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With all this cheap STEEM knocking about you just can’t help but get a little more. I think I’ll seriously sit back a little now; 20,000 STEEM was a big deal 6 months ago and would have given me votes worth several dollars.

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Now its 42c; not so much you might think? We get twenty full votes every day so that could earn me maybe $3 a day if I was to abuse Steemit.

That’s a decent earner comparing the stock market and a decent defensive stock with its two of four dividends a year.

For an investment of $4800, which is the value of my powered up STEEM right now you could be just like me and earn $3 a day.

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But wait, I can’t vote myself up twenty times a day at 100%, as that's abuse and even though I'm semi-respected here and a member of SteemFlagRewards, people are going to notice quickly if I start doing shitty selfish things like that.

Seriously, I do self-vote (my posts only), but keep the self percentage less than 10%. I have powered up everything on Steemit since I started an invested a lot of cold hard cash into it. I think I have earned my self-vote posts.

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So this post is partly to boast about my accomplishment of hitting the Dolphin II status and also to say that my belief is that things are going to get better here.

The thing that’s different about the STEEM community is that even though it is an experiment and loosely based on Anarchy, you can draw more attention to yourself if you help others, directly or indirectly.

Be selfish and you might find yourself an outcast and largely ignored. Don’t believe me? Try it and you will see the difference, not right away but in time.

I’m not going to elaborate the boasting even more about what I do here, but take the time to look at what I delegate to. That will give you a good idea.

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If you new new to Steemit (@hockney and @ebookwriter) just over £100 will gain you Minnow III status (500SP) as the prices stand and access to the slider bar (above). It really is cheap as chips compared to what I have seen in the past and a great time to power up.

There was a little bull rush yesterday on all the coins. I can’t tell you if its the end of bear season but I’m glad I got my Dolphin II sticker if it all starts to suddenly rise, and it will sooner or later.


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Congratulations! I like your attitude. There's been too much depression and negativity on the platform recently. Negativity often comes from a sense of entitlement. We're not entitled to anything. This is a game, and a fun one which pays dividends.

Awesome that you were able to reach that milestone. I have needed to scale back a little bit because of the holidays. I know I am probably going to regret it in the long run, but you gotta do what you gotta do right? I think you have earned the right to vote yourself up. I don't upvote myself that much, but that is mostly because I forget to. Congrats again!

Thanks @bozz, its still a log way to Orca III, over twice what I have now. I don't want to hope it goes to 5c, but if it does I will jump.

Yeah, I was kind of waiting for it to drop below $.20 before I did anything more. I feel like it is just toying with me now. I want to get another 100 SP built up so I can finally delegate some to SFR.

Congrats on your Dolphin status my friend! That is an awesome accomplishment. I wish I had extra money to buy in right now, I have never seen steem prices so low! Hopefully the bull run comes soon and you make out like a fat rat ;0)

It would make me happier to dish out votes over a $1 to people than just take the money and run. I wont cash out until I really need to and that's no time soon.

Good on you! That's a big deal.

I've put what I've got into Steem and have it mostly powered up. I keep a little liquid to buy the odd thing here and there.

My voting trail self votes me and I don't feel the least bit bad about it. If I don't believe my post is worth a vote how can you?

Go ahead. Blow that trumpet! Let the good times roll!

My voting trail self votes me and I don't feel the least bit bad about it. If I don't believe my post is worth a vote how can you?

That's very true. I don't do posts by half and they are usually meaty. This one is small in content for me at just over 400 words.

I'm am going to cut down the posts though, I keep saying that but its hard to pull away.

Thanks @bigtom13

Congratulations, @slobberchops!

I am always excited to see good guys like you powering up and the bad guys powering down.

Hoping these prices shake a lot of the scammy profiteers away. My hope is the quality people will remain to build out Steem into a better platform. Community is key!

On the self voting, I generally have a hard time bringing myself to self vote as a personal preference but the curation trail I follow does it for me. ;)

I don't see any problem with it as long as it isn't like old Haejin tier self voting. Don't think anybody really knows where that line is but know I don't want to cross it. It's good to spread the upvote love around.

Appreciate all you do for SFR! That 1 k delegation got me fired up and I increased my own from 37-ish to 50 SP.

We have such a talented group of people among us of which I feel honored to be a part.

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Thanks, @anthonyadavisii , I didn't want to blow my trumpet about the SFR delegation, I was feeling a little guilty with all the rewards I was receiving and it was time to give some back.

