About 4 to 6 weeks ago, I hosted the 2nd Blurt Meme Contest. I had about 9-10 participants... Offering first, second and third prizes...
Last week I hosted the 3rd Blurt Meme Contest. Result: Only !!!3!!! participants!!!!
I was lucky to even be able to 'get rid' of my Blurts, that I had put aside as prizes!!!
I came here to Blurt some months ago with about 2500 USD worth of Hive and all that is left is $1337 in Blurt!!!! AND I bought massively again and again in the dips!!!!
Am I pissed off? You bloody bet I am !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My opinion:
People just aren't logging in here anymore! The earnings are crap because the Blurt price is falling and falling! I mean, let us be honest: Which good blogger in their right mind comes here to write a 1000 word high effort post for 50 cents?
I just counted 21 posts in the last hour (including mine!)... That is NOTHING!
This statistic a bare fact! Postings are getting less and less!!!! Why? Blurt price at an end! No community features or incentives!!!! FACTS, FACTS, FACTS!
Big staker @mariuszkarowski hits the nail on the bloody head, when he writes:
serioulsly, mentally ill (my conclusion after reading your last 3 posts) "dev" wants $1600 a month for fucking up things that don't need to be fucked up
this is what makes Blurt a joke
Link here: https://blurtlatam.com/blurt/@mariuszkarowski/rhncgu
LET US DO A POLL! 🗳️
Question: Is Blurt developing good in your opinion?
Please comment YES or NO!
MY ANSWER: NO!!!!!
Months ago, I proposed a COMMUNITY FEATURE like on Hive in the Discord Witness Channel. NO-ONE from dev gave a bloody 💩 about my proposal !!!!!
Instead, a few weeks later, they launched their 'awesome' MUTE BUTTON, that no-one in their right mind needs!!! Instead of making good stuff to encourage community life here, they continue to implement THEIR CRAP pissing the community off more and more! They don't ask the community - They know it better!
Now they are tinkering around with the HOT and TRENDING pages!!!! What is going on in the minds of these people???? PLEASE USE https://blurtlatam.com as your ONLY frontend, because here there are no manipulated results being shown!
This circle of people are immune to proposals other than their own and think they know everything better! And because they are as they are, Blurtarians aren't logging back in here and thus the Blurt price will continue to sink!
These are simple logical facts that even a dead AND blind man can see... They can discuss all they want for the likes of it... THESE ARE THE BARE AND NAKED FACTS!!!!
I am sick and tired of the same behavioural pattern of this arrogant circle of people AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!
START SERVING AND ASKING THE COMMUNITY GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!!
Let me get one thing straight! I love Blurt! But I am weary and tired of watching in which direction it is going!!!!!
Please vote for my witness. It would be much appreciated :
https://blurtwallet.com/~witnesses?highlight=outofthematrix
I think you know how I feel LOL
One thing though, I just changed my front end to Latam. That kinda sucks, because it waters down all my previous posts (the links will no longer be correct), but I don't want to support a front end that encourages censorship. At least I did this before going too much longer at the old frontend. That said, I hope I don't have to move AGAIN soon... always moving platforms, and my "home" online, and adjusting all my links etc... it's not efficient and it's not a good way to build momentum. I was creating content on YouTube since 2006... same URL, same subscribers, same everything... built my way almost to 10000 subs. But got shadowbanned (can't grow, can't be seen except by current subs) for opposing fake cannabis "legalization" and speaking out against censorship. I had go to where nobody knew me! I build my way up from scratch on Steem. But that imploded after a few years! Then I was on Hive for 2 years... when it destroyed itself and I was unable to earn there... now I'm on Blurt, and now on some back-end random front end from South America... literally none of my former platform followers have made it here. I am a stranger, nobody knows me anymore, I have no momentum. And now, my savings have been reduced essentially to zero. I have no audience and no income. So moving to yet another URL is not doing me many favours.... but at this point what does it matter? My activism has been destroyed. When I try and tell my old platforms (like YouTube, Bitchute, etc) about my new platforms, that gets heavily censored, and the few people who see it don't care. I was saving lives and changing the world a few years ago, now most of my followers think I died or gave up.
