RE: SMALL TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED OUR CRYPTO COMMUNITY GROWTH ON STEEMIT
I fell off the truck a few months ago too. I have always been big on commenting widely and really saw a bad result when I stopped. I think if you do a post each time you get here, reply to your comments, and then comment on others for XXX time, this gives the best result. Then if you have more time, post again, answer replies again, and comment again.
If you only stay on your own posts, your audience dwindles - unless you are big and can do big comment upvotes.
I use steemnow to find current posts to comment on and also enter contests that take comments. This way I am not spinning my wheels searching for places to comment on. So if I enter a contest with a post, I will open a couple of the other entrants and usually can find something quickly that way.
Yes, exactly! That's why I am agreeing with you. It's just that right now I need to decide which is more important: Earning a few cents for hours of work or doing something that has meaning? There are more important things in life than a few cents. If I saw that this platform was going in the direction Dan Larimer envisioned, I might be more inspired. Instead I see a few people that still hang onto that vision, but a lot more that are seeking only to grab as much as they can as fast as they can and to hell with the platform itself. That attitude is extremely disappointing and is probably what is holding the entire platform back. Instead of going forward, Steem is slipping in rank, despite it being a very good blockchain. They say that it only takes ONE bad apple to spoil the whole bunch. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of bad apples here. But I assume you already know that.
I ignore the bad apples as best I can and engage with the good guys. I do see a lot of positive developments in the last months and try to support those as best I can. The dapps I find promising, and the the current twitter campaign are the places I put most of my effort now.
We need new blood with money coming in here for sure. I look at @taskmaster4450 reports that show the rewards and stake being spread more broadly. It may be slow going, but it is happening. It remains to be seen if it will happen soon enough to keep this most excellent blockchain moving in the right direction.
You can most definitely earn more than a few cents for hours of work. but getting to that point takes a lot of focused effort.
I feel like commenting on good posts does have meaning. It encourages the people making them to keep trying. No one like to post to dead air. This is why I do it.
What constitutes a good post? It is very subjective. I spend a lot of time on my daily Zombie Adventure, but few people appreciate the effort. At least I enjoy hosting the games and rewarding my players for their participation. We have fun and that is important to me. I enjoy the interaction and get many good laughs from the comments. To me, that is my reward.
I do also enjoy meeting new people and having intelligent conversations with them, however, I need to curtail the amount of time I spend socializing so that I can do other things like maintain my household and cook and eat. As of late, I have not been getting any exercise and that is not good for my health. I should be taking even more time away from the computer to look after my own health because without health, there is nothing.
For me good posts are travel, art and food for the most part. Also I look at the winners in various contests so I can improve. I do not play games, so zombies would not be for me.
I hear you on the computer/life balance issues. I am an accountant and worked crazy hours for most of my life, so this is not much different. At least I do not have a commute :)
This platform seems to be geared to blogging-type posts, especially those geared to crypto-currencies and also to technology stuff. I find it quite amazing how many people have told me they don't have time to play my game, yet I find them heavily invested in the Steemmonsters game. My game is just too low-tech for them. At least you stated that you don't play games (which is far better than saying you don't have the time). I know many people that don't play games and I respect that. Not everyone wants to waste time playing games. In years gone by, I worked 3 jobs at once, while trying to raise my children, so I know what it means to be busy! I figure I have paid my dues and now it is time to stop and smell the roses once in a while. I deserve to take time out to play and have fun, because my days here on Earth are numbered. I need to enjoy the time I have left. If I can create or be part of something that leaves the world in a better way then I will feel accomplished. That is my intention for this platform. I have not given up on it yet. I'll stick around but just not put all my hopes and dreams into it. I'll watch and adjust my involvement as I see appropriate. I have planted a few seeds and am watching to see if they grow. It takes a community to make it happen and so far it doesn't look promising, but things can always change.
Are you retired from accounting now?
Yes, I am almost 60 with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I just never played games - even board games or cards as a kid. It's not in my personality.
The reason people play monsters here is because it is part of steem. You will have a hard time getting them to switch. And gamers already have other games they play, so they have limited time. If you cam make your game a steem dapp, you will have better success with this crowd and attract others to steem at the same time. There can never be enough games, as far as I can tell.
You are a bit younger than I am. I've been retired for 10 years.
I'm sorry to hear about your Rheumatoid Arthritis. That sucks.
You are the 2nd person who said that. I don't really understand the difference though. My game is part of Steem too! So is Steempunk and so many other games that popped up more recently.
Yes, if only I was a programmer! As I said, people here like the technology. They enjoy gadgets and ignore the basics. To me it is like food (something you stated you were interested in). Basic foods are the healthy foods. All these NEW processed foods are fake food and foods that contain additives that poison us and contain ingredients that the body doesn't know what to do with. This is why we suffer so many illnesses now. Many are caused by inflammation of the digestive tract, which causes a variety of symptoms as the body struggles to react and repair itself.
Similarly, the simple games allow you to use your imagination and interact with other players in a way that can't be done on Monsters.
I'm very curious to know how you managed to get that army of bots from fulltimegeek to upvote all your comments. What a huge support that is!
I have no idea how the bots showed up, but I thank God for this gift. It just started recently. I am in the engagement league by @abh12345 and I've noticed some others of us have them now too. I think maybe it's in support of that. All of us make 100's of comments a week on other people's posts. In the past I just got gentlebot a few times a month maybe. It's not all comments - maybe 1 in 5. I am not tracking it since it would take too much time!
As to the games - I really do not understand them since I do not play them or pay attention. I have not heard of the other one you mention. The little bit I do is for my son when he wants me to enter a contest for a card. Does your game run on the blockchain? I do not know for sure, but I think that is important.
You do not need to program the game - you need to collaborate with a steemers who can do it. Steemmonsters was a big project to get a game on here at all. There was a huge push, major support from the big guys, and then it took off right away with players. That was a nice alignment of good fortune few projects here have.
We are on the same page about the food additives. Getting those out of my life is the reason I was able to lose "half my size" 8 years ago and why I am even on the internet at all. I try to help other people lose weight naturally like I did and fail repeatedly. I'm sure all my years of consuming crap is part of the arthritis problem.