Steem has been good to Marly, and she has certainly done her bit in the past. I respect her decision, but the question is, does this leave the door open for another positive, energetic content creator to fill the gap?
And if not, why not? The answer to this question likely to be part of her reasons for leaving.
Lol, recently, I actually see more gaps than energetic content creators! ;-)
For sure. I'm struggling a bit with motivation but there are still a few people plowing through and keeping their standards up. tarazkp and meesterboom are two :)
It was mutual love at first sight, I'd say. But the third year is always the hardest, so we came to the conclusion that it is better to break up and still be friends :-)
I'm a very emotional person who listens carefully to her feelings and instinct. If something doesn't kick me over a longer time, I need to move on. Same happens to sports for instance.
I'm an adrenaline seeker, and the competion we had here on Steem back in 2016/early 2017 really got me into it. The thrill of not knowing if a specific piece of content was going to be celebrated or destroyed by the audience, was my daily boost. I wanted to become the very best version of myself, and that got me where I am today.
Now that you can buy votes and attention and repuation and all that stuff, the game has totally lost its attraction to me.
So if you want to fill that specific gap, you need to kill the automation and replace it for human interaction, gamification and chance.
Have fun, guys 😘
Right. I understand. If you were here in 2016/early 2017 then I can see why the charm has gone. I also remember receiving my first and second huge vote out of nowhere and yeah, totally made my week.
That's gone now, and the general direction is that of vote selling and little care for what our potential new users see first. I am eternally hopeful that this can change, and I guess I am currently betting my STEEM on it that it does.
Best wishes to you, I'm sure i'll see you around somewhere sometime :)
yeah...you pretty much said it all