Just so you know, reading this post will be like trying to keep up with a child running and jumping in the street, and sometimes walking or even sitting and you'll have to do the same as he does to get to listen to what he is saying while he's thinking out loud.
This didn't scare you off? Let's do it then!
I joined steemit on January 3rd, 100 days ago. As you can see, I didn't do so much effort making my first photo. I wasn't going to make an introduceyourself post. But I did it just because I figured it's a tradition here. So I did it with little motivation, just like anyone would do something because it's tradition.
How did I know about Steemit?
In the end of 2017, I was regularily attending the AC (American Corner) in Amideast. There was an American poet doing weekly poetry worshops. I never attended them because I was always at work when they happen, but I met him in other activities in the AC and we got to know each other.
When he disappeared for a month, I wanted to check on him through his Facebook page. Because I had nothing to do that night, I went deep down in his page until I found something about "A website that pays me 15$ for posting a poem". Believe it or not, the part that had my attention wasn't the "pays me 15$" part, it was "posting a poem"! because I was desperately looking for a good website or magazine where I can post my english poems.
Few weeks earlier, I mailed some of my poems to a magazine, ran by some "friends" of mine and I had no answer.
Steemit looked like the perfect place, I'll make a blog for the first time in my life (because I don't consider being a facebook page admin any close to blogging), post my poems and see if I'm as god as I think I am, or hope I am.
That las sentence, shaped my attitude on steemit for these last 100 days.
Because I wanted to see how good my poems are, I decided never to "help them up". This started by never using bid bots or resteem bots.
What made me stick to this decision was a comment I read in some post in the trending where some whale claimed that everyone is using bid bots and challenging someone else to name a great writer in steemit who never used them.
I wished I had an answer at that moment, I wished there was a great writer who never used bid bots. Then I decided that I will do my best to become that exception that maybe never existed before.
One day!
I also don't like self voting, but I'm not as determined as I am about bid bots.
I never powered down, and I never took anything out of steemit, in the contrary, I once invested about 375 Dinars (150$) when I saw a good opportunity. 1 STEEM was worth 1.75$ at that time.
Maybe one day, if I see a good opportunity (if STEEM goes high enough that taking 150$ out wouldn't affect my wallet) I will take that exact amount out, no more.
I don't entend to make money out of steemit, at least not any soon. Not until I have a decent SP that helps me make a difference in the platform, or at least make a difference in a friend's post reward when it's deserved.
I don't autovote and I never joined a curation trail. I'm not against it though. I just wanted to know how it works manually and enjoy it before I decide willingly what is the best way to do it, and then make my account do a part of it automatically.
Of course I'm nothing compared to the ninja curators like @c0ff33a, @saffisara, @tattoodjay, @Enginewitty (AKA @thealliance, @syndicates, @killerwhale and other accounts) who are all over the place, but I think I'm using my little Steem Power a little wisely.
For these last 100 days, if you ever recieved a vote from me, it means that your post was one of my top ten that day. Because I only have ten votes per day. Actually I do vote up to 30 votes per day and then I have to let my voting power recover. Something I would avoid if I had more VP.
Actually I can use busy.org's slice to give 50% or 25% votes, but I don't like giving 0.00$ votes. If I upvote someone, I want to give him everything I can, or at least something. 0.01$ is something and it is what my 100% upvote is worth after 100 days on steemit.
This makes me wonder
Do I still have this little SP because I'm not "all over the place" or am I not all over the place because I have this little SP?
Enough of the drama.
After 100 days I think I can start autovoting by now, of course 100% votes. I'm not saying I'm gonna do it tonight, but it won't take long.
In the end, who doesn't want to upvote every single inspiring post of @Katrina-Ariel, or inspiring randomely crazy sometimes romantic post by @battleaxe, or spontaniously sweet post of @saffisara or genious mind blowing super long post by @c0ff33a, cheering up post by @gratefulvibes (that half the payouts goes to charity by the way) and I can keep going on and on all night with examples of people I entend to start autovoting , but I think you get my point.
To end this "100 days in steemit" post I need to mention:
My 100 days poetry challenge that I started 37 days ago(when I was only 63 days old in steemit) and I managed to keep up with so far. Actually when I read @d-pend's post annoncing the challenge, I decided to start it just to know how far I can go, my chances to go beyond 20 days were not so high at that time, and I'm sure I wouldn't have went this far without the almost daily poetry class where I learned, am learning, will learn alot about poetry ( @tygertyger you know why I'm tagging you here lol).
My donation posts that I started when I reached 500 followers and I thought it was just a donation for celebration, then I liked the Idea and I decided to keep it going, Round four should be out by tomorrow so keep your voting power charging ;)