Hey hope you didn't take offense - I was asking honest questions and this sounds like an honest reply. If you don't know what I am talking about RE scammers/spammers, you don't know. That isn't your fault (necessarily). If you want to you can look at the commenters below and click on the votes that each comment received - look for the ones flagged by @cheetah (flags show up as a "-" symbol instead of a "+") and check out the wallet/transaction history for those accounts - they funnel money to low REP spammer/scammer accounts. I have no idea how all these folks showed up here but presumably you have at least some idea if you are going to write a post about what I referred to as "resteem ring".
I was just trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like some strange/shady things going on here. It could very well just be people taking advantage of your good nature and knowing they can get a big upvote by showing up at your posts and resteeming. I would personally advise against giving big upvotes to people that are funneling money to the spammers/scammers that choke the blockchain with crap - but ultimately it is up to you to police your own actions and act according to your own moral compass.
To be clear, I did think this post was well written and undervalued and upvoted it because of that. I do not have a twitter account but if you want to talk in private would be happy to chat on steemit.chat (@carlgnash there as well) or Discord (@gnashster there).
I tried to make clear the entire time that I wasn't judging you - I didn't even know what was going on! I was just trying to figure out what was happening here. From the responses I got from you and @bitbulls I believe you are not intentionally supporting spammers here. I just wasn't sure. I am still not sure about the ethicality of taking pictures that you do not own, of homeless people, from various internet sources, and using them as advertising without the consent of the original photographers nor the subject matter. But that is kind of unrelated to the rest of this all. Anyway sorry to choke your post's comments with this. Would be happy to chat privately at the channels above. Good luck - Carl
No offense at all Sir. Here are the honest answers, perhaps as honest as honesty can get. And please never think that your comments will ever choke my post. You are most welcome to write whatever you feel like.
Cheers :)