Last post in 2019 - a review

When I look at the newspapers these days, it's all about the review of what happened during the year. Was it an eventfull year? Who married whom? What happened where? I have to say that I'm not so much into that. So why write a post about 2019 myself? Well I realised one great thing about steem and it is that your posts will always be visible on the steem blockchain. Writing about the previous year will allow me to come back to it later on and remember what happened...

How was 2019 for steem?

When I think back about this year, the things that I remember most were quite negative:

• Prices of steem falling from 0.40 to 0.12 Steem / Usd
• The Hype about Steem-Engine Tokens
• The Hype before the Hard Fork
• The recalibration after the Hard Fork with the disapearance of bit-bots
• The downvote wars
• less life on the platform in general, less posts, less interaction, less people

How did I feel at the end of 2018, how do I feel now?

End of 2018 At the end of 2018, I started the project @help.venezuela and I enjoyed it greatly here on steem. I had very intensive contact with many people and I posted a lot.

End of 2019 I have to admit that I don't feel that positif about steem now. What I regret most is that the general culture on steem has changed. I had the feeling that on steem people were more tolerant than on other platforms. Contacts could be formed quite easily and it was a positive place to be. This culture has unfortunately changed. The number of comments to posts has greatly diminuished also because there are less incentives for people to comment. With the downvote wars the tolerance has also disapeared. There is more negative energy around. Many people left the platform and many stopped posting regularly.

Not everything is negative however. The people that remain on the platform are quite dedicated and the quality of the posts has increased a lot. There are also interesting things going on like the community @project.hope that works together to provide quality content and interaction.

At the end of this year we also await with enthousiasm the new things that are planned on the platform like SMT's and communities that can already be used in beta mode. Maybe we all hope for one thing which is that prices of altcoin in general but especially for steem will go up next year...

What do you take with you from 2019 on steem?

Please write a comment about what you take with you from this year. What was the most important event of this year for you? What are your hopes for the coming year? What are your worries?

I would be very greatful for your comments and I will try to reward the best comments in a certain way.

by @achim03

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