Hi Julia,
thank you for taking the time to write me such a detailed response. After reading it a few times I understand most of it, even though the parts about msp curation and follow votes might as well be written in Klingon and I wouldn't understand any less. It's been almost 4 weeks for me on Steemit and I'm not much wiser about all the payout and crypto stuff than I was in the beginning. One thing I learned fast though and that is that one has to watch their six here on this site, because, as you said, there is definitely a certain level of shadiness conducted by people who ride the system and take advantage of how complicated this whole blockchain mumbo jumbo sounds to greenhorns like me.
So, please forgive me when I over reacted, but after your generous explanation I'm sure you're one of the good people here. Thank you for picking my artwork and for your awesome feedback, again please excuse my paranoia and I hope there are no hard feelings.
Best
Ralf
Its okay I understand the initial reaction, like I said my first inclination was to ask but in the end it just didn't work out, and after featuring 200 artists you are the first to bring it up. I am glad we had this conversation though, no hard feelings on my end at all. Just a suggestion I think you should use the tag Slothicorn for your posts, they also curate and support artists on the platform, you can visit the page here: @slothicorn, and check out @elohprojects if you haven't already I feel his art will resonate with you, have a great weekend!
I forgot to add I do a biweekly art contest you should join, this one is almost over, the new one will start Monday, it's called art explosion, currently offering 50SBD in prizes!
Ha, funny you say that because I actually used the tag @slothicorn in this post, and @elohprojects was one of the first artists I followed here. I don't think he's very active though. And thanks for the heads up, I'll check out art explosion for sure.
Nice I didn't take note of your tags, his art is incredible but he doesn't post much lately, he is also an admin of Slothicorn :)
Oh I see, working behind the scenes so to speak. But speaking of slothicorn, and sorry to go back to this, but what I noticed is they esteem the individual original artist posts prior to their collective curation post. I think that makes the whole thing a bit more balanced and fairer to the artist, because when people up vote the resteem the original creator gets the benefit. Just a thought.