I feel like from my observations on post payouts and the general attitude of everyone's posts lately.. that a dark cloud is circling and encompassing Steemit. It has effectively been put into Schrodinger's box. A lot of the best content providers, and the usual up voters have stepped back and are waiting to see if the vial of poison broke. Everything is at at standstill (as big of a standstill as the block-chain will allow).
Great posts are going without many votes, whereas a month ago.. those posts would have gotten the well deserved love. I'm sure this is effecting the new users as well, though since they are new. They may not see the lull like I see it. I am here still up voting as well as I can. Waiting to get to the eye of the storm. Where I can see Schrodinger's box and hopefully achieve some clarity as to what is on the other side of this storm.
The cryptocurrency block-chain space is about to start moving ahead rapidly. Steem is in a good position for this happening. There are some big moves to be made and time is of the essence. I know the community itself is capable of taking this leap forward. I hope Steemit the company is up for these big moves, and willing to help the community while initiating the big moves only steemit the company can make. The witnesses do an amazing job, they are all building great things, doing the advertising, controlling plagiarism and spam as best they can.. and of course, being witnesses to the Steem block-chain.
This dark cloud I'm feeling. I know others feel it to. We need to focus on the good things. We need to focus on empowering ourselves as a community to reach even more and more people. We need the people who are here, to invest in Steemit to reward others that deserve rewards too. Don't expect rewards, if you aren't willing to invest into Steemit as well and reward others too. You may still get rewards, it depends on the merit of your posts. I for one, feel good giving 50 cents here and 20 cents there. Rewarding everyone who takes their time posting quality things. I wish I was giving 50$ here and 20$ there, Someday I hope to be.. More than making hundreds of dollars on this post or that. I want to give 100$ on this post or that. No charging for tokens or upvotes though this is a fine strategy that I have no problem with. I just think we need more plain ole rewarding good content.
This is all coming from a low level Steemian who doesn't have the ability to up vote like that and who doesn't have an enormous amount invested (yet).. I have a few thousand Steem, and I am looking this month into doubling it. I don't need to see into the eye of this storm to know, that Steem will come out on the other side. This community is too good for it not to come out on the other side better, this block-chain is too good not to move forward and up.
So lets, stop this lull. Lets push this storm out of the way. By making this community shine so bright that the black cloud surrounding us dissipates. Come out from under your rocks Minnows, get your asses back here dolphins, and send a little love and help when you can humble whales! Lets have then rest of this year for Steem, be better than the first half. Steem had a good first half of the year. ChainBB, Steepshot, Esteem, Viewly, EOStalk, Whaleshares, the PAL network, Steemgigs, all the great new challenges. The community killed it! Lets have some more of that please!
Thanks for taking the time to look and to read. Now go post some positive, uplifting greatness I can up vote please! Feel free to share it (NO SPAM LINKS, good links) in the comments so I won't miss it! Or just let me know your thoughts on everything, if you noticed it too!
