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Yep! It's that time of the month once again! Time for my somewhat obligatory monthly report which is also a good time to look back to what I have done during the past month while showing off some of my so-called "little" progress.

Without further ado, let me start it with a quick summary of my Steem progress:

Surprisingly, I still managed to get an increase of almost 200 SP despite what happened.

Some of you might already know this but I've had a rough start this 2019. It all started when I got blacklisted from using the minnowsupport bot and got kicked out from the P.A.L Discord server on the New Year's after they mistakenly mistook me for trying to abuse the bot.

While it is true that I did create another discord account and used it to upvote the other account, it was never my intention to try to game the bot by using two discord accounts. I created another account because I thought it would only work if the one sending the link is the one you used to register with the bot. Thought it was binded or something. I also waited for almost a day from the last time I used it on my main account before sending it to my other account. I really thought it was okay! XD

If I was really trying to abuse the system, I would not have chosen a username close to my main account. Also it was a decent blog post with $0.00 upvote before minnowsupport and the steemmonsters vote came in. I'm not really greedy when it comes to upvotes, but it kinda is discouraging to write a blog post and get a payout close to $0.00. XD (Okay I'm now sounding too defensive) But what really pissed me off was that I was kicked out from P.A.L so I don't know who to reach to for an appeal or to air my side. Oh well!

And because of that incident, I lost my "Dragon" and "Pope" status in Neoxian's Discord Server. I am just really glad that I wasn't kicked out as it is the only server where I hang out on discord and I kinda take a liking to most of the people chatting there.

And to somewhat redeem myself, I have stopped sending my links in the #post-promotion channel as I still somewhat feel bad to my actions above although I have really no ill intentions, but it is still quite unbecoming of a Pope. (Yeah! People call me Pope now XD)

Special thanks to ifeoluwa88, xawi and udezee for the kind words and comfort hours after that incident happened. (Not sure if you guys would read this one though without the tag)XD

And my bad month doesn't end there as days after that incident Musing lost it's delegation from SteemitInc.

I've already said this on most of my monthly milestones, but one of the reason I managed to increase my SP and rep this fast even without investing any real money on Steem is thanks to the Musing platform. Since I'm a somewhat know-it-all who loves to answer questions, that platform was really the perfect one for me. They are also the only platform (that I know of) who take manual curation seriously so the chances of quality answers being rewarded is quite high unlike other Steem platforms.

So yeah! Pretty bad start for 2019 as my support was like cut in half. XD The reason why I've been positive about achieving my 5000SP (or dolphin goal) before the year ends was because of those two. I'm not really a big fan of relying on any orca/whales and trying to get close to them just for their upvotes. Also not a big fan of using bidbots or use other Steem platforms that does give decent upvotes but I myself do not enjoy in using, like Steemhunt. I mean I love SteemHunt and I think I can get decent upvotes from them, but quite personally I just don't enjoy reviewing products. XD

Point is, Ineed to come up with another strategy to still achieve my goal of 5000SP before the year ends and one that I will really enjoy doing. So far only SteemMonsters is the only Steem platform that I still enjoy using.

Okay rant over! Title on purpose so that only a few people will open this somewhat ranty rant. XD