I really wish the insiders at Blurt would stop attacking the investors, and continue to focus on keeping the chain up and free of glitches.
Your audience stays mate.. You are just changing the frontend... You stay Blurt...
Yes or no to the poll question?
Well yea, my audience stays between Blurt Blog and Blurt LatAm... but I've already lost my audience so that doesn't matter. I was a well-known YouTuber and reached millions of people, then I was relatively unknown on Hive, and now I'm complertely forgotten on Blurt. Now my URLs are all outdated, too. That's all I'm saying :)
I don't think Blurt's developing well right now, no... could be a lot better. I've done a lot of posts about that in the past couple months.
NO!
If everyone is focussed on earnings for blurts and devs are censoring dissenters who create interesting posts then all that happens is we get a world of blandness. If I want to read 'nice' stuff I can go down the shops and buy an old fashioned magazine. I like to read opinions whether I agree or disagree coz that creates debate and engagement. That's what socializing is about. Isn't it? Or am I in the wrong pub?
I have suggested them to bring back the Trending Feed and add a new feed - Organic Trending, so we would have two Trending Feeds and everyone would be happy. They didn't even respond. These new changes, the expanded mute function and the elimination of Trending are hard censorship.
I will never buy their fake token again, I will sell it little by little, everyone should do it, at least sell what you earn
sell it for what? It's worth nowt now.
I like ur idea of an organic trending but that would take the power out of their hands so thats probs why they won't do it.
Thanks for taking part!
Poll: Well ? Yes ….. However, Communication can always be improved. I think it’s a good idea to experiment with Trending and Hot since Trending and Hot posts can always be bought. … Just like on Twitter and Facebook. Somebody needs to build a better algorithm. # of Votes can also be abused. The Development team needs to Experiment… where should they experiment ?
Thanks for taking part! I mentioned it clearly in my post... We need stuff like "BLURT COMMUNITIES"!!!! Community features are non-existant here!!!!!
By Communication … I mean posts from the Official Blurt Channel explaining that there will be ongoing Experiments and adjustments to the Trending and Hot post Algorithms.
It’s very easy to have poor communication.
It happens all the time….
Words mean different things to different people. Especially in French.
It’s very confusing.
They are ignoring it! They don't give a 💩....
EDIT: You changed your comment xD
No one needs this crap... A community needs COMMUNITY STUFF!!!!!!!
Yeah. Sorry. I edit my posts all the time when I think of more information. I should just add a new comment but people complain about that also. Another example of poor communication.
I just saw the spelling!!!! 😆👍 Changed it!!!!! POLL!!!!!
And I think “well” instead of good.
Good vs. Well—How Should I Use Them?
Or “ Is Blurt making good developments ” … or is Blurt progressing well ? Yes or No.
I like @offgridlife's answer and @foryoubtc
I'm not going to pick a yes or no to basically telling people that have done a shitty job or not. That's just not my style. We all know there have been problems, and like @offgirdlife says, like I already have I would pointed as well.... poor communication has been at the heart of many problems. Something I'm hoping we can all improve on, and some even lead by example.
Yes, we are now back near square one before the big move in price before you and I even arrived. All I can say is that it's not a bloggers market like it was at 1-3 cents, but instead very much an investors market.
Won't take much money for a new whale to come on the scene and buy up a million blurt or more at these prices. I think the best strategy we can do know, is make this place as functional and inviting as possible, make deals with influencers on other platforms to use and promote blurt, and try to get new venture capitalist willing to work with us to make this place rise to it's potential.
cool to see you doing polls too! But mine are the best! lol hahahaha
Hope you are having a good day brother. Don't let this shit eat you up! I've already made peace with my investment! lol I'll catch you later bro.
