I can see now that I am breaking clear of the pay-for-play crowd. I will see how that approach works.
I engage any post that I find interesting, so that would count towards networking.
In reality, I need to keep a list of accounts to check and make sure I'm not missing too many posts from people I already know. That has been a failing of mine.
It happens to me all the time, but usually when I explain to people that it isn't like I stopped caring about your content, I just keep moving on to the next people that need my help more, they are pretty understanding. Plus the other problem of trying to keep up with 800+ people, and I regularly unfollow people that spam garbage or start to, it gets to be a lot. I always enjoy your post though when I have time to catch one!
Your last sentence is the type of reinforcement that brings me back.
Me too. I appreciate your presence on the platform. I try to wrap back around and catch all the people who have impressed me with their writing in the past. It's hard but you start to see that relationships are two ways, even on steemit. It's not just I'll scratch my back if you scratch mine, it's like "oh fuck, I forgot to check his posts, he was cool".
I am trying to pull together all the people who are for creating and curating quality content and a sense of community and believe that making bucks should come from such things and not from pyramid schemes and bot armies. It's not a formal initiative but rather just a 2 degrees of separation thing because I'm informal and because I want the power to be fluid and flow easily between people and taking on a leadership role stifles that a bit.
This was part of my reason for starting the Be Awesome chat. You are on my list of people who I'd like to get in there. @clayboyn is there already. It's not that busy but it keeps growing slowly.
I know, it's hard to keep up with all the people that have impressed you along the way. I am keeping a "friends" journal, starting today, to help me get in a habit of checking out the cool cats.
Where is Be Awesome hosted? I'm not much of one for chat rooms, but I'd be happy to check it out.
I link it in 95% of my posts. Discord. That's just as easy a second my finding a link and linking it here X-D