Silver Bloggers Community refresh
The Silver Bloggers’ Community is a bit like the world – and life. Our subscribers, now nearly 1,5 thousand (who would have thought?), hail from the four corners of the globe. It’s all quite marvellous.
Like life, community activity ebbs and flows; phases come and go. Over the last eighteen or so months, the Silver Bloggers’ community has, as our Dude suggests, developed into a space where over 40 adults the "Wisdom-ized Crypto Blogger" can share their stories – of today and yesteryear. As we summed up in our March reflections on the community:
Silver Bloggers is a niche community for young-at-heart, kindred Silvery Souls - usually in the 40+ category. We tend to be pre-occupied with one or more of these:
- Retirement planning
- Semi- or fully retired
- Freelancer - pre- or post-retirement; second, third, fourth or fun careers, side hustles or hobbies
- Post-retirement nine-to-fivers
- Seasoned (and not-so-seasoned) crypto HODLERS
- The good old days
A bit of history
When Silver-Blonde Lizzie conceived the community, the idea was to have an age restriction – not as a maximum, but as a minimum. Ageism, a bit like youth discrimination, is a “thing”. As communities popped up on Hive, there wasn’t one for folk who are moving into new phases of their lives – whether they liked it or not. Similarly, some of the older – in years and in moons – Hiveans couldn’t find a comfortable community.
And so, the Silver Bloggers’ Community was born.
It’s not about a number
We soon discovered that it was impossible to chase the numbers – how could we confirm – without a KYC process, which is NOT what we’re about – that someone was born in or after 1892???
We listened. We dropped that restriction, and kept our content focus.
Retirement or reFirement?
Depending on one’s life journey and what we wish for (ha!), retirement is a dream or a nightmare. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Throughout life, we move through different phases – child to adult, parent, grandparent, spouse, working person, happy, sad, grieving, you name it.
What is also more and more evident (and we like that!) is that most of our subscribers are in the second phases of their lives. Mostly they're not pre-occupied with the wonders of retirement. Either they cannot, do not and/or will not retire. Whether that’s a choice or life circumstance, it doesn’t matter. The bottom line, we’re moving away from retirement to reFirement. All based on at least four decades of life experience – which should have taught us something, right?
Meet the real Silver Bloggers
We, and our fellow Silvers, are an eclectic group of people from all over the world who have lived through many phases of life. Some of us are middle-aged adults, while others have even more years of worldly experience. Some of us have corporate experience, or have been gig workers since before it was a “thing”; others are house spouses or single working parents. Many of us are entrepreneurs who have had no qualms (or choice) about starting over when life throws us curved balls.
Others are a mix of all of the above and much, much more.
Admin Housekeeping
Keeping house is what we all have to do and the community is no different.
A gift for our delegators
We've been saying for a while that we've been looking at ways of saying a "proper" thank you to the folk who so generously delegate to our community account. The bigger the delegations the more meaningful the vote we can give to deserving subscribers' posts. It also helps us to build the account so that we have a decent prize pot for our Blog of the Month initiative.
As of a while ago, and some of you may have noticed, we have set up a Silver Bloggers' Fanbase where we have applied a sliding scale and set autovotes so that all our delegators will receive a certain number of votes from our account until it reaches the cap of 80%.
If you want to delegate to @hive-106316, you can do it directly from your wallet or by using the nifty table at the end of this post.
Manual curation will never stop
The auto votes don't mean that we've stopped curating posts - our fabulous curators, the mad Silver Scot and Silver Cat and occasionally helped by the other lazy three - do a sterling job. A special thank you to them for the time they spend on curation posts - the selection and the writing.
Speaking of thanks and curation, a shout out to the team @ocd for looking out for, and supporting this community from day one.
Engaging is key to crypto-social success
We are a community. Human beings are social creatures and this blockchain is a social space. That means engaging with other community members - on their posts and responding to comments. It builds relationships and rewards - in more ways than one.
Which brings me to our selection processes for #bom and for curation: we cannot help but notice who interacts a lot on posts and who doesn't. Many challenges on the blockchain make this mandatory; we're not going to do that, but when someone's taken the trouble to participate, the least we can do is leave a little something to say we've been there! You never know what you might get in return!
Please Follow and interact with @hive-106316
Assuming you're (and even if you're not) a subscribed Silver Blogger please follow our "mother account". That way you're sure not to miss any updates (like this), challenges, curation posts as well as brilliant subscriber posts that we re-blog.
It's also this account that sponsors all the #bom contests - which we are told, offers some of the best prizes on the Hive blockchain.
It's easy to follow the mother account: here's how...
Go to https://peakd.com/@hive-106316 and check the steps in the two pictures here:
Lastly - almost
We also try to make a point of re-blogging your posts so that you get more eyes - and votes, and comments and rewards.
Finally...
If you have any questions or suggestions, please
- drop them in the comments section
- tag a member of the team to be sure they're not missed. In case you didn't know, we are @lizelle, @mondoshawan, @coquicoin, @tengolotodo and @fionasfavourites!