Some of those who have no bank and not welcome on Hive found themselves on Blurt. Like myself... because it was said to be a free speech haven... now my savings have been reduced from six figures to under $2000. It is heartbreaking to put 10 years of FULL TIME work (yes, 40+ hours a week) into this effort, only to have someone come along and drop a couple grand here, and have more BLURT than I do. This is not only my life savings, but also the result of my life's work, putting my best years into it. My activism was seen and appreciated by tens of thousands, and saved lives, now reduced to 15 or 20 views on some unknown blog. This is bad for me, and bad for the world. I was a potent force for good. Now I'm impotent and deactivated. You're right, it's an investor's market, they can turn me into a minnow here with just one small purchase from fiat. "Just ride out the bear market" is usually okay advice, but only if there is going to be a recovery afterward, and I'm not so certain about that anymore. It's true that it is too late to cash out and buy back in at a cheaper price. I don't even have enough to make that worthwhile anymore. I basically have some crumbs in a penny stock that seems to be going to zero. All I can do is hope for a recovery the likes we have never before seen in any crypto - a 500x move. I need Musk to buy Blurt for his next project.
Barring that, I think we need to please and support content-creators as well as investors. Without content, investors have nothing to upvote, and no way to profit. This is a partnership and each person involved must play their part(s) properly. Good content is viewed and shared, benefiting the content-creator and the platform. Good content is also curated, profiting both the creator and the curator. The curator invests in BLURT to increase his profits. That pushes the price up. A higher BLURT price draws in content-creators. And so on! This increase in price, and improvement in content, leads to higher morale, and more activity... therefore more good content and more curation. Each part of that "machine" needs to be strong otherwise we have a bottleneck in our strategy here. Trying to support just one section of the machine probably won't be effective.
Bitcoin goes back to 60k. Blurt is again around .015 at this satoshi trading level.
6 months from now, we could all be singing a different toon. The past week or so on blurt has reminded me of the howlings of a market bottom if you catch my drift. I think better days are ahead, and Im not just saying that.
But I hear you loud and clear, you ve made some good points....you always make good points.
I catch your drift, and I'm crossing fingers and toes!
I see BTC is falling below the 20k level today, and PMs are down again, but hopefully this is just noise. The big moves (up) are coming.
And now two days later......cryptos and PMs are having a one of their best days in a long while.
Woooooohooo! All we needed was the USD to take a day off from shooting upward.... haha. Gold above 2500 is when it gets spicy :D
The founder/core dev team don't interest themselves for such things... They do anything to bring more and more quarrels onto Blurt with censorship and result manipulation... God knows why...
libtardation is a real thing... just like Trump derangement Syndrom
I think the main problem is that teh Blockchain is a great first layer but EVERYONE insists on Rushing IT out as "Social Networking" and that you're "PAID"... Then all innovation is out of the equation and everyone is just Whoring for attention from a few.
The Devs are doing a MUCH better Job than SteemIt ever did by at least talking on the blockchain quite a bit... that fact alone is a big deal to me.
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Ok, so your answer is yes to the poll?
Why you gotta corner me 😐 ?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiBNPATpvZ0/
😂 That is hilarious!!!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPT2SUw/
Witness the LITness 🤬
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millions of blurts were printed and not burned. This stake is now still under the control of those who consciously printed them for 2 years and is still used to multiply the blinds and to vote for such wittneses as mega or tekaze, which, after what has emerged, hardly anyone wants in the positions they occupy.
The same guys also had fun destroying the rest of the blurt's image as a platform with freedom of speech, without downvote, which was the main magnet for people and main advantage of blurt over hive.
basically, I even wonder if the blurt project was not created from the beginning in consultation with the hive team in order to get rid of the opposition from hive. because it turned out that megadrive happily gets along with hivewathers. and after they ran a big scam here, they baked two pecs with one stone and brought most of the people from alternative milieus here to hive in order to fuck us after two years.
So ... where do you see the communication error here? The only communication error is that all blurt users do not understand this porblem and did not do it or they did not say bye-bye.
@outofthematrix
my answer is NO
and yes you have my vote.
