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### Today is my **71st day** on Steem.
### This is my Steem Journey Log #8.

**Today is 15th March, 2018. It has been 6 days since my last update.**

I am tracking my journey and progress towards my goals on the Steemit platform through a series of journey logs.

![steem-journey.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU6gxmXSBZYxkPa364a9aZH7MCcMtB8sKG67TzwnsE1N1/steem-journey.png)

[**Image Credit**](https://pixabay.com/en/jogging-run-sport-jog-sporty-race-2343558/)

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# Approach
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# Current Goals

>✦ **Effective Steem Power:** 900
>✦ **Owned Steem Power:** 500
>✦ **Delegated Steem Power (In):** 500
>✦ **Delegated Steem Power (Out):** 100
>✦ **Followers:** 500
>✦ **Reputation:** 60

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# Progress Report

I am not very happy with the progress I made since my last update and I want to do much better. My charts don't look good. If this rate of progress remains as it is, it will take a lot of time to graduate to a minnow from a plankton and that's not a happy thought.

### But I fight.

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## Update #1 - @underground took away his delegation 😭

### He took it away!!! Filthy little hobbitses!!! He took it away… My preciousssss!!!

![my-precious](https://media.giphy.com/media/JMb4jVYRwcVvq/giphy.gif)
[**Image Credit**](https://gph.is/2dd3k7N)

Jokes apart, thanks @underground for your support. It was great having it as long as it lasted. You need it for greater needs and I know it will come back to us MBCs in some way or another. So not much to complain there 😃

So this has resulted in a reduction in my Steem Power, but I should be able to recover it soon enough.


## Update #2 - Had my highest earning post till date with a vote from @berniesanders

I wrote the below post about a dream I had on the whale wars and @berniesanders upvoted it. This made this post my highest earning till date. I think you guys will like this one, it's funny 😁

[**Whalewars haunting my dreams**](https://steemit.com/fun/@svkrulze/whalewars-haunting-my-dreams)

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**Image Credit:** @svkrulze

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# What I did since my last progress report

✦ **Here is an important post: my proposal on how the trending page can be fixed.**  my objective with this post is to start a wider conversation about a possible solution and there were a lot of discussions in the comments section of this post. Share your thoughts as well.
    [**Proposal: How to fix the broken Trending page**](https://steemit.com/steemit/@svkrulze/proposal-how-to-fix-the-broken-trending-page)

✦ **Update on my Ramblings on Life Series:** I published one article in this series during this period. I think this is an important post which raises **important questions on flagging practices on the Steem platform and censorship**. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Please check it out:
    [**To Flag or not to Flag - Ramblings on Life #11**](https://steemit.com/abuse/@svkrulze/to-flag-or-not-to-flag-ramblings-on-life-11)

✦ **This is the post which earned me the highest reward till date which also got an upvote from @berniesanders**. Have a read, it's fun, mystery and the whale wars all mixed up in one weird dream.
    [**Whalewars haunting my dreams**](https://steemit.com/fun/@svkrulze/whalewars-haunting-my-dreams)

✦ This post is about the **opportunity which is before us as a result of decentralization and how this opportunity is different from everything in history**. Have a read, if you are a believer in blockchain and Steem, you will like it. If you are a non-believer, you are welcome even then. Leave a comment please.
    [**Your opportunity to touch the lives of others, ON STEROIDS**](https://steemit.com/steem/@svkrulze/your-opportunity-to-touch-the-lives-of-others-on-steroids)

✦ This is a different kind of post. **Read it to know it**. It's a short and sweet one, kind of funny too.
    [**An experiment about nothing**](https://steemit.com/experiment/@svkrulze/an-experiment-about-nothing)

✦ **I created six Zaps on Zappl.com**. I am not very sure how long I will continue with these zaps, I may move to the Steemit interface instead and share slightly longer posts, though the posts will remain short form. However, I am undecided on this.
Here is my Zappl profile, please go check it out:
    https://zappl.com/@svkrulze

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# Log Frequency

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