A Little bit About Me
Hello Whaleshares community. I have finally found my way to the new whaleshares platform and I have to say I am excited to get blogging. I will be diving into why whaleshares interests me so much shortly but first a little more about me.
My name is Rowan, I come from the city of Liverpool in the UK. The picture above is of me snapping a selfie in Bangkok in 2010. The picture below is the real truth behind the ravages of age 😉 I am an Imaginative Writing graduate and will be posting primarily poetry and fiction on Whaleshares. I am excited to get involved in helping the creative writing community on whaleshares grow and see how it develops.
Why I'm Excited about Whaleshares 🐋
I've been blogging on steemit for just over a year now. Don't get me wrong, I love that platform and will continue to post pretty much daily on steemit. But from what I've read about Whaleshares, I believe it could be a fantastic sandbox for testing out different ways of doing things. Different payout mechanisms, power-downs etc. I feel like this is an essential thing to find some type of consensus on the best way to structure our crypto social media revolution. I'm particularly interested to see how the no delegations rule will effect and hopefully regulate Whaleshares, to avoid some of the issues of abuse that happen on steemit. Also the rule that makes flagging 3 times more expensive than upvoting, both of these mechanisms have the potential to avoid a lot of unfairness and drama.
⛔ NO DELEGATION
While delegation may have a few benefits when used responsibly, the downsides and long-term damage it causes to the balance of a rewards-based platform far out-weigh the good. Voting collusion, bid bots, voting rings, sock-puppet accounts, flag wars, and other negative behavior are encouraged by delegation. For these reasons, there will be no delegation of WHALESTAKE.
Source: @officialfuzzy Whaleshares Pre-Launch (OPEN BETA) is Here!
This type of experimentation is crucial and who knows, maybe one day steemit might adopt a similar model in one of their updates if it proves a successful model here at Whaleshares. I am also really impressed and thankful at how well the UI is set up on the Whaleshares platform. It feels intuitive and very similar to steemit which works well for me, as I’ve become so used to that interface in my blogging.
I am very excited to be here on Whaleshares blogging, for the chance to build new relationships and be part of the beginning of a new community. I will be curating widely around the subjects of writing, art and music, I look forward to reading some amazing posts.
I couldn't leave without writing a little poetry especially to celebrate the creation of this new platform, so here goes:
The Whale Shares our Surface
surface kissed by sunlight,
dappled with flights of birds,
motion stirred up in the breeze.
God rays in penitent depths,
a whale glides in currents,
swept in up-wells
sailing ancient instinct.
We too are carried along,
sharing ancient current
in the whale song.
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I definitely don't know about this, I mean I've been hearing a whole lot about it though. I didn't know you're from the UK you seems Pakistanish from your username at first. Though. Beautiful poem that is.
Ha ha,
You don't know how many people have said/thought the same. raj is my initials first/middle/last name. I'm not of Indian or Pakistani origin but I have English friends of Indian decent. I love cultures of all kinds so I guess I never even thought about the fact that my username may confuse some people on steemit until it was too late and I'd been blogging for 3 months. When people started asking me which part of India I was from 😂
Hahahaha and can I still burst your bubble? you look Indian and not English if I may add that as well though hahahaha, well certainly it's razzmatazz trust me I love your username
Whaleshares sounds very interesting. I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the photos, poem and heads up.
I am a complete newcomer to Steemit and learn things everyday. I had no idea of the issues you just described regarding delegation and so on. I am interested to hear more experienced folks chime in on the topic.
Thanks deadcountry.
Whaleshares is an interesting new platform. Although It's only just started and is no where near as developed (or profitable) as steemit, half of the people earning $30-$100 per post on steemit now are people who started on steemit in the very beginning. I'm just hedging against that happening with whaleshares, steemit is still my number 1 blogging platform. Here is a link to Whaleshares in case you want to check it out:
https://whaleshares.io/
Congratulations, even though I'm not sure what whaleshares is?
Nice to see your face and that bucket of tomatoes looks pretty amazing :)
Thanks Kimberly. Glad the tomatoes are making the mouth water. I picked them fresh from the greenhouse just before that pic was taken.... ha ha, and they only lasted a few days ;-)
P.s. Whaleshares is a new platform similar to steemit but rewarding with whaleshares. It's only just started and is no where near as developed (or profitable) as steemit but.... well half of the people earning $30-$100 per post on steemit now are people who started on steemit in the very beginning. I'm just hedging against that happening with whaleshares, steemit is still my number 1 blogging platform. Here is a link to Whaleshares:
https://whaleshares.io/
Thanks for introducing and explaining. I'll take a look.
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this is beautiful!
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Thanks for sharing about whaleshares and making it easy to understand some differences. Will definitely check it out and all the best to you starting up there!
Thanks khimgoh. I'm always looking for new places to share my work and whaleshares is an interesting new platform.
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