This post touches on so many issues that have been on my mind, lately. I keep on being invited to take advantage of air-drops, join platforms and tribes that I find myself pulled in what feels like 50 million different directions. I also stupidly made a remark on a post from @themarkymark about Jerry Banfield and find all my posts being downvoted by three of his acolytes' accounts - which have either been powered up or received huge delegations. For obvious reasons I'm not mentioning them here, but if you check out my post from yesterday, you'll see the three downvotes. So your point about the bullies and baddies being back is not just well made, but I'm experiencing it. As is another PHC, @abitcoinskeptic.
I acknowledge that change must happen, but that said, there was a discussion in the PHC discord yesterday, in which I said the following:
That's not to say I haven't signed up for stuff. I have and just abandoned it. I use tags that will earn me votes (why not), but otherwise, just NO. It's too much PT and time-wasting. I think that there will have to be serious momentum and leadership for the multitude of tokens to survive. It's the nature of organisations and things - the ebb and flow. Going to be interesting.
I have made a conscious decision to do three things: continue posting (creating) and to do a bit more curation - which as you know, takes a lot of time away from creating, and thirdly, to confine myself to platforms/interfaces that integrate with Steemit in a way that's most user-friendly for me. I will also continue to be part of communities that resonate for me and that operate in, for want of a better analogy, the broader Steemit church. Oh, and I'm not a gamer or developer, so none of that has any appeal.
Perhaps I'm a salmon, but I've survived two years on the platform and have had some great engagements and met some awesom people.
My 2c worth.
Fiona
Hi Fiona
Sorry to hear about the mindless downvoting, I've been in receipt of that too today (I think it could be the same accounts?)
I think we are on the sharp end of things at present having arrived relatively early in Steem's journey. For 3 years there have been STEEM and SBD, and until recently, maybe 3/4 popular front-ends to produce content.
Now there are 100's of tokens, games, and many more places to curate and create content and so I think many are feeling they are being pulled all over without a clear idea of what is the best route to take.
Just my opinion, but the future Steemians will not have this 'problem', they will be on-boarded via a tribe (actifit, splinterlands, 3speak, creative coin, porn) and stick to that niche.
We are in a unique position though, which although stressful (as change inherently is) has provided the opportunity to be a the front of many queues.
I would continue as you are and have an idea of the new tags available to use when appropriate. You could end up being a whale without doing much different :)
I hope that makes some sense, I might write more on this topic soon.
Cheers
Asher
@fionasfavourites, did you take those downvotes to Freezepeach Discord channel? I bet they can counter at least a couple of them....
Forgot the invitation link ;0)
https://discord.gg/Z3AsMVU
No I didn't. Until now, I didn't know about that channel. I joined flag abuse yesterday and then wasn't sure what to do. This sounds better - thank you. I haven't had any downvotes since this post 5 days ago. I will, however, go and check it out.
(https://steemit.com/powerhousecreatiives/@fionasfavourites/astewisastew-orisit-guncvz45y8). And yes, @abh12345, it's the same accounts.
PS @simplymike - what are you doing on Steemit - aren't you supposed to be on holiday? :D
Lol, we returned earlier, because my back didn't cope with the drive as good as I hoped it would. However, we've enjoyed a great week in France. Now I can try to pick up where I left off :0)
I never heard of Flag Abuse before... learning new things every day :0)
Sorry to hear about your back, but glad you had a good time.
The channel is actually called Flag Rewards...
https://discord.gg/fJChVj
Aaaah.... steem flag rewards.. I did know about that one 😉