Love your positive energy @anthonyadavisii :)

Thanks. Even though I am not always sunshine and rainbows, I try to be positive from time to time.

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"I am not always sunshine and rainbows"

good one @anthonyadavisii :)

it would be strange if you (as a guy) would consider himself a sunshine and rainbows :P

yours
Piotr

Well done @slobberchops! What sort of dolphin do you feel yourself to be? Possibly a rough-toothed dolphin?

I was all set to invest in some Steem last month, but a sudden loss of job put paid to that. C'est la vie - if the price is still down in the new year, maybe I'll be able to invest a bit.
Meanwhile, thanks for the up-votes!

BOOM!!!

CONGRATULATION WINNER CHOP!!!

Hehe, that's great stuff though, you will defo look back and pat yourself on the back when it all goes back up!!

pat yourself on the back when it all goes back up!!

I'm waiting for that day!, ...its been 'buy more to stop the full vote receeding'.. and seems to have been like that for months now.

Have we hit the bottom? My mate @goblinknackers is threatening to buy in at Orca level when it gets low enough. I keep goading him every day to do it, but he hasn't... yet.

I think it is the bottom. I really do. There are doom merchants out there that think we are going to plunge down a bit further first but it all depends on that bloody bitcoin!

There is a part of me that wanted it to go to ten cents because I would have loaded up more than I have. My goal this year was 30K by year end and because of the price drop I smashed it!

He should get some now just in case!

He may shock me and do it, but he's cautious after I told him last January.. 'Etherium less than $1000 is a great deal'... LOL!

Ahahahha, yeah, there was a lot of fingers burned from then! hehe. I made some silly buys myself

Have you been buying Boom?? I was all set to on the very day Ned no-showed on the live stream...that kinda spooked me..

Lol, that some me slightly too at the time. Before that I had been steadily buying a couple of hundred steem at a time. If we genuinely have reached bottom will buy a bit more before it gets too expensive!

Congratulations, good to see more SP in the middle classes! I've been following the growth of the Orcas ... the numbers are rising pretty steadily and the rate of new Orcas has speeded up this month.
I'm still building but going for a more modest target by the end of August 2019 and buying regularly every week to achieve that. I am putting away some each month in a savings account as well - I may break it out if the price hits 10c! Interesting that your motivator is maintaining the value of your full vote, I hadn't considered that particular driver before.
I've started delegating to @steemflagrewards; my time goes into other things around community building, so delegating is my contribution. I appreciate the work of the flaggers, though, and thank you for doing that.
A very nice close to 2018, full of promise for 2019 😊

Interesting that your motivator is maintaining the value of your full vote

While I do delegate some, I feel its important to have a big wodge available for voting. I want to give to the good content creators. Im still a little taken back by the @starkez speech a couple of weeks ago but cant see how I can add to the blockchain any other way.

I've started delegating to @steemflagrewards;

You should try flagging too then, and using their incentive too. It gets a little addictive after a while. Just be careful who you pick fights with though.

Steem needs to keep good content creators, so you are doing your bit :)
Re flagging - my time goes into community building; I'm also organising a Leicester @steemcampuk for the Spring, that's why I'm happy to support you and other people who are flagging. We can't all do everything, the jobs have to be shared round.

Fair enough, we all are doing out own little bits. SFR seem to have more flaggers now than ever so thats good. I just wish they had a bigger delegation.

STEEM is rising again, which means the abusers start coming out of their holes again. Its a never ending job trying to deter them.

Good to hear there are more flaggers :)

Thanks for supporting SFR. It all helps. I may be able to get to Leicester for a meetup

Thank you. Be good to see you if you are able to get to Leicester :)

6 month ago I was dreaming about a minnow :) .... These days with steem so cheap I have made that happend and I'm now aiming for a dolphin ... :) Hope it all works out in the end....

These days with steem so cheap I have made that happend and I'm now aiming for a dolphin

That's fantastic, I hope it happens for you. Keep posting and creating.

Dear @slobberchops

Great to see that you're still as active as always :)

Indeed it's a great time to power up. Especially if your goal is not to "invest" but to increase your influence here on Steemit.

So this post is partly to boast about my accomplishment of hitting the Dolphin II

Im heading towards level 1 :) Keep your fingers crossed my friend. I won't get anywhere near you but Im right behind. Like a good guardian-soul :)

Be selfish and you might find yourself an outcast and largely ignored. Don’t believe me? Try it and you will see the difference, not right away but in time.

You've nailed it! :D

ps. thx @juanmolina for sharing this link with me.

