Dr. The Leaping Koala_ my journey on Steemit # 1_ Steemit values and what to do about them!

Hello my dear Steemians,

How are you? Hope you all are doing well.

Since the steemit platform was originally built with good intentions such as
1- Increasing social interactions
2- Share quality contents and information
3- Support creativity in writing, art, photography, hence, the term "Mining with our minds"
4- Sharing the reward pool, more or less, equally, or maybe I should use the word "actively", to prevent accumulation of rewards in certain accounts which will lead to stagnation in the transactions, decrease in steem value and eventually loss of steemit to better platforms.

Unfortunately, it seems that many people are content to have the rewards accumulated around them and their friends, as long as it circulates back and fourth between the same people.
This problem is mainly affecting the new steemit members, especially those who joined without prior knowledge of the social rules, blogging, cryptocurrency or those who had false expectations from steemit obtained through "inaccurate" advertisement.

~ I am not sure where the term "Mining with our minds" came from originally. It may have been @ned, the co-founder of steemit (if I am not wrong). Please feel free to correct me if you have the accurate info.

Anyhow, I was thinking that instead of complaining how unfair steemit is currently, which believe me I did for about whole month, I will try to do something about it with my own little efforts. If you are interested to help steemit, You are welcome to follow my steps or make your own

What are these efforts?

1- I started an SBD share which I post every week. If you don't know about it, please check Here and please don't forget to follow the rules.

I have to mention that, without the current help of @tumutanzi and @nikez452 and previous help of @bullionstackers, who have been supporting the reward pool through their generous donations, the SBD rewards shared would have been very meager.

2- I am going to start a curation attempt. This attempt will be reserved mostly to valuable posts from my followers and steemians I follow, with some occasional new posts that I may stumble upon on Hot, Trending or Promoted tabs.

I have been thinking of a way to give my followers (especially the loyal ones) a thank you by visiting them and checking/upvoting their posts, like they do with mine. Moreover, by checking accounts from people I follow, and others from steemit tabs, I think I will be able to cover a decent part of steemians and will be sharing my tiny votes (hence, circulating rewards) with different people, not only my friends per se.

I have been reading about curation and trying to understand it but, I must admit, I am not sure if I completely understood everything. However, this what I am thinking to do from now on depending on my simple understanding and the time I have that I can spend on steemit

• I will be visiting around 5-10 people (following or followers) everyday, in an Alphabetical order.
• Check their latest posts
• Upvote at least one post per person (mainly using 10-20%% voting power, so please don't feel undervalued). It is important that I preserve as much as possible of my SP to give to more people.
• Comment on all posts I upvote.
• For transparency purposes and as a reminder to myself, I will post the names of those I visited everyday. This way I can be sure not to forget anyone and also for you to know that your turn will eventually come and prepare a great post to share. You can check my followers or following for that if you want.
• If I like the post and find that it has great value to share, I will write a synopses about it (and hope it will gain more visits and votes). This will be the curation part I guess

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Note that, if each one of us did something similar, a lot of good value posts will be seen and will gain more votes. ALso, people will work more to make their posts better and informative. Its a win-win situation

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Dr. The Leaping Koala :D

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