Positivity Breeds Positivity? Maybe!
But do not mix up slimy behaviour with positivity
Hello Steemians of the world! When I started on this platform I was only pushing towards my original claim #bepositive and tried to focus on this a lot! In the last months I was bit careful and sometimes negative. I am now trying to get rid of shit again and ignore certain behaviour and people! To maintain positivity I think it is key to be clear with yourself and that you are ready to ignore / mute people that you feel endanger your positive mindset.
In the past I have bored a lot people with my angle. I still believe in this somehow - but I learned! My usual open minded personality is seeing a lot things that are awesome, I also things I do not like and I try to delete them from my feed.
What I do not like:
- People positioning themselves as the content police of Steemit by only taking care of their own success
- People brown-nosing whale asses and people with a lot Power or Influence
- People claim to do a lot for the community but in reality do only support their own success
- People complaining of a lack of influence that constantly power down
- People that only believe their opinion is the right one - not accepting others
- People ranting as of the point above
- Stupid people
Sounds negative? Not at all, just analysing a bit - even I was pushing positivity I always had the claim "Be Positive but keep it Real".
No Rant btw
This no rant at all - just a little post about my feelings now. Sure not one of these posts that deserve a higher reward. I am just showing you some of my inner feelings with the points above which are not good for the platform in my point of view. The platform has some great mechanism to fight spammers and scammers which need more support! I hope the next HF will change a bit on that. I am happy to be here, I enjoy content, discussions in certain chats and on some posts. What I will not do moving forward is getting into any arguments below posts. I will not discuss and attack others if I have different opinions. I will avoid heated threads. Most of these discussions are useless and end sometimes in flag wars or broken relations - not my style, not my aim. Not sure how long I can keep that behaviour.
Talking about flags or heated discussion
I was some months ago (maybe still now) in the Top 10 list of most flagged accounts on the platform. A first for me - was kind of proud lol to get into a Top 10 ranking. This was mainly based on one certain idiot (most of the older users know) that took revenge for two flags with his bot army to offer me around 10.000 Flags - was nice to wake up on a Sunday morning to see that lol! I will still flag from time to time certain posts if I feel that way but it really takes a lot before I do that.
I was involved in a lot war discussions and attended there. Flagging in favour of the platform and the "good" users is something we shall do - otherwise we do not get rid of scammers and spammers. However we need to strengthen the institutions that take care of that instead of Steemians personally get into wars and get down voted to Zero if someones hates them with a lot Power behind.
I saw a lot ugly posts, attacks on some of the really good Steemians - that made me sad. Flagging or down voting is a useful tool to make sure the community controls the community against attackers, scammers, spammers etc - it becomes tiring sometimes. I still will try to do both, defend the good, fight against the evil and try to maintain my original positive attitude - and EARN Cash / Crypto / Money too - this is why most are here, people that say the opposite are probably not really honest (BUT - I still Power Up all I earn currently - since over one year!)
I end the feelings now with hope and a smile - Namaste Steemians - let us all try to really work as community and listen to each others - sometimes we may not be right and even we think we should listen to other opinions!
Please forgive any typos in the text, post was written spontaneously without a lot focus on grammar and spelling
This was quite an honest post, rare that you talk this straight, appreciate it a lot!
I believe positivity attracts positivity. It is all about your mindset.What you want to do and what are willing to do?
Believe me no one is there to listen your sad story full of tradegy as compared to full happening story where you are living a very happy life.
First point correct, second point disagree - some people earn a lot morey by posting their tragedies
Thanks alot Uwe, for such surprising and honest words.
I absolutely support this nice list you compiled there.
Kind regards
Jan
You are brave to speak your truth in such uncompromising terms.
When first I came to Steemit I was excited by the possibility of a fair, encouraging and engaged platform.
Several months into my journey I see that Steemit is a microcosm of the world at large populated by good, bad and indifferent individuals.
My concerns pretty much mirror your list above.
Plus ~ what really grinds my gears are the people here who lap up my meaningful comments, upvotes and efforts to engage but never think to visit mine to share the love!