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Except maybe my age
I don't see how I can qualify to me In the group
Not been able to work since the 80s
Not being able to work definitely doesn't stop you from sharing your life experiences with us, if you've not worked since the 80s, you must have reached the 'silvery' age😉
Thank you for stopping by @adysscheryl 🤗
I see your reply. I was in my 20s. I acknowledge you. There was something I say in the post. I will consider but am only 62
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If this community did not exist, it would have to be invented!
I’m in the middle age (44) and I love to read experiences and memories similar to mine. Those of you who have lived in a world without internet know what I mean, hehe.
Thank you for your work, I appreciate it a lot. 🤗
Thank you for sharing your life experiences with us @palomap3!
I don't think today's youth can imagine living in a world without internet, communication was much slower back then, we relied on letter writing and telephone calls. I often shake my head and wonder how on earth we managed, but that was how things were, we'd never have thought we'd one day be carrying phones in our pockets wherever we went & that letter writing would all but disappear!
What next hey? Makes one wonder😉
That world we remember no longer exists, just as we are no longer the same. That is what growing up and maturing is all about.
The future? We will see when it arrives. Day by day. 🤗
I am really glad I decided to give this community a second look after having seen it tagged in various posts for a long time. At the time, I was very involved with once mega-busy "Power House Creatives," which sadly fizzled away after it's creative dynamo @jaynie went "walkabout" and hasn't yet returned... so I am really glad to be part of Silver Bloggers... which is also "age appropriate" for me... 62 next week!
I am actually really glad that you showed up too, @denmarkguy. I have always and forever been in love with your no-nonsense subject matter, your way of thinking, and the way you present. I may not agree with every single thing you write, but, I am never insulted to think differently and your presentation allows me to consider the other side.
I am frequently stuck in my own posts and challenges and am not always the best at getting out, but, you need to because you are a gifted writer that doesn't get enough attention.
Thank you!
A gifted writer for sure @dswigle!
We also appreciate having you here with your inspiring content and meaningful engagement, despite your #marketfriday duties which must take up a load of your time.
Thank you also for the surprise 'gifts' you so generously give to our community.
You are an inspiration to many💖
We are so glad that you found us @denmarkguy, thank you for sharing your fabulous blogs in Silver Bloggers! You are one of our most consistent content creators, something we really appreciate.
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Moving forward together, sharing experiences as life unravels. Great place to enjoy visiting regularly!
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Hi Joan, yes and you are one of our stalwarts here; we appreciate your awesome engagement and twitter promos, thank you for being here🤗
Most enjoyable reading what friends enjoy in different parts of the world.
This is an excellent community, full of excellent people with so many things to say and so many thoughts to express, that no doubt I am glad to have met and to be part of it, although I have been a little discouraged and with health problems and I have not been able to be here as I would like, I must still congratulate you for being an incredible community in which I have felt very comfortable. You are all great.
We are very sorry to hear about your health problems @liliayjuvenal but glad to hear that this has become a comfortable space for you. That is exactly what we have tried to create here.
We all go through real life issues that takes us away from the keyboard, but we look forward to you bouncing back again🤗
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I'm setting up a footer snippet and want to add source for the footer here please?
Who is the clever soul who designed this one:
Tips on this welcome before I step on any toes, please?
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Currently it is like this:
join the community here
or say hello in the
Corner Coffee on Discord here
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Any complaints, guidance or further info welcome :)
Hi @nickydee,
That would be our intrepid Silver Fish and you are welcome to use it and rehash it to suit.
No complaints, it's precise & to the point 😉
Great and thanks for letting me know.
Simple is good! I like simple these days :)
😬 - Hey there Nicky... if ever you really want/need to add source, please, just without any linking... to avoid the pings! :SmirkySmirk:
Copy that!
Hello! I haven't been active here, or anywhere on Hive really, so I'm behind the times! I really needed to see this post. I even forget to tag the community. As a delegator, is there anything else I should do to benefit from the silver bloggers fanbase? I gotta get cracking on posting and supporting again. Hopefully following the mother account will get me back in the game here.
The perfect community for the young ... at heart.... :D
Anyway, are there any rules related to topics? or we can post about anything here
Hello and Welcome @jloberiza!
Thank you for subscribing to the Silver Bloggers! We do appreciate you choosing to come over into our community of young-at-heart kindred Silvery Souls...
We want everyone to succeed and have a positive experience on the Hive blockchain! Since most of us aren't digital natives and were born long before internet was a public thing, we have a keenness to learn more about blockchain and crypto, together.
To top that all off, we would like to invite you to our Silver Bloggers Server, our chat room, where we talk about whatever is on our mind. The place to find answers to any questions that may arise on this journey together. The place to help each other out. To prosper together into the future of the internet. And not to forget, the place used to "promote" your blog or the posts into the contests we sometimes have and also to get your silvery member name.
Hope to see you soon again in our Silver Bloggers Community! Thanks for being awesome!
I realise that I should be making more use of this community. I would post on here more often but although I'm definitely silver, not all of my posts seem to fit. So it's about posting when they do.
I don't really understand how the delegation thing works, so that may be for another time.