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First of all, I would like to thank you very much for supporting me and our project in Uganda.
I am sure we will manage to build the house for Bosco and his family.
We have accomplished so much in the last 5 years....
And as for Blurt and the community....
I will be watching this closely and if this develops the same way as Steemit,
then I will no longer be personally involved on any blockchain....
then I'll go back to analog life!
I hope that as this continues I'll be able to convince you otherwise. For the very reasons I outlined in this post.
For those shortsighted who invest in these schemes, what will the impact be over time as those like us no longer curate them? For the majority they will lose far more in rewards, as well as the loss of respect and sense of community as they find themselves growingly shunned by those who understand what is possible here.
Blurt is a blessing, it allows someone like myself to support initiatives like yours that under no other means could I find myself able to.
I left the other systems due to malicious petty mean spirited downvote theft. That is not possible here and these short sighted greedy folks will not chase me off from here. Here, those who built this and maintain it uphold dignity and kindness and unlike the other sites, those possessing these qualities are the main crop here and the greedy ones are the weeds for a change.
Blurt is the best vision, and it offers blessings I see nowhere else.
And thank you for being an inspiration for all of us. I saw some time back another referred to you as an angel, to which you corrected him. I thought to myself on reading that how perfect a reply, how perfect a demonstration on sacrifice for something greater.
We are all flawed, but we don't have to use that as a crutch to look the other way. I appreciate the many who don't allow their own flaws or handicaps to become an excuse to not care.
Thank you.
Many people pat us on the back and praise our project.
Some of them have never given a single euro....
Also here on Blurt a lot of BlaBla, how much they would like to help others....
I say to everyone and again:
everyone can do something and help others if they want to.
You don't need money for that!
Give the other person a smile, your hand, your ear...take another a piece of loneliness, give him your time!
All this does not cost money!!!!
I agree with what you said. everyone needs someone else. give a little smile and support we will see how beautiful this world is by sharing. if everything has to be based on money the people who give us a smile have to be paid too.
Another great post my friend and a lot of food for thought.
It makes me consider my own actions at times, including the use of self voting and perhaps you are right that 100% self voting is not the best. My thinking behind it was that as a creator you also need to be your own best curator, and anything gained would be put back into the pool for further curation. But I can see the power divide that this can potentially create.
Delegation is also a powerful tool to help your neighbor if used correctly and it is also provides a benefit to yourself even without the upvote tool aspects. Funds put into delegation increase over time I once heard the number 10% APR but I am not sure if that number is correct.
I have ignored a lot of the delegation schemes and upvote tools. Recently though I have started delegating to some accounts that have spun off of the #blurtafrica community. Two of these so fare are #blurttribe and #blurtconnect. I am looking at having my own delegation increased and if this happens I hope that I can delegate out all of my own BP to projects like these.
Recently though a project has come up called blurtbooks that includes some benefits for myself. The way I understood it is that this project is using delegation to raise funds to build the blurtbooks token and site for further development of authors on this community. But as part of delegating to this project they do give back in votes and also in the new blurtbooks token. Have you seen this project? Does it fall under your blacklist as self enrichment?
I am interest in and respect your views, I saw it as an innovation for building another community but perhaps I missed something on my DD.
A lot to unpack here, and being unfamiliar with blurtbooks I had to go give them a look to form an opinion.
First, on the idea of self voting. I'm not opposed to it unless it's one of the folks who are posting many times daily. Even then, I consider it within anothers right of use for their stake, just most likely not something I wish to reward and support when its done so much.
I also don't consider curation delegations to be self serving. I believe they are beneficial to the community, although nothing will ever be better than the personal touch.
Ok, now on to Blurt Books.
On initial examination, I can say I'm not a fan for so many reasons.
The first is it is self contained, meaning they seek to enrich themselves off the existing community. It will greatly limit ones audience as a publisher here to those who are already here.
Secondly, I'm not a fan of them using Blurt to pay for their infrastructure and then profit from it. It feels parasitic to me, that we are benefiting them but they aren't benefiting the community.
I'm someone who has self published on the likes of Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple etc. So seeing this self serving way that allows them to skim from the authors rankles my feathers so to say.
Let me ask you this.
If I as a self publisher want to market my book to those here in the Blurt community, why do I need them as the middle man? I could just write a post on it and offer it. I could create am account at somewhere like Gumroad or Smashwords for free, and accept money from multiple sources, not just those here at Blurt. Using Smashwords as an example, I could accept Blurt in payment and issue the buyer here a coupon allowing them to download the book for free bypassing the need to pay at Smashwords.
I see no value for anyone but the owner of Blurtbooks in this process, and those who will profit from their delegation scheme that will only in the long run profit them and perhaps those who delegate to them for those upvotes. For the community at large it seems detrimental as this is actually a parasitic scheme that shifts value from many corners and places it within their control as they continue to earn curation rewards off others stake when they aren't really providing anything that one can't do more efficiently themselves.