Oh well ~ we are all but human eh.
xox
What do you think about this approach to make flagging more 'normal' here:
Small flags (-0.01) are good to use if you disagree with content, opinions or language; strong flags should be only used if a post/comment is unfair or damages the platform or other users on it, and they should be preceeded by a warning.
Nice approach - not sure how that can implemented. I think people still see a flag as personal attack which is not the case.
No wonder I get along with you so amazingly. You are the one who brought me here but it is your amazing attitude and helping nature which attracted me to try this. And, honesty thing which "piss" you off are the same ones which I don't like to see either. People sometimes don't know how to look in the "mirror" and re-evaluate themselves. They are speaking one thing and in the back doing the complete opposite. Which makes no sense whatsoever to me.
One of them saying how they don't have enough power or influence but they cash out first chance they get. I understand it if you really need the money to cover your life expenses but cashing out just to cash out is pointless on Steemit and you will not get anywhere with it.
The only way to succeed here is to trust the platform and put your money where your mouth is. If you truly believe Steemit has potential to become next big social platform than invest in it. Not only with money, but rather with your time. Meet other people. Create amazing relationships and help others around you be better Steemians. That is how you make this platform more valuable.
Concerning the flagging wars, I just believe they reveal peoples true nature. If you want to find out how somebody is just give them power, and their true personality will come out. Not sure how people doing this don't understand that they will benefit the most by helping others here. The more quality content and users in here, the more the value of SBD and Steam will be. In the end, they are only hurting themselves.
Loved this:
"I still will try to do both, defend the good, fight against the evil and try to maintain my original positive attitude."
You are an awesome guy, my friend, and you deserve every success here on Steemit. You are a prime example of how people with "power" here on Steemit should be.
Sorry for the long comment. Have an amazing day, brother. :)
Toller Post, sehr wahre Worte :-)
at the End this is a community. Like a Gemeinschaft for Beispiel;)
Klaro - was willst Du mit dem Kommentar genau sagen?
Weißt du Uwe, ich bin seit Dezember hier bei Steemit und meine Reichweite reicht gerade mal von mir bis zu nächsten Hauptstraße in meinem Dorf. Viele denken sie können von 0 auf 100 auf Steemit durchstarten und reich werden- Pustekuchen. Ich habe zwar erst ein paar Monate Erfahrung, aber habe auch schon viele Hater hier erleben dürfen die negative Stimmung verbreiten möchten und nur auf Ihren eigenen Erfolg aus sind.
Deinen Blog verfolge ich schon länger und finde dich als Person schon mega interessant, aber dein Content auf deinem Blog hat sehr viel Qualität. Wir kleinen Steemians ist es wichtig so eine Art Leitfaden zu haben. So genug geschleimt, bleib weiterehin positiv und lass die Hater links liegen, denn das mögen Sie am meisten:)
Beste Grüße
Gregor
Das ist ja nett, lieben Dank. Am Anfang kann es ganz schön schwer sein, war bei mir ähnlich - die ersten Post brachten gar keine Rewards, das war im August 2016, dann bin ich weg und hab im Dezember noch mal versucht und dann paar Relations aufbauen können, aber auch dann ging es erst langsam aufwärts. Ich folge Dir mal.
Danke Uwe!!
Freue mich schon wieder auf einen Musikpost von dir:)
Ist ja wieder Weekend:)
Beste Grüße aus Hannover
Gregor
Ich hoffe ich komme dazu heute :-)
Coolpost but I think it's a bit sad if you ignore or delete things or people you disagree with. I know you said that in future you wont get into discussion, but this is just my view. I think its a humans personal responsibility to question and debate anything they feel strongly about.
Obviously simply disliking a cookery channel, for instance, cos you're not into cooking is sensible. I was just trying to make a distinction.
