Hah, well, I'm thinking this is a joke question right? However, if you have a real question, I'd be happy to give you an honest answer (which you can then choose to believe or not, of course!).
I have worked with Jerry on our series of witness posts after meeting him at his Steemit meet-up briefly. That is all I can take credit for.
It was his idea, and he offered me the full liquid payout with no haggling. He also handled the videos and I think pays for help with that, so ultimately, he received less than half of the reward.
If Jerry will forgive the breach of client confidentiality, you can see his reason in his own words from my Discord log:
"Would you like to collaborate on a post with an in depth look at top witnesses? I think a post showing what each witness does would be powerful because witnesses are doing so much without often much awareness by the community."
If his goal was to make more rewards, he would probably have been better off posting his own content or reposts. Bringing me in and splitting with me was an attempt to service the community and help earn his witness support, if I had to guess, not a money-making plan calculated to be +EV in the short term.
In the long term, I'm sure he hoped it would benefit his witness campaign, but given he has pledged the bulk of his potential block rewards to advertising, it's tough to hold this against him.
I hope this answers any questions you have. Cheers!
It was a joke and I don't think you did anything wrong.
I wrote that because Jerry has insisted that he was writing his own posts and sadly he is constantly proving himself to be the type of person that will screw anybody over to get ahead, @mindhunter is a great example of this.
Also by treating Youtubers like charity cases, by throwing massive votes at them, because their followers don't exist, we are removing rewards that could be used to pay new people for quality content.
I would prefer to see Steemit grow than to watch Jerry throw more Steemians under the bus.
"I wrote that because Jerry has insisted that he was writing his own posts "
I think he's been pretty transparent.
Each witness post had a full paragraph saying that I wrote the posts almost word for word. In other cases, he cites when he uses a transcriptor to help.
"screw anybody over to get ahead, @mindhunter is a great example of this."
He didn't screw anyone. He presented the facts. The facts looked so bad that Mindhunter, who was ALREADY BEING FLAGGED BEFORE JERRY'S POST RELIGIOUSLY, gave up and left.
The community ran him out. Jerry attacked no one.
"Also by treating Youtubers like charity cases, by throwing massive votes at them"
I think for this complaint you need to direct it to the curation formula. People are dog-piling on top authors for their own selfish reasons with auto-voter.
"I would prefer to see Steemit grow than to watch Jerry throw more Steemians under the bus."
Jerry brings in lots of people, theoretically. That's the reason anyone wants him here.
I've already demonstrated that he has not thrown anyone under the bus.
@ats-david - as a newbie here I had tried to stay impartial and make my own judgement on what I could read of his work and his underlying intentions. While I did think he's exaggerated and pretty eccentric, I figured he was bringing traffic to Steemit.
Also I thought perhaps his sign up offer was a little misunderstood so I was ready to be open to that, I think everyone deserves a chance, or even a second chance...but at this point I totally agree.
It's not the right time to do a post about how great you especially after a "sorry" post!