You have to stand for something

Or

You Will fall for anything

Nothing could be more ture than that comment right there. Now before I get into a discussion about this let me give you a little history.

In the Beginning

Lets see its been just a little over 3 years (boy time sure has flown by) If I remember there where about 5 to 7 of us maybe even close to 10. Just making our way to the big ol world of steem. There was no tag, no community and no Bot. Trust me when I say we where all lost. It did not take us long before we had our own tag. It was cool, you did not have to look for post anymore, just click on the tag. We felt like we where becoming big dogs. The average post value was less than 20 cents and we kicked them out atleast once a day. We manged to recruit some new members and the group started growing.

How do we get more Members!

Lets create a Vote Incentive Bot. See how I used the word incentive, cause thats was the intention of the bot. I do not remember exactly who's idea it was but the community (no longer a group) decided that if you could offer a vote service for precious metals post then we could recruit more members. But the most important reason was this right here.... this group-communitys goal was to expose as many people to precious metals as we possibly could. Therefore we had to get our post on the trending page for this to work. (Reson for the bot) Guess what? It worked before you new it we had well over 100 members and very close to 150 and the majority of them posting about metals. (Goal achieved)

The fall of Crypto

So we where going strong then all of sudden the great crashed happen and half of the group disappeared it seemed over night. We still had a strong core and where moving forward. Steem went from an all time high of $4 to a quick low of less than 50 cents. Then you had bot killers come out, they where against bots. For some reason they did not attacked our group very much, infact it was so few you could say not at all.

The fall and Birth.

Well we saw the fall of steemit and the birth of Hive. Here is where the water gets very muddy. There seemed to be a immediate decline in activity, including myself. But if we fast forward to current time it gets confusing for me. We have a community tag that no longer shows up on my blog if I use it. In fact the only way to see the post is by clicking on the community tab and then look for it. How does the rest of Hive see it? Then I go through the members list just to see that we have a little over 20 active members. Then I start going through ssg, by the way is it ssg, or sgs? I've seen both. Anyways I start to go through ssg-community post votes and I cant help but notice that over half of the post the bot votes on are not any way shape or form related to metals.... now remember the word I used early "incentive". The bot was created to be an incentive to post about metals. What has happened? I have seen all sorts of comments, like I am new stacker, I am busy, my stack is not very big.....etc.....etc..... POSTING ABOUT METAILS does not mean you have to show off your stack. If there is anyone out there that is willing to try and convince me that you cant post about metals. Then I believe my efforts in the past 3 years have failed. Now there is currently a Post out from ssg-community with a very important subject that needs to be voted on and I will live with the outcome of the vote, but I will tell you this.....

WE ARE A PRECIOUS METALS COMMUNITY, THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE CREATION OF THIS COMMUNITY WAS TO SUPPORT AND EDUCATED PEOPLE ABOUT PRECIOUS METALS. NOT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, NOT FARMING, NOT PHOTOGRAPHY, NOT ACTIFIT L, NOT RANT AND NOT CRYPTO.

Here is a link, in case you haven't voted yet

https://hive.blog/silvergoldstackers/@ssg-community/it-s-time-to-vote-calling-all-members-speak-now-and-be-heard

If this vote wins not to make anychanges to the current bot service, then I will put out a vote to change the name of our community. I am not really trying to hurt anyones feelings here, I feel like I have gone above and beyond for this community but I can not support a precious metal bot voting on none precious metals post.

By the way just to make this post about silver, I will ne giving away a hand poured piece of silver to one lucky SSG member for commenting on this post about your thoughts. All members who comment will be entered in to a drawing and a winner will be sleceted randomly. Don't send any hive!!! Just comment.

Thanks for time and understanding

Keep stacking

@raybrockman