Trust me after buying in at 3 cents and losing 90%, after all the promo work and so on I've done, and bringing many people over....there was a time (not long ago) were I was beyond upset at the exact things you point out. I even suspected the link between hive and blurt, again as you pointed out. However, after some communication with the top people here and since becoming a witness. Seems like there is too much work and effort going on behind the scene for me to assume that is probable. I think the problems on the platform have stemmed from having people take on roles that they shouldn't. I wouldn't want a chef to take control of a Boeing 747 and expect good results....just like some these guys on blurt are excellent developers but really poor when it comes to people, management, and business. If my assumption is correct.....and it may or may not be; then this ship called Blurt is very much salvageable.
I appreciate your support for witness. I believe at this point there is going to be a period of the weak hands getting out at silly low prices, while a better crop of stakeholders come in with long term plans to grow the platform.
you can be a poor developer in terms of management and buisness but with good intentions, which are manifested in good and most needed development projects.
What else can you call developing buttons like mute and wasting time resources on censorship on a portal whose marketing is based on freedom of speech, if not bad will? And that's all when such basic functions as creating user accounts do not work?
They're not idiots, after all. To master programming, you need to have a fairly large IQ. And if someone has such an IQ, he can probably associate a simple marketing fact that such visible hypocrisy is the first step to failure.
I also, on some level, still hope that Blurt will be saved. If this happens, it will prove that, despite everything, the community is able to do something on graphene blockchains. But for me, the only chance for this to succeed is to remove the existing witness and developers and replace them with new ones.
I hear you loud and clear. There have been plenty of blunders....and that is why I started a witness, @outofthematrix too, and there are more coming online. So I'm all for competition and if the witness list looks a lot different in a years time, than it will most likely be for the best....again through competition, new whales coming on line to vote for witness too, and so on.
Yes, I too believe the mute button and focus on that was unnecessary. Not trying to make excuses, but it was pretty clear to me, that focus from important things got derailed with all the nasty back and forth drama, and that really is no excuse, but I do believe that's an accurate statement.
However, this may not be a popular opinion with some, but personally I have no problem with the mute button as the use of it is left in the hands of the individual account holder (and the use of it foolishly makes them blind to others).
That being said, If someone were to come onto my photography posts, and 100% of the time they tell me that my posts sucks, my photography sucks, and I suck for everyone to see on my blog, including family and friends....frankly I'd be happy that I can have that be invisible if I choose on one of the three main front ends. I can see how for many it could totally ruin their experience here driving them and their money away.
While at the same time, this person is still free to post on their blog about how much I suck and it can still get to trending under the right circumstances (algo) on each front end.
I've spoken to many people who have the same general frustrations that you and I certainly both have. However there seems to be a lot of people who actually think like I just described in regards to the mute button. Very few to my understanding think of it as a true censorship issue, especially when compared to a down-vote button, or facebook jail, or twitter ban...
Having been an investor for almost 20 years, this is certainly the most "start up" thing I've ever been involved in. But I'm a pretty good judge of market sentiment, and I'm feeling a violet puke bottom is just around the corner. I mean with the price where it is, everything sucks...with a big WTF next to it. Often marks a bottom....but this is a different animal so fingers crossed!
Just a friendly note... You've been supporting me and my blog for a long time and it has not gone unnoticed. Class act is what you are and I really appreciate the support and cordial exchange of ideas! Not everyone here can converse on your level of respect and clearity and that is of great value in it's own right!
Thanks my BFAM! 🙏🍀 Without you, I would not be here! 👍😜 I will be doing a poll result post... Your comment will be included! 🏆
On Bastyon I have 86 blocked accounts - but that platform is pumping, and I need to block all sorts of dickheads
we'll see how it will be.
you run a really good blog, so there's nothing to thank for;)
Thanks for that insight! This is also my impression of the whole thing. Something definitely is phishy... Watch out for my post about the results of this poll. I will definitely link some of the comments... Yours will be one of them! 👍
Yes my BFAM 😂 your polls are the best👍😜
So, what do you think about communities like the hive?
I don t see how adding that can hurt. I was never that into communities back on hive ir steemit. I established a good network from 5 years back and expanded on that, with never paying much attention to communities. But it seems like they are good and people like them. Is there any downside to having communities on blurt that maybe I should be aware of? Cause at the moment I dont know any.
The DACH community (German Community) was one of my most important groups...
