Ah. like so. 0.03 cents worth now. - thank you for posting the explanation but I am glad to report in the meantime I figured it out by myself. I had to let you know, you are booking progress with your pupil.

So I link this to an enormous increase in delegated steam. I go to the SteemWorld to discover who I've got to thank for that ... and what a beautiful date 8/8 for a numerologist to receive it on (8 is very abundant). So what is the plan?

Where do I take my voting power. I have to have a plan, that's what I keep hearing.

It leads to the following questions that popped up like toadstools during my walk. Feeling very mobile, I was wondering,
Who needs more than a certain amount of reputation. What does 72 do for you that 58 can't. I used to think it was related to voting power, are they at all related? Could a rep of 25 ever have a super high vote (like say, 0.05 cents) - if you invest enough steempower out of your own staked steem?

How come you are rising so fast? How fast do you want to go, and why am I getting steam while you need it more (to be able to post your videos). Is faster than fast the aim, or is slow and steady the only way? How high do you want to go? What does delegating do for you. And more importantly, is this the kind of steem you can get straight back without downpowering? That would open possibilities...

And on the side: Isn't anybody going to be upset that you are back in the running after all the effort they took to dismantle you? Are they waiting for you to hit 50 and knock you back down again?

When you say "back into the reward pool" whose pool is that: Steem the big bank? And on Creative coin the reward pool is ... smaller? Does it increase something, devalue something to forgo votes, could one be a better philantropist by giving it all away: to the voter and the pool?

There is all this complicated maths curators do, I know. There are smart ways to vote. But not so interesting to me. Although, I don't know, maybe one also has to join the system to beat it. As long as I don't have to pretend okay content is good enough. I invest in artists not art. Really, buying their works is not what makes an artist greater. It creates a whole bunch of new falsehoods and phoney selves. Look at Picasso (according to mr Hamparte!).

The individual here cares about receiving personal support, but I think they can learn a thing or two from us on that front. There are elements I believe critical to making support go a little farther, become a little more creative. The idea of tribes I saw a long time coming, remember being told it was not a good idea because it would cause factions and complicate the financial side of things. Tribes seem to be about the little people mobilising themselves against the whales. And also reinvesting in what they find worthy content. Sounds very old school, not new world.

I get why you don't want to be seen as making money off the backs of Youtubers, but that is about all I get. I don't get where you want to go. There is a content aim, I know. There is fair bit of interest in at least not incurring losses, I gathered. You might be even banking on a regular income (with your speak of cashing in), but I am not able to read any of this from your wallet. You are a lot more sound and straight forward in your presence here - you can be for the clear aspect the wallet side has for you. That in itself is interesting for me to note. It is a great problem for the spiritual curator how to best effect, support, be part of a radical (if very gradual) change. You can't do away with the current household... Economia is a sister of Sophia. I need to know how the economy ticks over. Its the last field in my studies I've always left open (The threefold society of arts, law and economy).

I am very interested in all the answers because a little owl tells me by the corners of our jagged hearts we are binding and unbinding the same mind, fundamentally. Money=energy. I play with the energy of "current"affairs. You "play" with currency affairs (with a considerable vested interest in your love of musical talent, mechanical and artistic engineering etc etc etc).

There is no place as clearly figurative of how the two can meet as in Steemit; the wallet on one side, the content on the other, side by side. Preferably mixed in one capable Steemian, connected to other capable Steemians. Perfect idea. On paper. Although, I don't feel anyone can really have worked it out properly. It's about playing it by ear for now (talking a considerable length of time). Some have a better ear than others and have a better time here. But I am not convinced anybody really sees the potential of it.

Ideologically, the money is the main incentive to improve the content, which is dependent on caring about eachother and taking an interest (curating, replying). (all for a better human race!). But people are just happy to have someone else to complain to that it's raining, when they are standing at the busstop and the bus doesn't seem to be coming.

Is there at all anybody interested in us? From a larger perspective. Every individual goes into making up the crowds, the numbers. But nobody is keeping us very happy. Yes, the occasional whale, I almost respect them. It feels like somebody is out there who cares (ROFL).

How much are we like the Chinese here? Observed? By all these stats. All this transparancy.

For the rest, small fry like you and I (although I speak mainly for myself. Don't know how many seeds Adam has sown, after all do I?) should not be seen as anything worth pestering, surely? The same as our content will never be worth putting on trend.

If we keep quiet, pay our taxes, that sort of thing what couldn't we get up to? Is nobody worried? I am just wondering where HQ is and what it's doing. It has to be happy with the tribes, I suppose. They are still here. They must hope we are enjoing ourselves and shall stay as cash cows.

There is always an HQ for everything now a days, right? I know how whales scoop you up, their little gimmicks of fishing out the krill; no great system, basic scouting, never get it right, too much hopping on two legs (the ideological one and the far stronger financial one), makes them look like they need the toilet.

Is anything working here? I sometimes feel like I'm in one of those old Italian semi-castles, close to ruins with one old cook still left behind and limited plumbing and chickens all over the place.

Then finally, what is good or not about tagging someone? the mentions? Anybody care? Apart from little egos? For me it was about networking, comunity building but it did very little. I think I mixed up the # and the @ which didn't help, but I don't know the difference (I can click on them and see a difference, but don't see the difference). Are the "mention-statistics" making any difference? You have to be in your wallet to ever find out if you have been mentioned by some stranger. How many of us spend enough time there? It's hard to blend the two for content providers with time-consuming content (and replies). I can imagine though, for some people it is valuable to keep abreast of who knows who. So these things can't go under the radar - but as long as nobody is part of a conspiracy it's all a bit of a Kindergarten out here. A school yard, where girls write in eachother's scrapbooks. And there is the other side, I know nothing about (apart from the very hysterical videos from conference goers etc)

How complicated do things get around here? For me minding my own business not very.

If they can play at tribes, why can't I play at rafts? You know how I don't have that tribal vibe in me. Bass guitar ok. Totally chill with that now. But drums, and djembes, I don't know. Tabla àla. But that's hardly tribal. Not that I'm going to be great on the high seas on a raft. It's more that the Argo is not going to sail again. Odysseus died a long time again. And Penelope has turned from weaving to raft building (it's the best she can do: she knew a few knots, and sawed down that oak around which they had built their matrimonial bed: see The Odyssey). She learned to keep her eye on the tides while waiting for her husband to return. She saw them rise and finished a raft in time.

Note to self: must remember to take along a bucket. Or ginger oil: seems to help against sea-sickness.