I Contacted @YallaPapi

If you have been on the Trending page in the last month or so you likely know who @YallaPapi is. You may or may not like his writing style or the fact that his content was on the Trending page. It clearly got there from heavy upvote bot usage. I personally never had a problem with all the bot usage but I have been observing his strategy for awhile to see if it would work.

His power wasn't increasing much from the strategy but we knew who he was.

I had voiced previously that I didn't feel like the strategy was going to work in the long run because it seem like 80% of people on this blockchain were home schooled and STEEM is actually a really politically correct place. People are afraid to offend whales or something. I don't even worry about that because I raise whale and dolphin pods in my pool every week.

The majority of whale accounts don't really care much about the day to day happenings on the STEEM blockchain. They are mainly earning passively and already caught some pretty big rides. They can't be bothered much with the drama going on here. It makes sense. There are a lot of crypto projects where I am HODLing the coins but I'm not checking up on the day to day news or worrying about it at all. That is how STEEM is to a lot of whale accounts.

Why Did I Contact Him?

His last post did grab my attention.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@yallapapi/strong-independent-yallapapi-don-t-need-no-whale

Basically there is going to be an online crypto currency publication on Steemit and he has negotiated a deal to lease a large amount of power and it will provide consistent income to those writing for the publication.

Initially I think this sounds like a good idea because if a person knows they are going to get paid a certain amount and that the post will make it to the Trending page they will be able to spend more time on it and really go in more depth on certain topics.

The biggest reason this caught my attention though is that @yallapapi is willing to shake things up which is interesting to watch at the very least.

I contacted him with some examples of my work and we will see what happens as this thing gets all hashed out in the next few days.

Ultimately I don't know if I will like the type of writing if I get the position but it should mix things up for me for awhile and hopefully supplement the earnings I have been getting already if I get the spot.

It has been interesting watching everyone try different strategies on here and the game keeps evolving.