It's refreshing to read your opinions on the matter and see how well you have held true to your values. The spike definitely caused a lot of users to lose their minds when the $ signs started to add up and it all comes down to that ingrained value to money that people hold so dear to their heart. This will be more apparent down the line with the influx of users Steemit has had over the last few months and how it may affect them when STEEM inevitably increases in value. I just hope people hold true to what they believe in.
Projects that encourage genuine connection with a focus on each user's personal growth are few and far between; without them devolving into some form of self-promoting frenzy. I realized this early on from some of the discord servers I joined and decided to create a community that would be designed to give users the stepping stones to improve themselves, while also developing productive and genuine behaviors in the process.
When I first started BuddyUP it was aimed at new users initially and was restricted to anyone below 1000SP. After a couple of months of work on the server, it is evident that it will help all members of the platform to understand and realize what it truly means to be encouraging and engaging within the community. There are steps for users to grow and there is a definite focus on the improvement of each members skills and interacting ability.
Requests for micro delegation to the account have come through but have been denied because of the potential of wasted value at this current time. We want to make sure we are using the voting weight at it's highest potential. We have already started to focus on our limited voting weight right now and we're currently trying to employ the habits of using our percentage correctly to distribute a scalable and workable routine of votes.
I am stopping by as an attempt to get in your sights and to see if I can discuss the steps our community will need to not only sustain and grow heathly but to also benefit the platform as a whole by having all the elements required to be a well-performing community service for the users on the platform. I believe your knowledge acquired from running OCD would be extremely beneficial to us.
Thank you for reading. We will be out there in the open soon enough, I just wanted to drop by to show my appreciation for your efforts and also to share our name; so you can get familiar with our efforts to. @buddyup
Oh man in my half asleep state how could I have forgotten yours!
I believe in what Buddy up is set to do in Engagement and leaving great comments. More than that is a sense of community that encourages and create bonds that will make people be better Steemians.
I have see in first hand the unselfish promoting of other people's work, of giving positive feedback in order to raise the level of the author and the catch of the day celebrates the good quality work of people.
Your comments are always mini posts that shows depth and quality even better than some posts out there haha.
Don't worry about it @maverickinvictus! I know that you are part of a variety of communities and you have always shown massive support towards BuddyUP.
After reading through comments and replies on the post, I just wanted to state that our best interest isn't delegation. I think delegation would be a waste for us right now and our time would be better spent learning from somebody who is already utilizing a delegation and running a community/team on the platform.
The comment I shared last night was more reaching out for guidance and knowledge, about running a community that can function successfully at the center stage. Our foundation is solid and built to last, we are ready for the next level.
Delegations will surely crumble a community if they aren't designed to withstand influxes of members or if they don't have the correct practises in place to make use of the voting weight.
I appreciate you dropping a comment by to show your support @maverickinvictus. I have seen your comments too and they're top quality themselves!
I know mate and I really like what you are doing in Buddy Up. Just the grandwork that you are doing for it shows huge promise that it will be a community that will produce future superstars and influencers in the plaftrom!