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<center><h3>*Ever since I Got The 5000 SP Delegation
From @fulltimegeek, I Have Done Many Things.*</h3></center>

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I got the 5000 SP Delegation from @fulltimegeek on 2017-12-17. And I have been able to see the **exact** numbers I pull off each week due to a the weekly analysis by @abh12345.

<center>[You can  find the latest one here.](https://steemit.com/stewardsofgondor/@abh12345/fulltimegeek-brings-out-the-hammer-and-finds-new-stewardsofgondor-to-entrust-with-350-000-steem-power)</center>

However, even though I appreciate all the work and time Asher spends to share these statistics, I've decided to make my own post. This would allow me to not only share the statistics with my readers, but also make it easier for myself to see what I have done, what my thoughts are and so on. This would literally function as a diary.

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<center><h2>This Is What I've Accomplished Since Last Week.</h2></center>

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I have to tell you that the #stewardsofgondor are **down** on **all** numbers this week, but I will definitely **not** try to use that as some sort of defence for my own results. I just felt that it was worth to mention, as the downwards trend felt a little bit weird to me. We've had incredible results and we've gone up week after week, but suddenly, we're down.

However, you shouldn't overthink this too much, because things will always be up and down. You will have more upvotes one week compared to the next and the other week, you'll have more comments than the next and so on. That's just how things works when you're looking at **numbers**.

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## That being said,
Let's dive into this and look at **my** numbers.

**All** my numbers are down compared to the week before, except **one** thing. The amount of **downvotes**. I'll talk about that later on in this article.

If we look at the amount of **comments** and the **length** of the comments we can easily see that I'm **down** at first glance. However, if you take a deeper look, you'll notice that I am actually **up** in terms of **length**.

If we take the **length** of the comments divided with the number of **comments** we get this:
- 41138 / 209 = 196,83.

The **length** is the total character length of all comments (excluding posts).

So I had 196,83 characters for **each** comment I made last week. Like I said, this week looked different in many aspects but if we take the **length** of the comments divided with the number of **comments** again, we get this:

- 26861 / 123 = 218,38.

That basically means that the comments I have made have consisted of 21,55 more characters than the previous week. And that's a **good** thing if you ask me.

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## Moving Forward.
Even though I really want **all** the SP I've been delegated by @fulltimegeek to go towards the **growth** of Steemit and to **reward** others, I cannot allow myself to **not** downvote certain things from time to time. Like I've said in a previous article, there are no strict guidelines of how you should use the delegated SP and it all comes down to how @fulltimegeek interprets it. If he is satisfied with your results or not.

That is why I have **continued** to do **exactly** what I did **before** the delegation. I mean, @fulltimegeek must have seen what I do, how I do things and he must have been satisfied enough to delegate me the SP to begin with. - So there's literally **no** reason for me to **not** be myself.

<center><h2>He Believed In Me. He Saw Potential.</h2></center>

That being said though, there are still room for improvement from my side and I wasn't as aware of that **prior** to the delegation because I never cared to look at the statistics. The statistics are awesome in the sense that I can **clearly** see what I have done and with that, also **improve** or **change** certain things in my behaviour or in my approach.

- And that doesn't happen in a blink of an eye.

You have to give things time and slowly change your approach. Otherwise, you'll quickly and easy lose yourself. And we don't want that to happen. I want to **improve** and produce **better** results, but I cannot change everything in a heartbeat.

Let's face it. It's **easy** to increase your number of comments for instance. All it takes is a few words. *"Thank you for this article"* or whatever, but we don't want that. I don't recommend or endorse such behaviour. We're looking for **quality**. Something that adds **value** in one way or another.

Even though a simple: *"Thank you!"*, can mean a great deal for people, it's also **not** that hard to write something like that and it takes **seconds**. I have written comments that have taken me **longer** to write than some of my articles in the past. Perhaps not **longer** but they've at least taken me anything between 20 and 40 minutes. And that's why you **cannot** judge anyone based on the number of **posts** they have. 

I have made ~4000 posts and I've been a member on Steemit since July 2016. I have seen people who joined in November 2017 with more than 6,000 posts. - I don't mean that these peoples comments are bad or short by any means... But the truth is, that **most** of them are probably just a simple *"Thank you"*, *"Good Job"* or *"I like this post"*.

## I want more than that.

And meanwhile I aim to provide more than that, I also want to produce **more** comments in total. So it's definitely a *"numbers game"*. I often skip to comment on articles because there's literally nothing more I have to say. And instead of saying: *"Wow, this was great. Thank you for sharing"*, I often just **ignore** that one. And that obviously affects my weekly numbers too.

- Just like it affects all of us.

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<center><h2>Goals For Next Week:</h2></center>

I usually **don't** like to set numbers to work towards because I often end up miserable and sad if I don't reach the goals I set... So I won't do that this time either. Because it wouldn't be worth it.

However, what I will work towards, is to **increase** and **improve** my overall statistics to next week. And **hopefully** be able to produce **more** lengthy comments too.

<center><h2>Quality beats quantity.</h2></center>

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