As I recall, if you had kept the $2500 worth of Hives from a few months ago, your holdings would have been reduced again in dollar terms! Hive price is also low but not as low as blurt! It is true that you have a serious loss here, but unless you sell the crypto, I do not think it is right to write it in the loss column.
There is a lot of emphasis on personal arguments and fights here, everyone specialises in insulting and abusing each other!
I will never use the mute button for anyone, it is unnecessary from my point of view, but I am not overly critical, it may be considered as an option for some.
I think you should be more insistent about the community because I think community organisations are right. Even tags are not used correctly here, when there are communities and each community has its own curation power and rules, tags will be organised.
No matter how bad the content creator is at blogging, he knows that if he is original, he has a chance of getting $30 for his content on the hive one day, whereas here it's $0.50 or $1, $4-5 at most, if he's lucky!
That's why most people publish the content they create on other chains instead of publishing it on blurt first, then copy it to blurt. A while ago ctime announced that he would vote 0.1% on the content of those who did not publish it on blurt first. I agreed with him on this issue and I published and continue to publish all but 2 of my content here first. The result is that I get 1.9% votes. :D So nothing much changes. (let no one manipulate this part, it is not asking for votes, it is just a situation determination)
If this situation is not reversed, we may soon see fewer people on the blurt. At least the developers should do something and not become the centre of controversy. I think they are doing something for now, I am still hopeful for blurt, so I continue in my account and continue to buy blurt at every drop. I hope that discussions and personal interests will be put aside and common sense will prevail.
My answer to the development for the current blurt blockchain; NO
Everyone who can observe sees this, I have hope, but some steps need to be taken. The community organisation you exemplify could be one of them!
Thanks for this opportunity, it could be a useful survey!
Thanks for your great words and taking part!
I was a boxer for many years... I will continue hitting them in exactly the same spot, until it hurts!!!! 🥊🤕
Well spoken!! Features like Communities, Curation trail and some helpful tools are needed too. I think someone uses Curation trail already here in blurt @tomoyan. If I may ask ; is it that it can't be introduced to the blockchain in general or....
Well, we need this... We need that ... Can't get it done. How do we accomplish this things? At what cost? Time? Can it be done? Are we at that age?
Peace ☮️
Anywhere you go on Discord, FB or Twitter you can see shouts about Blurt being "free speech", we can see the results everyday and how free it is...
I haven't seen anything major being worked on for the good of the common users, it seems that most changes there are to benefit "the team".
I will count that as a NO ;D
No
Have my vote ,.. ( thought i already did , just checked ,.. )
I second that ,.. the product sucks ,.. fix that , instead of fighting the critics and ignoring the truth .
Thanks for taking part in the poll and your support! It is much appreciated! 🙏
No.
Thanks for taking part! 🙏
In terms of development : YES
In terms of blurt token market : NO
Interesting answer! Thank you so much for taking part! 🙏
Hate to say it but gotta say NO. I don’t have a strong opinion about where it should go but it just seems like still today the main focus is anti Hive instead of finding it’s own identity.
Edit - I think u bring up a good point here below that is on my mind when I say NO. Yea unfortunately gotta say NO for sure. But I only have positive vibes.
Thanks for taking part mate!
Don't you think is high time we all stop pointing fingers at one another and see what we can do to help blurt. You making a proposal and is been ignored or not regarded doesn't mean you opinions don't matter. For the past months we have seen and read some not too good post from users who should be guilding the newbies here. Why can't we just come together and stop always blaming or shooting at one another with hot words.
my answer : Yes
Blurt is still very young and still growing by God's grace, a new project might experience hard times at it's early stage but surely blurt will survive this.
And please to the devs, you're trying but also try to seek other people's ideas. Truely speaking engagements here is going down but let's say the price is down that's why, some people just come here when the price is up, sell and leave. I think it's high time we bring in some strict strategies and some new features too.
Thank you🧡
God loves you all
Thanks a lot for taking part luv! 🙏
I am pointing my finger, because I want to change something! I want them to change their attitude and behaviour towards the community...
yes
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