Spam content, self-voting, vote bots and all that good stuff is really best abandoned of this is to become an actual social content venue.

Time will tell, I suppose. I do feel certain that "fair value" is much higher than 10-12 cents, though...

Justine, my random response at almost 2:30am is that we really still haven't done much to define what "this" even is. That has always been a bit of a stumbling block for me, in terms of publicizing

I like this initiative... with all the attention Hive has been getting in the news, it really becomes OUR task now to create the sort of community that makes people looking in from the outside really want

Thank you! And yes, that has long been a favorite quote of mine.

Wisdom and humor, combined... good, they are, yes...

I tend to walk a bit in both worlds on the spelling issue... I had most of my schooling in the UK (or in European English institutions), and now I live in the US... and I tend to intermingle the two forms

Thanks for the support, as always — appreciate it!

I try to keep in mind that this is social media and not everyone is going to be a Shakespeare... but you can still make the most of whatever it is you choose to put forward. That's the whole quality content

You make some good points there... as to what the market forces at play might be, I believe they are the same market forces that got into the tech stock market after everything crashed in 2001-02. At that

The late 2017 mooning was pretty much unsustainable across the board, much like the tech stock insanity around 2000-01. It was driven by a strange kind of irrational euphoria. The thing about Steem...

I'm trying not to overthink it, either, the lengthy explorations of this post notwithstanding. I do believe this runup is a good thing because it seems to me that sometimes a lot of people around here

Here's that twittery #posh thing:

Jaynie, Jaynie, Jaynie! Thanks for running this awesome show every week; time to have some fun! Pulling out another one from my Library of Obscure Choons, it just came across my desk for the first time

Pure gold, indeed. It also goes to show that (mostly) critical thinking and reason goes out the window for many people when they become fearful.

On the whole, pretty sage advice, I'd say. The main message I'm giving myself is that I am in this for the long haul... meaning that I view my investment in Hive as a long term savings account not as a

Thanks @steemmatt! I have a feeling these might be questions running through a lot of people's minds these days... so I may actually use the bones of this comment to create a free standing post.

Oh, happy to see a "smoke signal" from you @cecicastor! Often think about you and send positive vibes your way, hoping you and yours are doing OK, all things considered.

Cats are awesome creatures, I agree @dswigle! And ours is really enjoying the whole quarantine thing, because it means we're here ALL the time, and the cat gets his "due:" To be the center of

Hi there @papa-pepper, glad to see you over here! Hive is not so scary, and a lot of Steem's finest are finding renewed inspiration because things are actually happening here, and the devs are feeling