A platform like Steemit has opened up enormous possibilities for people like me across the world, and most likely it is their first step towards cryptocurrency.

Personally, I found it at a time when I had been scammed out of money by a friend, and i was apprehensive how one could just earn money by sharing their thoughts through blogs and engaging with the community. But once I saw actual results and realized how good in general the community here is, I was committed.

The need of the hour is not just quality content creators on this platform, but quality content curators too. Being a part of @ocd allows me to help many undervalued steemians who are blogging on a variety of topics but go unnoticed. With the influx of more users, there are more posts that will go unnoticed and it takes time for a minnow to understand how things work. I try to offer some tips, give guidance or the very least a small vote for post that would otherwise pay out 0. I try to vote on different kinds of posts, I love curating comments on my posts too to encourage interaction but in general I am investing by powering up so that once the price of Steem goes up, my votes will have much bigger impact.

I've learnt over the course of my journey here, there is greater joy in giving than receiving. I try do giveaways now and then and I've planned few more, I'd like to host more contests, overall I'll continue to support this community that has shown me light in times of darkness and despair.

Thank you @surfyogi for bringing forth this endeavor! More power to you...

BTW this is a post if found regarding an analysis on Steemit [Steemit Statistics & Big Data:  End of January 2018 Update](https://steemit.com/steemit/@vlemon/steemit-statistics-and-big-data-end-of-january-2018-update)