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
