Wow, man. Wow. You knocked it out of the park with this one. You threw an 96 Yard bomb, you returned a 106 yard kickoff, you hit the game winning 3 (ok, i'm done now). Seriously though, even aside from the fact that I am stoked to be one of your coins, this is legit one of the best posts I've seen on steemit EVER - and that is no exaggeration. This should be a MUST READ for anyone who is new to steemit, I think it will help them to enter into this world with the right mindset.
I especially loved when you talked about posting what you are passionate about as opposed to what steemit is passionate about (and thus getting more votes) - that is something I have struggled with on and off; if I do art for contests on steemit i'll make $10+ but as soon as I post my own stuff it dips to $2; then I find myself in this conundrum where I end up doing art that I'm not as stoked to be doing if it was my own art (but, one of the contests did end up creating Commander Elmer, which I'm really happy about - I think we haven't seen the last of Commander Elmer lol).
Oh man, that "Support" you broke down in steemit terms was genius. GENIUS!
I literally have so many things running through my head after reading this that i'm forgetting stuff that I was going to comment on and jumping straight to other things.
Once again, thanks for the XTIAN coin and I look forward to seeing what the JED coin does and what the JEDXTIAN coin does, ha! (when we make our "cover" for the current collab we should put JEDXTIAN as our label, like "Marvel")
You can never go wrong with sports terms, brother! With that top notch intro, it feels as if you banked in a mid-range J with few seconds left to make it a two possession game, you hit a curve ball straight into the stands at the bottom of the ninth with all the bases loaded.
Huge compliment, brother! I feel undeserving of it, but I'll take it wholeheartedly. Nice to feel appreciate for the effort! I really wanted to give a more grounded overview of the platform. There are way too many posts hyping up the interaction and the earnings, but I feel that does more harm than good. If everyone is coming in with a realistic expectation, more people would be satisfied with the experience.
I feel like you shouldn't be too hard on yourself regarding making posts that you're not passionate about. These are exciting times but these are certainly tough times as well. Whatever we can do to increase our exposure, we should. I mean, look at this post. Months ago, I would've never thought of writing this. I would consider myself selling out. But now, I feel like this is a means to an end. All I wanted really was to give a shoutout to the people that make my Steemit experience awesome (you included of course) but it turned out to be so much more.
Commander Elmer was indeed serendipitous! But, if joining contests would get your other art more views, then they're worth doing. I know what you mean about forgetting stuff. Sometimes when that happens, I pull up a notepad and I start writing my reply as I'm reading the post. The SUPPORT thing was something that came to me as I was writing this, so that was a great coincidence haha!
I strongly believe that the XTIAN coin will have a breakout 2018! I do hope that the JEDXTIAN coin helps boost the JED coin as well haha! I feel like my coin picks are going straight to the moon and beyond!