My posts and replies are being seen, replied to and I'm finally seeing the rewards to my efforts.
By no means have I graduated into the realm of dolphinhood just yet. I don't have a lot of voting power to wield, but as soon as the funds I converted into steem last week go through tomorrow, that should help.
It took forgetting that money is even involved, diving in and being a normal human being, talking to people and treating them like the human beings they are too. I've replaced Facebook, G+, Twitter, Reddit and other social networks and focusing all the energy I spent there into only Steemit.
And it's working.
There's such an incentive here to be decent to one another. I've seen and been a part of some of the most intelligent conversations, as well as debates (not arguments or flame wars). Anyone who tries to start seem to get voted out of existence. LoL
All this and I've only been here for a week.
I'm excited to see where all this is going.