I must say, I'm grateful to have come to realize this soon enough.  I really appreciate this @mattclarke.  Just got to drop my first post yesterday and to be sincere there are a lot of things I don't know but I'm grateful I know this.  You can view my first post @ablefield and help me with a reward.  I see you as a person who really want minnows like me to enjoy this platform. Please if there are other things I should know I will see them,  cos I'm following you up asap. Thanks dear for this. I'm resteeming too

@mattclarke how do you withdraw / sell pocket tokens and check your balance? I feel like I probably have a ton.

Hmm in glad I found and read this. Makes alot of sense, thanks Matt.

And if your not totally into crypto and know how to send money through all the different wallets,  you can always reward good content no mater how old with a wallet thank you for the story drop. (I like to read, and I left lots of comments but the author did not comment back, but he did upvote my comments, so I sent some sbd's to his wallet for the story.) Always a way to reward people and content you want. You just need to want to reward it.

Yup. Not powering down at all. All I do is power up. I AM upset with myself for not joining earlier. I heard about it and was lazy and stubborn. But I’m here now and it’s still but a puppy with room to grow.

### Thanks so much for the shoutout! 

It's true, that tutorial is boss. 😎

I had totally noticed your Pocketsend and because of the state of Steemit right now ("Do not click ANY links in your comment section"), I didn't look into it... Too scary! LOL!

I did see you had Rep... but decided even trolls could make it up there.

I'm super interested in it now... Imma go check it out.

Side note: I totally agree with you on this. We've (my hubs and I) still haven't powered anything down... and are HOPING we don't have to.

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## And finally, as a *shameless* self-promotion:
I finished another tutorial! This one is video form. Don't you wanna see muh face?
[🌌DLIVE🌌OBS🌌TUTORIAL🌌](https://steemit.com/dlive/@carrieallen/49cc8f60-8be3-11e8-b2de-f7be8f055a16)

Really appreciate this post it’s funny how you see posts like this at just the right time! I’m sure plenty of steemians get to the point like ah man I’ll never be big enough in Japan and earn what the bigger accounts do and use my earnings to go to steemfest and all that Jazz! But most of those people were earning steem when it was worth very little like you said now it just looks like they’ve achieved some madness that no one ever will in the current price and environment 

I guess I’ll keep on soldiering on, I said if d give myself a year and see where I land up and I’m always learning something new everyday and roping more people into steem along with me. People complain about steem payouts but they were happy to contribute to Facebook, Reddit and quora for free to be helpful and just for the laughs but now it’s all Jerry maguire show me the money

People who power down after being here a few months obviosly dont undertsand the long term nature of Steem (and crypto in general!)

Haha you got me, so true though. Keep on Steeming and don't power down... yet!

Hi Matt. I agree with what you are saying and don't understand why people power down. Maybe circumstances change and funds are required urgently. I know how hard it is to grow and don't want to shoot myself in the foot by fiddling with the account. We are all here to grow and that is the only way to work.

Yep, don't power down. Also, keeping the 50/50 split for rewards is a good way to keep your wallet flexible. You have some SP to power up, and you have SBD and Steem that you can exchange, if you really need to. This way there's less need to power down.

On the topic of rewarding content beyond 7 days, there's the tipping service, if you really want to reward someone. 

Finally, given the way Steemit incentivizes content (and how there's no easy way to navigate the blog), maybe it's just time we accept that the platform is not the place for evergreen content. And that's not exactly a bad thing. Otherwise, like you mentioned in this post, there are ways around the 7-day rule to help really good posts continue earning and make sure they don't get buried under more recent content.

Just introduced to this post, 10 days later and it is still providing value for me.  Perhaps you too because now I'm following.  

Steem has helped me develop discipline in a number of ways, from writing, to scheduling, documenting, participating, being kind and helpful, curious and beta-testing minded.  

Learning and doing, then learning some more; this article is a dazzling example of a diamond explanation of something that I only understood at the broze level.


Keep on commenting, thats my favorite part of the steem community, after our grass-fed beef-y selection of d.apps!  Steem on!

There are a lot of things on Steem I used to disagree with but after being on the platform 7 months I know better.  

