What a difference two months on Steem make!
This second adoption (Thank you!) has been very different from my first. has noticed that the interest in adoption has dropped off, and I can tell you I experience the same over here on the adoptee end of things. Although I appreciate the auto upvotes and the moola that comes with them, my primary joy on Steem comes from interaction with others through their comments, and this time I am getting very few of those which suggests I am being read very little. I have some thoughts and ideas about this that I would like to contribute.
First, when I consider how much time I am spending writing and commenting on freewritehouse pieces, I am struck by how much time the core members must be spending on all these challenges, blog posts, notifications, upvotes, reading, comments and general administration of everything. Hats off to those of you who are driving this wonderful community! You've got your daily freewrites, your weekend freewrites, your favorite freewrites, your #mmfan rewards, your literary talent award, your alerts for the daily prompts, your support of every new writing community and contest and challenge that comes up on steem, and I am sure I am missing some things here. It's a lot! I try to keep up with them all, but I simply can not. I imagine you guys have an even tougher time doing that IDEA #1 fewer things going on at once!
Second, it is March Madness! What I said above goes quadruple for the Madness Month! Many of us have been devoting a lot of time to reading and following as many of these fabulous stories as we can, and I've been commenting a whole lot, since my upvote is nearly worthless and my resource credits abundant. This, on top of trying to write each day myself, is quite time consuming. IDEA #2 Several other contests could be suspended for the Madness Months so that we can all mostly concentrate on supporting those cray cray writers.
Third, I love the contests/challenges across Steem that reward comments. Freewritehouse does this too. I'm just starting to be aware of those and have been engaging in them as much as I can. I for one would happily forego my rewards as adoptee and give those instead to the readers of and commenters on my writings, which I feel often go nearly completely unread. I've made sure my kids know where my Steem password is so that at least they can read them someday. Knowing how valuable a comment is to me, I assume they are just as important to the Mad Writers, perhaps even more given all the work that goes into their stories. IDEA #3 More rewards for comments on March Madness and Adoptee blog posts.
That's it for my ideas. Now a tiny bit about me. Back then, I was posting through Steemit only, and I see now I missed a bunch of the comments folks left for me. Sorry for my lack of response to ,
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- now I see what you were talking about! It's horrible! Get it together please Steempeak!)
In conclusion, because I've gone on long enough, I love you guys!
The image is mine of a sculpture by Richard Glassman.