Once upon a rant lived here. Moment of weakness on my part. Just want to give a big shout out to all the fantastic people who took the time to comment and make my day. There are a lot of keepers on steemit:)
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Growing Pains
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I enjoy your poetry and art fictions photography. Please, you do not leave this platform and i wish you will come back soon. It is also difficult to me here i post regular because i am busy different work. But i do because i like all of your writing and photography.
Well, Pryde, you know I don't want to see you go and I'm glad you're going to take the time to re-evaluate. I am guilty of not coming over all the time even though I absolutely adore everything that you write. I have had the pleasure of purchasing your books and I'm delighted every time you get on and do a read.
The fact that you are not getting traction on your post surprises me, and yet appalls me because you are not the only person this happens too and I am truly perplexed. When someone takes the time out of their busy day to put out such a well-written post, I have to wonder why it doesn't have money thrown at it. I mean seriously, I have never read a post of yours that didn't shine. You have got to know that I am not saying this because of you talking about leaving, but, as your friend and a huge fan of yours.
I can understand your disappointment in giving all that money to the blockchain and not getting, at the very least, a bit of interaction back. They certainly lack in the interaction department and even myself, who usually will get a few comments with each post would be lacking in that true interaction aspect. It feels like a failure when a person gets a little quip to fill that square of having commented. So I'm not sure a comment is a comment without the true interaction. Don't get mad at me but I upvoted it 100% because you deserve way more than that and I don't care if you don't want my money. You darn well know you want that $0.04, well if you are lucky, it may well be up to $0.05. Now, don't be getting excited until you look. I cannot take any more disappointments today.
I'm pretty sure that you have no idea how much people really think of you and I think it's kind of sad on one hand to have you saying you're leaving and for me to come over here and tell me how wonderful you are and please don't leave. But the fact is, I really do feel like you're wonderful. I really do feel like the blockchain would have a hole in it. I really do feel like you have a reason to be here but it's just not quite evident to you right now.
You are a fighter and I know that you have given it a good fight but I'm just asking you to stay a little bit longer and see if the tides don't shift. We can do this! Love to you my friend and I don't expect you to go anywhere without at least telling me. As far as I am concerned, you are going to take a little bit of time off, which I'll give you a day or two and then you'll come back swinging hard. And as for people reposting stuff? Everybody uses pieces or pictures or a thought from time to time and I am so sorry that someone stabbed you for that. I get downvoted for using SBI as a reward. If I mention the name like I just did here I'll probably get another down vote. I know it's not about the money although that's nice. To lose money and then be insulted with a non-existent audience at times will hurt my feelings, so my part in not being here more makes me a little sad. Your kind and thoughtful and a brilliant writer and I don't want you to stop posting here.
As a matter of fact, I think that you should consider joining PowerHouseCreatives. PHC has members supporting members and their writings. They require a little sweat for their equity, but, it gets your name out and on the map. And there are many writing challenges. I think you would be a good fit. Try it, you'll like it. (That was in my best Italian accent.) Let me know what you think about PowerhouseCreatives. It won't hurt to give it a chance and see how you feel about it. It may also be just the thing you were looking for. They promote their people.
Okay now. I want you to repeat that back to me just so I make sure that you understand. Love you bunches and I expect to see you posting. As an aside, I want to thank you for always taking the time to come over, reading my post and vote me after leaving a genuine, and always complimentary comment.
Love, Denise
Oh, Pryde. I'm so sorry to hear that. Your work is wonderful and I love being able to support it financially in even the minuscule way of upvotes and my @c-squared curation. You brought me to SteemIt and I sincerely hope you won't leave.
Sad to see when someone’s invested so much time and effort into their blog that they would up and leave! I understand everyone is free to chose what they do with their time and effort and if they can or feel they get a better deal somewhere else they should go for it!
I think this places was marketed to people incorrectly and it was always about the money and that’s the focus of a lot of what goes on here!
It’s still a very small community about 30k users daily! I think that speaks for itself JB the amount of teething issues it has in attracting and maintaining users! But I’m hopefully, I feel I was just far too early and that it gets better with some of the new developments I see coming
If you do decide to leave I hope you save your keys so if this place does get it’s act together you’ll make a return!
I don’t know what happened but don’t let one asshole cause you to Leave the platform. It’s Hard to get an audience anywhere these days, algorithms and attention spans , you know I’ve always been for reposting. I am trying to revive the deadpost initiative as a reposting community. I’d love if you stuck around but first I need to know who is going to downvote the posts.
I don’t know about soft blackball lists, but I do feel like it’s a struggle here at times. You have to have a dedicated audience and if I am not using the right hashtags, I get nowhere. If I post via APPICS, I will barely make 20 cents while people rave about how good it is.
The only place I have made any real money is via Splinterlands and I too have yet to take any Steem out of the ecosystem. The local exchange wants a minimum of AU$50 (240 Steem), and the price of Steem is so bad that no one at our local Steem meetings wants to sell it.
You were here before I started and it’s sad to see people leave platform, but at the same time if that platform isn’t serving you like it should then alternatives need to be sought out.
I really enjoy looking at your work and it would be sad to see you stop posting. I know the feeling about all these issues. I keep hoping that things will improve yet there are some frustrating things. I still enjoy posting about my Actifit steps because I like to exercise everyday and it helps me motivate for that and gets me out taking pictures.
I'm very sad to see you leave. I haven't earned anything from steemit either. But I am here to post my thoughts, and interact with people I have met here too. 😊
I'm sorry that you experienced bad things here. 😢
"Ask yourself are you protecting the block chain or killing it?"
I am doing neither. I am here for the fun, not the money. Yes a bit of a reward is nice. Who knows what that may be worth someday...maybe more maybe less. Did someone say you are on a blacklist?
If it means anything, I really enjoy your work.
It's crazy that legitimate art has such a hard time gaining traction here, yet post after post after post about the same "crypto" story reaches high levels of readership.
I am sorry you're bummed and have not been treated well. I really am. I would like for you not to leave. I appreciate your work.
Sad to hear @prydefoltz.
I wrote a long reply, but I didn't confident enough to share it yet, because I feel I don't have enough context yet.
Sorry to hear you get reprimanded for recycled content. It is something I often do when I post on multiple platforms, so I can't really blame you. Especially since you've never had any bad intentions with it and investes so much in the blockchain.
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