I've been here a few months now, but instead of an introductory post, why don't I instead write 1,001 comments and get out there and REALLY introduce myself to Steemit?
I want to see if I can write these comments in just one day, which I don't think is possible but I'm an aspirational guy in an aspirational community. And, well, I was so excited to do this that I started last night with this comment, post #107 for me.
Just Like Starting College
My first week of college I didn't know anyone. Just like everyone else. But it was a small enough place that I could walk up and down the dorm halls and into people's open rooms and say "Hey, what's up, I'm Eeks, who the hell are you?" So that's how I introduced myself to the 800 people in my dorm. Now there are a few more Steemians on this site than there were freshmen at my school, but the Steemian population is still small enough to make this a not unreasonable proposition. So while we're still relatively small, I'm going to walk down the dorm halls and butt my head in all your doors. I won't be able to do anything that touches as high a % of the community directly at any time in the future.
Goals
- To comment 1,001 times in one day. The first post was 11:30PM 7/23/16. I'll keep commenting until I hit 1,001, even if I don't make that deadline.
- To meet as many interesting Steemians as possible.
- To really explore what kind of content and what type of people get put up on Steemit on a normal day.
- To experiment with what happens to a thoughtful mass commenter.
- To test the limits of Steemians' collective patience with me.
- To test my own endurance and patience with myself.
- To see how bandwidth matters in edge cases like lunatics who post 1,001 comments in a tight time frame.
- To be >5% of all posts and replies in a day; yesterday Steemit had about 16k total according to Steemle
- To get my voting power to 0%.
- To document this experiment and to analyze the results. And then share it with you all.
- To make MANY bad jokes and puns.
What You Can Do To Help
- Say hi back!
- Direct message me (
) in the Steem Slack with articles you think I should read!
- Engage with my comments! It will be so much easier to have a conversation, then to write comments into the void. I will be looking through my replies regularly, so you can also drop suggested articles as a reply, too.
- Juice my comments with upvotes! Especially later in the day when my Voting Power will be pushing 0%. The more visible, the more likely they will be engaged with, etc.
- Track my progress at Steemd/@eeks -- I started with post # 107, so #1108 is the target.
- Pray for me with the deity of your choice! Even if it's God L!
Who Am I?
I'm Eeks. I love people. I love technology. I work in investments. People pay me to do what I love. My work has me investing large sums into large companies. I get to deep dives on about 100 companies per year and have done that since before smart phones were a thing. Books on finance and thinking crowd my apartment. I am also mutable and pragmatic.
I mined Bitcoin at home starting in early 2011 after hearing about it on Marginal Revolution because currencies were a pet project at the time. I participated in the Ethereum ICO. I am active in evaluating all of the relevant blockchain currencies and projects. I joined Steemit a few months ago. I have both bought Steem and been lucky enough to have written content that earned ample rewards.
On Steemit, I wrote Steemit is Bitcoin's Killer App and TheDAO should adopt programmatic buybacks. This comment sums up how I think Steemit has used blockchain tech to financialize content. I had a reddit comment once that earned the sincere reply: "This really blew my mind. Thank you. I have a lot of thinking to do."
Nowadays I spend far too much of my day studying Steem, watching how people use the site, how they game it, what strategies people deploy, what bots do, how it encourages investment in itself and self-improvement, how it's chalk full of reflexivity on an economic level and how it's the most useful blockchain project to date. Steem fascinates to no end.
Where Will The Magic Happen?
I expect it to look like this when I'm done:
But REALLY Why?
CoinFund is #1 shop in the decentralized/crypto asset space. A great group of guys and a positive influence. Their core philosophy hits the target:
"The best way to invest in a community is to be a part of it."
I am investing in and exploring Steemit's community by immersing myself into it directly. Wish me luck! And send upvotes to any good comments, and maybe bad ones too, since there'll be plenty of those.