{"id":22122,"date":"2022-05-01T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=22122"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:49:38","slug":"five-things-i-quit-doing-when-i-switched-to-blurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/five-things-i-quit-doing-when-i-switched-to-blurt\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE THINGS I QUIT DOING WHEN I SWITCHED TO BLURT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year would have been my second anniversary on Hive in March. Except that I quit using it because I was sick of being downvoted all the time.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
We can choose to jump about in dog shit and then complain that our shoes stink, or we can look at stuff we like better than dog shit instead.<\/em><\/h5>\n

I learned a lot on Steemit and HIve, including what not to do. Here are five things I gave up doing when I started out on Blurt because each one of them is a part of what became a pain in the arse.<\/h4>\n

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  1. ARGUING WITH CLUELESS FUCKERS. I understand now that arguing on the internet is like seeing some dog shit and choosing to stand in it rather than stepping over it. So I have stopped doing that.<\/li>\n
  2. BEING A DICKHEAD. If someone I follow posts something I think is bollocks, rather than trying to \u201ceducate\u201d them, I now choose to shut my pie hole and let them be. (OK, I admit I do call some of the insider wankers from Hive “trannies” but they deserve it!)<\/li>\n
  3. USING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. I had accounts for posting, accounts for trading liquid Hive, accounts for being a dickhead, and accounts that were blacklisted for trying to educate whales. It was bloody confusing. Yes I do still have all those accounts, but at least they are all powered down now.<\/li>\n
  4. KEEPING MY INVESTMENT LIQUID. Hive was turning increasingly dodgy, so for the past year I kept most of my investment liquid. On Blurt I\u2019m doing my best to be a low key investor and casual content curator. So I\u2019m taking a more chilled out approach, and I\u2019ve simply powered up most of my Blurt and hope to see the platform grow.<\/li>\n
  5. LONGING FOR THE GLORIOUS PAST. Back in 2016 and 2017 we did some cool posts and made some good wedge on Steemit, but these days I\u2019m fully powered down, and I don\u2019t speak Korean, so there is no reason for me to ever look at Steemit again. And same with Hive – it’s glory days are over. Hive is history, and I’m not a member of the insider club, so I\u2019m glad to move on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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