This is the tale of a very special goose; named Steemit, the goose was special because instead of eggs, it laid pure, golden, Steem. The goose was owned by two farmers called Dan and Ned and they wanted lots of people to benefit from the golden Steem that Steemit laid, so they made a plan.
Building The Farm
The two farmers knew that if they could get people to come and feed Steemit, the goose would grow very big and it would lay even more Golden Steem. So they built a farm on which Steemit would live, and they invited people to come and take plots of land on which to plant gardens on. The people who had the gardens with the most delicious, unique food, and beautiful flowers, were the gardens that Steemit the goose liked to land in and lay her golden Steem.
Steemit would also reward the Steem gardeners who went and cared for their neighbours' gardens; the better they cared for them, the more they were rewarded by the magic goose.
Dan and Ned had promised that everybody who came to build their gardens before July the 4th would be rewarded with special, golden Steem eggs, that they could take to the market and sell.
Many came to the farm and planted gardens, one of the people who came was a gardener called Cryptogee, he had been gardening for many years for very little reward, so he was most intrigued by stories he had heard of the magic goose Steemit.
At first Cryptogee was suspicious of the goose that laid Steem; but then he found out about the farmers Dan and Ned and decided they were good and that he would put all of his efforts into making the most beautiful garden he could.
Absolution
Cryptogee got to know some of the other gardeners whilst he was helping tend their gardens, he soon begun to feel at home with this bunch of Steem gardeners and even though he had his own family, he begun to look upon the others as a family.
In fact, the Steem gardener Cryptogee, realised that he felt very close indeed to the community that had gathered around the goose called Steemit. He didn't usually get all mushy about these things, but he was somewhat shocked when he realised, he felt very mushy inside, he even felt squishy; he was very confused.
The day came when all the Steem farmers and gardeners were rewarded with golden Steem eggs, everybody was happy. Some sold their eggs at the market, others cracked their eggs and used them to ferterlise their gardens, to make the soil even more fertile and the plants more beautiful.
For days, the news of Steemit the goose and her golden steem spread far and wide, many came to the farm to plant their own gardens and to tend to the gardens of others. When the people at the market saw how beautiful the golden Steem eggs were. They clamoured to buy them, soon the eggs were trading for many times their original value.
The gardeners of Steem rejoiced, they heaped praise on Dan and Ned, they hugged their compatriots and their families...
...and it was good.
The Fox
Then one foreboding day, a cloud descended upon the Farm; like a fox in the night; a thief slipped by unnoticed and stole some keys that let him into other people's gardens. He stole their golden eggs and took them to market, to sell them as his own.
The gardener Cryptogee heard about the theft in the Steem Tavern where some of the gardeners would go to hang out.
At first Cryptogee had heard they had stolen millions of Steem, including those of Dan and Ned, he felt stick to his stomach with worry. Even though he had never met Dan and Ned, he felt the same, gooey feeling inside, that he felt for all of his Steem family and he was despearely fearful for them and the future of the Steemit farm.
For the gardener Cryptogee, was prone to worry and fret, and therefore was distraught at the news of the theft. He spoke to his fellow gardeners who told him not to worry, but worry he did.
Worry he did indeed...
But he needn't have worried, because the method the thief used to get into the Steemit garden to steal the keys, was discovered. Dan and Ned set some very powerful warlocks, called the F.B.I. to hunt the thief down and the Steemit farm was open again and the goose called Steemit laid her Steem once more.
The Garden Thief
Once more Cryptogee was happy and he felt even more squishy love for his fellow Steem gardeners. He set about planting a new part of his garden, he worked very hard and planted lots of beautiful flowers and delicious fruit.
The goose came and laid her golden Steem on his garden in abbundance, and he was so joyful and thankful, he went to bed a happy man and had a fitful sleep.
The next morning he woke and went to the tavern to see if any of the other Steemit gardeners had left him any messages. He saw one from a fellow gardener named Stellabelle. It told him of how a thief had broken one of the sacred rules of the Farm, and copied his new garden design and had planted it into his own garden to try and get the goose to lay some Steem for him.
Luckily, Cryptogee's fellow gardeners went to the thief's garden and sprayed poison on the stolen design, so the goose would not lay Steem for him.
Once more Cryptogee felt the mushy, gooey, squishy, feeling of love for his fellow Steemit gardeners, they truly were his family and he couldn't wait until he could repay their kindness with some of his own.
