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otemzi (67) 6 years ago

Checking some of your old post, you really had a rough start like seriously your introduce yourself post got $2+, if I didn't see it, I wouldn't have believe it.

Although, original content is still value even till today but with the help of bidbots, seems reward is mostly gotten literally by yourself.

Some of the community still around but guess when a few people is available the work become tedious and tiring.

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https://steemit.com/steem/@whatsup/i-made-95-posts-that-didn-t-earn-a-thing

inertia (73) 6 years ago

Rough starts really are par for the course:

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otemzi (67) 6 years ago

95 posts?

Nothing and he still continued, am never ever going to complain again

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whatsup (75) 6 years ago

My 95 posts were not all in a row! However, it was a rough start. I'm still here and the tides change. :)

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otemzi (67) 6 years ago

I'm still here and the tides change. :)

Yes saw that after going through your blog and your present rep says it all 😀

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steevc (73) 6 years ago

In the early days I would have been delighted with $2. The economics of steemit have changed. I don't think the buying of massive votes as a good development. We need to see most posts like this one with community support on the trending page.

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otemzi (67) 6 years ago (edited)

We need to see most posts like this one with community support on the trending page

New investors would only come if the already invested users are able to acknowledge the legitimacy of the business, that's when we have organic individuals vote start dominating the trending page rather than paid for votes

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whatsup (75) 6 years ago

My 95 posts were not all in a row! However, it was a rough start. I'm still here and the tides change. :)

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justubong (44) 6 years ago

U analyzed that crytically thumps up

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arrowj (56) 6 years ago

I posted several things from old blogs. Maybe I should find some of the episodes of The Sitter Downers (a defunct podcast with around five listeners) discussing your political and theological views from ten years ago. We really loved it when you started writing in :)

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

That might be fun. Yeah, my day job was in Java back then. And gmail was brand new technology.

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jazzyfish (55) 6 years ago (edited)

I just read your thoughts on Autism and I found it to be a very interesting point of view. Organizing your posts by topic was a great idea and an efficient way to help us get to know you a little better. :)

Your wife reminds me a little of my 2nd grade art teacher.
Your kids are stinkin' adorable!
I misread "5 Minutes With Charlie Shrem" as "5 Minutes With Charlie Sheen".

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

I just read your thoughts on Autism and I found it to be a very interesting point of view.

Yeah, it's just a theory. It might just be from the influence of House and other various media input. There was this episode where he was treating a dude who could play the piano even though he had cognitive deficiencies in other areas due to an accident.

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winstonwolfe (71) 6 years ago

You must be talking about the episode with Dave Matthews as the piano player. :)

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

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jazzyfish (55) 6 years ago (edited)

You briefly mentioned non-verbal autism, and you got really close for what it seems to be like for my son. His vocabulary is HUGE, but his ability to express himself by stringing those words together is limited to a few small 3-4 word phrases.
When he is forcing to get words out, I can tell he knows what he wants to say, but gets frustrated that he can't get it out of his mouth. When you said they must feel like "Why can't I just get it out! Come on!" (I'm paraphrasing, I think.) you're spot on, in my personal experience.

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

For my oldest, if he really wants us to know what he wants, he'll use the color of the thing. Sometimes, the color sticks even though it makes no sense over time. Sometimes it depends on the location and situation.

black - I want to go to my room to be alone.
yellow - I want to listen to that one CD I like that you have in the van.
green - I want to play with that one particular toy.
pink - I want my sister to get out of my face.
red - I want to watch YouTube.
purple - I want some ice water (not just water, specifically ice water).
orange - I want an orange.

Blue and white have been used, but not for anything that has stuck.

He did this color thing all on his own. It might have originated with orange. Fruit is absolute favorite food. He'll eat it until he pukes.

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jazzyfish (55) 6 years ago

That is truly remarkable! I've heard of people associating words with colors before, and it makes sense to me in a way.

Thinking like a speech pathologist, might colors be a way in to get him to expand his phrasing? Our way in to our son was vehicles. That's how he learned colors, shapes, spelling, even used car shaped pop beads to get his motor skills going.
If he will echo you at all, you might be able to eventually get him to say "I want red."
Then, "I want red youtube."
Then remove the red for "I want youtube."
It won't change overnight, of course. But if you can break through and get that first "I want" the others may come on easier.

