And ... ? Who are you to judge what kind of argument someone uses? It's an individual decision and not up to you to call it an excuse, may it be the worst one you've ever heard or may it be understandable. He gave you some deeper reason afterwards.
Your encounter with @dobartim proves that you use your higher stake and power to pressure him. This could be perceived as manipulative and also abusive. When dobartim gives in and plays according to the rules you want to sell him, it's of course his business. There are always two in the game.
But there is no fairness between two people who do not talk with the same strength. That is obvious. The one with lesser power is clearly in the weaker position, if he is not realizing that he can't be pushed towards a behavior you want to see from him. You are going for weaker accounts than yours - that makes your actions highly questionable. Stay in your own rank.
You are out on a mission to set examples and then you want to mobilize the minnows as you realize how much work it is to talk to single people. You let them tell you their stories on which you can give thumbs up or down. You are going around and letting your ego being stroked by using the might making people their goal what is your goal? Visiting to check if they got it?
What you deceive yourself with, is being the good guy. Everyone here is corrupt. Me, you and all others. No other people than saints can be described as non-corruptive. Exactly where one does not recognize one's own corruption, it is contained as a blind spot. As long as you walk around and make others aware of their blind spots, you could want to see your own as well.
... The more I think about it the more I could call you receiving upvotes on your constant same themes about steemit, steemit, steemit, rewards, votes, user-retention, numbers and ROI's as abusive and give you downvotes.
I don't do that because I know that you even have a hard time to bear my feedback. You are good at giving downvotes but not receiving them. From life experience I'd say there is nobody who can take a red flag with dignity and not with a raging or sad heart.
I will not give you downvotes because that would be acting as if there were rules agreed upon through consensus in this realm. But there aren't. There are rules outside the Internet and there I can speak my mind and tell some rude gangs on the bus to stop violating the space of others. I have full certainty in doing that.
You enjoy your power and hopefully learn something in the long run.
I judge arguments by their logic. He gave more reasoning which didn't improve on that, and I let him be. Evil me!
Who are you to tell me I'm not a saint? That's for a future pope to decide I would say.
About poor dobartim, here's how he got my attention
https://steemit.com/poetry/@hiroyamagishi/pynz26
A witnesses posting about steem 90 times in 3.5 years is abusive? Would you prefer me to show off my daily lunch? You're hilarious.
I receive way more downvotes than anyone else you ever talked to probably. That's a side effect of fighting abusers, they retaliate. They have a lot more power than you (and me), I wouldn't even feel yours. I don't mind, I keep going.
And that's it, I'm done talking to you. Have a nice life, Karen.
Are you saying you are a saint? :D HaHa, you find at least some humor.
There is really no one suffering here. It's all luxury and mind construction. No one investing here money was unaware of the risk, no one is so poor to must live of the reward pool. It's all virtual and no financial harm is done to anybody in any case. It's just the mental meaning you give to it which makes it meaningful.
Right, I should stop engaging myself when I lack humor.