Steemit has certainly blessed me and I want to bless others and build up this community!
I’ll be doing a post in the near future about community building and how to succeed in reaching more people on steemit and building your following, but I was curious about something else that I’ll cover in this post.
Ever since I first started steemit back in July, I have been investing in this community. I try to encourage, inspire, and share useful information with all of those that I encounter. Often, I am even giving away STEEM and SBD. Sometimes it is in a contest, sometimes it is a response to a help request, and other times it’s just for fun or as a WILDCARD. A few times others even helped me out with some posts, and although I never told them that I would share the author rewards with them, I did.
NOT A WHALE
I thought that for just a “regular user” (since I’m not a whale or anything) I’ve probably done a pretty good job of spreading the love and blessing others with some STEEM and SBD.
I just spent quite a while manually totaling all of the info from steembd.com and here are the results.
STEEMIANS
In my research at steemdb it seems that I have sent 94 steemians STEEM or SBD out of my own pocket for gifts, help, prizes, or contests! I typed these users all manually by hand, so hopefully I spelled them all right and have not forgotten anyone. I know that with almost 100 steemians mentioned, it seems unlikely that I would have missed anyone, but if I have sent you STEEM or SBD and did not include you, please chime in below!
Wow, that surprised me that over the last about 5 months I had sent STEEM and SBD to that many people on steemit. The next question was, how much was it?
STEEM
Again, I am not exactly so technically inclined and totaled all the data manually, but the total that I came up with is:
844.718 STEEM
It is worth noting that if the price of STEEM was over $4 again, the amount of STEEM that I have given away would be worth over $3000.00 USD. Of course that is not the case currently, but still...
SBD
This is taking a while to collect and compile the data, but, to the best of my knowledge, the total amount of SBD that I have personally given to other steemians is:
401.974 SBD
Yeah, that one is a little interesting too. I mean, what kind of steemian gives away over $400 to others who are mostly strangers that he met online? Honestly, I've received quite a bit from the community too, and without steemit, that $400 would have never existed!
CONCLUSION
There is a joy in giving that can be unmatched. When you can randomly bless another person, or step in during a time of need, it is a very special thing.
Simply put, the members of the steemit community have blessed me a lot and I don't mind spreading the blessing around a bit. With my recent milestone of reaching over 20,000 STEEM POWER without really powering up and my high reputation, it is obvious that I have done very well on steemit. However, my votes don't matter much as far as payouts go, so I like to bless other steemians in the ways that I can.
Besides the actual STEEM and SBD, I have sent handmade T-shirts, Garden Seeds, and even Home-Grown Peppers to many other users too, all of which costed me some money in postage. A few were kind enough to repay me for some of the postage, but that was their choice and certainly wasn't necessary. Off the top of my head, here are a few things that I remember sending others.
Wow, that too sounds like quite a bit, and I'm not sure that it is exhaustive. If I missed you, please accept my apologies and feel free to mention it below. Anyway, I am obviously involved in this community and desire to bless and encourage the individuals that choose to call themselves steemians.
In closing, I just want to thank all of you for making this possible. You guys are great and I am very glad to be involved in this community!
THANK YOU!!!
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