Highly informative, however I don't tend to make exceptionally short blog posts myself but being deaf typing either in IM, text or email is my usual go to method of communication with people close to me in my life since they can't sign and often, I have a lot of things I want to say so I type and type and type and type.
I do have some challenges when it comes to grammar unfortunately, things will make sense to me in my blog posts that may be a bit confusing here and there for the hearing, but that is a communications issue that I'm still overcoming myself.
Thanks for the great read all the same. :D
It's nice to see your comment... not about the problems you described, but how we can talk to one another this way quite equally where sound is not even needed.
For those that are deaf, email, blogs, internet, text messages, etc are so helpful. I feel horrible for those that went through the 1960's and 1970's with only a TTY machine.
The way you write is miles ahead from what a large segment on steemit are able to write. Some don't care and don't bother to improve. Other people some barely know english and can read it better than they can write.
You'll be completely fine. I'm also glad you found this post. It is one of those I've written that holds value even today for some people and Google seems to send people to it since it has a "sticky" effect that once people click the link, they spend time on it before doing another google search.
Together we're all maturing with this platform and becoming more experienced users which will help when the avalanche of people start coming all at once. Some of us long termers (yourself included) will be here to help guide them and answer some of their most basic questions.
Glad you did your research and found this post... and happy it helped. :)
Ran into an extremely frustrating issue this morning, the second time I've ran into it. The bandwidth limit exceeded issue. I was ready to quit the platform all together and just stick with Minds (where I came from). Did a lot of research on it and made the best possibly conclusions I could and wrote about that myself. Kinda meta talking about steemit on steemit though, don't really care to do that all too much and will be getting back to what I typically write about, which is of course, deafness. ;)
Thanks for the response in kind, I do appreciate it, and I'm also on my path to getting my hearing corrected, I'm unhappy being deaf because I'm know what I'm missing, just finally taking the initiative to fix it. So I'll be better soon enough, probably another month or two, or so, depending on what I actually need and the time it takes to get it done.
Some of us would like to try being deaf (seriously) just for a bit to block out city noise. With hearing there can be downfalls too. :)
Not to make light of the situation, but I do hope you do get it fixed if that is what you're ready to do.
The bandwidth issue protects the network. New users can overrun the network with new accounts uploading all kinds of junk. Bots too. So limiting bandwidth is necessary.
I don't have a bandwidth limit that I've ever managed to cross, mostly because I'm an older user, with higher reputation that I've earned over time.
So when you bump into bandwidth issues...
Or when you start to think you should quit the network...
Don't.
It's easy to get frustrated here, but the long term benefits are immense. Stick with it... and remember me as you get bigger and larger. I could use more friends on this system.
Good luck to you.
I know, I appreciate it. It's just the limitation for a new user feels a lot like a banning, and that's what it seemed like, not to mention the tons of misinformation about what was going on with it as well didn't help matters. The research had to be done on my own without being able to contact anyone from within Steemit for help. For some reason SteemitChat wasn't registering my account/sending me the verification email so no help there either. Was hair ripping levels of ugh.
Trust me when I say about deafness, I know what I'm missing to a large degree, I know how noisy it can be. It's a misconception that the deaf can't hear anything at all. Fire a gun near me I'll turn to face it, so will any other deaf. But yes, getting it corrected is what I want to do, because it's so tiring when I'm with company to read lips all the time and focus my attention everywhere. I eventually get to where I zone out of conversations in 10 or so minutes.