Just Keep Steeming Just Keep Steeming

in steemit •  7 years ago 

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“Came for the money, stayed for the community!”

Somebody was lying! It sure seems an awful quiet in here all of a sudden when the price is down to a fraction from the all time high and the rewards with that. It's either that, or half of the Steemians are devoted Christians and are celebrating Easter offline, somehow I doubt this...

I’ve always said that I don’t believe people who say that money doesn’t matter in here, it’s just a bonus, and in times like this, we see their true colours when they scurry off until the price picks up again. If you are here only for the money, at least have the balls to say so!

I admit that it is not as motivating to create quality fucking content when you get third of the rewards compared to a few months ago, but it’s nevertheless important to keep going. In my opinion it’s actually more important to keep active now when the price is down, because we do want to keep this place alive don’t we? If you are new here, now is the perfect time to make a name for yourself when many are being a lot less active, you’ll get noticed a lot easier.

1 Steem is still 1 Steem, and you actually earn relatively more Steem now, than when Steem was priced at it’s all time high. So when Steem moons, you’ll have more of it and you’ll be filthy rich. Guaranteed

While you are out somewhere in the real life, waiting for the new crypto high, I’m going to be here Steeming, along with a few other active members. Collecting all them SBDs and Steems to my little pockets to fund my adventures.

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Dont be discourage with your very low payout @ your 1st year here in steemit world. Just keep on steeming with quality post and soon your payout will come along with it. 👍

I’m pretty sure you missed the whole point of this post, and I’m very disappointed to see someone with a high reputation selfvoting ALL their own comments. What does that tell to all the new users? That it is okay and recommented to spam comments and upvote them 100% to make money. Even though it is technically allowed, I think it is rude and pathetic. Shame on you.

The only reason I won’t flag this comment is that I want it to stay on top for others to see, but I will go and flag other comments of yours.

I can understand both sides of it. In one sense it does make sense to keep posting and keep active. Its likely that Steem and SBD will return back to where they were (or better) and those who stick with it will likely see the financial rewards. On the other hand, with only so many hours in the day and so little rewards currently being generated I wouldn't blame anyone for taking the "I can't be bothered right now" attitude. Especially when other forms of income (outside crypto) are still available and every bit as profitable as they were before the current crypto crash.

Obviously most people have real day jobs and Steemit is just a side things. Of course you have to prioritise the best you can, but if you magically had time to post four times a day in December, you'll probably have the time to do that now too. What I just hate is that people are so full of bullshit when they keep talking about community and creativity just for the sake of it, and supposedly don't care about the money.

I've no doubt people could make time to post, but what I mean is that I wouldn't blame anyone for deciding it wasn't worth their effort right now. You're right about the majority of people being full of shit when it comes to Steemit "not being about the money". That level of bullshit if rife on here though. Look at the number of whale accounts who post utter nonsense and then receive hundreds of comments kissing their ass. Money will compromise people's integrity, on or off this website, that fact will never change. Thats why your account can be quite refreshing. Compared to most successful accounts on here the quality of your content is original and consistant, and you don't seem to "play the game".

some of us kept on blogging on wordpress for years not monetising so this is like taking candy from a baby :)

Hahaha, exactly! :D We used to give this all for free.

This is almost 100% copied from the original post I happened to write.

It's using completely different words AND mostly different ideas too, but I'm sure this is completely wrong, so I flagged this.

Please don't mind I kind of borrowed the idea from you originally. Kind of.

Wtf is this, is @suesa giving you internet privileges in the basement!?

The premium package has been booked for him. It's rather expensive. Comes with bread baking supplies.

I hope he makes damn good bread for you! Otherwise he is completely useless.

Along with the occasional good joke.

Right now, he's entertaining enough. But I'm getting bored...

I'm slowly adding small amounts of cyanide so she won't notice the taste when I'm giving a fatal amount.

So it's really good bread.