I really enjoy when the speech therapists will allow me to be in the room when they work with him. I try to retain as much as I can to use at home.

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

Yep, he's become more and more receptive to expanding the phrases. He loves the sounds of words. He just doesn't seem to find them as useful.

He likes to see what single word he can say to get us to talk or sing for a long time while he sits back and grins.

Just entertaining to him. Word judo. "What's the minimum verbalization I can get away with today?" To be honest, I actually get that. If I could get away with "coffee!!" I would. But I also value interpersonal relationships.

He's much more interested in reverse echolalia. And why not? We ask him to say these meaningless phrases, why can't he ask us to do the same?

He loves to make deals. "I'll get off the bus if you will promise I can listen to the Wiggles Popcorn Album right when we get in the door." But he says, "popcorn" and grins and sits in his seat until we say "ok, popcorn."

He's making deals with us because we make deals with him. We taught him it's all about making deals. I'm actually glad he realized that and finds it useful. We get to know what's on his mind.

He also likes A B verbalization, which is new. I say A, he says B in response. So, one time I told him to say hi to someone named Nichole. He said "Hi Quarter." Get it? Nickle -> Quarter!

That's the exchange he'd prefer. Formulatic. Extremely minimal. In reality, we do try to push him beyond one-word requests.

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drpuffnstuff (60) 6 years ago

I didn't know that you were working for Steemit now. Good stuff man, you are a solid person to have on the team. It's good for everyone to know that the learning curve and struggles are real, and thanks for making it easy to catch up on some of the older gems, if only they could still be upvoted easily..

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

if only they could still be upvoted easily..

It would certainly be nice if there was a formal solution for this, but I know it's a tough nut to crack if we want scalability sooner than later (in terms of the technology involved).

But I've also had some success with simply re-posting content that I thought was over-looked.

Also, many of my ruby posts are close to the re-post definition. If I publish an update to an app, I'll just change the first paragraph to highlight the changes and make sure the rest still fits. Otherwise, it's the same post.

There's no reason why people can't re-post what they've written previously, just adding a paragraph to the top referencing why they're re-posting.

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whatsup (75) 6 years ago

I missed this somehow. I thought you might be working with SteemIt, but I wasn't sure until now!

I can not even begin to tell you how excited I am to hear that, and for totally selfish reasons.

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inertia (73) 6 years ago

Yeah, part of it was that the work I'm doing is specific to community developers, which is almost exactly what I'd blog about anyway, so there wasn't anything to really discuss. Only now, I'm working with a great team. That would certainly be relevant to discuss.

What's funny is, I haven't met anyone on the Steem platform before TokenFest, and the first people I meet are the folks at Steemit, Inc.

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whatsup (75) 6 years ago

Congratulations to SteemIt, Inc and to you on the new job.

4/4 people I know who have worked for SteemIt, Inc have said really positive things about working there. They have all been people I like also, that has to mean something!

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ura-soul (75) 6 years ago

I never thought the day would come when we would see Inertia's face! :)
Glad to hear you are happy working with Steemit Inc.
I learned Ruby on Rails for a project a while ago - I kind of like it, but for now I am back with PHP. I have to say that I am interested by your Ruby posts for Steem though, I'll be checking some out for sure.

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vicspics (51) 6 years ago

Great name, now I'm curious about it. As wikipedia states:

The mass of a body determines the momentum, p, of the body at given velocity, v; it is a proportionality factor in the formula:

p = mv
The factor m is referred to as inertial mass.

But mass, as related to the "inertia" of a body, can also be defined by the formula:

F=ma
Here, F is force, m is inertial mass, and a is acceleration.

Please interpret this in steem terms.

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uyobong (71) 6 years ago

@Inertia, am glad to see this post as resteemed by @surpassinggogle - I know he shares this as it depicts @ulogs, #ulogging. it's indeed all joys for me to see you make a review of all your posts. I inteded doing this, but the push wasn't there, now, you just "inertia-red" me into it. I see that it is quite important that we find time to make an appraisal of ourself. Here in the steemit in particular to see what exactly we contributed. Such appraisal as you've done will tell how balanced or lopsided our contributions were. Thank you once again for this.

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bakhtiarzehri (50) 6 years ago

@inertia
You truly had an unpleasant begin like genuinely your present yourself post got more then $2+
On the off chance that I didn't see it, I wouldn't have trust it.
Anyway I trust
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