If you have been paying attention you probably know that I've been away from the community for a little while now.

First I got blacklisted on Hive (that sucked) but I've got that reversed so I'm not banned anymore

Then I had to fight with a contractor who charged too much and delivered too little while took up a lot of time and energy.

Then I had to fight with an insurance company who refused to payout for a claim after a flight for my anniversary was cancelled due to the airline going bankrupt.

It's been a very long month.

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Payouts to supporters of the community

So I'm making arbitrary transfers to a number of the current community.

@jjmusa2004 @rare-gem @monica-ene @supernova004 @lightpen @jmis101 @henrietta27 @gwajnberg @johnny023 @dlmmqb

I've sent each of you some GLD tokens. The smallest amount sent was 98 and the most sent was 690 mostly just to get everyone up to a nice round number :)

I'm sending this Thank You because I'll be changing the format of the community.

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New Focus

I really wanted to run the community like many others where there is a weekly post prompt. It seemed to go so well in #hivelearners and other communities that I wanted to emulate them.

The problem is that I just didn't have enough idea for post prompts. I just am not a great leader.

But I'll be keeping the community alive and will be upvoting and rewarding any content posted in the community for at least the near future. Just please tag either @terganftp or preferably @hiveabbyftp so I can see your posts. No tag and I might miss them.

I'll be focusing on actually posting articles that I want to post. Today's article on Shrinkflation was just the first of many (I hope). For anyone who wants to follow suit on my posts and write about anything related to Earning money, Saving money wisely (spending) or Giving money I'd love to hear from you and will try to reward your posts.

However, I am not going to keep tagging everyone (unless you ask me to). If you want to post you are welcome. If you see a post of mine and want to follow up your welcome to.

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What won't be changing?<?center>

I'm still expecting to keep on making payouts for everyone who has GLD tokens monthly.

I'm still expecting to add things to the community over time for anyone who cares to join in.

I will be posting at @hiveabbyftp and NOT as @terganftp. I'll save @terganftp to post on Actifit and HiveLearners community. @tergan604 will be reserved just for Splinterlands.

Getting Blacklisted threw me off balance

When I got blacklisted it really made me rethink what I wanted to do going forward. I followed @whaletail in an effort to maximize the income I brought into the community and in return I was blacklisted. My inexperience got me in trouble. I don't want any of the members in this community to get a tarnished name because I'm actively looking for the best way to maximize income!

In that regard I thought it best if I change things up.

Feel free to give comments and feedback.

However, I thought it has been a bit so everyone deserved a bit of an update :)