After all this time you learn and go through a lot. From very strong initial hype and almost religious feeling of the community it goes through different stages :) Those who are on the platform for a longer time probably know what i am speaking about. For the new guys, enjoy this feeling while it lasts as it feels really good.
For me these months have been special. I was even able to rebuy my photographic equipment that i was forced to sell to maintain my bootstrapped startup BeScouted. More than that i was still able to save up 3000 Steem Power and even more than that we have connected our photography community to STEEM blockchain and are bringing new talented content creators to STEEM blockchain and they earn STEEM for sharing their photos on BeScouted
We are not waiting for gratitude as we are not aiming for vanity. It has been our mission to help freelancers to earn long before Steemit was here so we continue to build our vision and STEEM blockchain is one of the tools that allows us to achieve that, for which we are very thankfull to all developers. We are also preparing for the launch of BeScouted SMT that we will use to build the global marketplace for visual content creators.
This is me sitting in Abades, Tenerife, in an abandoned leper colony building. This is a bit symbolic and shows that even the best ideas and good wishes sometimes end up in ruins. Somebody has to pick up and improve on that. I hope that necessary changes will be made and implemented and Steem will not become another abandoned town like Abades.
For Steemit to work you really need to devote a lot of time to the community, create quality content and interact meaningfully with other Steemit members which most of the time is fun, provided you have that time. With current workload it is a luxury that i can not afford and it instantly reflects on the payouts.
While reward distribution model used on Steemit is ingenious everybody knows the problem of extremely heavy top and some selfish whales upvoting shitty content. But it is very hard to employ ethics since money, and big money indeed is involved. That is why we are dedicating special attention to our SMT token distribution to spread it evenly and give a chance to everybody to buy some so that it does not end up in hands of a few whales and does not ruin otherwise perfectly good system as seen on Steemit.
While at times you get discouraged by that unfairness you remember the actual value that you get and try to ignore it, thinking of benefits you have received, that you would not have got otherwise and that makes things a little bit better.
Nobody in the world was able to develop an economic system that is equally fair to each individual yet. Maybe we will and BeScouted is working hard on different theories that start with Steemit and we are learning from the mistakes that was made on the legacy platform and will try to avoid them and fix some of the issues in our iteration.
It might take several iterations considering how new blockchain technology is, but we are strong believers that eventually we will get to a point where every author and content creator will get a fair reward that reflects the quality of the content that was created.
Blockchain is our church. We have faith that it will allow to develop a fair reward distribution system be it STEEM or any other blockchain solution and we will do our best to achieve that and continue on our mission that freelancers MUST get fair compensation for their work and effort.
It's amazing! Has passed 7 months ?! Congrats my friend with achievements! 😍😘😗😙😚🤗
Yes, dear, time flies so fast! But also there has been so much progress and my life has changed 180 degrees. And a lot of that happened because of your support. So i am extremely grateful for that. Cmok cmok cmok !:))
Congrats, David!
Thank you dear! :)
A lot of very good points in there. Its certainly a bit frustrating at times like this but you've got exactly the right outlook. The long term plan is always better to focus on, plus as you said just remembering the benefits we've had so far helps with the frustrations of times like this. Putting financial stuff aside there's still a huge amount of great work being shared and I've already found some amazing creatives and seen so much inspiring work that I never would have seen if it wasn't for Steemit and Bescouted. You can't put a price on that 😀
Exactly! Just lets work together to build it better. Instead of crying and whining. But the issues have to be addressed as ignoring them will not help at all. And there are a few to solve.
First of all i would like to congratulate on your success of gaining 65 reputation and 3,000 Steem power. It reveals your dedication, devotion and people trust upon you and your worthy post. Yes there is a big involvement in abusing pool reward. It should not be allowed but we have to deal with shitty things. All we need to do is keep patience and do our hard work with full dedication and devotion. Let's hope for the best. keep sharing @bescouted
Thank you for your nice comment, you are right. We have to embrace and solve the problems. Building a perfect system from a first iteration is very hard. So from all the mistakes that have been made BeScouted is making conclusions and will take them into account when building our own token economy.
Congratulations on your achievements David!
It should be a fair reward for fair effort invested and like so many systems it is not easy to deliver.
All credit to Steemit, it is the first to try and succeed, even if it's not perfect it is a good start and one which others can be built from.
Best of luck for your future developments :)
Thank you Steve. I agree with you completely. it is easy to bitch about something, it is much harder to actually make the change.
Cool... I am there too what 3000 K .... And it feels good.
I hope you soon have 15 000 K .
Steemit help as all and I hope lot come here and get this help.
Let's not wait for somebody to help, let's go our there and be that help ourselves!
All the roads are good, but what we are doing there is our choice. ;)
And of course we can always make our new path where no road leads!
