Hello fellow steemians,
Intro
So lately ive stepped back from my game plan to use my artistic yearning to not only try and create a second income but also a great new hobby and maybe career at some point. The reason for this is i need to focus on what exactly i want to do with this yearning and create something great with my mind instead of just posting garbage over and over to try and build based off of quantity. One of the things im struggling with is the fact that my spelling and grammar isn't great, as well as the fact that the structure of my content isn't what i see it in my mind as being. Now anyone who has jumped into this type of artistic realm can most likely relate to me when i say im trying to find myself and my style being new to this. On top of that like many other people who had an affinity for creating content I and only I know how beautiful my mind truly is until i can find my own way of illustrating that beauty to others. It really isn't easy to express what i want to express in the way i want to express it even though i can see it clearly and its exciting as hell to me. This in it self is in my opinion what artistic expression is all about and what separates the truly gifted artist from the dreamer.
Self Up voting, Good/Bad Etiquette??
So with that all being said i want to talk about something ive stumbled upon well reading and researching trying to figure out my style of producing content, self up voting. So ive always up voted my own content and built my SP up as much as i were able to in order to get that little bit of a starting reward because i thought that was an accepted and good way to draw in other curators to also up vote my content to then get it noticed. Now mind you I have no where near enough SP to make a huge difference and my highest up vote was worth under a dollar.. Still im now realizing that this is not only a hot topic in the steem community but also frowned on by many. I understand the reasoning behind the argument from both sides of this battle but am torn on what is right and or wrong. Being a minnow on steemit and trying to figure out everything well also finding the best way to express myself, all well also trying to get noticed and build a interested group of followers who will give me the chance to grow into something amazing isn't easy and on one hand any thing that helps with that is great. On the other hand I want to do that all based on my own work and creativity instead of just by using a trick here or there to be noticed. So I guess this comes down to what's best for the community and platform as a whole because in reality what is good for the platform is good for all of us right? My conclusion to this is that because there are not any clear guidelines on this for minnows such as my self and so many opinions that differ greatly that i am going to stop up voting my own content starting today for a time period and just see how this all plays out. I figure that my voice and opinion around here is very small because i haven't earned anything other then that at this time yet. What are your opinions on this subject? What do you think that right answer to this is for the platform and us users? Leave a comment below and speak your mind because that is the beauty of this system right?
What's Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander..
The last thing i want to touch on and point out is that what's good for one is good for all.. My meaning is that if you look at this solely based on my situation then a lot of other steemians would just blow it off as not a big deal because with my lack of influence it doesn't effect anyone really either way right? The problem with that thought process is as follows... If i up vote my own post who cares but, if someone with a considerable amount more SP then me does then that is a tragedy because they are "taking from the reward pool" or "abusing there SP power". The thing is it really isn't any different at all because the person with the larger amount of SP has a lot more vested into there up vote then i do regardless of the means each party has to purchase SP. Well then its something where we are like if you have the money to buy big then you can in theory buy steemit influence and steemit itself which go's against my understanding of the way steemit was created to run. I may be wrong in everything i say here because this is all based on my own limited understanding of how this platform works but yeah to me i don't think that this issue will ever have a definitive "right or wrong answer" answer at all. This brings another thought to my head of how issues like this will be addressed in the future when steem is 10000% bigger and more valuable?? In my own opinion steemit is one of the best blockchain breakthroughs in existence and im sure that time will work out these trivial issues in one way or another but its also good to discuss and have opinions on these things if steemit really is in your long term future plan as it is in mine.