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Another milestone was reached recently when I finally hit a Reputation Score of 63. Of course, that is a minor milestone as the Rep scores hardly means anything at all here, for the most part only serving as a measure of how many upvotes someone has received from dolphins and whales with higher Rep-scores. But still, it's another gain in numbers, for what that's worth.
After I'd been here for six months, I had earned 500 SP and went from being a 'plankton/redfish' to being a 'minnow.' After another six months and with a little monetary investment, I had 1000 SP. Earnings since then have been much more sparce than before — I have just over 2000 SP now, but almost half of that last 1000 was purchased by me, here-and-there, as my finances have allowed.
As luck would have it, I bought some at $1.65 because I didn't think it would go any lower, then some more at $0.75 because I didn't think it would go any lower, then some at $0.25 because I didn't think it would go any lower... 😒 Gah!
According to SteemWorld.org, I have published 537 posts since coming here, written 8,239 comments, and made 10,740 replies. There is no way to know how many Steem-related Discord servers I've been involved with, as I have left some over the past couple of years, but I am in 55 of them now. I am an Administrator or Moderator in 10 or so of them.
@shadowspub have seen much more "old/new" change than me without any need to clarify there there is some kind of "New Steem" in effect.
How is this "New Steem" so far...? With the new rules, I am seeing less curation rewards since HF21, not more, as we were promised. Upvote values are decreased because of the new rules, too — my recent estimated 3¢ upvote at 100% Voting Power was diminished to a 1.7¢ upvote on one post recently because too many heavy-hitters arrived at the post before I did, slashing my 100% upvote to a pittance of what the author deserved for their hard work. I have been immensely disappointed in that same way, over-and-over. And, of course, with upvote values going into the toilet like that, it's only logical that curation rewards are following, down the toilet, too.
HOWEVER, I still see great potential here, as I did when I first came on-board, so long as we don't ruin it with greed and petty differences. I considered myself in this for the long-haul, even before I invested the first penny into the platform. So, STEEM ON! Or, as spoken at the end of every installment of the "Curation Corner" radio show in TheRamble discord server:
25-Sep-2019
