Why is @papa-pepper so ridiculously popular on steemit?
Well, you're a fountain of knowledge. And not just worthless things that'll most likely never apply to us but might be kinda interesting to know. No. You teach us things that while we may go our entire lives without needing that information, should out lives take the direction of needing it, that information could easily be the difference between life and death.
Your series The Edible Outdoors is very interesting and holds very important information that everyone should really know. And you present it in a manner that's easy to absorb, easy to reference, and easy to understand. You don't really leave any important questions unanswered.
You teach us about homesteading. Which is another thing that is really important to know, whether your practice it or not. There may come a time in someone's life where homesteading becomes the only option to survival, and when that time comes, they may not have easy access to that information. But what you teach is easy to remember, and if they were paying any attention, they should at least be able to keep themselves alive.
You turned a survival-based critical thinking exercise into a choose your own adventure game. Whether or not they realize it, this game allows us the chance to make mistakes and die in game, but we get to analyse why we failed, and then we can try again the next game. Some decisions are more important than others, obviously, but overall, you're getting us thinking, and giving us a safe environment to practice the things we've learned without the risk of our failures being deadly.
Those things are all extremely important, but especially so given the current state of geopolitics and how it seems like things will only keep going downhill from here.
You also share your life with us. You don't just make posts, you're sharing your life and experience with us. You're also very, very interactive with the community and you're very generous. And it feels like you really care about this community.
Your handle shouldn't be Papa Pepper, it should be Papa Steemit.