I really feel bad about mucking up your system with my slothfulness, but, well, you know....

Mine has perilously little to do with actual rewards and much more to do with just old ordinary sloth.  

I've actually kicked up some percentages just a little on my voting trail to take up a little of the slack.  If everybody decides to write their welcome back post the same day I'll be a 'non player' for a couple of days (which actually fits in rather nicely with the sloth subject when you think about it).

You can always vote for me , also check out my new project https://steemit.com/contest/@mrme1984/support-others-date-1-7-2019

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If you need something to throw an upvote at... take a look at @mytunes!

@drakernoise is trying to establish a new weekly music sharing thingymadoob there now that #nowplaying went down the drain with it's owner suddenly resorting to spamming and 100% self-voting...

I'll vouch for that nothing like this will ever be happening on #mytunes, I've known draker on the platform for a while and he's the most humble and kind person you could possibly imagine!

And while you're at it, I'm sure you have some music to drop in that list, too. Doesn't take much time either, a link in the comments is enough as far as I understand.

I seem to find plenty to vote on as well as a little flagging of certain repeat offenders. It's mostly manual, but I'm on the @tenkminnows trail as well as delegating to it. Need to test a little as I've run my vp fairly low again.

I would hope we can direct a little more of the rewards to the creative people who are not necessarily writing about Steem. That gives a better impression to others considering joining. 

You know I'm not too worried about what I make, but then I didn't invest my money. I have invested a lot of time though in hope of helping Steem grow. 

I've noticed my Steem Monsters card gaining value, but I'm not buying many. I need better summoners, but they are not cheap. Maybe I'll put some earnings aside to upgrade those.

You should also check out the Utopian trail. Not the main voting account, but the one that votes ahead of time so you can maximize your curation rewards.  You also might want to think about adding on some new people to follow. There is still some decent content out there.  It is just harder to find these days like you said.  Posts don't seem to be making anything at all unless you know someone or buy some votes.  It is kind of sad.

I was recently in the same boat as I was on vacation but since getting back have found myself struggling to be as active for similar reasons you mentioned.  I have left most of the auto votes I setup run and looking to curate manually the Introduction posts for my weekly review.  However, even that has gotten more difficult as a large number of new accounts are not here for the blogging.  Interesting times ahead as the ecosystem continues to evolve!

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I think some of it is the lovely/too hot (depending which day and where you are) weather: activity cooled off last summer, too, and around the Easter holidays.

There is some uncertainty about HF21, although commentary seems to be moving more towards how to prepare/cope, and I guess the Steem price puts some people off, although I'm not sure why - it's a great chance to build your account. It took me some thinking about, partly because of how it was framed, but also because the people I'm working with to bring to Steem have been more interested in Steem distribution than Steem accumulation, but I feel okay about it now, especially since the advent of PAL net which demonstrates how a layer can be built on top of Steem/SDB distribution. I'm interested to see whether the proposed HF21 changes will have the desired affect :)

I've noticed my Voting Power creeping up sometimes, but I'm spending more time reading and commenting on PALnet and with my usual #needleworkmonday curation, I've managed to get it down to 77% (very unusual) today.

Following @curie, @ocd and @c-squared as well as @tenkminnows curation trails is a great idea. At least three of them are manually curated and votes will be going to good posts.

Steem Monsters aren't my thing, but I've enjoyed reading posts about them (especially yours) and Next Colony, and it's great that they're taking off. Long may it continue!

Maybe delegation is another thing to consider? @actifit, @dlike and @steemhunt all reward lots of accounts everyday, so are a great way to spread your voting power.

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It seems like threespeak and dtube are growing like crazy too. Maybe there’s some new authors there you could check out? 

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People need to understand that the narrative isn't real. There is no moon in 2020 for steem. Steem is now a small niche social media site with a top 100, not top 10, blockchain token.

Either we can say "let's rebuild from here" or we can say "let's accept and appreciate what we have" -- but the problem is people are still trying to say "steem will take over the world!" and that narrative is a lie.

Steem isn't a big player. It's a successful small niche social media site. It may be this way forever. Right now there is very little indication that Steem has the potential to return to the top 10. Instead of trying to build the next huge thing as fast as possible, maybe we can all take a step back and be more humble about what is going on.

You and your support alteregos have been nothing but kind to me over the years.  

Maybe add a couple new folks you have seen a bunch over the months to your list?

Imagine the size of your vote when steem is back up to $3.50!

>Who better than @curie to follow.

Who worse?

Perhaps instead of rewarding the entrenched abuser's favorites you could go through new?
It's not as bad as its been.
Full of newbs to support.

I hear '@curie changed', but i was here when they voted their crap posts to trending with ned's posting key to pay themselves a wage for their hard labor.

Joining them only increases the circle jerking.
There is 'good' content in new, imo.

You gotta do what you do.

I'd suggest more flags, but you are leading the pack there, too.

I'd think a 90% average vote would be a good thing.
Why would it be better to give a lower power vote?
Until it hits 100 you dont lose anything and your vote is worth more rshares at 90 than at 80.
10% more.

When you have a hard time finding things to vote on, (yeah it really does happen), you could try taking a look at the Engagement League post that Asher puts out every Sunday. If you are not familiar with it, it is a voluntary list/tracker that people sign-up for and then Asher tracks how engaging the person was over the week. So there are bound to be one or two people on that list that may have content you enjoy. 

Keep in mind when looking at the list it is only the top 100 that get mentioned, the list is a lot lot longer than what is shown, that top 100 I think this last week represented 15% of the people on the list, or there abouts.

Most times if a person is going to be active commenting, they are also active posting. Not always, but a lot of times.

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Speaking selfishly, I think any love thrown at the @DSound community is voting power well spent. Post HF21, @Dsound 's vote is not going to have the moxy to onboard new musician types like it did when I started on the platform a year and a half ago. I also see you are posting on the palnet tag ... I've had great success finding new worthwhile content via the palnet browser and alot of it is around the same 10-20k SP power folks as myself. I bought it pretty hard on PAL considering the opportunity it presents to actually make a bit of curating impact on here without buying into 100K+ sp.

> Just lately my voting power has been getting high. Why is this? Because there’s little to vote on as people are posting less.

There are still plenty of good content creators who are publishing regularly (among those quite a couple of newcomers). Plenty of people who deserve a vote, and would be really happy with one. The real problem is that - in spite of the fact that there are less posts to weed through - it's still not easy to find them.

Well rest assured I appreciate your support. Personally, I am feeling like things are on the upswing.  I have lately been posting twice a day - one vlog and one blog.  For these posts, I take fresh footage daily. It is a grind, so I understand with the weather getting nice, folks are spending less time online Steeming. This gives me an idea to do a post on why I see improvement.

My VPs gone the opposite way because I added nearly the entire palnet crew to my autovoter... well at 50-50 PAL it seemed silly not to and unsurprisingly they all trend on pal!

Go DEC! How did I not get in before that... it's underused that bot!

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