Maybe you are actually making her(him!) immune to it by slowly increasing the doses!

Of course. I'm the one writing majority of her posts while she eats cheese and works out.

Dear potential Friend, I took the time to read your blog, and while this one is similar to yours. Inspirational blogs are many these days are many and doing well. that is where the similarity ends.
I have some planned myself very soon.
Steem on !

Well thank you. Luckily, this is a joke between me and eveuncovered.

Or that's what I'm saying, as I did actually flag the post. I'm quite sure flags every now and then make people feel better :)

Very good 😜 I'm taking up inspirational blogging myself these days in light of all the FUD to keep a balance, or try to offset the naysayers. recently 3 very different people have said Crypto is doomed to fail! where do they get their material? I've suspected mind control for years now and used to test the theory. I'll maybe do a blog about my findings.
Have fun and I will too. 😎
Cheers

Quite the opposite for me. I wasn't able to post for the past weeks because of lack of time. Still no much more but uncle Bernie was pointing fingers at me for not writing so I had no much choice.

(Oh my. Your laptop outshines you. Turn it off!)

I think if you had listened to a certain Steemian when she hinted that you should post more, you would have avoided the scolding by dear uncle Bernie 😈

Lol yeah. Its frustrating having everything be dead. Every time I check chat it's dead, every time I check for new posts there are hardly any lol. I haven't been on as much as I'd like but to be honest I love when price is low, now is the time to accumulate!

I started sending freaking texts and dm's to people yesterday, trying to get someone to play with me! :( It'll probably always be like this, dealing out the weak hands in times of bear market.

Yeah. Its funny how many people came back during the peak... Just to leave again when it dropped

"I was busy with work and family stuff so I had to step away for a while, but now I'm back!"

Lol. I mean I get it, that happens. I happens to me too, but it doesn't exactly match price action lol

Yep and this goes for the entire Crypto space. Just think about how most of the Whales on here got to where there are today? At one point Steem got down to 7 cents last year and some people took advantage of those steep discounts. Steem is not going anywhere. Its only the beginning! THe first Steem SMT has already raise $3 million dollars and counting in this 2nd worst bear market in Crypto history.

It's pretty cool that Steem has actually help up pretty damn well compared to Bitcoin for example! We are going to see some interesting things happen in the next year, can't wait :)

Totally agree. It’s a ghost town around here. Keep on Steemin in

I got a good feeling after reading this post! I'm really new, naive, and very eager to do this! The thought of giving up was pretty far away and after reading this ever further! SISUA! Resteemed and thank you :)

In a way, you are lucky that you joined after the all time high, because you don't have a sense of that insane high from getting crazy rewards for some simple things, keeps you a lot more humble and working hard :)

Yeah, probably a good thing! Well, I'm gonna keep it going and let's hope the better future is around the corner :)

a very useful post :) thanks for sharing ...

Do you put ketchup on your guys?

I don't play with food, that is total waste! ;D

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Hey, thanks for the nice encouragement in this post! I joind the Steemit when prices were really high. But you are totally right: 1 Steem is still 1 Steem :)

I 100% agree! I haven't made it big yet anyway, but I'm going to continue posting almost daily videos and posts, despite the steemit dollar being worth next to nothing. I am hoping that I can Hodl it all and reap the rewards when things pick up again 😁

Not yet, but I see you are getting good rewards every now and then, if you keep at it, you're gonna do good :)

Steem On and Hodl !

I totally agree with you! It's worth to keep on steeming! In addition, this is a very good news that steem is down. Steem power grows more quickly now, because this system has a very good and fair algorithm.

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I'm still here reading all your blogs! So keep doing it for the ones still here!

