I hear many (@wolfhart cough cough) talk of reaching 500 SP as the magic number, something to strive for, especially if you want the covetted voting percentage slider. I've been lucky enough to have been delegated to by several people, so I reached that goal some time ago. But just today, after having a short talk with @abh12345 regarding his delegation, I took a closer look and saw that I'm only at about 350 SP myself.
Most of you know that I comment. A lot. But here's the thing you may not know. When I turn on steemit at any time of the day, I check out https://steemworld.org (do yourself a favor and check it out if you don't know what it is:), then ginabot/Discord to have a quick look, then I start replying to all the comments I made the day before. I'm sure to check out "mentions" too during this time and reply to those as well.
During that time, I'm also on the look out for quality unnoticed posts to submit to @asapers, who I curate for, and also to submit to @c-squared, another amazing team here run by @carlgnash. (If you need more information on either of these, please ask me in the comments and I'd be happy to explain). I'm also a judge for @thedarkhorse's Pay it Forward Curation Contest, a weekly contest for which I am one of the judges. Suffice it to say, I spend a great deal of time reading through the submissions and their three chosen curation posts. Finally, I keep my eye out for "newbies" in need of a little love and try to help them myself and/or pass them on to @newbieresteemday and @greetersguild.
All of that takes several hours, meaning anywhere from 2-6 or more, I'd say.
Most of you also know that my home life revolves around taking care of the love of my life, @briancourteau. He's not bed-ridden or anything like that, but considering his illnesses, I do a lot for him, so those 2-6 hours have been interrupted several times. That's not meant to sound like, "oh, poor me, I can't get any work done", it's just the way it is. And really, a lot of the time I feel like steemit is the thing that interrupts what I'm really supposed to be doing.
The problem with my process, is that my own posts get neglected. Sometimes it takes me a bit to get back to the comments on my posts, but really, I'm talking about writing my own posts. And when I do write my own posts, I take a lot of time on them to make sure that they are perfect (in my eyes :) At best, I average about 3-4 per week. This week has been especially off, since my last post was 5 days ago.
Mystery solved...that's why my SP is only around 350.
It's in my nature to be selfless, to reply to others first. I also think it's common courtesy...that's why I will always reply to every single comment on my posts. Plus, I've made committments to various people and groups here and I'm not prepared to faulter on those. Commenting and curating is also what I really enjoy here and placing in the top 3 of @abh12345's Curation Leagues is something I take pride in as well.
So, do I start commenting less, to try and write more posts of my own? That doesn't seem like the right choice to me. Do I simply continue to grow at a slower rate, regardless of being delegated to or not? That one is akin to letting the chips fall where they may. Is this even a problem?
Any suggestions from all of you? I'd love to hear what you think.
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