This is not supposed to be negative. It is intended to be an after action review (military term) for me. If other Steem/Steem Monster people can gleen something from it and be better equipped then so be it. Hopefully I will not be banned forever from the community for voicing my concerns.
So I have been voting with a full 100% vote every time my steem gets fully charged. I have 1500 Steem Power delegated, am working with close to 300 SP, considering up to 10,000 more.
#1. came to the realization that unless my vote is at least .03 it is considered "Dust" and does not make a difference.
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I apologize to all the people I have upvoted for, carefully considering my vote, only to learn that the .01-.02 cents (all that I am capable of voting) is absolutely worthless.
You will NOT be paid for my vote and the 2 cents will weaken my future vote. Your part of my 2 cent vote will go back to the establishment, being wasted.
Please do not be upset if, in the future, I refrain from voting. It is not because I do not appreciate your blog but why throw pennies to the wind and have them lost forever. If I vote my .01-.02 please consider it a meager offering to you. We both know you won't be paid for it but it is all I can muster. I wish my vote was worth $5 or $10 or $100 but until it is please understand.
#2. I have tried hard to accrue new Steemmonster cards in hopes of investing. @steemmonsters. I have purchased a couple hundred dollars in new packs, I have spent over $70 on a whole collection of cards (937 approximately).
I learned today that Steemmonster cards are overprinted (overinflated) and realized that most cards are selling in the .01 (1 penny USD range). There are much more made than there are players.
The same thing that is happening with Venezuelan currency. I spoke with a woman from Venezuela today, where a McDonald's cheeseburger costs $15 (the small one) and she said things were very bad there. I could not completely understand her English (I admire she is bi-lingual). She said the military was put aside today? And the regular government would be restored. Not sure if that was bad or good but she seemed to think it was positive. She is the woman in my blog earlier asking for a vote. A vote for her gives her a couple of dollars extra to buy some food (not enough for a $1.00 cheeseburger from Mcdonald's which is $15.00 in Venezuela)
Link to her video:
Here is the link for the other woman from Venezuela that participated in my blog challenge:
One can argue that "one day the Steemmonster cards will be worth something" but with almost ZERO value anything could be worth something one day. (Sorry for the bad segway that is how it worked out. It is late here and this phone in un-cooperative)
I have had a few beers so forgive me for saying this...but one day a dog turd could be worth a nickel when dogs go extinct.
I tried to achieve Diamond level on Steemmonsters. That did not work out. I did get within a few points of diamond. I was awarded 30 new cards for the Gold I level achieved.
The 30 cards were junk mostly with the exception of a Black Dragon card (which I cannot use). I could sell that one and maybe get $3 in return. The other 29 cards were all in the 1 to 2 cent range.
Here is the other thing that is mind boggling....why can I not access my good cards on Steemmonsters?
Most of my cards are at least a 5 or 6 level cards. I am starting with the new tournament at a silver level. I cannot win against people from the previous tournament that I beat every time because I cannot access my higher level cards.
If my Summoner is too high a level it will not let me use that summoner.
I thought the solution might be to have multiple summoners at 3,4 and 5 level but that doesn't seem to work. If anyone has advice on this please let me know.
I don't understand how Gold 1 matches can be easy but silver 1 are unwinnable with the same units.
If you have read this far.....YOU ARE a true gem and I appreciate you. Sorry for the rambling rant.
Thank you for having the fortitude to hang in there and keep reading. You are my super hero.
I had and still have BIG hopes coming to Steemit.com. I enjoy playing @steemmonsters
I realize everything is not perfect and I have cyber met a few wonderful people and some very considerate bots in the last month.
My hope is that I can in some way enrich this website AND be a support for the kind people that blog here daily. Hopefully I can enrich, assist/help those same people to laugh, prosper and live through my efforts.
so true...being the tiny fish the vote of 0.01 doesn't really matter...but we will grow im sure :)
Thank you for your kind words. If I can help you grow to a bigger fish, let me know. You have my vote. Here is my 100% vote for you Vangie. I will follow your blog also.
