Hi all,
I still feel terrible about singing Zeartul's praises and encouraging everyone to put money into the Bellyrub bank. For that you have my deepest apologies. But I'd like to do more than that.
I would like to give at least partial compensation those who lost money in the bellyrubbank. As a show of good faith, I've already given @cryptopie and @darthnava full compensation. I hope it doesn't seem like I'm playing favorites, but everyone can agree that those two really need the money.
For the rest, I'm willing to pay you back 30 cents on the dollar. So if you put 100 SBD into the bellyrub bank, I'll pay you back 30 SBD. If you wish to be compensated, please file a claim here. Include preferably a link to the blockchain transaction to where you are putting money into the bellyrubbank, and/or at least a screen shot.
Please, only claim per person, if there were multiple instances of you being ripped off, then include all instances in your claim.
Regarding bellyrub
In about 6 days, I'll have most of my voting power back. If you paid money to bellyrub and didn't receive a vote, I'll use my own voting power to give you a generous vote, please include that in your claim. Please have patience, I only have limited voting power so it may take weeks to give out the votes.
Again, I'm terribly sorry, I hope this will at least mitigate some of the pain.
Edit:
Compensation completed list:
@cryptopie - 100% 1000 steem
@darthnava - 100% 500 steem
@positivechange10 - 30% - 129 steem
@coolbowser - 43% 43 SBD
@imperfect-one - 30%+ 56 SBD
@stackin - 30% 195 steem
@d-pend - 30% 45 SBD
@fiveboringgames - 30% 19.5 SBD
@xyzashu - 30% 15 SBD
@armshippie - 30% 6 SBD
@jraysteem - 100% 25 SBD via the compensationfund
@funatoz - 100% 1.5 SBD for purchased vote
@alexvan - 30% 30 SBD
@mlequo - 30%+ 2106 steem (!!!)
@wilx - 30% 7.5 steem
@edolo - 30% 28.5 steem
@whatsup - 30% 15 SBD
@naysayer - 30% 9 steem
@joeblack1 - 30% 255 SBD
@truconspiracy - 30% 6 SBD
@cikxaijen - 30% 6 SBD
@amreshchandra - 30% 86.7 SBD
@an0nkn0wledge - 30% 15 SBD
@blockgators - 30% 90 SBD
@ratticus - 30% 30 SBD
@simnrodrguez - 30% 102 SBD
@cotarelo - 30% 45 SBD
@cheftony - 30% 660 SBD
@tantrum - 30% 12 steem
@barbara-orenya - 30% 6 SBD
@sames - 30% 6 SBD
@kryptonaut - 30% 6 SBD
@svashta - one generous vote delivered
@yosaryan - one generous vote delivered
@steemitri - two generous votes delivered
@an0nkn0wledge - one generous vote delivered.
Compensation TODO list:
an0nkn0wledge - four generous votes
Wow this is so generous! I've re-steemed your post.
Don't forget guys @neoxian is a witness on Steem currently ranking #52.
No he didn't ask me anything.
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
He colaborated with @zeartul to sink my posts, affecting its visibility. They got un sunk after another user voted on it.
Two of my posts about zeartul was downvoted by him.
I don't see him any better than @zeartul. He was clearly trying to halt my efforts to get zeartul banned. He failed. Zeartul got banned from both minnowbooster and steemfollower and all his posts also got sunk.
You sure that is genorousity or demage control?
Update: He downvoted this comment as well.
If Neoxian thought at the time that your posts were wrong then his actions are understandable.
On Steem we are distributing a couple tens of thousands of dollars everyday while governments are creating millions of dollars everyday out of nothing stealing the real labor and resources of people.
It's okay to try to expose the problems we see but we need to put things into perspective.
Now, there's a negative momentum between you and Neoxian and momentum take some energy to be reversed. It's not with more negativity that you will see something positive coming out of your interaction with Neoxian.
I don't know what you were expecting from your comment. From your comment I would have pretty much expect what happened.
@littleboy I'd recommend you to try to be more diplomat in your future communications.
@neoxian I can't decide for you, I don't know everything that happened and I don't have your perspective but I'm asking you, if possible, to show some indulgence for @littleboy on his future posts and comments in other words give him another chance.
That's the best I can do for you @littleboy. Try not to escalate things but on the contrary try to deescalate things and find mutual ground.
