:) It's nice to have a sweet mom-like figure here on steemit.
I love the range of ages and backgrounds represented here. I do feel that we could benefit from some 80+ year olds (and hopefully you do not think that I think you are 80+ haha). They tend to not care what anyone thinks of them and wish to impart wisdom on us.
I'd love a grandma or grandpa steemwhale who could give us all some deeper knowledge than what we currently know already.
haha - Some days I feel about 80 :) Pushing 50, so probably still skewing the age range - but yeah, there's probably some earned wisdom (i.e. learning stuff the hard way) to share. They say it's smart to learn from your mistakes - and brilliant to learn from others'. That you learned how to handle a troll so graciously shows some wisdom in you - and I'm hoping others will see what you did there and follow suit.
Thank you for the kind words. And that is my personal choice as to how I handle myself. I can understand acting out in hate, but have found it wastes too much emotion and doesn't get me anywhere.
I don't know the motive behind anyone's actions. Even people that may come across as the nicest people ever may be complete jerks in person, but I'll take someone fake being nice over someone being rude any time.
It can get annoying if someone only posts the most wonderful things about everyone. Sometimes peoples work is not up to par and they need to be called out. Not because you want to be a jerk, but because to have steemit be successful long term we need to continue to strive to make content that is rarely seen elsewhere.
Being relatively troll free has afforded some great honest conversations and I am looking forward to what steemit has in store as more people adopt the system and important changes / decisions are made.