My pleasure, mate!
1 SBI just sponsored to @wakeupkitty: congrats for your placment on #22 lucky number! 😂

Cheers & !BEER 🍻

For real the man is a two timer, basically a Cashely Cole!

Yeah I love Giroud I think his a top player but man can he act like a donkey sometimes! If only his big ass could use his right foot he would be insane

All my pleasure, Asher, have a great week ahead.
We have a saying and Google translated is quite nice: Good things come to those who wait.
Maybe the next days and weeks will bring us what we all have been waiting for :)

Not for me. My Goal - min top 10 next week. Because I have want and installation Grammarly. Write a comments on the best training English skill.

Is there somewhere I can read up more on what is going on?

Thank you very much @galenkp

Thank you so much

Thank you good sir.

I don't know how I end up in this top section, I don't feel I comment that much..

Dream team!

Hey don't worry about it, just double it up for next week's winner.

The head is bad, man. I feel way more rough than I should. It might not have helped staying up till half two with a fire going in the garden!

All safe here! Can't wait for an end to the madness!

Say whaaaaaaaat! Are YouTube embeds not working now either? I'm using peakd on my phone...

And thanks! I am pretty surprised as usual but I guess with working from home and not too many customers, I've probably been a little more active! Would like to see the image so I can see number of comments et Al.

Time will tell compadre, I'll summon my inner Oleg Luzhny and gallop down the wings

Good point, let the games begin lol.

All those non-believers will come back in force!

hey, what's the best site now to change hive delegation? ty

Okay I didn't know

Thanks for supporting ☺️👍

I know i was joking, great to see the league again, hope you are doing ok in quarantine and i will try to be up in the other colour green again soon
Stay safe
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One always can play better. You just need to give it a try :)
I hope over time more people will join.

I'm just glad to see the comment numbers growing, most of our snow is almost all gone, so I am hoping to be a bit busier soon.

Thank you very much my friend, I have invested it in Powered up. Cheers @bengy.

Let's hope that the boom lasts for a longer period as usual and that you can benefit to the max Asher.

May you also have a good week.

Hello. Yes, you're right; you had already told me, the thing is that I had written and I didn't delete the message after you answered me.

Thank you.

I'm not sure I'll be included because I was a bit busy in helping the community for giving help those in needs.

I got done writing that comment and paused for quite a bit before posting. Did some editing, too, beforehand, so I'm glad to see I'm not banned from this post for life. :)

Well, as I alluded to above, being a community leader tends to make you to some degree a diplomat—you're not necessarily getting along to get along, but in the end, it's probably for the best. In my case, I'm kind of one of HIVE's lesser loose cannons—and only on occasions where those who are basically in charge start to whine about the fact that things aren't looking any better and trying to find a scapegoat instead of looking at themselves in the mirror first.

I say all this knowing that my own engagement and curation production is way off from where it was at this time two years ago, and even a year ago. I'm trying to improve that with whatever time I have between now and whenever I might to work, but then the production will suffer even more.

I just think if HIVE is your main source of revenue (however that might be), and you've got enough time to go around looking at the problems, you might want to look at some of the solutions already in place, and bolster those. Or follow those. It's great to have diversity of thought, and so forth—made a lot more sense to have more than one initiative back in the day when we had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of users posting every day, rather than the thousands to lower tens of thousands we're mustering now. Now, we probably should be fostering unity, rather than continuing to come up with stuff on our own.

Okay, I'm rambling again. I guess it's a sore spot with me. It's not like I'm not going to try to participate in the initiative, mainly to bolster engagement (can't see how they're going to follow through with much of a promise to hit posts and comments with upvotes to any significant magnitude, but hey, it's early and I shouldn't be so critical about folks who are coming around to doing the right thing, especially when some of the folks involved have been extremely helpful with their higher SP, if not mainly responsible for the existence of HIVE in the first place).

It just feels like if some folks don't come up with something, it's never been done before.

Sigh. :)

Hey, @azircon.

Wow. That's very kind of you. I'm not sure what to say, especially if there are some things you disagree with me about. I certainly don't expect you to do that.

Who knows. I might disagree with what I've said at some point. :)

Really, more than anything else, was trying to acknowledge the fact, while we can certainly do much better with engagement (and I've said that before, too, plenty of times), it certainly seems like at least some of the folks calling for more engagement now aren't necessarily going that far beyond their own HIVE-centric posts to find it, while people like Asher and this Engagement League have been doing it for over two years. All they have to do, if they want, is follow some of them around. :)

Certainly wasn't expecting the comment to gather much of anything, other than Asher's attention. That's typically what happens when I don't show up until a day later.

It's amazing to me how people can frown on things that others do when they themselves end up doing the same thing, just with stuff they like. Anyway, before I get off into that, I'll just stop.

It is awesome that we have a network that is so fast and that can be used to do such a things. Now, if we just had more businesses on the network accepting HIVE/HBD payments, and people earning it that way, we'd really have something. :)

Thanks for your input Galen.

I'm with you, creating mediocre content thanks to other people.

But we can start by looking inwardly and doing what it is we feel is the right thing, for us the individual, and then throw that pebble into the pond and watch what happens, watch the ripples spread.

Poetic work. I'm about to set a few ripples off, damn coffee :)

@galenkp, I always enjoyed your 'mediocre' content! They are superlative to me. I don't always get to comment as much I like to, as my reading is usually between things, while making dinner for the kids, helping them with homework, or between meetings at my day job. Therefore, I am not prolific in commenting.

Also for a while I stayed behind, because sometimes the public part of the platform becomes too noisy and attention seeking, and that is not something I enjoy.