Yours
Piotr

Congratulations @slobberchops. I didn't even know there was such a thing as Dolphin II status but well done for getting there anyway. 😁

Thanks gillian, Dolphin I is the next one at 35,000. I don't know how official they are, but busy and steem-plus both use them.

Hmmm. Well it's very tempting considering you can give a vote above the dust threshold for 8%. It's taking me about 40% at the moment. However, I'm torn between Steem Power and Steem Monsters at the moment. 😂

Steem Monsters

I still have yet to play, even though we got the starter packs at SF3. I dont want to get addicted to it.

Now might be a good time to start then and get in some practice about being balanced about it.

There is so much going on at this time of year (at least for me) that it is simply not possible to play as much as I would otherwise.

I also took the whole weekend off from the computer which tends to break the cycle. 😊

I keep meaning to have a go, tbh the game is right up my street being similar to MTG, so why I have kept away I dont know. Well.. I do, it might draw me in and make me spend too much.

That sounds like a good reason to keep away then. Some players have spent tens of thousands! 😱

And I see "non gamers" spending more and more too.

The price of Steem holds me back because the numbers are so big compare to what I earn on a post I just can't bring myself to spend it.

One card I'd like is currently 52 Steem for example. If I could buy it in dollars I wouldn't hesitate.

CONGRATS!!!

That is a worthy milestone! Iwas going to buy the day Ned no-showed and actually got angry about it all so I didnt. Still am sitting on the fence. I almost feel like I need to in order to keep my relative position so to speak. I have not bought in, but I have never powered down either. Cheap sttem sure is tempting...

Cheap sttem sure is tempting...

It is, and was up 13% today. Not that I'm up in terms of buying at the right time, far from it!

Congrads, on becoming a Dolphin by the way!

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You did write a good post.
Indeed I read it.
There is nothing in self upvote.
It is wrong when someone abusesthe system.
Very important and I am very happy you teach us good behavior
Keep on postin

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You're doing great and nothing wrong with a bit of selfvoting, for the good cause, you have put enough effort into Steem :) Nice to have another Dolphin in my Steemit Family :P

Congrats, so I guess you are here to stay :)

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I think I will hang around for a while... yeah!

Congrats FlipperChop!

We get twenty full votes every day

Half of that if I'm not mistaken... 2% VP cost on each full vote. 24h recharge 20% VP.

Thanks for pointing out the thing with self-voting... I briefly choked when I read "earn $8 a day" :P

it's only $4 anyways... chuckles

Yes mate, your right. I have modified the body of text blush

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you changed it to $4, but it still says twenty full votes - so you may blush again

P.S.: technically, if you're at 50% VP - you do get 20 votes though :P but still only $4 - oh and there's another twenty a few paragraphs further down... just saying

$4 a day is still a decent return compared to a $4800 investment into a single stock. I have some of these so can compare. But that would be abuse...! not something I really advocate.

EDIT: OK somewhere between $3 and $3.50 a day, its been a long day.... ;)

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yeah... I wish more people would take the ethicality of feeling entitled to self-votes for ROI as seriously as yourself.

Ethical ROI on STEEM, that's what curation-rewards are good for. Still easily makes for $1 (STU) a day.

But sure, the profit-printing ability of STEEM is immense - the fact that stake is being used in exactly such a manner and without regards for the ethicality, is probably one of the big reasons why we slipped below the Top50 in terms of market-cap by now. Not just because it makes Trending look like crap but especially because it creates a lot of value constantly being extracted from the platform.

We'll see how this bear market unfolds, I sincerely hope it'll have a cleansing effect on the ecosystem here.

We'll see how this bear market unfolds, I sincerely hope it'll have a cleansing effect on the ecosystem here.

There's so many left. People who used to write inspiring posts, they have left too, some months ago. When it all recovers, and it will.. I'm wondering if they will return.

I'm just here for the fame and glory...

but seriously, I just want to post and pretend it's livejournal days all over again.. and if it becomes something.. cool.

If not, it's a series of posts about a snapshot of my life at a time when I had become old enough to be one of those people who do not know how to program whatever now's equivalent to 'setting the time on the VCR' is..

You can do what you want on here, there is no censorship from centralised 'authorities' and a snapshot of portions fo your life is just fine. I do the same with the 'piracy' ones I have being doing lately.

A mention of VCR's show that you were'nt born yesterday, theres lots of us here just like you.

Old enough to relate to any John Hughes character circa his teen movies year, not his early National Lampoon stuff, nor his later family friendly stuff..

