My upvoting is often to encourage the writer and not specifically geared towards encouraging content that makes Steem more attractive. I do a lot of this, too, especially with my bot voting. I view it

Agreed. In my own mind, I often compare it to the flywheel concept in a book I read a few years ago about Amazon's business principles. They talk about how starting a business program is like pushing a

I'm not a fan of downvotes in social media, whether it's here or youtube or anywhere else - because I think they are inherently anti-social - and hence counterproductive. However, I have used them very

I guess the different coins will obtain different market values based upon the curation strategies of the high-rollers on each of the tokens. And I was just thinking earlier that it's probably just a matter

Thanks for the post! The 9 principles for decentralized social media that are listed in that document are also interesting. By my count, Steem is compliant with six of them. I wrote about this in Commentary

Nice shirt at 0:33!

Thanks for reading! That paragraph that you highlighted really is the crux of it. And after learning that, it's amazing to me how frequently I am noticing those exact techniques being implemented,

Any plans to verify the steemit.com web site with the brave browser? I've had a monthly auto-contribution going to steemit.com for well over a year, now, but the steemit website still shows as unverified

I don't know why, but something about it rubbed me wrong from the beginning. I brought up the web site a couple times, but never claimed an account. As I've seen more and more people talking about posting

No idea, but I saw in another thread that staging.busy.org is available.

I saw this video on the topic a few weeks ago, on facebook from @phillyhistory.

Definitely annoying. Someone opened an issue in github. No updates as-of-yet.

goes to show what havoc general carelessness can wreak! It really does. I was especially surprised by the follow-on effect that it had on the community.

Yeah, I remember that. We've never seen 3,600 satoshis per STEEM before, though. Bitcoin and Steem are so out of balance with each other compared to historical averages, that I keep waiting for a reversion

Will rewards drop to 0 again immediately after the hard fork? If so, how long is it expected to take to get back to equilibrium? Any other sorts of quirks expected during the transition period? I hope

Good 4,000 word summary - Whitepaper - Other Tech docs blockchain - MOVE programming language - State machine replication - New business entities New FB subsidiary payments/wallet company, Calibra - Non-profit

Thanks for the article! I was unfamiliar with both the Wim Hof method and the Plain English Campaign, so I learned a good bit from the post. I linked to your commentary in my recent post, Interesting Links:

Thanks for the post! I think we see some of the same things in the US, specifically teaching to the exams, and a focus on what to think instead of how. I enjoyed reading your article, and included it in

Thanks for the post! I enjoyed reading it, and I linked to it in Interesting Links: May 29, 2019. Since I shared your post, I set you as a beneficiary and you'll receive 5% of the rewards from that post

Thanks for the post! I thought your point about the shifting hierarchical structure of the wasps' nest was insightful. I included a link to your post in Interesting Links: May 29, 2019. You'll receive