Happy Steem b’day!!! 🎂🎉

Thanks for all that you bring to the wider community. I don’t think I’d be as active had it not been for your encouragement in becoming part of the NM community!!

One ‘up’ for me is the sense of community that is here despite the price drop and all the challenges the blockchain has gone through. That’s what I remain here for, that’s who I keep creating content for: the stayers!

Another ‘up’ for me is the way engagement is, for the most part, respectful and inviting even when there are differences. Of course things can get heated, and I have a couple of times seen engagement which was rude, discourteous, and downright mean.... but that was the vast minority of cases... and nothing like the level of trolling and vitriol found on certain other platforms.

A ‘down’ for me is how the prospect of financial reward can lead to inauthentic commenting and posting. I particularly noticed this when I set bounties on some of my posts. Some folks are commenting purely to get free $TEEM, and clearly haven’t read the post or care about what’s written beyond getting a share of the bounty. Engagement works when it’s genuine and authentic, and spam comments irritate me...

... so the real ‘downer’ is actually how I react negatively to those situations. I have expectations that other folks will express themselves authentically, and so the lesson for me is simply about kindness. Because I just don’t know whether someone is being genuine or not, and I’m just projecting that and being overly-judgemental.

So that ‘downer’ is also somewhat of an ‘upper’ if it’s helping me change my own attitudes and behaviours.

Let’s go celebrate this somewhere....

🤗😘🙏🏽💚☯️🕉😁

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