It's nice to see an interwebs for the people once again...

i thought about that same thing of buying a minnow status for a 100 bucks..

and so i bought some and right after that the state of the dapps thing was announced..it sounds like a like deal..

congrats on the 20K mister chops! Its a crazy number!

Thanks @karinxxl :) Im going to have a rest now, no more buying STEEM, at least for a few days ;)

I think you made a good move before everything went into green again..

Atleast...it feels good right!

Hell yah congrats on the solid investment! To think I knew you as a lowly Minnow and now you are a big wig! Just gotta make sure that eye of yours doesn’t get a mind of its own and cause problems. ;)

Gratz man!

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Thank zeke, I remember the cryptopub, the airdrop giveaways, and you being too slow most of the time haha!

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Congratulations!

100% self-voting might seem to be someone’s best self-interested strategy, but it’s an illusion. In the short-term, it might be true. But in the long-run it’s the kiss of death.

Gotta love these prices. I’m at about 8k SP right now, will keep buying a bit more every paycheck for the foreseeable future. Steem is a steal under a buck.

Gotta love these prices. I’m at about 8k SP right now, will keep buying a bit more every paycheck for the foreseeable future. Steem is a steal under a buck.

If only 100's of others thought the same way, it would be much more 'middle class' than it currently is. Keep on Steeming!

I recently passed 500sp but dont get the vote slider?

You should have it. Are you using Steemit or another app for STEEM? I thought it was based of the number of vests. You seem to be just past it.

Yeah steemit. Strange. Maybe it will show up in a day or 2...

You've overtaken me then. I'd like to buy some, but the cash just isn't available right now. I should still get to 20k over the next six months or so. Enjoy your superior dolphinhood.

Thanks @steevc... I think.

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AHAAA, it was you who made the price of BTC go up. Thanks buddy, I needed that, lol!

Hey congratulations!

Nice to hit those milestones.

I bought another 100 today.... still expecting it to go lower though!

Nothing wrong with a cheeky little self vote every now and then although I do agree spreading it around is better for you in so many ways!

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I bought another 100 today....

Most excellent, though I wish more of us had the same mindset. it gives me a kick to give someone a decent vote, especially these new people who get barely nothing.

I was like that once, and I remember what its like.

Yes... back in spring I think anything over 3K SP at even 50% was pretty significant.

I seem to be getting a lot more votes all of a sudden from very small accounts. I just checked... you need 24SP to be able to give someone a vote worth $0.001 at 100%. That's the lowest it registers on @partiko.

I also had to check my autovoter - it's fine but my VP seems to be above 90% a lot... I guess less posts!

I'm getting more into giving fewer >50% votes.

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The small votes will be curation trails. They mostly amount to very little but look impressive with the amount of votes received. Most of the votees probably get very little in terms of curation rewards due to the low % they are giving.

Congrats on waiting till the price was low... I bought most of mine around the $1 mark

Dont feel to bad about it! I got mine in dribs and drabs mostly on the way down. I also got a little around $3.70, and quite a lot around $2.

If you got most at $1 I would say you are doing OK.

Steemit has no problem with @fulltimegeek spamming the blockchain with right-wing conspiracy bullshit, so here's my contribution to Steemit!!

Nice one! I think you've inspired me to add a little bit more in as a Christmas present to myself!... not quite that much, but a little bit more!

OMG! I remember as it was yesterday when you first posted.
You did a good movement

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Congrats for your Delphin II badge!

I purchased my Delphin III badge some days ago: Steem was SOOOO cheap, that I couldn't resist! ;)

A huge hug from @amico!

A huge hug from @amico!

Thanks, a vote for this wonderful post wouldn't go amiss either. ;)

It's true! And you received my (auto)vote! ;)

It is true, I concede :)

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I don't worry about self-voting. I try to help others that produce the content I like all the time and I don't feel a bit ashamed of my self-votes. Like you, I feel we've earned it. If we don't think our content deserves a self-vote... well, would we even produce it?

Congratulations! Well done. I'd like to get to 20k before the bulls come charging back.

Thanks, and keep going yourself. I can see your decent way to 20k now. Who knows whats going to happen, the bulls are in town today but what of tomorrow?

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Actually I just thought, you need slightly less than 20K SP as it's in MVESTS. 19900 probably would've tipped you!

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I think I have earned my self-vote posts.

Although having only self voted one time to dig my way out of a flagging, you could put me in the software is law camp. You paid for it. Use it how you want and are able to.

Oh and STEEM On!!! 😎