RE: Are you a Steem 1 percenter? Do you know who is?
I admit that I've been cashing out. Probably more than I should have done. Some of the times have been due to certain life situations meanwhile other times have been just to have some extra bucks in my pockets when I'm out shopping or whatever. I also had the idea of keeping the SP rewards on Steemit and to cash out the SBD. That way, I'd be able to build my account, even though it would be built slowly.
That being said, I'm currently powering down, and I will do it for 3 weeks in total. Because I need to repay a loan, and it's literally the only option I have. However, if I wouldn't have powered down as much as I did in the past, things would've been different today. Sure, I would probably have been more or less forced to power down either way, but one weeks power down might have been enough. I don't know. And there's no reason to be looking back in the past. What I have done in the past is done and cannot be undone.
Due to the recent power down, I had to pause my @asapers project and that's something I regret and hate, but it cannot be helped. It was something I had to do... But, as soon as my power downs are finished and I've paid back what I owe, I'll reinstate my project once again and I'll also continue to delegate all my Steem Power to others, in an attempt to improve the overall experience on Steemit.
If that makes me a bad minnow, a terrible leader or an awful Steemian is for others to decide. I usually don't take sides, but I stand for my actions.
Sure, I might be able to grow my account in a faster pace if I focused my Steem Power on myself instead of others, but I'd rather pay-it-forward, so others can grow. I truly believe that Steemit will benefit out of actions like that.
Although you had to put the @asapers on hold the @asapers continue to grow stronger everyday. Delegations help but its not what the @asapers are about. And while we aren't in the 1% yet, we will be.
Wait what? Let's not do that. What do you need?
Well, the project in itself is not paused. The awesome individuals I have manually picked are still working and putting in hours of effort to help others to grow and to grow themselves simultaneously. However, I had to cancel my delegations due to my power down, and even though my delegations weren't that much, it definitely reduce the rewards and earnings for everyone. At first the individuals that had the delegations but also the featured authors, as our combined SP doesn't reach the same levels as before.
I delegated a total of 300 SP to the official @asapers account, 200 SP to @lynncoyle1, 100 SP to @mirrors, 200 SP to @insideoutlet, 100 SP to @yogajill, @frankabelle and @shai-hulud. So it was a total delegation of 1100 Steem Power I had to cancel.
We're far from being @ocd or @curie, but we strive to do our part and to do something for others, and we've been doing that successfully for a few months now. We have a discord channel with well-more than 100 users and we've been sharing the rewards with 162 featured authors so far. It's basically just a few cents here and there, but it's more than nothing, and we aim to do more in the future.
OK I kind of looked at this and I'm not going to try to figure out the complicated bits. I can't cover 1100 but I've delegated 500 to @asapers until you can get back to doing it yourself.
Thank you very much @tcpolymath, we appreciate it! :)
That is awesome thank you so much we really appreciate it. I promise to put it to good use. Excited!!!!
We are still going strong @tcpolymath, we are just doing it with less SP, so any delegations would be greatly appreciated.
Holy wall of text :P
As said, everyone has their positions and we all live with them but it can't possibly be that out of the 200,000 estimated real accounts here only 1 % were able to power up.
Even with you powering down... you did power something up too. You have helped others earn and you have helped others actually grow.
My point is that if so many really can't power up because they need it, we are lost globally anyway considering steem is 2 years old and unstable. What happens if it collapses, where do they go then?
Man, I hate debts and I have many so I hope you get yours sorted out. So many times I have struggled through and have been so close to taking some crypto but haven't. Debt sucks and I am getting tired of continually being chased so, this is my attempt to end their hunt and help others stop the debt collectors too.
GL mate.
Honestly, I think people cash out everything because they don't see good enough reasons to power up. Sure, this is a long-shot because this was most likely a problem even before the bid-bots and the vote-sellers, but ever since they arrived, their is basically no need of Steem Power in your own accounts anymore.
Whenever you want to earn, just buy a load of votes and you're fine.
I mean, even manual curation have stopped to some extent, because you'll earn more by publishing content and buying votes.
In the early days, people tried to build their accounts to grow. So they eventually could earn more. Nowadays, all you need is some Steem or SBD to buy votes.
It can't last that way and they will get crushed in various ways as prices fluctuate. The buyin will be high and the returns sketchy. SP will still be gold.
There is a lot of risk here but, what is the ceiling?
Like some others have been saying. Steem is likely to see prices of $50+ in the future, so now is definitely the time to stack up on Steem. Some have said that prices of $100+ is more accurate. And some people believe we will see these figures in the end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019 already.
It's a bargain deal right now to buy Steem. And if you don't want to buy, you should save the Steem you earn.
I know all of that and it's a pain to power down, but it's something I have to do. Hopefully, we will be able to build the asapers even larger with time, especially as it grows for each day already, so hopefully, I'll be able to earn back the SP I've been cashing out until the prices rise.
That being said, newcomers doesn't see the real potential and value of Steem. They see Steem and SBD, they think dollars and they cashout everything they can because it's awesome to buy a new cellphone per month.
And that's one of the things the asapers is trying to fix. We are trying to get people to see the real potential and the true value. People who would've left Steemit stays because of us. And we're just a tiny curation group with a few cents worth of upvotes. With time, we'll be able to do even greater things...
And hopefully, we'll see more initiatives and changes to help newcomers to get their acts together at that point. Because I truly believe that newcomers are the ones we need to support. Not only by large upvotes, but with education.
We did that in the past... We can do it today as well.
It is going to help to train the newcomers and, it is going to help for the mid range community builders to build because if there aren't enough large commuinity operators in that high price future, the small accounts are essentially non-earners as the circlejerks will continue. So from now, I ma going to focus a little ore on building the middle and doing what I can low.
Btw, it isn't much but I gave 200 dele to @asapers just before.
Building the middle sounds like a very good thing to do. We're definitely in need of a middle-class on Steemit. You build the middle and I go for the newcomers with the asapers. ;)
Thank you very much for your delegation, we appreciate it! :)