Hi. I'm still here! :)
I wouldn't know you had mentioned me without Busy.org. I guess the notifications from Google Plus, Facebook and Twitter have trained me for...notifications.
While reading your article, I thought, "Hey, I think I did eventually get back to you.", and "The notifications on Steemit.com are non-existent". I'm so glad for my redemption later on in your article, too. Whew!
I am working on joining #thealliance, too. I'm even making a few friends here and there, like @snowpea, she was the one who suggested that I join The Alliance, too. I'm still waiting for my review to be completed.
Visibility is difficult here. I've tried the bidbots (I kept running out of SBD), I've tried the resteemers (ran out of SBD with them, too), so now I just power up and am still going cold turkey on them to focus on my readers and other content creators.
Your article was funny and had me chuckling here and there. You're definitely lucid with your prose.
I'm planning on being here for the long haul, even through this "downturn" in crypto prices. Just remember that I post a link to "everything" I write on G+, Twitter and Facebook. That is my tiny contribution to the effort to promote Steemit. I'm writing because I love to write. The money is a bonus.
Thanks for the mention, @theunnamedsteemian!
Write on!
Hi!! I'm still here, too. And, yes, notifications are another of those things Steemit could do better. I've come to think of this place as a pioneer village, cut off from the rest of civilization so much you have to invent what doesn't exist. In a way that's kind of fun. It sure makes you get creative. But I know ... it's also annoying.
I know @snowpea -- and I like her. I'm glad she pointed you at The Alliance. I'd also like to recommend you join The STEEM Engine. I'm the curator there -- and we're always looking for exceptional writers and artists. We have a pretty good group. Small. And we're not real chatty, but there are some nice benefits to belonging.
I saw quite a few months ago you looked into joining a group called The Unmentionables. The STEEM engine is the group that formed when that one came undone. (Terrible story. I'll write about that soon.)
To submit your post in post-promo, you have to upvote and comment on two other members' blogs. That kind of forces you to meet people -- and our writers post on a variety of topics, so finding something interesting isn't hard.
Every night I select the best-of-the-best from the previous day's submissions and put together a group post. You can find those here: https://steemit.com/@thesteemengine You also have upvote the group post if you want to submit articles, but even in these troubled times we're giving out $.30+ upvotes -- and in better times we regularly passed out $1 upvotes.
We can help your account grow. We can definitely help you meet people. You do have to fill out an application (please follow instructions) ... but my husband is the admissions officer. And, as I said, I'm the curator. So, let's just say you have friends in high places there if this idea appeals to you at all.
Give it some thought.
https://discord.gg/y8FpeX4
I have applied to @thealliance more than a week ago. Still waiting.
I have applied to @promo-mentors, a few days ago, and am still waiting for them, too.
I will try the Steem Engine and see how it goes.
Things have slowed to a crawl here and I'm a little disappointed. On the other hand, I did get a curie vote on my latest post and that was really nice.
I guess what I'm seeing is that some of my ideas are going to float better on Medium than they do here, and Medium is starting to pay people. I really like to write and I really enjoy the feedback I get from it.
I've posted on Medium before and one of my articles got curated by Scott Santens. If you want to see what manual curation looks like on steroids, go there. So I am thinking of dual posting just to reach a wider audience. Caitlin Johnstone is doing that, and her articles do very well there. Here, they just get $20-30, though lately, they haven't been fairing even that well.
I will just write on.