My Year End Review of My Steemit Year. Just the fun not the drama

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The Numbers

Dateline: December 31, 2017
Day 152 on steemit
314SP of my own 329SP total
15SP delegated by Steem
Reputation score of 54.950

Dateline: December 30, 2018
Day 516¹ on steemit (18 Moons)
1,054.316 of my own SP.
51.474SP Delegated by @davemccoy
140.500SP Delegated out by me.
965.290SP Current Votable SP
Reputation score of 60.636

A 740SP Increase for the year.
2.065789473684211 daily increase first 152 days
2.042635658914729 daily increase over the last 516 days
2.027397260273973 daily increase for the last 365 days.

So as any new user can see, it takes time. The first part of my time on steemit was a good growth period of steem and its price value. The first few months of 2018 continued the growth value of steem. The last six months have not been an easy time for steem value. I think what the numbers above show though is that investing at a steady rate will lesson the personal account loss, steem may or may not turn around, that is the beast of investing, so as far as earnings go and making money it was a losing year. If making money was the only reason for your presence here I do feel for you. If it was for the community, it would be difficult to put a monetary value on it. The numbers are done, on with the fun.

The Fun

First post of 2018: My Moose Monday Picture, inspired by @shasta
I will likely end this year with a Moose Monday Post tomorrow since I have a moose picture in mind.

Jan 14th, the beginning, the beginning of my time with The Steemit Newbie Resteem Initiative - my first post I kept up with it weekly through week 41, but with HF 20 and more information now available for the new users and numerous other welcome groups, I was getting no new users seeking assistance, so it became bi-weekly, and maybe one more and call it a year. The initiative created by @mudcat36 and @davemccoy kept me involved in and helping onboard new users, it was a very good learning experience.

Jan 26th. A really banner post and idea, and the begining of being involved in and with @apolymask (@IFC), Information Finding Championship. Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 1 (150 steem grand prize) This ran a bit longer than he anticipated, but it was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to a few rounds in 2019.

Feb. This was the beginning of my nightmare foray into ginabot and discord chat rooms. I had tried the steemit chat a couple of times, but more and more people were moving to and using discord chat. Every group had a discord. I say nightmare, because I have had to do a spring cleaning of all the discord rooms and servers several times. At one point I hit 30 servers I think, that was just to to many. With steem monsters, the numbers are growing again. and soon time for another trim job of discord. Ginabot is nice, but with that many discord groups and all the @here @everyone mentions, a nightmare. A fun one at times, but still a nightmare at times.

Feb 11th. I was introduced to Ashers (@abh12345) and his curation league I asked to be added, and now every sunday, I have a quick synopsis of what I did engagement wise for the preceding week. I use this to keep myself grounded to the real purpose of steemit for me and that is to visit via my chair other countries, other places, to meet new and interesting peoples from all walks of life. I was never able to get into the facebook, or google hangouts, or youtube thing, so for social media I really like steem blockchain and steemit.

March, the end was getting close for @pibara and his Ragnarok Book Series. He requested help from the community last year, and even though I am not an editor, just a reader he was looking for help on typoes, inconsistencies and other such editing things for his book. So I tried to help in any way I could. I tell you it was fun, and since I like to write, (just write not author), I learned a lot trying to help where I could and reading some of the other helpers also. Visit his page and you can find links to his stories and where to get them.

April. A pretty good month also. I found and participated in several Pay it Forward post. I always have a hard time with that kind of post, but still they were fun to do, and provided a little recognition to some deserving steemians. The: Pay it forward Curation contest by @thedarkhorse, is still around and has a wonderful group of people it has a new home account of it's own @pifc.

May. In May I think that everyone suddenly became aware of DUST, and just what a dust level vote was. @davemcoy worked with witness @danielsaori to try and mitigate some of the adverse issues associated with it, thus was born @dustsweeper. A very nice little tool.

June. That is when I heard of and learned about Steem Monsters. I have greatly enjoyed it, and I even wrote several short stories for it. (none of which won much, though one did get a curie, a small one). Steem Monsters has really cut into my commenting and posting on steemit, although to be honest I don't really post that much, lucky if I can get 4 to 5 post out a week. I am still playing and enjoying the game now.

Late June the finals of @IFC began, and boy were there just some plain assed kick ass post done in those finals. I was surprised I made it through round one.

July. A picture from a story. I like to write and do not in any way consider myself an author and likely never will, still I like to write, good bad or ugly, it is still a fun thing to do. Sometime people even enjoy the story I write, but like anything the more you do it the better you become. So I enter contest every now and then. But sometimes there are no contest around and you feel you just want to write. Then you are looking through your pictures for a picture post you are doing and see a cool picture you took, and even though it is not what you were looking for for the picture post a story just jumps in your head. @themanwithnoname had a post Story From A Picture #1. I really liked the idea and even used his picture for a short story. I have done a couple since then, and still enjoy doing them.

August. My steemit anniversary month, The first year was fun, so far still fun. I hope others are also enjoying their time on steemit. I was out of the finals for IFC, but it was still in progress, it was ending as it started with ties and then tie breakers. Some very fascinating work by the participants, you can view most of the rounds and challenges and stay current of upcoming events at @ifc.

September. Upcoming HF20, so not being sure if I would need or want a secondary account, while it was still possible to create a totally free account I did so. Now I have to try and remember every now and then to post something over there. Still not sure what I am going to eventually do with the account, but is is slowly building and will be ready to use when I need it.

September, October, November, and December. So with the conclusion of @IFC and the Information Finding Championship, I have been doing a lot of picture post, story post and just general post, and of course completely enjoying my time playing steem monsters. I have continued to try and be involved in commenting and definately in voting content. Changes were made, adjustments were made, tweaks here and there were made, I am still enjoying steemit even with all its ups and downs and flaws, I still like it.

2019 - - What do I expect from it? Nothing, I hope steemit is still here in one form or another. I have enjoyed my time. I plan on continuing to posting short stories, playing games, taking pictures, commenting, and just being a general nuisance to those that find me annoying, to them use the mute button. I may even post some musical interludes or other boring shit post. Who knows maybe one of my pictures will be seen by someone that wants to buy it, I don't know why but you never know, or one of my short story will be wanted to make a twilight zone episode out of, or maybe I will come up with an Idea for a killer dApp on the steem blockchain, but reality is, I am me, I will continue to be me, and I will continue to steem as I see fit.

I hope you all have a very nice and safe New Year.

¹Day's on since Aug 1, 2017 calculated via Google search: "number of days between 8-1-17 and 12-30-18"

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