I will, and I'm actually posting a lot more now than I have been ever before, need to work when I feel I have a goof flow with things :) Thank you for being a loyal follower ;)

1 Steem is still 1 Steem, and you actually earn relatively more Steem now, than when Steem was priced at it’s all time high. So when Steem moons, you’ll have more of it and you’ll be filthy rich. Guaranteed

I totally agree with you on this
I regretted not powering up last year before Steem and SBD later mooned year ending and in January.
Lesson learnt

I love the way you make so clear hahahaha Good advice! Thanks

Honestly most of the steemians im following here are gone! Sad to say but it’s true! All I can see in my feed now are resteemed posts. Steemit on!

They'll come back as soon as the markets start to recover, though that might be a while..

very nice steemit buddy, i really like steemit.

you hit the target and that is the reality. people use to scroll the post only when you have SP, that is wrong. I admit we came here for the money but the author must be appreciated for his or her efforts.

source

Well done keep it up and post the realities.

I'll keep on steeming along with you building a following and hoping one day my ship will come in. But Things will need to change for this platform to make people stick around in the tough times. Shit posts are still getting nearly $1000 dollars on the trending page and this is creating a new class of whale bid bots (Let's call them Killer whales). I believe they are Killing the social of this social network.
Ok I'll get down off my soap box.

Very thoughtful and wise of you.
There is wisdom in what you said, thanks for the little tip, i am reinvigorated to keep steeming

word, it's like a ghost town and people seem extra stingy.

I think a lot of people get emotional when crypto prices swing wildly, but it is just something they should learn to cope with if they want to be in this space.

when you see such paltry rewards it makes you want to save your best work for later

But think of it this way, by making those good posts, you can earn yourself a following, which comes in handy when things pick up again. And you should always keep improving anyway :)

Wise words from a wise heart, we not giving up, we go steem.

Okey

Maybe you will coming to Indonesia and join our community whe we meetup.

I'm here because of people like you ^^
Steem on!

Awww, thank you :)

I don't write every day but I read everyday. I cruise around and read articles.

Keep believing and Steem on. For a plankton and minnow, the reward could be very insignificant. However, if we can do it continuously and accumulate SP day by day, eventually we will make it! That's the journey which I expect on this platform.

Lets KEEP THIS PLACE ALIIIIIIVEE!!!!!! WOOO!

Well you sure are a lively (and lovely) creature, if anyone! :D

When it's quiet, is actually a better time to post. Less competition.

Steemit has something going for it that none of the other places has: a lack of a group of busy bodies actively seeking to censor content. Even if a post is downvoted to dust, the post is still on the blockchain and can still be seen. I see the censorship brigades on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Steemit also has permanence: as long as there are nodes providing access to the blockchain, my content is alive and well. Steemit, Busy.org, and a few other sites provide an interface to the blockchain. An open interface is a big deal.

Steemit has also forced me to learn new skills that I didn't need on the aforementioned mainstream sites. I'm learning Markdown. I'm using a new text editor, StackEdit, in order to preview my Markdown posts and save a copy. I'm learning how to insert pictures and center them in my posts with Markdown.

Steemit is also informing me of an entire ecosystem of development built on the Steem blockchain. The main point of Steemit then, is that the value of the blockchain comes from the development of applications on top of it.

So, even while prices are down, I'm still posting. I like to write and I like posting here. Writing isn't as much fun unless I share it. So I share it here, and post links to my posts in the aforementioned mainstream sites. Each cross-post of my articles on Steemit will direct attention to the Steemit posts that I make. Over time, with people like me cross-linking our posts, more and more people will come to Steemit (or busy.org). With each post, I'm planting seeds in the minds of others when they see the $ next to my post.

It's only a matter of time.

This is exactly the I have been looking at the price decline. Work harder now to get as much you can get on the cheap. Remember that getting the Steem and SBD could be considered income for tax purposes so if you see getting more now than it is less income but can be worth much more in the future if you hold.

