It's been raining or sprinkling here all day, so I'm sitting here at the computer instead of doing stuff outside. It seemed like as good a time as any to type out a few of my thoughts related to steemit.
The first thought is that steemit isn't really a social media sight, at least not in the way that sites like facebook are. To me, it's more of a blogging website. We don't have the same kind of social interaction capabilities here that we would have on facebook or the other sites. For instance, I can't go to someone else's page and leave a comment. I can only comment on a post that they've made. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it prevents some of the flaming that I've seen on facebook. There's still plenty of opportunity to be a troll here on steemit with comments to a post, but I've only seen that a couple of times in my 2 months here. Trolls tend to get flagged into oblivion here.
I've seen a lot of open minded people here in my 2 months of reading posts and reading comments. I suspect that there are a number of not so open minded people here also, but they don't seem to go looking for posts to troll like you see on other social media like facebook and youtube. I consider that to be a good thing, it falls under my "live and let live" rule.
I've seen different posts on here that cover pretty much the entire universe of thought. I tend to ignore the religious posts and the political posts, I don't see any reason to start any flame wars by voicing an opposite opinion on a post about religion or politics. I almost did that on 1 political post, but I realized what was happening and backed out of the discussion. It's just better for me, and for the person who put up the post. I'm actually glad that I don't see very many political posts here, I didn't come here for that, in fact, I cut way back on facebook because of that.
I find myself having to take a bit of a break from upvoting other peoples posts, I've been spreading my upvotes around quite a bit, and my voting power is currently at 25%, so my upvote is worth somewhere between 3 to 4 cents. I need to let it recover a bit before I go on another upvote binge. I've spent a fair amount of time and voting power looking at new people's posts and upvoting posts by them that I like, plus trying to keep up with some of the gardeners and musicians that I've been following. I wish I could set my voting power back a bit with the slider so that I don't lose power so quickly, but I don't have enough steempower yet to be able to do that. It is what it is, right?
And last item today, here's a picture of a steam engine that I took a few years back at a tourist railroad in N.E. Wisconsin. That way, there's a picture for the post. :-)
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