I appreciate your detailed comment there and I know for a fact that you always hang around here regardless of what is happening to the price. Development of the social blockchain is supported by developers obviously, however, without people the social blockchain in useless. So 'people' are as important as the architects who are building the blockchain, perhaps more important. Otherwise, we will build beautiful Chinese cities that are unoccupied 😉

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Hey, @galenkp.

It's still morning where I'm at (barely), so good morning. :)

I'm not sure if I should commend you for working through the entire thread, or ask you what in the world were you thinking? :) Brownie points to you, how about that?

Actually, I agree. I think the whole discourse here has been rather civil, certainly compared to what can happen here. I don't know if I could consider my initial long and winded burst of exasperation as 'polite', though again, those who appreciate the finer points of raw, reactionary emotion would wonder why I held back. :)

I do need to own my words, and fight my own battles, especially if I'm going to start them. Lie in the bed I've made, sort of thing.

Honestly, I do appreciate you coming in to diffuse, and for your vouching for mine and everyone else's character. For those few folks still around who have been in conversations with me, like you, I guess we know each other as best we can with just the words we type from half a world away.

re: Ivory Towers

I've rewritten this next part a couple of times, about the merits of the Engagement League as I see them, how they actually helped keep me going here when nothing else and no one else would have. I hope Asher knows how I feel about that, so I won't stop to rehash it here. This is already going to be a long reply without it.

I think the point of the matter as you laid it out has more to do with the fact that many of us don't really know what others are doing behind the scenes. I agree. I know I've said as much.

It's true, though—I don't know anyone who is behind the scenes, which includes Justine. I know of her, and many others, from their posts and comments, but as you and I have been discussing elsewhere, I'm not hopping on discord to seek folks out about whatever that might be on a regular basis. I'm here, on HIVE, doing what I've been trying to consistently do since the beginning with STEEM—post, comment, curate, repeat. I do that, just like anyone else, because it's the role I've chosen for myself, and the one I get the most satisfaction out of.

Will I opine on a occasion. Yes. Will I get it wrong? Yes. I try to be as informed as I can be here without deviating too far from what my purpose here is, so I'm bound to miss something, and all of it, if it's happening primarily on discord.

However, since I end up doing a lot of reading on chain because of my self-appointed role, I'm well aware that there is a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes, under the hood, etc., that isn't recorded on the blockchain. I know someone has to do that. I don't think things just happen on their own. I think people should be compensated for it all, and I'm glad we're at least trying to do that with the DAO, rather than through delegations or whatever the heck it was before.

I don't think of them sitting in ivory towers, either. I, like you, think of them as equals, yet another needful piece of the entire puzzle. I hope they see you and me, the user, the same way. Needful. Valuable. Integral. Sometimes, too many times, it doesn't seem that way. From just this thread, that feeling seems to be mutual.

re: the point

For the record, since you've posited it regarding ivory towers and the unseen work that most of us seem oblivious to, and for what it's ultimately worth telling you it instead of directly to her, my comment referring to Justine was limited only to the fact that in one post she was advocating patience with all things, while in the very next one, she was, it seemed to me, saying some things need to be fixed now. So, which is it? Are we being patient, or are we back to life or death mode for the platform?

That bit, though, was the least of it, and on its own, wouldn't have caused me my exasperation. For all intents and purposes, I should have left it out, especially since I wasn't naming names and was trying to speak in generalities. Again, for what it's worth, I am sorry for even bringing it up.

The bit about a 'dev paradise' on trending was from me extrapolating out what she might be expressing concern about because a flurry of dev posts was what I saw on trending the last time I looked at it.

re: trending

I don't look at trending very much. I tend to wind up there when someone talks about it, or when I've exhausted every other option for content. Occasionally, I find things that I feel are valuable.

Maybe it is an oversimplification to just get rid of trending and replace it with something else, but I agree, I don't think it would be all that hard to do. If we're talking about it being a point of content discovery, or putting our best face forward, I don't think it's ever regularly accomplished that because of, frankly, human nature, not UI.

Can human nature be curbed by UI fixes? It's been tried, from what I can tell, on all levels of the chain. Something gets changed and then someone with the knowhow comes up with a workaround. What do we do about that, because some people just seem to take it on as a challenge to game the system, which puts us all back to nearly where we started.

re: mediocre

This is a whole other topic in and of itself, but on a personal note, I don't consider your content to be mediocre. I don't know if you're saying that to be modest, or if you feel you're not as accomplished as others, or if it's just self-deprecation, but your posts, those of Asher's, Justine's, or anyone else who's putting passion or effort into a post, are far from mediocre.

And, I think plenty of people agree with that assessment.

Maybe I don't need to say that. Maybe I don't need to be so direct. I hope I'm not offending. Certainly not where I'm going with that.

Yours have been among some of the best laid out posts, even if they're not always trying to convey some lofty ideal or prove a point, that I see here. Your stories, both fact or fiction, humanize the chain. You hit a range of topics, which I personally appreciate because I can't stay in one lane for long either.

Am I always interested in every post that you or everyone else writes? How could I be? How would I even have time to read all of that? I don't even expect everyone to love my own posts. I mean, there are times where I'm not that happy with how they turned out either.

But if any of that is the definition of mediocre, I say, bring it on. One more thing HIVE needs more of. :)

There is for sure, I'm loving the fact that there is so much to discover! I'm a very active person and being quarantined is boring, Hive will help a lot!

Thank you so much for the warm welcome! :)

Oh man... DOH! Coffee first, comment second. I think that's a better order.

For sure, I tweet all of the time, we need to share good news;) Thank you