Lol yeah, I was wondering why it suddenly got so quiet on Steemit. I don't mind too much, not going to start writing any more or less. I'm still happy as long as Steem is worth more than $1 :)

Quick look at the price of Steem and SBD usually tell you how wild it is in here :D

very good post

Its truly comforting and enlightening @eveuncovered. Thanks a lot for motivating. Be bless. Shalom

YEs...it is true ... You must try every day :)

Just joined and I don't see a reason to stop writing...Those who stay might have a better content anyway :)

STEEM goes up, STEEM goes down, it doesn't matter, we have to grind that Steem Power. :D

Keep steeming is the only secret to the lower prices

Came for the money, stayed for the community!”

Well said Last week i took off some with out posting so i kept engaging with the community but hey it was a great experience i felt satisfied at the end of the day you guys keep steemit lively
Thanks@eveuncovered it is an amazing post

It's also April Fools Day, so everyone could be kidding themselves and a little preoccupied. Who knows? I'm with you on remaining to collect. No shame in the game.

Isn't April Fools tomorrow? Or are you from the future, aka Asia? :D

What great content, encourages the community to continue growing, has great value in its publications, congratulations. The best publication I've read in the day;)

I came on board after during the correction so it really has not been a factor in my attitude toward steemit. I just love posting and the discourse. Well, I only post a few times a week so I guess more than anything I like is discourse. I didn't come here to pick a fight and I stay here because of the higher quality of people. The correction has caused, I think, some rift-raft to satisfy their greed elsewhere and I don't think that is a bad thing.

How true, I noticed that my 2 recent posts have gotten more votes yesterday. So I'm to try to do at least 2 posts a day going forward.

many are greedy here ,, they are more concerned with dollars ,, i just started and hopefully i do not become selfish as well @eveuncovered

Well I intend to stay here. Wizard likes his tobacco and the Shire provides great tobacco.:P

Regardless of the prices, I am too always in here Steeming!

Word! @eveuncovered. I came for the money and I am staying for the money too. Well, it's either that or I just love to write poetry and short stories everyday then take links all over the place, seeking for upvotes...

Seriously though, those who see beyond the sbd and steem cheque are the ones still steeming. I know there are some who are doing it for the love and others who are doing it for the potential they see in it. At the end of the day, if one does not have faith in a thing, one can easily walk away and if it is easy to work away when things are bad, then it means that one is not supposed to be here in the first place.

All I hear is the loud sucking sound of multiple accounts draining the reward pool. I had my reasons for pulling back, and that hasn't changed.

This platform sometimes defies understanding. When I stopped, I had around 270 followers. Now I have 361. I've done nothing but comment on things here and there - that's it.

Is it bots? Some odd algorithm glomming on to my post history and auto-following out of some inherent directive? I may never know.

I don't depend on Steem, my main thing is trading crypto - and I do that daily, but its really weird to me how things ebb and flow here, and I don't think its all human.

Bleep-bloop, hello all you robots.

I have noticed the same thing. I have 180 followers and I am sure that 60-80% of them are bots or just people who are trying to get a follow back.

It's either that, or half of the Steemians are devoted Christians and are celebrating Easter offline, somehow I doubt this...

lol, I also doubt this 😃

Very good points, a Steem earned is still a Steem with the potential to rise significantly in the next months/years, very exciting 😍

Steemians are devoted Christians and are celebrating Easter offline, somehow I doubt this...

I'm just too busy eating chocolate bunnies xD

I'm trying to remain active in this bear market, i agree with you, now is the time to make connections and STEEM, when the price rises again and all the plebs come to steemit i will already be an established steemian, or at least i hope i will be xD

Not going to regret getting all this steem when the price goes up!

Definitely! :)

interesting and fantastic photography.@eveuncovered ( 69 )

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I was actually offline. Not that I am a devoted Christian but still... I just walked in the woods for 4 hours

I also produced my first decent posts in the last few days so I don't think the price really affected me personally. Might be different for others

You may be excused, going to the woods is always a great idea and trumps internet life 6-0!

