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RE: SCOT TRIBES~A NEW MODEL FOR STEEM
Thank you for reading my post and sharing your experiences. It’s funny that your story of Mr. Tom, Dick and Harry perfectly describes what happened to me. So perfect in fact that I’m sitting here a bit stunned, and since I’m one who thinks coincidences are an important communication from a higher place, I’ll be considering what your choice to share that example is really meant to make me realize. I very much appreciated your being a part of this important communication from higher realms. What did Tom choose to do when he realized that his friends cared and were there for him?
I can only tell you what I did, though I did not leave, I just stopped communicating. I looked and found that most of those friends had migrated to other related platforms. I signed up there and tried to support their posts.
I came to steemit without plans for making money or even, for making friends. That stuff just slowly happened. I came here because I had written a novel of about 20,000 pages and did not want to die, someone gets my computer and formats the hard drives, killing off a bunch of people I have grown to love. I had just read about the blockchain providing an extended life to whatever is posted there, so it seemed a good idea to upload it using steemit. Since then I have realised that archive. com is a better place, for it may exist longer in the blockchain, but it also gets hidden, since it is not easy to read old posts. Steemit is not created to provide even that temporary kind of extended life.
What is also important now is that I am still meeting some very nice people. I know, internet friends (says my cynical half)...and my answer is, so what. If they live more than a 100 km from my home, I am not likely to meet them, so I might as well accept them at face value. As you say, maybe something is being planned for me that I would never have dared plan for? Perhaps what I do here is being echoed across to other realities and something happens there?
In the last 10 days, my closest friend here decided to stop and withdrew...but, I have also met someone I knew of, who once we began to comment, found we have much in common and I think he is growing to be a friend. Since I aalso admire his talent, I hope so.
So, who knows what Tom would do? Perhaps what matters more is, what will you do? Do you need for others to give to you, or, is the need for you to give, greater?
PS: If 'they who run steemit' really wanted to encourage communication between steemians, why haven't they removed that stupid rule about comments that earn anything less than 2c not getting their money? Even with SP of a 1,000 means that at 100% your upvote is still only worth about 0.013, so we cannot encourage others to reply by 'bribing' them or by 'encouraging' them by showing we appreciate their comment. If someone gives me a 1c upvote and I add mine so as not to waste that 1c, I am then accused of being a heavy self-voter...
Wow I didn’t know about that. Outrageous.
No that's not how it works. Its the curation window that changed after the hard fork, which means if you up vote someones comment to soon, the curation goes to the reward pool. But this coming hard fork they changed that window to one min to fix this problem.