Stacker of the Week Update

I’ve deliberated on this for a couple of weeks now and have decided to end my involvement with the Author of the Week initiative being run by the guys at LEO Finance. There are a couple of reasons for this decision but the main one is that there appears to be very little interest or engagement from the Silver Gold Stackers community itself, which it is supposed to be serving and representing. Last week we had our lowest poll count yet and my poll last week asking about whether I should even continue with Stacker of the Week received a fairly low level of interest.

I’m not one to flog a dead horse. For me it was never about the money because after beneficiaries got taken out of my posts I could earn more posting about my next door neighbours cat. It was always about promoting our communities content and getting some extra rewards for our authors here at SGS but if that is not considered something worth getting behind then there isn’t much point in me continuing.

That said, the Stacker of the Week thing was a success in a few ways. From the LEO perspective it has helped promote the new poll feature and get some people testing it before it went into production. From the SGS perspective it has earned a few extra rewards for some of our quality long-format authors, so it hasn’t been a total waste of time – It just hasn't worked out in the long run.

If anyone else wants to give it a run, feel free to drop me a DM on Discord and I’d be happy to advise. My first piece of advice would be that you need to have some community endorsement if you want to try and take it on to serve and represent SGS. I’d suggest having a good chat to @dfinney – our most active moderator who knows the community better than I do and can probably give you some good tips. If there are no other plans to go forward with this, however, I’ll make one final post this weekend to set up the beneficiaries for our Round 10 winner @silversaver888. The whale support from @leofinance, @ocd, @theycallmedan and @blocktrades has been really good and consistent every week so hopefully I can hit them up one more time.

Thanks to those people who did engage and support the initiative. Sorry it hasn’t worked out. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed, but that’s how it goes in life. You have to try things and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. The trick is knowing when to walk away and for me that feels like now.