I love the GOT reference and when I joined Steemit indeed that was the feeling.
It was easy as 1, 2,3 they say post something that you do in Facebook and get rewarded.
Then you read all the guides and realize you know nothing.
You join all those discord communities and hear the witnesses talk and realize you know nothing
you stumble upon posts like the dust threshold and you really know nothing
You find the good people and yuo find the bad ones as well and you just try to focus on the good. You refuse to play the game and you get left behind because you know nothing.
You stick by your goals and say to yourself it is not a sprint it is a marathon and you build yourself up, start to know something and hopefully be content as you continue with your journey to your definition of success and according to your beliefs.
You now know something.
I don't know where it all leads, I don't know if I have made a mistake and should have been bidboting from the start, I don't know if support will go up or down from this point but, it is in all of these uncertainties that opportunity lays and perhaps one day, we will all look back at these days as teething pains.
Dragosroua was running a challenge and two of the challenges he presented there was how do we see Steemit in 5 years and and the other was what is more important Hive Mind or SMT.
Being a community minded person I of course answered that Hivemind and communities are important, that I hope that it will be the key to better engagement, getting posts more visibility and some sort of way to make things better. Honestly I think we are at the tipping point.
Have you read this one? @ned even commented on it and gives me some hope
https://steemit.com/steem/@nairadaddy/good-person-token-something-big-is-coming-from-steemit-inc
Yes, I was pointed to it and the interesting bit from @ned was about the oracles:
Bid bots and collusion can violate the Constitution (Expected Behavor Writ) of the oracles’ whitelisting — and therefore those people will be consider “bad actors” and will be barred (not whitelisted) from participation in GPT Rewards