have to be "new" and earning money to get some praise. Even if it's not as "quality" as you like neither is everything you post. So come one, tell me have you ever reciprocated just once in return for as many times as I have visited your site?
I never said I wanted to be a whale I said I calculated what it would take to become a whale while honestly following all the rules. It wasn't worth it, I'd be dead first. That's exactly what I said. Out of the many, many people who I follow on a regular basis (minus a couple I give a hard time to) only a couple of those people have ever posted a comment back on a article that I did. I never fail to see them, I never fail to look at what they are writing about yet they are as blind as a bat to me.
You still haven't faced the fact that the earlier one got in the better their chances were of being noticed, that's crucial. That's what helped you over those joining today, there was less content competing for attention. You can't deny that fact. I dare you to start giving everyone less than a penny up vote and let's see how your people stick around. They won't.
No I think you have that wrong. Go read my introduction letter, I never expected anything from this site.
No there is absolutely no one, and please do feel free to give me names to check out if I am wrong, that I have seen getting anywhere on here unless they've bought in, use bots, made sock puppets, had prior name recognition on some other site like u tube and got a huge delegation granted to them, or are investing in delegation, doing nude stuff or cheating in some other fashion growing at any accelerated pace.
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I read through this entire thing. I have a bit of a headache now. I thought your name sounded familiar, and in this case it wasn't a positive connotation. After a little investigation I found I was right, your name was familiar, and it wasn't positive. You started this conversation with "I didn't get on here today with the intention of being a debbie downer..." I think either you are greatly disillusioned in terms of your intentions, you're a liar, or you just enjoy negativity to an extent I can't comprehend.
I've been on vacation, and I'm just now catching up on some of my favorite authors as well as reading relevant, recent posts. And not only do I find you here, bringing down one of the greatest content creators on steemit, I also find you here slandering one of the kindest, most altruistic people I've met on this platform- and I've been here since 2016.
Perhaps you are simply a troll, in which case I am wasting my time by engaging you. In which case for anyone else who happens upon this comment- at least you'll know.
If you have any heart or soul, please re-think the legacy you're leaving here.
Negativity in the true sense on here for the majority is the inability to censor/ban people who don't fall in line like puppets. Way to many men on this site who can't stand a opinionated woman. I merely left my opinion, if one didn't like it they didn't have to participate/engage to get more of it. You all complain about people acting like sheep but you expect them to do exactly that on here.
I never do understand those who are so determined not to be viewed as a sheep that they're willing to look like a rabidly hissing badger instead. Far better, that.
The men here can't stand an opinionated woman...okay, you're a narcissist, I get it now. I mean obviously if you were a man saying the things you do it would be loads different. Couldn't possibly be because you're unpleasant.
Actually, I should probably thank you. My current belief is that this life requires a balance, so for me to be generally positive, there has to be someone with an opposite demeanor.
I do have a balance you just haven't spent enough time reading through all my comments. Sometimes it just takes someone to turn a stone and I think from some of what I've been seeing that happened with family protection. I see more post, more quality post, more people interacting with comments out side of hate mongering lingo that all sounds the same. If something positive came out of it it was for the better.
I can't help but pointing one thing out though....you see I said opinionated, as I was saying men on here can't take a opinionated woman, you proved my point my calling me a narcissist....the man's point of view somehow always has to make the woman sound worse. Your positivism heads into overdrive please feel free to look me up....given this site chances are I'll be sparring with someone somewhere, remember though a new dawn arises.
I'm utterly bewildered by this reply! For one thing, how is the man's point of view even involved since we're both women? It is your opinion that men can't take an opinionated woman, it is my opinion that your opinion is ludicrous. You might state experience for your opinion, I'd state the same. And I hope this comment is just as coherent as yours was.
(It's not narcissistic at all to suggest I should spend my time reading through all your comments. Not a bit ;)
.....that was so you didn't jump to anymore conclusions that everything I write is negative. Had nothing to do with being a narcissist. Jeez.
The only time I get into back and forths like this one is in defense of a friend. And in your case it seems more than one of my friends have been a target.
There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with people, but there is something wrong with casting those people in a bad light to anyone who will listen. Especially since it almost always ends like this, with others thinking poorly of you instead. Words are tools that can either be used constructively or destructively. We choose whether to bless or curse someone with them.
So have I. Don't hear me whining.
Incorrect. I started out with nothing, people eventually noticed my work.
I've visited your blog a couple of times. I'm not interested in that stuff and that's no different than thousands of people here not being interested in mine. That's a part of life. Meanwhile I've visited plenty of other bloggers who are new and I've supported much of their work. In some cases, my vote is the largest vote they see. I'm not always available to leave comments. Producing my blog and responding to comments here uses up a lot of my available time to be doing this sort of thing, but I still try.
As for this junk you said in number three: You weren't here. Would you like me to clue you in? I was here, I can speak from experience.
There were far fewer people here to notice the blog posts. Just because there fewer blogging didn't mean there were just as many here as there is now to notice them.
BULLSHIT! Long before you were here, it would take about 100 minnow votes just to for me to be able to see a dime. We didn't even vote up comments like we do now because it wasn't worth it. Then they changed the rewards curve and gave everyone on the lower a higher valued vote.
Many people stuck around during that period when ONLY the large votes made a difference, many of them are still here today. We were blogging for 10 cent STEEM as well, with no way of knowing the value would ever rise, yet we stayed.
