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Well... I guess the time has finally arrived to write my Dolphin announcement post! After watching #newsteem take hold and settle down a bit... I'm more optimistic about the future... although, the distribution of rewards still has problems... and there are still structural problems to be sorted... the large changes brought about are generally good (or at least less bad than the status quo!).

Chief among these changes is the addition to the development fund which is a great way to reward developers for their work on making the ecosystem work! After all, we know full well that relying on community good will and donations doesn't really work... how many accounts would actually contribute?... or would most sit in the background and just reap the benefits?

Anyway, with the new curation rewards... I'm seeing a better response to more involved posts that I write... of course, I personally get a smaller share of the total reward... but I don't think I would ever have gotten large votes without the change in account behaviours... that said, it is a little bit sad that economic incentives must be the thing that encourages people in general to do the communal "right" thing... but I am a bit of a pragmatist in this respect, I don't expect that people will generally do the communally right thing, and will just look after themselves first (that isn't a moral judgement... it just is the way we are...).... and I am no hypocrite... I would do the same (to an extent... we all do it to differing amounts...).

Well, my time on STEEM here has been interesting... many communities with which I've had contact with, and many accounts that I've had contact with... with some still sticking around, and others leaving. I think for me, I'm still here... because this is a convenient place for me to practice my writing in a semi-anonymous setting... I feel free to write about stuff, and don't fear so much judgement (although, I'm still not keen to put too much professional work here.. aka, music!). Before STEEM, I never really had written very much since school (not university... high school!)... and I'm finding that I quite enjoy writing... just blathering on about things that I enjoy and sometimes about things that I just want to get off my chest!

So, it is partly with optimism (as much as any other new crypto network...) and a thankfulness for the writing outlet... that I'm sending a small batch (750 STEEM) of STEEM from Binance to boost my account to Dolphin level. I was going to be a couple of months away from achieving it through writing... but I thought it would be nice to just boost myself to the symbolic level. It is only symbolic after all... there is no sudden step-wise change in anything!

So... I continue to quietly plug away (along with my @classical-radio curation account) to just write and not focus too heavily on rewards... after all, I'm not in the position of requiring the rewards to live off... so STEEM is more an enjoyable way to just write and have an outlet for my thoughts...

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