So much for minnow growth
A couple of weeks back I posted to say we had gained some minnows, but that growth did not last long and the number has dropped again.
Chart from @arcange
On the plus side we have gained more dolphins and an orca. If anything it seems most of the lost minnows are through upgrades, but we need more to take their place. There are over a million dormant Steem accounts out there. Many of these are fake accounts that were mass created by a few people, but a lot of real people have given up for various reasons. For some the low Steem price is discouraging as they see their rewards are just a few cents that do not seem worth the effort, but you have to that the long view of what they could be worth if you believe in the Steem platform.
I also see posts and comments saying people are being driven away by the downvoting efforts going on to limit reward pool abuse/misuse. Most of those writing about this have been hit themselves by this, generally for buying votes. You have to think about how this will be seen. If you do it on a low value post, like this person who takes their photos from the web and buys votes, then it is definitely justified.
If you have content you want to promote to get seen by more people then you need to be careful. You can decline rewards. If you want those who vote on your post to get some curation rewards then you can set the beneficiary to @null which 'burns' the rewards. You could still take a percentage, but you need to make it clear in the post that you are doing this. Steemit lets you set this up in the post Advanced settings. Steempeak, Busy and other services also make it possible.
What most of us want to see is rewards going to the good content based on what the community thinks. That is happening more now with the manual curation projects who can still earn well even if people do not buy votes from them. There are still a few vote sellers who do not seem to care what they support, but a lot of their users are not making much these days.
This account does not buy votes and all rewards are powered up. You can delegate or follow the voting trail to support some small accounts.
#NewSteem is different and can be better.
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Well, @tenkminnows has helped grow my account. I just became a minnow in one of my most recent posts, woo-hoo! This journey was made faster and easier thanks to @tenkminnows and @joshman for the recommendation.
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That is great news. Congratulations! We need more people like you.
There are so many curators or looking for good content, now, that you shouldn't need to buy votes if what you're posting is good. I submit posts for @curangel and on several occasions I've had some refused because they bought a vote at some point that week. In the long run you're going to be better off not buying that vote which will either cost you or break even.
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I just became a minnow :)
https://staging.busy.org/@tychoxi/let-s-take-a-look-at-the-european-parliament/#@steemitboard/steemitboard-notify-tychoxi-20191019t233536000z
Congratulations. Always good to hear about another new minnow
Congratulations @tychoxi. Welcome to the Minnow club.
I just got bumped up to minnow status. :D
Cool. Hope to see the numbers going up now.
On steem, have crypto?
Self proclaimed community watchdogs are actually hacking and stalking people.
This group https://steemit.com/@steemspeak is ran by https://steemit.com/@fyrstikken, They are hacking people that enter this discord server https://discordapp.com/invite/sqxV63P . Once you are hacked they profile you long enough to know all of your activities. They introduce workplace gangstalking visits and bring it to your attention cleverly and discretely so only you get it. They are very covert and tricky with everything they say and do in this server. Some claim to have worked for or are working with the FBI and the NSA. Mixed with decommissioned traders and coding criminals, Its a scary mix of creepy people and their intent is to drive you crazy and deplete everything you have ever acquired in life, even your freedom.
My hacking started with them introducing ransomware that has options, dump my coin or delete my system drive. They acknowledged this to me in the server as it happened.
This hacking and stalking is done so they can manipulate the target to pump and dump for them. Threatening and Making victims wear head phones, so nobody in your household can hear thier dramatization towards you. In 2017 this server was side marked as a drama show for entertainment purposes only as an excuse to say whatever they want all the way down to killing a politician. They have a server side command called "hey asshole" making a prompt come up instructing everyone to wear headphones. They want everyone wearing headphones so nobody in your vicinity can hear them mess with you. Fystikken says its because of "mic feedback" but once your a target you get exactly why they make everyone wear headphones.
With headphones on they subliminally direct victims with very low suggestive whispers mixed into their radio shows music. Combine this with them being able to manipulate their own individual outputs sound volume, which they control on the server side, they can pick what individual people hear at any given time. They decide who you hear on the server and change the volume controls for them. They can make some really low or off for those trying to investigate. They control who hears what and know who is who.
This team will find absolutely everything they can about you prior to using their suggestive and threatening program. They Introduce pictures that mean something only to the target, inducing paranoia while they watch and listen thru all of your circumvented devices. They are very aware of what makes you tick. They know your work schedule and use it for work stalking along side of this. I received multiple threatening letters to my work and home addressed to my screen name from this group.
Fyrstikken tells people they are drafted like they did with Facebook at the beginning. He says Facebook was started by forced labor and V2K controlled slaves, just like he creates with his gang for steem and crypto. "Get to work bitch" he tells people once circumvented and intimidated.
If your an agent Investigating them, guess what? Better start packing. You are circumvented. They are high tech, over funded and well connected.
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