Thank you. Thats so kind of you. Im trying to feed my "fish" still learning how...from bone to now little red..so cute😍..i always give 100% coz being tiny, my vote not worth much just a miserable 0.01 haha...my resource power was almost bankrupt (coz i dint know of the RC implementation) until @kaerpediem delegated some to me and recently from @NathanMars7... Thank you all...😊😊feel like having a big family here...
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It is morning here. I woke up and was pleased to see you comments. Thank you. I think if you are consistent and put the effort in, you will be rewarded.
Yes, learning something everyday..😊hope u have a great day today!
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!popcorn
Do you know about haikubot? It detects haiku. I think it stops by one time a day if it sees a haiku. It will stop by and leave a comment. I try to make a haiku and leave it in the comments sometime to entice haikubot into stopping by.
Nope. Dint know about haiku. What is that? Sound Japanese 🤔
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A haiku is a poem that doesn't rhyme. It is Japanese. The first line is 5 syllables the 2nd line is 7 syllables and the 3rd line is 5 again. I am not that good with them but sometimes Haikubot will stop by. I will try one for you.
Thanks for the explanation...lets see if this haiku appear though still kinda confuse..
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Also if you type an exclamation mark then the word popcorn a popcorn image will appear after the bot finds it.
!popcorn
She writes about food I read her posts with delight her name is Vangie
typically it would be written:
She writes about food
I read her posts with delight
Her name is Vangie
I have more luck when I just write the sentence straight out. Let's see if Haikubot comes around and makes note of it.
I am an automatic upvote bot, only for #steemmonsters, #steemmonster. If i liked your post, you will get an upvote. Only for Steemmonsters. Once a day, i published the posts, that have recieved an upvote.
Why thank you Steemmonsters robot. I greatly appeciate your vote and participation.
Not trying to be critical....on a phone I spell things wrong all day. Thank you for the vote. You might want to run a spell check.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
I love playing @steemmonsters and I'm addicted. My favorite splinter is death but I still haven't figured it all out yet. Level up the cards is one thing I understand I need to do to have a chance 😜 lol
I thought that if I leveled up my summoner I get my cards in full level of where they at... But I don't know eather why they don't get their full capticity.
I played less this season than ever before so I dropped to 1000 and it's the lowest I've been.. So I need to climb like a crazy person... Lol
What splinter do you use the most? Might be able to send a card.. Lol
I like your thoughts and about the votes... No need to apologize but I hear you as I Been there to.
And now my vp is to low so I need to kick myself so I don't use the upvote untill it's recharged 😜 it's my favorite thing to read posts and commenting.
Have a great evening. Cheers!
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What a well thought out and nice reply. I started doing well with the water splinter but I play Earth splinter 9 out of 10 times. I think one has to advance into high gold level for the higher summoner skills to start working. I was reset back to silver after this last season ended. What cards to you need to level up? Maybe we can arrange a trade. I saw your voting power is at 15.64%. That shows that you aren't stingy and vote often. My vote is fully charged and is worth only .01 at the max. I am thinking about getting more SP and that should make a difference.
That makes sense, go higher for your cards to start working 😉👍
I use death 99% of the times and if I do another it's earth splinter. Water and fire are the ones I loose lots with so don't use them much.. If else...
But of course most of my dailys are water and fire and life... Lol
So I skip many dailys to be honest.
The trading sounds like an idea I dm you and we can se what cards we need and want.. Lol
Ya... I'm so sorry about that 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙏 my vp is... Disaster so I need to recharge...😜 I'm a manual voting maniac.. But posts and commenting are my favorite since day one so... I know...
Powering up is always a good thing and makes a difference.
Have a great evening.. Doing my post now 😊 cheers!
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No need to apologize about anything.
So true 😜👍 lol
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