I gave up a few days ago, even doing something fun whilst earning didn't feel right in the end.

Two days until what is likely to be a sizable STEEM dump.

The only thing I have been doing lately on steem is voting while the power down happens. Prior to this current theft Fork, I was powering down, but I did think there was a very small chance for a turn around so it was not a full power down. It is a full power down now. I can not see Steem Block Chain recovering from this latest fork.

Shit post or not, I'll vote, likely not comment, (only 3 comments in 7 days there).

Hmmm... long worthy post. I started following your content barely one month ago and i discovered you wrote cinsistently. I comment when i have something to contribute. I dont think i saw trash on your blog for once. I also decided to reduce my activity on steemit. If you are someone who loves to improve, shit posting will always leave you empty. There are some spaces upvotes can't  fill. I value some feedback on my post than the upvotes. There is this feeling of fulfilment you get. On my last post, i was so fulfilled when i saw @galenkp commenting on my post. It gave me this joy. You probably lije to see things get better that is why you feel that emptiness.

I'm certainly not going to judge shitposting on Steem, I actually considered doing so myself.  A friend and I discussed it at some length.  She called it 'mining'.

I hadn't decided when all the 'witness sock puppets' came to be.  That act angered me and I decided I was all done.  I haven't posted there since, and have no regrets about it.  

I left my 'voting trail' intact, started a power down and haven't looked back much.  Once a week to collect my rewards and the results of the power down.  

It's time for me to tie. A community without people is an empty place.

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The dual posting has been a strange experience, indeed. The thing I've been watching for the past couple of months on Steem is my friends/follows feed... and how the time gap between posts just keeps growing and growing. 

My original strategy was *not* to follow the mass exodus from Steem, but instead wait it out and post unique content to both chains... and then when JS would make some massive pump of Steem to profit from his own exit strategy, ride out on that wave and get as much Hive for my Steem as possible. Seems that particular scenario is becoming less and less likely... but hey, it was a gamble.

I still have no interest in shitposting. It rubs me the wrong way. *regardless* of whether it's my own or someone else's. It adds no *value,* and 20+ years experience in this gig tells me that shitposts are a certain route to site failure... not because they may/may not *"make money"* but because who the hell is going to bother to sign up and participate in a social venue that's just an ocean of uninteresting crap? 

For me, the experiment is also likely to end soon, mostly because the latest series of shenanigans seem likely to reduce the potential ways to *"move out"* from Steem to perhaps ZERO, and what's the point of holding tokens in a project that has zero liquidity?

All I do on steem is post my actifit report. The rest is steemauto automatic curation. I can’t be bothered to do more. 

yeah, we can't ignore this feeling forever, it's there and it sucks.

FYI there are active hivians ! Our discord ( a group of silver and gold stackers posting on hive now) is more fun than the actual steem/hive posting. Without discord  I would have left a long time ago. We have chats and life meetings on discord and a community (hive) account with leased hive power etc etc giving juicy votes to all posters.

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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

I just found this community a few days ago after leaving steemit 2 years ago. I really hope I can build a niche and a name again here. But really not sure which way to go. On steemit I wrote 196 Love & Marriage posts because that is my passion. Do I go back to that or found something else to write about? 
But as you said
*Stay active, stay engaged, stay positive.*

Thanks for that it's encouraging.

I can certainly identify with your sentiments about making posts that give the impression of minimal effort and being intentionally lazy. On the other hand, when thought and effort have gone into a post and it results in lively discussion and constructive feedback, then one can enjoy the notion of having added true value to the community.  Recognition of meaningful work is often a reward unto itself.

Ohhh... Nice expressions of feelings of your past and your experimental feelings of what will happened! Just be consistent don't be affected of what happend to your surroundings just be in your self and share your thoughts according to what you observe and sees...

You are talented of expressing your thoughts unlike me?! The problem is, this is not my native language because I am a Filipino and it was hard to express in English. (^_^) and I want to be in a neutral position to avoid problem and discrimination...

I hope you get my point...

Shit post is not going to be fun in the long term!
I truly gets a lot out of you as you have to just waste your time without getting anything with value.
In my opinion, it’s not sustainable!

Это экономика. Ничего личного. Если шитпостить выгодно люди будут этим заниматься.

Прям как я )))

Yeah, it's quite draining even to shit post. I guess it's truly time to leave the place to burn. :0)

I ran couple "shit-post" advertisements on Steem since the split, intended to direct traffic to my actual posts here on Hive.  All I was trying to do was bring eyes over from there to here, which in my opinion should have been a goal most content creators here set early on (no need for politics or the "Hive is better, Steem is failing" spiel/aggressive sales tactic).  I wrote a couple posts about it, one early on here on Hive, talking about the importance of creating your markets here, where you want the eyes to be permanently.  Consumer spill over is a thing and if you attract ten pairs of eyes, that's ten pairs of eyes that might look at all the other various examples of content once they're done with yours.  Similar to how a customer goes to store to buy milk and comes home with a snack because it was *conveniently placed* near the check out line.  I'm glad to see more folks now finally give up on that place, since the focus is here, right?  We've been dying for consumers.  If you open two fast food restaurants, one on each side of the street, thinking you'll collect traffic going both ways, all you end up doing is making both establishments struggle unnecessarily, plus put in more time and effort than required to earn an actual profit.  *Blah blah blah nonames and his business talk...*

>I do not think posting content on Steem adds any value to Steem, because of one simple reason, the community is gone. 

Maybe you should try Google Translate and post in Korean or Chinese. The community has not moved it has been shattered.

It is difficult to do after putting so much of myself onto that blockchain

Always the hassle isn't it? All of the dreams, the targets, even some friendships gone, just like that. All of the hard work and long hours down the drain.

Now every time that I have to go back in there, it is almost like I don't recognize the place anymore. Another 3.5 weeks and I will also be gone.
All that one can say is Selah!

I enjoyed reading this.. :)