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RE: Six Months on Steemit-- Status Update-- A Personal Journal Entry

in #steemit7 years ago

Hello, my name is Enjar and I’m a steemholic. I have been here for 50 days.

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What I love

Thankfully I love most of the people on this platform. I think that’s a good start to a social platform like this place. I like it more than any other platform I have tried like twitter and facebook where I really just could care less about using them. It's fun, I get to learn lots of things. There are so many amazing people I some times don’t know why they even let me in.
Experimenting and changing things up a little here or there. I just love to try different things and Steemit is such an easy going and liberating place that I can just do that. I make small changes and then see how they play out. Do I like keeping my voting power at 80? Can I give away 5 SBD, can I comment every day. Can I blog every day? What happens with I disagree with people? Writing different things. Commenting on different topics that I have no clue about and surely will get my butt kicked if someone replies back “what do you mean?”

Problems

I happen to agree and been noticing for a while the spammers and beggars need a heel to the face. People just always can’t help themselves. Here they are with the perfect opportunity for them to speak and have a voice and they choose to beg and spam. I just can’t in good conscience give someone an upvote that is so lacking in seeing the opportunity they have here I almost feel compelled to go out and just start flagging every single last of them. It's like the beggars on the streets when you offer them a job and they laugh at you saying “I’m not taking a pay cut and paying taxes” whuuuut??? Your place in our civil society is to begging and that your lifelong dream?

One of the biggest challenges I have been giving myself is to disagree with people a couple times a week. People hate it. They get so pissed, and oh “I’m the one with issues.” They have no idea I wrote my comment in a way to invoke a response to get some kind of dialog and encourage people to not always be “yes people.” We can’t learn in an “always yes” society. Sure, I pick to be a bit outrageous sometimes and people get so defensive, and insulting to me and try to be little me. Perhaps I have to think about a better way of doing it. Not sure yet still a goal I am working on. It's just interesting to say the very least. Maybe I’ll write a blog or just scrap it all together it's hard to tell if I’m just being over bearing in it. Saddens me the most I can't even reply most of the time from the response it's just like “well that’s not someone I want to talk with or “learn” from my lack of “understanding.” Then again, it shows I still have room to grow on having thicker skin.

I don’t think these things will be something that Steemit will forever solve. There will always be people looking for “easy” handouts. People will always have issues with others disagreeing with them. Nothing we can really fix on Steemit end. Something that needs to be worked on as a society.

Goals

My goals are simple. Have a good time. Try not to anger too many people. Increase my writing ability. Meet cool people that also challenge me or the way I think to help improve myself. Make a little bit of money for my time and maybe buy a camera. Lose some weight and live a better and happier life style all thanks to Steemit and the things I choose to share or do on it.

Price

As far as the price. It’s a bit tricky. I don’t think we have enough decimal places for it to be crazy high. I think at some point Steem will run away from sbd and Steem will be very expensive for people to power them selfs up with. That will be good for those who are already wealthy. Ok for those that have a little. bit. I would be happy with $5 Seem in the next year. Maybe in 5 years, it could be 25 IF a lot of the current projects like steemgigs, and some other stuff makes such an impact they are hoping. I think we still got some stuff to work out.

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Hello @enjar, the time traveling cat. Nice of you to join us!

You may be "only 50 days" old on Steemit, but you're already building a reputation for leaving some of the most stellar comments Steemit has ever seen. Which is quite an accomplishment for someone who claims to (at least formerly) hate writing.

been noticing for a while the spammers and beggars need a heel to the face.

I never really expected I would, but I have been burning some voting power on handing out flags to some of the worst copy-pasta offenders... anyone who puts the same "beggy comment" several times in the comment stream of someone else's post deserves to be flagged in to oblivion, sorry... I just really like this platform and do NOT want to just stand by idly and watch it fall apart.

Life is just funny like that in a cruel way. I love math but I’m rather bad at it. Hate writing yet here I am being paid in upvotes for writing. I must be living in some kind of bizarro world.

It’s like the site itself has been under attack for the month of July onward by spammers. Every time I look they joined—July. Most also seem to be claiming to live in similar region but I really can’t hold that against someone. We really need whatever that twitter part of Steemit is to be out already. They can go spam to their hearts content on that. I’ll be here leaving my comments of excess.