By powering up a $344 post you've been able to generate $800 worth of inflation on upvotes  over the last 2 years.  Pretty crazy if you ask me.

Wow @mattclarke I wonder if it's still possible to grow as you did. I am taking your advice though; I have never withdrawn and will not for quite some them so I'll just keep powering up

When we can edit older than 7 day posts I’m going create a profile/shelf/gaming corner  post with links out to some of my better works. Then I’ll just leave a comment weekly on that post saying “if you enjoyed any of my old works feel free to upvote this comment.”  Least that is my current thought process on the matter. Will have to see how that turns out when I get around to it. I think we are just waiting on more witness and for the condenser to update. 

Whenever I find old work that I enjoy I just go and upvote there recent open blog.

Best piece of advice for any body - newbie or not. I notice that people just want to grab a quick buck and scram here. Thanks for the heads up @mattclarke, although it will be difficult to grow my steem power as you did, I remain committed to powering up

I don't understand how we get 2% interest but I've just taken it on faith that's it's not a good idea to power down so I've never done it @mattclarke.

I've been here 7 months now and have worked really hard. I just made it to over 900 SP. Woo hoo!

I've never been very interested in the USD amount of my account because it shifts too much. What matters to me is more SP and that is, and will continue to be, my focus.

I've been fortunate to be given a few short delegations of 200 SP a couple of times and  I've won a number of competitions.

it's been a hell of a roller coaster ride so far with so much to learn. Now i feel I've settled into a bit more of a rythmn and,  hopefully, 1000 SP won't be too long in coming now. Then it will be onto the next goal! 😁

Thank you for the encouragement.  😁

I like how you put this. It's also very encouraging to keep at it when things are slow and prices are low.

However, while it's formerly a seven day window, which means theoretically a post can earn up until the last 12 hours prior to payout, in most cases, save some last minute upvoting by certain parties which is widely frowned upon anyway, most of the upvoting takes place within the first 24 hours of a post, and the majority of that, within the first six hours.

So, I don't know why I'm saying all that to you, since you know it, other than maybe to say it's a shame we need to wait seven days for a payout, wherein the price can fluctuate (often coming down, though, yes, it can go up), when the bulk of what we will ever earn in rewards on the post is front loaded.

Okay, I'm done. And I'm on board with the not powering down part. It's a great rule to follow.

Wow!! Lol hehe

First rule: Don't Power Down.
Second Rule: Don't Power Down.
Third Rule: Eventually, your curation awards will outstrip your author rewards, and that's okay. 

You do continue to gain influence based on your success in the past, provided:

<h2>You don't power down.</h2>

Everyone who is here today is still on the ground floor. Soon, we'll have those spiral staircases that lead to dizzying heights, speckled with ball gowns and glory. 

Today, we've got bargain prices, and content where we can engage with truly remarkable authors. 

There's so much potential. People just need to use it, and look beyond the trending page, bidbots, and the other politics. 

Produce your content. Engage in the content of others. 

Know that we're only here for a short time, and connect with other humans. 

Do something.

I still have no clue how early adopters' Mvezt/VP have more weight than the new ones.
I have faith in the platform hence no power-down ever! It's amazing that we oldies have this mentality compared to most...where except you, we were hard-up then..yet we persevere and enjoy blogging still😂🤣😆 Cheers Matty!

@mattclarke

To be fair ..holding SP doesn't directly answer the problem of evergreen content , even in your example , if you keep holding the SP and earned more upvotes ( past 7 days) you could accrue and hold more SP.

Holding SP is the right thing to do but isn't necessarily the answer to evergreen content.


>so I dropped some Pockets on him instead.

What is this black magic ?

so , it seems like STEEMGG has found a workaround for evergreen content , so we may have already solved the itching issue...

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKGhH4J3lEBN2a4/giphy.gif

Great Post!  Getting $344 when Steem was worth 12c was a huge achievement.  

And it's clear you have your finger on the pulse. I didn't even spot 'The Big K' and it looks like a lot of others didn't spot him either. 

This is still the fundamental problem with Steemit. Discovery.

Even though people leave when the STEEM price is low, it's actually a good time to accumulate more steem. 

I'd prefer to have $10 worth of STEEM @ $1ea rather than $10 worth of STEEM when it's peaking at $10