I admire your helpful spirit, @kus-knee, but I found it annoying that he was on the platform for 2 (count them two!) days, does not know how things work, but is already making suggestions as to how to change things.
We have had the likes of him many, many, many times before. They tend to find a reason to "rage quit" when there is a downturn in the price of steem and then come back when the payouts are large again. What do they call them again? Oh yeah, "Fair Weather Friends"
And, he thinks because he spent many hour of research and writing to put up many posts in one day - he should be compensated for all his work. Well, screw him. I have never used a bot, and I read every post I upvote.
My time is valuable too.
I agree with almost everything that you wrote and my initial reaction would have been to "tell him off"!
I actually discussed his "case" with my family and they too were of the "how dare he" sentiment.
I decided instead to get him to reason and hopefully this time it will help produce an active, happy user.
Perhaps two tactics or two approaches from two different personalities and I can't write that I would find fault with either.
You also do a great job mentoring, encouraging, supporting and helping Steem to succeed!
I had the same reaction too @onceuponatime and @kus-knee. I recently posted about how I gained traction on STEEMIT, from New Year's to New Year's (HOWTO Get Attention on STEEMIT without PISSING PEOPLE OFF! 😱)!
From my comment to him:
That's really cool. So happy for your success!
Wow! Have you seen what happened below? That is quite some "mentoring" I got this morning.
"I have never used a bot, and I read every post I upvote."
THANK YOU! My vote power is pfft now so tip!
I am not so offended by the person who got in a twist, this site is overwhelming. You will see people call it a "meritocracy" which leads one to think that if you put in some hard work you will be rewarded. Trouble is this is NOT a meritocracy, not a pure one. Anyway, I am following you BECAUSE you do not use bots. I appreciate that more than words can say. Vote = curation and the bots do NOT read a word they upvote.
Learning to drive a car is "overwhelming". Learning to play a guitar is "overwhelming". Learning to speak a foreign language is "overwhelming".
You don't earn a lot of money as a top race car driver the second day you take a driving lesson. You don't make money as a performance musician, or a studio musician, the second day you start doing a couple of chords. You don't earn money as a translator the second day you start learning a foreign language
I have spent thousands of hours learning crypto, making contacts, posting, commenting, and investing in steem when everyone else was pulling money out hand over fist when prices were dropping.
"My vote power is pfft now so tip!"
Yeah, right. That's a good reason to use up my voting power in your humble opinion?
Not sure how you got into a twist over my not being offended... But OK. I did not say he was justified or correct, just that I understand. I did not ask you to do anything with your upvoting power, I dropped a tip on you because my vote is not worth very much. Do you not understand that the 0.1 SBD you were gifted below came from me? I was not asking, I was giving. You are very welcome and I promise I won't make that mistake again! Unfollowed just that fast!
I read it as you have very little voting power so I should tip you. You did not say "so here's a tip", you said "so tip!" which sounded like an order to me.
Yeah... that is how you call the tipu service. It says right in the box that I GAVE you a tip. You strike me as the kind of person who is LOOKING for excuses to be offended. I am sure you will be wildly successful on that endeavor.
I read your comment. I did not read the bot (until after I responded to you). Your comment says:
"I have never used a bot, and I read every post I upvote."
THANK YOU! My vote power is pfft now so tip!
I am not so offended by the person who got in a twist, this site is overwhelming. You will see people call it a "meritocracy" which leads one to think that if you put in some hard work you will be rewarded. Trouble is this is NOT a meritocracy, not a pure one. Anyway, I am following you BECAUSE you do not use bots. I appreciate that more than words can say. Vote = curation and the bots do NOT read a word they upvote.
I don't know if we are working towards the same end or not. I want to point out the adverse effects of bots whereas you, despite having apparently lauded me for NOT using them, seem to be making use of them yourself.
tipu only gives a tip when I read and approve the comment. Congratulations, I am muting you now too. Feel free to continue this pointless arguement without me!
Unmuted to TRY to get you to unwind your knickers. That statement of "I have never used a bot" was in quotations. I was QUOTING you, not making that claim for myself. The "bot" you are objecting to me using does not take a DIME from the reward pool, that came out of MY WALLET. I tried to give you a gift... You are SO anxious to have the high moral ground that you are unkind to people giving you gifts. Nicely played.
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@onceuponatime good point here on the far weather friends but maybe they were not feeling happy to write. Anyhow time does set apart the loyal from not I guess your fidelity is unquestionable. Following you