Honestly, if this place bothers you so much; and if the people who made something of themselves only look like luck rather than hard work in your eyes... maybe this place isn't for you. You've already given up by the sounds of it, and you're growing resentful of the community. That's not a healthy combination.
Clearly, you're a prime example of one of these folks wearing the blinders. There are a few people who've commented on this post, they started around the same time you did. Are you calling them cheaters? They have thousands in their wallets, and I saw how it got there, and it certainly wasn't cheating. So now what?
Clearly you just want to argue things which aren't true. What's wrong with admitting you had a advantage over others because you got in early. Lots of people admit it. They discuss ways to solve the problem of minnows now that the platform has grown and it's hard to get attention.
I also find somethings that people write about not interesting, I still check them out, some I even still give a up vote to regardless if I find it interesting or not....because there are a few on here using the money to buy groceries, take care of kids and they need it much worse than any "quality post" or I need it. I even consider that I am more valuable as a blogger then a author to most, other than money that's what people are yearning the most for on here, attention, to feel like their contribution has been noticed, that their time hasn't been wasted. You on the other hand are more concerned with your bottom line then if a child is going to bed without enough to eat. You want to insult people's post well let me tell you that maybe, just maybe one out of ten post you make are funny enough to laugh about and just about any of the rest of them don't add any real contributing value at all, just lame attempts to be funny. But somehow I still care about you as a character, as a different type of personality, an interesting joe with a different twist but I don't count you out, insult you, try not to understand where you are coming from regardless we have different styles, I at least give you the benefit of the doubt. I read just about everything you put out there, I put the effort into it regardless if it comes out rewarding or interesting. I'll admit I've cut back on the amount of time I spend on you, if I am not into it in the first couple paragraphs I just leave it at that but I don't totally write you off, I may find a gem in you in the future, lot more credit then you give me.
I'd like to check out all the people who have posted here tonight but someone may need a up vote for groceries, rent, kids clothes and two I know a couple of your socks but I would have to scour some accounts to determine if there's more so no I won't be wasting my time.
It's hard to get attention everywhere. There are people on Youtube who've been working for 5 years and have yet to see a dime. There are people on Facebook with 5 followers after nearly ten years of posting.
There's no real problem to solve. People just need to learn what they're getting themselves into. All social media is hard. It's up to the individual to get noticed. Youtube doesn't hold the content producers hand so why should Steemit?
Now there's some more bullshit. I just looked at the stats. You've given 80 upvotes to 43 accounts this past week. I've given out 240 votes to 102 different accounts and this has been a SLOW week for me. I've had those numbers much higher in the recent past. My votes are also worth something whereas yours are piss, so don't sit here pretending to be some hot shot when it's clear I give out more in a day than you can in a month. And like I said previously, I try.
I haven't spent a dime of what I've earned here since I started. I put in the work, I earned the rewards. There's no need to look down on me for that. If you were getting paid, should I look down on you for your efforts? How would you feel if I did that? Would it even make sense? Nope.
I haven't insulted any posts. If you took it personally that I'm simply not interested in yours, that doesn't make them bad, they're just not for me. That shouldn't be a problem. I don't care if you don't like all of my posts. That's life. I can't expect to please everyone all of the time and I'm perfectly fine with that.
Here's some more bullshit. I only have one account here, and that's the truth.
I'm sick of your shit. Your little guilt trips and all of your lies. That shit shouldn't be leaking out of your ears like that but since you're so full of it, there's no place for it to go.
Leave me alone. I don't care if you don't come back. You've shown me your true colors, multiple times. You're a whiner. That's all, and it's bringing me down.
Have a good day.
I am not a whiner you are just one of those type of guys who like to control the narrative, they are a dime a dozen on here. I haven't been that busy on here this week, I spend a lot of time on my other blog, sure you don't get paid for it but I've never been into blogging for the money for one thing and the people are real, engaged and lively. There they don't expect you to fall in line, there one day you can agree to disagree and come back another day and try again to come back together. Here there's no lack of people willing to tell you to take a hike just because you don't agree with them and they want to call you whiny or disgruntled instead.
Just calling a spade a spade. You were whining, now you're backtracking; you're making up lies, trying to make me look bad.
Controlling the narrative? I'm attempting to explain my experience here but since you're too far deep into regurgitating the typical whiner narrative I've heard here thousands of times, always the same story, you've become a product of the environment you've created for yourself and now there's no coming back.
If you're not into blogging for money, why did you start out moaning and groaning about how you think the system works here? If you don't want money, don't expect to see any.
I prefer to work and get paid, yes, so I work towards that goal. So what. The place was created for that, much like how youtubers strive to eventually earn ad revenue. That's the life of a blogger/vlogger. I'm also an artist. People produce art for money, that's nothing new and it's quite normal.
Spend your time doing whatever makes you happy. I don't care.
Agree to disagree? There's a time and place for that. Unfortunately, you came here, started with the lies, and I'm under no obligation to respect you for that. That's the only way to lose respect with me and you've done a fine job of it.
Now, it would be nice if you could just go deal with that on your own time instead of wasting mine.
Thank you.
See you just can't quit twisting the narrative back to me and everything wrong with Steemit is it's full of whiners and crybabies. This is why things don't give solved, this is why most people leave, you guys are to bullheaded to realize that a community forum thrives on interaction but you'd rather keep talking to yourselves then admit there's a problem. Like they say "it's a man's world" but not ever woman falls for that watch your step or else.
Are you still yapping? You should probably stop doing that.