I will go and see you decent post now :)

it might also be this: steem price is low, so community is getting smaller and less people are making good content. So there isn't exactly a community to stay for anymore. I still have 5-6 people who make good content, which I genuinely enjoy, so I'm staying :)

People will come back and new ones will join, after a little rise in the price.

I have heard someone saying that ups and downs are part of life, we just need to stick to our plans, it's what we all should do, and yes steem has become a very important part of life, you won't believe I use it almost 16 hours out of 24 hours.
This time i'm not getting the reward for my time but i'm hopefully the time will come soon :)
Good luck!

and yes when the uptrend will start, steem will go up like a rocket Mam!

I do believe you, because I use Steemit almost as much, though a lot of the time goes to photography and creating content too.

Thank you :)

That what I'm talkin about, Taking ACTION! HAHA :)

Very much action now, I think I woke a bear and now I have more comments than I can answer😂😅

oh oh lol 🐻

It's a little demotivating, but I don't get people that literally left. Like it wasn't hard before? It's still hard now. What's the difference? Maybe they had it too easy.

It may not be rewarding to create quality content and get less valuable Steem, but what were we doing before Steemit? Posting to Facebook and Instagram and getting nothing but more relevant advertisements!
Imagine every $1.50USD Steem you got today was worth what Bitcoin is now in 10 years...
Just keep Steeming...

I kinda stopped posting on Instagram after I starter Steeming, I don’t have much use for it anymore and all I do is get angry when I open it. I’m a sceptic always but I do believe Steem will rise a lot higher than the previous all time high, and I want to make sure I have a good amount of SP waiting for that 😛

It makes a certain amount of sense though. Some people say you should join Steemit for the community, not for the money, but even Steemit itself puts a big banner across the page about how you should get paid for the things you write when you first visit the website. The money aspect is very heavily pushed and focused on, so it makes sense if people aren't getting paid as much as they were, or their content is generally getting ignored, that they'd go somewhere else where they might feel their time is more productive.

Yes, the money is in a big role here, but when compared to any other social media site, even the 1$ is more than you get from anywhere else. Unless you are already instafamous and have deals with differents brands, but for the normal everyday users, steemit can quite easily give you more than what instagram can. Of course if one treats this like a job, then one has to think how much do they need to get paid to live etc.

I agree that Steemit represents a great opportunity in many ways. Of course the majority of people don't even get $1 from their posts. While a comparatively few people are more successful and can earn $1+ on each and every post, the majority of Steemit users only earn a few cents, if even that.

I’ve always said that I don’t believe people who say that money doesn’t matter in here, it’s just a bonus...

I've always said this, and I am still scurrying around these parts...But you are correct, many say it, and their full of SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

At times, I feel as though my follower base is really just a ghost town, and I still don't give a damn, because I have my few dedicated friends still hanging out...Thats what they are at this point, follower? Thats a degradation to what they really are, so the hell with the one's who lack fortitude, we are still here, and reaping the rewards!

When Steem rises again (and we know it will) the hoards of gutless createns will re emerge and ask us how we did it, and we will simply laugh and tell them to go read the posts, and figure it out as we did...

Two more topics I need to address...

Firstly....

The t-shirt...No , not fries before guys...Fries with guys would be way better!!!

Secondly...

Where in the HELL did you get a freaking Steem laptap....??? @futuremind wants one!! Please do tell.., and it better not be a photoshop dammit!! Cause that thing looks cool as fuck.

Much love @eveuncovered nice post.

There is some site where you can see how activd your followers are, I checked it once month and months ago and I think I had like 600 followers that weren’t even using steemit anymore. The follower number doesn’t have that big of meaning here because most won’t engage with you even when they follow.

No, I won’t share my fries.

I’m sorry to inform you, it’s photoshop :( I did it last summer 😁

Damn good photoshop. Had me fooled...

I believe a huge amount of my followers do not use steemit anymore, and I don't have a big follower base. Yet...

