A Review of the Chiller Initiative Helping Steem Communities & Developers: Powerdown to Powerup

In his article Chiller Initiative, @steemchiller is announcing his latest attempt to improve the Steem Environment.

I am helping to report this to give clarity to his plan.

I created a new account @realrobinhood, which will initially get powered up 50k SP (might be increased in future) for delegating to a voting service.
In order to initially fill up @realrobinhood's SP, I will start a 200k SP Powerdown (directly to target as vests through vesting withdraw route) for exactly one week.

DO NOT PANIC. I trust @steemchiller will powerdown 50k SP to powerup @realrobinhood. I think we all should support @steemchiller in this process by monitoring his posts and resteeming when possible.

Several years ago, I attempted something new. It was to introduce advertising in the Steem Environment.

The biggest downside for authors is that the only revenue that a post could earn was in the first week. Advertising opened up new revenue possibilities for authors. I was also attempting a paradigm shift. Google Ads or similar advertising companies pay a little to the website they are posted on and themselves. The advertising revenue was also shared with the people reading the articles. People were paid to read other people's content.

The initial step was to create an alternative site. There are lots of websites that people can customize for their own blogging. What about a website pulling your own posts from Steem. In this illustration people landing on Raha's site had menu options that she wrote in her language and English, and a searchable list filtering only her content.

As you can see there was a menu option called Contributors. You could tag your own friends or just individual articles and they would appear under the Contributor column. Do you see how the site was transitioning from a simple blog to an online magazine?

This is what I created as an initiative years ago. Leading up to 2018, we had people developing things in all directions. Hopefully, we will see that again.

I am sharing with @realrobinhood as a beneficiary of this post. I might not be able to give 50k but at least I can give my 2 cents worth (only worth 1 cent right now).