Thank you for asking my thoughts on this. I was unaware of this scheme, and will be watching it now as well.
Thank you for the feedback and more to think about. It has taken me a good 6 months on blurt to just reach this level of understand of where I am at now with the community and how my actions and others can affect it especially as it is still kind of a social experiment.
Your insight into self publishing helps as I am not well versed in it. I did read some in the project about building a community of authors and self publishers so I would like to hope there is some positive development there also.
I learn very well by doing and I have dipped a toe in and I will still use this opportunity to learn about this project further for good or bad, and hope that it does not cost my reputation too much.
I respect that you vote with your heart and your morals which are difficult to shape in this new digital world. Thanks for giving people a lot to think about and pushing people to think not from a place of scarcity or self but rather a community perspective. More wind in your sails.
Thank you, and wanted to reply on where you say this
I view you as one of the true leaders here, your actions for others impeccable, a true demonstration you understand your neighbors success ultimately is your own.
I do believe that in the case of the book project it will be demonstrated in the long run to have served the project and their delegators well, book publishers not so much. I will not hold this against you though as I have experience both in self publishing as well as watching similar projects on social blockchain used for similar purposes of milking while presenting a false image of community.
If what I suspect will happen comes to pass, I will probably become more vocal to the community about it being what I see it for. Until then, I will just watch and give them enough rope to prove me wrong, which I hope will be the case.
May the wind be in your sails as well. You make Blurt such a better place with all you do here.
Thanks for the response and additional feedback. I also hope you are wrong but lets let time tell and you have experience on your side.
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That's great to use the rewards from this post to help others in life.
It's one of the great things this system offers. For years I donated heavily to the Family Protection group on Steem/Hive. But sending the donations direct made the tax liability mine, which is pretty steep here in the US.
This way allows one to put some effort in and then it just goes straight to the person one wants better for.
I remember when I first joined Steem. One of the first posts I saw was from a young man in Africa. He wrote a post on his thankfulness, as he was able to buy a new pair of shoes and eat at a restaurant with his friends. Before Steem, his life never consisted of new shoes or eating out. It helped me see quickly what was possible with this system, especially for someone of my low financial means.
I feel blessed, and I believe my own account is proof of what can be accomplished and created in this system. I spent 420.00 shortly after joining Steem to rent delegation and power some up. Sadly at that time Steem was over 2.00 each.
However, in the years since then after putting it all in here at Blurt, I have over a quarter million Blurt, large delegations and a great community.
If Blurt were to even partially do what Steem did or come close to Hive, It will be a shift for myself financially. And while I wait hoping, I accrue more while i use my stake and intent to benefit others as I wish. What a beautiful system.
I believe I have an abundance now, and can more fully look outward at how I can help others here feel they too have an abundance. :)
Such a great thing to be able to give straight into there accounts and avoid all the tax etc.
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Since when I have joined this amazing community, I really haven't studied any post like yours. You have explained your thoughts in a different way altogether. All thoughts and talks are roaming in my mind. All new comers should read your post. Delegators must study your blog to a learn a lot. I was thinking about delegations and considering it somewhat bad. Because there are so outstanding many posts that do not get attention because of them.
There are so many worthless posts as well, doing so they want to earn some blurts from bots and curators but it is not a stable way to stay in this beautiful family . So they should pay attention to it and avoid useless posts.
I have seen @elkazaksek work. It is very inspiring. All blurtians should support her
in fulfilling her dreams. And I hope that her dreams will come true very soon.
At last, thank you very much for sharing your bright thoughts and amazing ideas.
Good night or good evening!
This is what it means to be on a Blurt platform, to take advantage of situations to help each other, not to enrich oneself by playing cunning as you say. a community will be very useful in this understanding, running community above humanity it will be better for the platform. and I really believe it will happen if the Blurt developers actually do it.
on the blurt platform, currently there are still few people who understand how the actual performance is, only a few are looking for profit for themselves, as well as some communities to open businesses whose only profit is themselves, what needs to be understood is, together there are many benefits. and also how about new users only get support when they introduce themselves. and how about the next post, maybe at this time the community in supporting each post every hastg is still small, so there must be someone who helps so that it is not on a different hastg post. like you said in the post, I hope they will read your post, so that the future vision and mission will be wiser in taking action.
"A very short sighted one who lacks vision and understanding. And worse, you are imprisoned by a scarcity mindset so badly you can't see what is in front of you, that your neighbors success is your success."
Is this what you see in the mirror? ;)
This is what you see in front of you? ;)
But is and will remain one of the unique chain we at blurt you always welcome so many channels to make sure you don't stay bored outside the post