Hack 2.0
Just when it seemed that everything was about to return to normal for the Steemit gardener Cryptogee; he heard news, that more thieves had tried to break into the Steemit farm. This time however Cryptogee had faith in the wisdom of Ned and Dan and the other Steemit gardeners.
This time he would wait patiently, knowing that everything would return to normal soon, in fact, they would be better than they were before. The gardeners would be safer from thieves and they would once more be able to harvest the Steem that the goose called Steemit, laid down upon them.
Cryptogee sat back and remembered a wise thing that the Stem gardener, Nanzo_Scoop, had written about the whole episode.
When you're wanted by the FBI for hacking Steemit...
then realise you could have made more money by BLOGGING on it!
The Moral Of The Tale
Instead of trying to steal from us, why not join us? Come and be welcomed into the happy family that has grown around our magic goose called Steemit.
Don't try and kill the goose that lays the golden Steem, or you might just find you recieve the wrath of a lot of angry Steem gardeners, the F.B.I. and of course...
The Goose
Don't f**k with the Goose!
To Be Continued...
Cryptogee
I wonder if part 2 will include something about how the owners of said goose distribute the golden steem to the gardens and whether or not the farmers are happy with the distribution model or if only a few receive too much because the goose misses gardens not noticed by the important people of the land... Maybe the farmers begin working to get the attention of the important people instead of creating beautiful gardens for all to enjoy.
Or maybe it'll all just work out over time. Either way, I'm looking forward to however the story develops. Very well done! :)
I was going to put into the story about how the family isn't always coherent, but thought I would leave that to the comment section. It's a good point, I know that a lot of whales who are way more influencial than me, are concerned about that.
The follow function will help and we are constantly trying to highlight good content, for instance I highlighted somebody's business article yesterday, and he received $800.
It will get better, keep the faith :-)
CG
I think whales should go on an upvoting spree, especially among foreign language posts to spread it further. Then it would be cool if one could boost content with steem, for instance by burning them. Similar to what Synereo does with AMP.
lukestokes if you don't get a whale upvote you don't even get the goose poo . I like the idea of steemit but to few have too much power . One problem is the down vote it only takes 1 whale to down vote and you're left with squat.
I for one think the down vote NOT a good idea it will piss people off because it reduces what they think they are going to get . I say no down vote and if you don't like what you see state that in your reply. Well you know what they say you can't please all the wales all the time .
I think the downvote is incredibly important to maintain the quality of the content. If you hang out in the Steemit Slack, you'll see constant activity in the #steemitabuse channel. People are working hard to protect this community from those trying to game the system. A downvote is needed for that.
As for not getting goose poo... how much has Twitter or Facebook ever paid out to content creators and curators? A few pennies is more than the other sites have given out even after years of creating content. People around here have
$$$in their eyes a little too much for my taste. It manipulates their expectations which, as you said, leads to disappointment. That, to me, is a problem with their expectations more than anything else. This is beta. It's an incredible experiment. We don't know what it will be so most expectations are just wild-ass guesses.I'll be writing a post about the
$$$-eyesproblem shortly (trying to get some "real" work done for a change first).Fuck yes; well said.
I ended up writing that post after all, if you're interested. A bit of CSS added to your browser's view of Steemit via the Stylish extension hides all $ signs. I'm running an experiment on myself to hide them all for 24 hours. So far, it's changed my voting quite a bit.
Yes, unfortunately this is the problem of doing a massive premine and not being able to safely do an ICO to at least let perhaps 1000 people buy some coin and get a slightly better distribution.
To be honest, I think Dan and Ned should consider doing another network where the POW lasts for something like forever.
I understand people making the software need to be rewarded, but I do not like the grandfather effect - meaning that when we're all dead or pretty damn old the youngest generation has no incentive to build on this because it will be skewed to the people that inherit steem.
But perhaps that is just the natural cycles that creates business cycles. Though if that problem is not tackled and addressed by some crypto, it becomes hard for some crypto's to become like a gold standard for 100s or 1000s of years to come.
Guys, we found the hacker, attack!!!
That's funny :D
OMG - Goose has a great firewall which fires back :)
what does the fox say? DUCKDUCKDUCKDUCKDUCK!
almost forgotten about this:
great analogy
literally so accurate.
DON'T FUCK WITH AN ANGRY GOOSE!
Haha, he's like DON'T FUCK WITH MY FAMILY!
CG
You forgot this part.