Yes :))
nice Ideas and vision.
a few points though
i checked out your site and there is no way to log in with a steem account as far as i can see? only FB or am I missing something?
and if you are so busy then why not sell your spare voting power on smartsteem? then you make some extra SBD with the votes you are not using
you can read up on it here https://steemit.com/smartsteem/@felander/smartsteem-preventing-abuse-and-generating-profit-for-you
I have set you to be my model!
Congratualation. You level i is what I plan to reach in very near future.
I am sure you will. Determination is the key.
I love the idea of getting rewarded for my posts as I've seen my work go just about viral on Facebook. With the shareholders getting all the rewards, sideswiping the actual content for paid ads, this platform is like a breath of fresh air. I'm slowly learning it and hopefully can bring my Facebook following with me. Good post, thank you, I will definitely check out bescouted
Nyc photography and you have good posts so i followed u keep it up my friend
Hi, fellow photographer, check www.bescouted.com
nice work mate :) best of luck for your projects. Hope you achieve your aim soon.
This is aim for all of the community. It is not just our aim. We can not built it without you, without the feedback, support, and ideas coming from the community.
sure, Always with team :)
Marking our achievements has many benefits, fixing them in your mind encourages you to go for your goals, even when it’s easier not to. Proving your achievements builds confidence.blockchain is our church for real.. We have no regret, everything going fine
We work, analyse, improve. Nobody is right all the time, but the goal is to be right a little bit more each time.
Good job! Until then, I still have a way to go. I really like your pictures. Very creative and informative.Gratulation to your level. From a beginner!
Thanks a lot, i have started exactly from where you are now. With 0. So be persistant!
i give my upvote to good post
Thanks for your vote!
good work men
dude, I am glad that I can see that it is posable to gain VP rapidly if you can devote so much, I look forward to that mark myself now & I have a number or 2 to strive to beat, Success brings more success through challenge & reward.
Wish me luck in my attempt to have the same if not better success, I Will keep you as a motivator on my feed, You definitely get my follow!!
I wish you luck of course, with enough persistence and motivation everyone can do that if i could.
That's so cool that you've achieved so much on here in such a short amount of time! I'm still new, so yes, that feeling you refer to, yes, I have that LOL! I'm still learning the site, just managed to do my first blog post, and am still exploring, seeing the culture of the community on here, and it does seem to be better than other social media platforms, so far.
I suppose I'll learn more about the other things you discuss here (the cons of this site), that will come with more usage I assume.
I checked out bescouted and it looks like something I'll be signing up for, considering my passion for photography.
I'm glad I stumbled across your post! Thanks! See ya around :)
yes, for the early adopters steemit might look a bit overwhelming but you will get a hang of it. BeScouted is simpler and visual content and photography orientated, easier to use and arguable easier to find desired content in. I wish you the best of luck and welcome to crypto world!
That's quite a milestone...Congratulation! I wish I can reach that one too. I'm still on my 2 months and I'm about to get a 49 Rep.. I think I won't be able to reach the 3K SP but hoping for a 65 Rep in a span of around 6 months. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Steem Power comes in par with reputation from what i can tell so far. More or less at least.
Yes, my friend, not one of us feels undervalued for what she does. I have an effort of hours spent at the monitor, how much you invest in what you love to do - will you ever be able to pick up how much you have invested Maybe after a few years the costs will be refunded to you but will you regain it what was more valuable than everything?- NO !!! You will not regain your health and time. Congratulations for you for your perseverance and success, I am happy to be here with you.
I do not do photography for steemit. I do it for myself. Ofc it also takes my time. and we all look how to spend it the best as it is the biggest asset of all. Let's hope it will be spent not in vain.
That's the truth, brother, greetings
Wow, congrats mate! @bescouted
Very very nice post.
Success always.
Best of luck
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The more you practice the luckier you get
This is awesome.You've given me a lot of encouragement to carryon.i wish to attain your level.greater you i pray
Nice art
Awesome post. Your ideas are what the world needs. We at Business Profile Builders will follow your progress.
wao happiness friend, I hope you continue with your success, and that you continue to inspire more people like me
It is necessary to provide prizes and prizes for creators in the fields of art and life
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I like your view points. I would like to post some pictures here, that I take and some that I've found.
great post
I just started being more active about 2 weeks now...Its testimonies like this that give me hope.
How did you do it? What advice do you have for a Noob like myself?
Thanks in Advance
Congratulations on your achievements David!
nice work mate :)
I would like you to see my drawings, here I leave you one
Thanks David for this info. As a beginner on Steemit, you gave me confidence of continuing this journey. Let's make this platform a better place by building it together!
Bescouted eh? I will have to check this out. There are so many projects planned for this blockchain I can't keep track
You have done very well for 7 months that's really impressive. I would like to invite traveling photographers to come shoot in Zimbabwe. It's almost virgin territory!
This is very inspiring, I hope my blog grows this big too someday
kindly follow back to see my art too