A whale for a day, what would you do?
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Quite a number of us that have been on the steem blockchain for some time now, if i may ask, how many of us want's to achieve a whale status or wants to be addressed as a whale?
But what does it takes to be a whale, we might have heard this over and over again that it takes quite a large amount of s.p to become or be addressed as a whale. Being the number 1% of all steem users is actually what a whale is.
Before we go deep, lets quickly define a whale
According to the English Oxford dictionary, a whale can be defined as
A very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.
Now back on the blockchain. Unlike dolphins, there are a lot of quite steem users but they make a huge impact on a steemian post! They are known as ''steem Whales!''. When one has finally succeeded in becoming a whale they become prominent and influential individuals. Although there are so many influential people here on the steem community, some months ago there were about 129 steemians who had over 100,000 steem power, and presently that number has increased vehemently, that's incredible!!!
Nevertheless, in my own opinion if you popping over 5,000 steem power then you're an influntial and prominent individual on the blockchain. But if you've acquired over 50,000 s.p or more with 30$ on a single upvote then you're likely to be addressed as a whale. Only a whale can ignite such a feel good record in your brain. They are the one's that help makes the steem community great and attractive.
- What does it takes to become a whale?
a) Buy more steem power
b) Buy more and more steem power
c). Don't listen to a just do what b says!
What would you do?
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Let's say you slept last night and you woke up today just to discover that you've been transformed to a whale, for just a day (24 hours approximately) what would you do with it. Probably @ned or anyother super whale delegated all his/her steem power to you just for a day. But the rule is you won't be able to delegate or transfer funds to another account nor power down the steem - no crazy act like that.
This is what i would do:
first things first, i'll first of all make a post and then upvote with at least 100% simply for visibility. Then i would indicate that everyone should drop a link to their post (atleast 1 link) and upvote with atleast 50%.
Secondly, i would go straight to the new post from those promoting steemit in one way or the other, and then a full 100% upvote will be given to their post - this will encourage them to keep spreading the good news on the steem blockchain in vicinity. Also i would visit the #introduceyourself tags and give them a few % welcoming them to the blockchain (although you don't expect me to give hundreds of dollars to those who are just coming in new, it will only make them frustrated and miserable when they make a second post with low or no earnings.
Then i would upvote good and quality contents so much that my voting power might drain to zero within a couple of hours. Yes i would do that because i want to help others and also reward them for spending their time on a well published article.
Yep, that's what am gonna do with my whale power and even more.
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