Sit Right Back And You'll Hear A Tale
a tale of a fateful trip... :)
I've been humming the theme song to Gilligan's Island for hours now.
We all seem to be having a sort of steemit mid-life crisis I see! What I realized after my post like yours, is that we all do what we can, when we can and what works for us. That's it.
I'm assuming that there's always a way to have quicker growth, but it really doesn't matter if you're not happy with what you are doing. I did have to laugh about you thinking this was just about writing posts and figuring out what people want to read! Me too! It really doesn't take long to realize in the beginning, we are posting to the air haha I wish that we could re-post our earlier "good stuff" that no one ever saw.
Thanks for continuing this conversation. @headchange just wrote a lovely post too about it all, and @tryskele had an interesting comment as well. I'm essentially tagging them both, but have a look at it Glen because I'm sure you'll have something worthwhile to add...you always do.
Ah, Gilligan's Island. Shows like that don't come back. :)
I suppose the Cheetah bot would be out and about if we did repost the older 'works of genius' in their original form, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't repurpose those posts if we thought them to be worth it. As it is, I'm sure if I go back and look I've already started to repeat some themes or subject matter, though maybe with newer ideas or different perspectives.
Okay, I'll try to go see what headchange and tryskele wrote. I don't always have something worthwhile to add, which is why I don't end up commenting as much. I need to figure that out!
hahaha @glenalbrethsen, you "don't comment as much", that's funny!!
I'm totally talking repurposing old posts. I think it's a great idea!
I don't. I only have a fraction of the number of comments you all do. I guess I could break mine up into three or four, though. That might help. I'm just not sure how that would sit if it looks like I'm carrying a conversation on with myself every four comments. It would be like Twitter before they upped the character account and you actually wanted to say something meaningful. Ten tweets just to say it. :)
I think we all should do it. I'll need to back at look at stuff that didn't do all that great and see what I can do. ) Good luck with yours.
hahaha that's funny @glenalbrethsen ! I can just see you writing a comment, ending it with ... and beginning another comment 20 seconds later 😅
Ok, I'm in! Good luck with you as well!
Cheetah bot is avoidable if you want to repost some older posts. You can do so, simply do a search for #steemitzombies (Discord channel), part of the Dead Post Initiative.
Hey @simplymike! Good to hear from you. :)
I've ran across these guys before. I liked the idea a lot. The last time I saw anything from them, though, was probably several weeks back now, where one of them was describing how they were being flagged by someone for reposting, even though it was clearly the steemitzombies and the dead post initiative. Do you happen to know if that was resolved? It didn't sound so favorable at the time. :)
At any rate, tackling similar topics in a new way is the staple of bloggers, and while it may take longer, there's certainly some quoting that can take place of those previous posts, so I believe there are various ways to make this work, including steemitzombies.
I must admit it has been weeks since I reposted anything with the tag. There was no problem back then. I hadn’t heard of the flagging, though.
Would be a shame..
Anyway, i agree that there are plenty of ways to repost older post without it actually being a literal repost. Different angles, quoting, repurposing content,... all are possibilities to get the same message through without being ‘punished’ for doing it