Good luck on your positive quest for happiness and be true to yourself fella :-)
By the way, i think youre a very good looking and intelligent man....damn, you said no brown nosing too..i cant delete it, sometimes I hate the blockchain lol ;-)
Discussion / debates can be useful depending on the people talking and their willingness to understand the other discussion attendees. Thanks for the brown nosing, I fell flattered......
Listening is the key, and on this point, I try to always abide by Stephen Covey's 'first aim to understand, THEN aim to be understood' rule.
I'm glad that there are less blunt, stupid and hurtful comments, but people are much too nice due to fear of downvotes. Necessary criticisms to improve oneself and to increase one's own performance in the future, are far too less.
One should be honest and respectful.
there is no doubt for me to stay positive whenever possible. It empowers myself and others. In my experience it can avoid many problems, saving time because you think in solutions. Somebody may think of manipulation but then everything is manipulation because we influence others with our external impact, whether it's positive or not.
Truth, internal mindset is visible outside. The behaviour of other people who are staying with you are often a mirror of yourself.
It's all about perception.. of myself and of others in my opinion. Money, power can amplify attitude of a person like a whale on Steemit. If someone was a good soul in poverty it will with wealth and vice versa.
Steemit is a mirror of mankind. The more people are in here the more it's a mirror. Sometimes i think about the age of "The born Kings" here on Steemit. Yesterday i read an article about the non linear rewards which lead to crazy payouts. This was the age where good and evil kings were born which now have enough power to decide how they use their massive influence. It's inevitable that their influence can make people upset, because it can be so huge. I think there is obviously evil and also good behaviour but there is also gray area where the king himself do something where he/she knows it is good and bad at the same time. It's not that simple with much power i think.
But in the end positivity helps to overcome even the worst events. That's my opinion.
That doesn't sound negative at all... just think about how happy "stupid people" are! ;)
Nice post! I agree with that @uwelang. "Positivism breeds positivism". We just have to think of goods things rather than bad.
You have right I totally agree with your feelings. Sometimes I'm scary that I will get flag because I put something wrong in my post. I had it to. My friend get 16 posts flagged without reason. Yes you can get angry but you must let it go. Do your thing and yes stay positive 🤗
Oh yeah, I love your views sir . Especially the one where you called out those that think it's only their opinion that matters. Those set of people will never learn or grow
Positivity over everything!
Depends! Sometimes radical movements are required in a company / business or even private - positivity is great but if the other party is opposite and endangers future success you also have to show other sides of the coin - did i just write that?
Sometimes a person has to positively engage the dark and restore light!
xox
Positivity would help in promoting the steemit community to being a better place. From your experience, it shows you have really engaged yourself in different areas in steemit.
yes you are right dont get upset and let your positivity get runied by a bunch of idiots. i had to make some choiches in my life which seemed too hard in the beginning but ended up as the best thing i did :)
ahh and i also hate those hypocrites who claim to do something for everyone ...
Like you've said, I think it's a very good decision to remain positive by distancing yourself from anything or anyone that is trying to diminish that positivity. I always love people who speak their mind.
You have to be positive, the platform everyone perceives according to their goals and tastes. Some for the content, others for earning some money, respect the point of view of each person, always maintaining education and courtesy.
Such an inspirational write up. Positive approach towards life is building if discipline in one's body.. It never ends , its a learning process, though negativity will come by, but at the end of the day we have to beat it anyway
Danke @uwelang für diesen tollen ehrlichen Artikel! Ich kann deine Gefühle verstehen, auch wenn ich gerade erst dazu gestoßen bin. Ich bin gespannt wie sich alles mit Steemit entwickelt und hoffe sehr, dass das Problem mit den Scammern weniger wird und schwache nicht fälschlicherweise leiden müssen. Namaste :)
Good contribution.
Honest, direct, true! ;-)
i would like to join
be positive, be original,be real @uwelang
Good post! Positive mindset is the key to success. Thanks for sharing
I was going to point it out after reading all the comments but found yours. It is showing these suggestions from yesterday night, I was always checking my spelling thrice to be sure that it does not go to waste, as most of the people like me who have just started have very low rewards and they are more attentive to these minute details.