I admit I was saying 'Just Keep Steeming' in Dori's voice from Little Nemo... It's what drew me in. I think you are absolutely right. We haven't been on here long, but I'm definitely taking advantage of the lack of random posts by some of the big wigs to actually get my genuine content seen. I admit I am loving this community more and more as I connect with other homesteaders in the world.

Good, that is where I got the idea for the title :D I think you are gonna like this place :)

I already do! Hubbie started an account for our farm and was fiddling with it while he learned. Then he shared what he was doing. Before you know it, I'm posting the content I usually put on our website or youTube on here first and connecting with more people. Only takes a few minutes more on my digital routine and I have some lovely chats with people on here.

I will say I didn't come for the money, but came for the Crypto. My history will show that. I recently stopped blogging because I ran away from home and the internet to refresh myself ( and it worked ). I also found a Big Dream I was working on ( getting a sailboat either Mine or someone else's to Captain ).
I'm just about back to blogging full time and loving it. Crypto saved my ass last fall and got me through some hard times. I had to take a powerdown when steem was under a $1 only to watch it hit $7 ish shortly after. LOL, that's just life, and Life is Good. 😎
No regrets, Just Living , Loving, Laughing & Learning.
I'll not write a blog over you in my comment, but put an inspiring blog of my own together soon.
Thanks for yours.

Running away to Panama doesn’t sound too bad! :)

It’s horrible when every time you sell, there is a new high at some point and one does wonder a little that damn why did I not save it and eat only macaroni! But it’s all good, part of the process! :)

The future looks bright but still hurdles to overcome. I'm still waiting for an even distribution coin with no fees and especially no whales. Someday it will arrive. We need a decent income/investment but if power can be centralized it will be abused. nature of the beast I suppose. LOL
Cheers

There is never a get rich adventure! You have to work for money and if you give up when you are not making a lot; then that says a lot about your character, not the venture :)

Speaking of work, how’s the knitting going? I’m sure it is hard to find the time for that in your busy family life.

Yes, I have not even started. I did look at yarn yesterday at the store. I already have three large bags full, that I got really cheap. I will have time once, spring hits and all the kids clothes are bought, garden is started, and a few things in the house I completed or maybe tonight lol I really need a schedule :( Thanks for asking though :)

Make @erodedthoughts take on more responsibility and lock yourself somewhere and knit 😝

yeah....to dream :) I just realized I did not answer the first part, lol. He is the one that works and he helps a lot with the kids :)

I know you guys are a great team, I was just kidding :)

I was covering myself from a future fight lol

😝

That's a really nice point of view! I'll stay with you here and keep on steeming! At the moment not for the money - more for the relationships... Maybe in half a year I would need a little bit money, than we can talk again 😂

Make good contacts now and that’ll help you when you want to make money by blogging :)

Agreed. Each to their own though. For me, steemit was a long term commitment because I want an outlet to write and also i'm trying to build a community for female entrepreneurs and steemit is a great place to find more likeminded individuals. Completely understand though that for some people this is either a job or a primary source of income.

"Fries before guys!" hahahhahahaha <3

Just keep posting.... just keep posting... my moto for over a year now ;)

Haha I had to work this weekend (plus wedding season has started to kick off so finding a balance between everything is pretty rough!!) but the lulls in price are always going to cut out some of the less committed Steemians. It's not hard to see why I guess, with it being so tricky to get a real foothold on this platform, if you started out later. That said persistence always seems to pay off, and the most committed people will stick at it and have a nice little advantage when the price goes back up sooner or later :)

Wedding season already? Isn't the weather fucking depressing still?

There are no shortcuts, you either keep steeming actively and try to improve every day, or you can buy yourself the steem power to get a leg up.

Yep, it's not full on wedding season but it's definitely started, we're usually busier at this time of year! Last March was lovely here in the UK, but this one's been pretty rough, at this rate it won't be nice wedding weather till June!

So it's a new laptop company STEEM ? :D

Yeah, I created it mooooonths ago, why don't you have one already!?

I hope I get one :D