Yes I saw that, thanks for including us! Also just a heads up - trufflepig is completely automated and no one can get in touch with the creator. Many times the posts include authors who are known abusers, so just be extra careful there. Also I’m not sure if it’s still the case but qurator used to be a delegate for a vote, so I’m not sure how their curation works but I don’t believe it’s manual. I’ll check the other one out though.
I don’t think my comment is a fallacy in the slightest. I’m constantly searching smaller valued posts and authors and I don’t find many that truly are going unsupported. I hear often that these little guys can’t get any support and then I look and to be honest I’m not seeing that. There are a few posts I’ve seen as examples that for me personally are not worth supporting. No one is entitled to support, a content creator needs to attract a crowd.
As far as my comment about pulling everything out, that goes to those who I hear constantly saying they are a small account, barely getting by, and the whales should support them.. in fact I’ve heard you say repeatedly it’s larger accounts responsibility to support accounts like you and others.. but how do you think we got our stake? I didn’t mine it.. or get it by doing under the table things, I worked my ass off and powered it up. I remember at one point you saying this to someone and then I looked at your account and you had cashed out more than their whole stake. So if they had done the same as you, they would be a small account.
So while I think it’s great that many live off STEEM, I don’t think they are entitled to pay their bills with it off the backs of those who invest for the longterm value of STEEM.
I’d love to pay my bills with STEEM and I hope one day my investment will pay off.. but the inflation is not free money and if we don’t consider the longterm goals, STEEM will never be worth anything.
So please, stop the socialist narrative and stop acting as if anyone owes you anything. This may sound harsh, but I’ve had enough. And you are the biggest culprit of this.
With all of that being said, please drop anything you think adds value in C2. I actively look there daily and work hard to ensure those authors are seen.. and we do all of that as volunteers with no compensation whatsoever.. so please understand it’s because we truly care.
Have a great day.
In the last year, I have grown my stake from 250 sp on two blogs to over 1700 sp on three blogs. I work 14-18 hours a day here trying to help other small people grow their blogs too. I believe in STEEM enough to work that hard, and thankfully it has been able to keep me under a roof and fed. I understand you do not think any one should ever take money out of STEEM, but bigger accounts take far more that I or other small blogs do.
I am on the trufflepig post a few times a month for some of my posts. When that happens, I go in and support some of the others as I can. I have never once seen a poop post there in over one year I have been doing this.
Qurator supports your first post of the day if you are a member. All of their curation posts are done by humans who are then looking to make sure there are no bad characters. Under NewSTEEM they are making a lot of change to their procedures of support right now.
I think that the down-vote armies have cleared out a majority of our bad actors and I am all in favor of this and the NewSTEEM changes. If you make a practice of looking in the places I recommend in my "Whale Tip Pre-Curated posts" post, it is easier to find posts to support than looking on your own. In the "Whale Tip Contest Post", you can find hard working people running contests with very little support. Somehow we need to grow a middle class. Contests are a way for many to start and grow here, and so helping the organizers with your vote helps many more.
Curation is hard for anyone. For bigger accounts that used to delegate or only vote for each other, is it even more difficult. This is the reason I am doing these posts now, with more to come. I have seen all the posts of big fish saying how hard it is to find good posts, and this is my effort to steer them in an easier direction.
I already drop links in the c-squared discord and will continue.
I actually didn’t say I didn’t think anyone should ever take money out - I said those taking money out shouldn’t look to those who decided to invest instead of take out and tell them they owe them something. They don’t.
You came to my blog, again, to tell me to “pass my bounty down” and directed me to your post to show me how.. your post that directed me to the project I run. Did you really feel I needed to be directed to such?
I’m just saying before you complain about lack of support for small accounts and try to “help out some bigger accounts” to find content, maybe take a few seconds to look at who you are offering “advice” to. I don’t need you to direct me to content, I curate all day, and have for nearly 2 years.. I’m not a whale who doesn’t know how to use my VP, in fact I help the whales use their VP. So please.. don’t lecture me or give me advice on how to curate, as I don’t need it. Thanks.