I don't think anyone should complain about the reduced voting as long as they see same more or less equal return with respect to the earlier votes.
When you are trying your best to support more and more Steemians, those so called complainers(if at all you really have someone) will feel more happy if they join you to support in their own way.
I have recently sent an application to an upcoming education that starts in March
I wholeheartedly wish you hear on this soon and succeed in what you are planning to do. It's not a secret that many of us are going thru such situations that we try our best to spend more time on Steemit, but we do have our own life and family to support and unless we get some support from others to help our cause, the effort we spend to help others sometimes gets us into anxiety and depression.
My comments and my upvotes are my way of saying "Thank you" for your effort. It's my way of showing gratitude towards each Steemian I interact with or discuss things with
This is something I totally agree with you and I also reckon that apart from enabling us helping other Steemians with these activities, to some extent it benefits us also to earn something to support ourselves besides helping us to reach top spots of curation leagues of @abh12345.
This also sparks an idea of setting up a curation trail to support #stewardsofgondor's posts to provide them some help and appreciate whatever they are doing to Steemit through their payback or pay it forward movements. Even a 1% reward from each of the SOG's will be of some help to encourage the #stewardsofgondor. Do others feel the same as me?
Once again a superb comment @coolguy123. I love that your comments are as long as some authors articles. :D
I do have people who complain about how I vote. Not because I vote on several authors or multiple articles. The things many of them are complaining about, are either the vote percentage I upvote their articles with or the fact that I missed one of their articles. And I think it's a shame, because many of them are still getting more support than many others.
That is very true. The education I'm after is for something called: "behandlingsassistent" in Swedish and I think the word for it is "treatment assistant" in English. I want to focus on teenagers who suffers from mental illness, and the true passion for that came through my own mental problems.
Even though I find this interesting, I don't know if that is something we should be doing with the stake of FTG. Did you just came up with that idea or is it possible for you to elaborate a bit? :)
Oh, thank you, I felt like expressing myself these days and previously I wasn't reading the complete articles and hence wasn't responding to the posts.
Nice to know more about your education programs you have passion for and I appreciate you for that. Without taking out any respect for you, I feel we can try helping on something in a better way when we have experienced that.
About the curation trail, no, I just got this feeling just after reading this article from you. Some of your expressions in this article are about the struggle you go through and the struggle to support yourself financially.
Because of that I mentioned about that. To some extent, I agree that it's against the stake of FTG,
but some assistance, as mentioned a 1% from each combines to a bigger one. But, it's just a thought in the interest of many of us like me who are not even of a minnow status without the delegations of @fulltimegeek.
I hope this doesn't demotivates others, there are more experienced guys whom I have always approached for advice when I got such questions to myself, may be they will be able to guide me in this matter also.
Nothing bad intentional behind this, just a thought...
I lost my father when I was 27 years old. He died in late December 2012 and I've suffered from panic attacks, depression and anxiety since late 2013, when I couldn't shut out all the emotions and all the feelings anymore. It was like being hit by a brick in the head. It came from "nowhere" and in an instant. I've been talking to terapists and tried a bunch of different medications and I've done literally everything one can think of... Without any major results.
However, I never had any real meaningful support from someone and I had to act tough and strong for the sake of my mother. Well, I didn't have to do that, but I wanted to. It felt necessary. Due to all of that, and now, years later when I've finally been able to handle things a little bit better, I want to be the support I never had. Hopefully, I'll be able to help someone to live their life to the fullest, even though they suffer from mental illness. At least I want to try and help them. That's my long term goal. And that's the true reason for me to longing for this education!
I see. Well, the fact that I struggle financially, is more about me than anything else. And I would never rely or count on Steemit or Steemians to help me out when I needed to. I manage just fine most of the days, but if I'll start to study, I'll need student loans. Otherwise I won't afford to study. And to get the student loan, I need to pay back my previous loan first. And that is what I'm trying to do right now. However, Steemit helps me a long way on the process, so hopefully I'll be able to do it.
But first thing first. I need to be accepted. Once I am, I'll start to focus on the other part. :)
Well, I know more about you by now and I would like to extend my support on any activity you need some help in any way I could be of help.
I think you are already accepted by many and as we spend more time on others posts, there will be better exposure for ourselves. I think it's a matter of time.
I wish the best in whatever you want to do my friend.
Likewise @coolguy123. It's pretty cool to see how one can share and get to know each other, just by making replies with a few words here and there. Social media is pretty awesome that way actually. :)
Yes, totally agree with you. I was once a vivid follower of facebook, but now, I don't even open that as I am pretty busy on this platform and I feel happy that I can do the same activity here.
I hear you. I haven't been on facebook for more than 2 years now. I had stopped being on Facebook long before I found Steemit, but once I found Steemit, I deactivated my facebook account immediately.