RE: Just4kicks46 to end Daily Steem Monsters Giveaways Effective Today
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Hi, I have been send over here after your brother told me about you and your decision to leave the giveaways behind. I was one of the strong supporters against low quality giveaways who circle-jerk SPT out of the supply. I wouldn't count any of your posts among that kind of behavior that I was criticizing. Also, I cannot speak for @jarvie but I believe that he would agree with me in that and that he wasn't indicating at targeting people like you, who actually work on their posts.
I have been for 2.5 years on the Steem blockchain and I have seen so much in all directions, that to me it has become clear, that quality is the key to both success of the platform as well as the individual. Whatever that might mean because that is highly subjective. But still, I like to create amazing posts and consume amazing posts. This is why I was speaking out on the Mavericks channel against these kind of posts.
Interestingly, you are speaking badly about reward share posts, which in my opinion are not worse or better than giveaways (sure, others don't get a direct value out of those posts, unlike with giveaways). But I think they can also be awesome and cool and look amazing.
The biggest issue is, that it is tough to find good content to upvote because of the lack of effort people put into their posts, no matter what the content is. Again, you are apparently not meant by that because you write plenty of text, style your posts and use decent imagery (although a bit repetitive for my personal taste but still way better than most others).
After we were all super emotional and argued back and forth, we were actually realizing on Discord that we all want the same: support the smaller accounts who put in effort. And believe me, even though I own some very valuable cards, I am barely able to pay my rent and provide for my family, so please don't jump the gun so quickly and think that others who criticize certain behaviors and mentality (not directed at you) of low effort content creators, are doing so out of their elevated financial position.
My conclusion: I have been realizing that there is a strong demand for giveaways and I had to reconsider my own opinion about them. In fact, I want to support those posts more in the future with both my own upvotes as well as the #spt curation trail that I am leading - provided that effort has been put into these posts. The monetary value of the cards is irrelevant for that.
Please reconsider coming back and continue your giveaways, or else we end up with the low quality giveaways, while your stuff is fading out.
I go one step further: I would like to help you with styling tips, hand-made graphics and even a few of my own cards to give away in your posts. We can all work together to make the best out of this and grow a s community. No one is looking or talking down at you. I am looking forward to your reply!
@flauwy @jacekw @rentmoney @senstless I am shocked to even see some of the better players and more influential people around Steem Monsters even on my Steemit account and yes my post may have been made overly emotionally.
I know I wasn’t directly mentioned but I feel included within the general group that those comments were directed at. I mean in the grand scheme of things I have a lot on my plate right now with school and other things I have going on in my life that I view this as a hobby and one that I can do to in some small way feel at least like I’m helping people while make a little bit on the side I can use to buy some cards.
I don’t view it as anything more than that and I have no other motives so to feel like someone is going to eventually target my account and downvote the little bit I am making that makes me ask myself them what’s the point and why do I want to subject myself to that? I don’t want to be treated poorly just because I’m trying to be involved and trying to find a way to fund the cards I buy.
It’s just not a great feeling knowing other people think your insignificant or harmful to the platform when I think otherwise.
I just have time justifying the “profit” I make versus that kind of headache or treatment. I want to stick around mainly because I have already in a short period of time made some acquaintances on here and I generally like the people and playing the game.
I just might take a step back for a little while and recollect myself.
I also hear you on the repetitiveness of the posts. I’ve had this conversation with my brother before and we’ve struggled to come up with improvements honestly because we’re still trying to figure out how to do things to mix it up or make it more appealing. None of us are very techy or even half-way understand mark-up format and photo creation or editing, etc. but we’ve been at least trying to research some of this maybe to little avail but we’ve tried to all model our posts similarly to provide a level of consistently.
Maybe that was the wrong approach and made it more spammy. I’m not really sure at this point but if I do continue the giveaways at a later date I’ll work on more improved posts at least but there won’t be much I can do about the value of the cards I Giveaway.
I only get 3 cards or so afterall when I play in the Silver leagues with my gold foil cards and they’re usually commons anyway.
I only play with gold foil cards that I could afford (mainly commons and rares) so really what else could i giveaway without funds to buy a higher level deck a lack of desire to spend my few cents I make renting a bunch of max level cards?
In any case, I’m honored the four of you would even stop by and lend some support, that does mean a lot to me.