"After the golden eggs were received and all the gardeners were convinced of their value, the frenzy started. Everybody wanted more eggs, more fertilizer, everyone wanted more so they all started to plant the same plant that the goose loved. It was called "circleJerkovia". This plant grew fast, grew wide and made many-a-gardener happy!! Oh, how they danced the happy dance throwing the leafs of circlejerkovia around. This will make us farm-owners soon, they all yelled.
BUT, no good things lasts forever and the dark side of this little known-plant came to light. It was suffocating all the other gardens, and many other gardeners, who decided to grow their own plants, that they knew and loved, discovered they got less sun and less fertilizer and slowly withered and died. It was a tragedy and the community realized that it can not let it pass.
Slowly but surely, circlejerkovia was eradicated and new plants could now grow and make the gardens ever more bountiful.
the end!! "
How does Steemit's highest paid article; https://steemit.com/beauty/@guerrint/the-first-steemit-makeup-turtorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit fit into your little theory then?
CG
CHECK MATE.
no, srsly, she came like 2 days after circlejerk, that's like 2-3 seasons in garden terms. it makes sense.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!!
It's going in the right direction :-)
CG
cryptogee ,
How does
Its called marketing ,whales make a success story of a youtuber and all the youtubers think oh I also can do that and they come to garden. That's just how marketings done .
Because the sheer beauty of that particular lady-gardener's flowers was so, that people from other worlds were compelled to come to the gardens of Steemit. And once they entered and noticed what Steemit was bearing, they too decided to stay and try to get their hands on one of her beautiful golden eggs.
I enjoyed reading this a lot, Great post.
'A Tale by Cryptogeese.'
nice!!!!!!
Don't mess with the Steemit community :D
Haha, nice one :-)
CG
;D
That last pic.. golden goose be high on meth.
Awesome tale, I hope I'll see several of these! :)
Great job! Upvoted! :)
Damn right I say!!
WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!
this charming.. good :)
upvote : https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@djody/account-verification-my-name-is-jody
Wow! I'm sure we'll see a lot of #steemfairytales in the future!
awesome
a really good history with a perfect analogy.
bring us the second part!
Damn i want to find out what happens to the goose next, when's chapter 2?
Ah, the chapter is unfolding before your very eyes! :-D
CG
Beautiful story <3 I hope that one day, Ned and Dan will find just the right electrical fence that will keep out all the foxes and thiefs, so the farm can continue growing and thriving. And thanks for my plot of land, It will be properly cared for!
Some people want to steal geese rather than to grow their own. But growing their own is much more rewarding, and gives a clear conscience.
Interesting article. I would like to point out it is important to never throw all of your eggs in one basket. Even if you believe something will be successful you always need a plan B. I think steemit is a great investment but if you are talking about your retirement plan, I would be careful. Cheers!
the real question is... how can the goose lay so much golden steem
Because it was fed long before we ever saw it... :-)
CG
Great post :) cool mate
Cool !
Fox is still the thief. The most insulting that it is not just kills but it could just be passing all the animals, take one and run.
what the fuck did I just read LOL. fabulous
Lol :-D
CG
Gooses may be really dangerous, i liked a lot the tale, waiting for the second part
Great! No other words to describe it. Enjoyed the fairy tale very much...
I like your story.
That's it... Our official Steemit mascot should be a goose!
Haha, not a bad idea!
:-)
CG
Call em Steemin King
Interesting article
Thanks :-)
CG
Also could be #historyofsteemit
i upvote for no reason :)
Amazing story. Nice to read )
Don't f**k with the Goose!
To Be Continued... Lol Nice one!!!!
This is very sweet CG :)
Pretty sure the golden goose belonged to a giant
Hahaha, it's called poetic license :-)
CG
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Lol, you're a bit late there! :-)
CG
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I very much enjoyed this...thank you.
Unbelievable man great job. I get it!
thanks for sharing...
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Nice post; upvoted :-)
CG
Really nice chicken ... all together mofos!
I dont like seeing golden steem logo dropping from goose. It looks silly and not tasty
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The first vending machines STEEMIT
https://steemit.com/steemit/@delord/the-first-vending-machines-steemit
Upvoting because it was a really well written story. It would make an excellent children's book. However I can't tell if the first goose is urinating or pooping. Maybe change it just a little to regular steem logos on golden eggs?
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You ought to have added #steem, #steemit, #plagarism and #fairytales to the tags there that there. Amazing how this got so high without these tags. So many include #steem and #steemit just because.
The title tag is Steem :-)
CG