I've read quite a few of your posts now, and in each one, I would say I have gained something. A little knowledge, a different perspective, a new insight, a differing opinion, but all of it worthwhile.
I'm sorry that there aren't a lot of others who are following suit. Either busting their backs to do what you've done, or powered up as much as you have, and then complaining about community all the while. That's does not feel good at all.
At the same time, you are being true to you, not someone else's ideas or desires. Yours. Maybe there's some things you wouldn't mind doing differently, and maybe there are things that you will change, but those things will still be true to your own thoughts and desires.
Since I've done it myself, I know that it's super easy to look at what others are doing and thinking, how foolish was I? Daring to think what I do is making a difference when there's so few others following suit.
Well, I'm just going to say that the investment you're making isn't in the folks that should be powered up as high as you or more, the ones that have been around as long as you or longer, it's in the rest of us, the future dolphins. The active minnows and larger plankton (now that's an oxymoron). We're your middle class, sir. It's just going to take us a little while to get there, because we're community oriented and we're trying to recruit the newest of folks and we're trying to do what's best for the platform. We're more educated because of you. We're better prepared because of you.
So, thank you for all you've done and continue to do. @abh12345 and you, along with others are making a difference here on the platform, and its worth won't all be measured in SP. Not yet, anyway. That's coming. :)
When I say help others in the mid grow, it isn't going to be indiscriminately, there are some I know who are the people who will still support others below them along the way (as I will too) but those that in a year from now, you are still going to have to support you and others, 2 years, 5 years. There needs to be some kind of critical mass point where there are enough willing in the middle to support the lower also if that makes sense. Don't worry, there will be no complete abandonment, just adjustment so long term is healthier than the short. At the moment, there are still taps open to grow but they will start shutting off with price increases and competition. If that middleclass isn't large enough at the shutoff, who keeps the steem flowing?
Very good question. From their last steemitblog post, it sounds like HF 20 is shaping up for Q3 drop, so if they actually hit that, Velocity will be a part of it and the flood gates will be opened. If that actually happens, there won't be enough of us, regardless, and we'll all be sprinting to try to keep up. Not sure I'm looking forward to that eventuality yet, even though I know we want growth here, but I think we also want sustainable growth.
Yes, what you said makes perfect sense. We keep reaching back as we reach upward.
At any rate, we'll just keep doing what we do, only a little smarter and a little wiser, and see what happens, right?