Yea it's just a flag war, that he started by the way. But I'll be happy to leave him alone and stop flagging if he stays out of my blog.
This is a very generous gesture of you @neoxian. I just hope people don't too soon forget the lesson that many seem to repeatedly succumb to, over and over again...
If something seems "to good to be true", it probably is.
No "bank" can "guarantee" such outrageous "risk-free" returns, and those that do are inevitably some sort of ponzi scheme, upon which it's only a matter of time before investors face their "comeuppance" for falling for it.
And with the rare exception of your graciousness in this case, there is often little or no recourse to bail anyone out.
Are you somehow connected to whalepower community? The whale power hq guy got his asses kicked recently for making retarded accusations against Utopian.
He's got my vote now.
Neox is a class act.
He's got my vote as well. @ironshield
I lost about 70$ worth upvotes due to the combination of your and zeartul's efforts to shut be down. Refund me please!
@neoxian
No, but I'll give you another flag. Have a good day.
Like I care about that scam enabler.
Its called pending payouts for a reason.
And you even declined paypout? Man youre really showing a noble example
but i bet we would all have no problem upvoting your posts like this so you can use the reward pool to help repay you for what youve paid back so far since you shouldnt have to take that burden alone. it was many peoples fault, mostly all zeartfuls but a tiny bit all the people who trusted him, and the reward pool should be tapped if it can but those involved to simply make it easier for you, so i understand you have to decline payout for this one
BUT in the future , we should all be upvoting neoxians posts and i am sorry for forgetting to upvote you recently and will start remembering to upvote you from now on! Man I need a few people to just be put on auto vote lists!
I know you aren't asking for donations, but I would like to give you a small amount. From what I read, none of this was your fault. You are not obligated in any way to do this. I don't think your reputation was hurt by this and yet you decided to try and help people. The fact that this is weighing on your conscience (even though it's not your fault) says a lot about you as a person.
And I am especially grateful that you decided to help out the strongest steemian... @cryptopie!
Mighty awesome gesture! I put 100 SBD into the bellyrubbank. It was about a month ago towards the end of October. If you go to my wallet you can see the transaction to @bellyrubbank. I’ll try and send you a link but not sure how to do that.
I have sent you 30 SBD
Sweet! Thanks so much for doing this. I know you don't have to and it is much appreciated! You are the man!
Added to list.
You truly are a shining beacon amongst this mess created by bellyrub. As if it was possible, you have risen even further in my estimation.
Bravo.
Except that he received 100s of steem from zeartul for delegating power.
How much do you think this will be costing @neoxian? More than a few hundred.
Less than what he received.
Wow man, I'm blown away by this. That's an incredible gesture.
I'm out 150 SBD in total, but is there an easier way to find the transaction? I found this one on Steemd because I knew the specific date of the transfer, but I have no clue when I did the next 50 SBD and I was doing a TON of transfers back then lol.
I guess what I'm asking is, can I quickly filter transfers to specific accounts (in this case, @bellyrubbank) with any STEEM blockchain tool you know of?
transfer 1 of 2
Anyway, thank you so much. This type of kindness is very rare, and much appreciated.
It can be a pain to find them actually, but it's ok. I can just look at the list the bellyrubbank reported.
I have sent you 45 SBD.
You are so awesome. Didn't realize you were a witness, but you definitely have my vote.
Thank you, my Friend! You are one of the great examples of why people will never lose faith in Steemit as a good and generous community.
All Hail, @neoxian!!!
What you are doing is amazing @neoxion. Thank you for your generosity. Resteemed for exposure. @ironshield
Im just move to this act!
Just a resteem might spread a good news
A nobody move by the whale,
Proving steemit is always gets help even in a midst of other whales greed,
A whale fight, between good and the greedy!
My respect to you sir!
I didn't know about that all story... (blogging in french, it's like, living in a village and blogging in english is the big city :D).
So... Thanks for what you did for all the people. That's really great of you @neoxian.
That's very generous of you... I didn't put anything into that, I don't think- it was spinbot that got me.
It's very nice and needed for the overall morale on here which was going into the toilet.....It's nice to see people doing the right things like this and generous and ....well, it's good stuff. Am very happy Cryptopie got reimbursed especially
A really Nice step for the community.I highly appreciated that. Proud to be a friend of you @neoxian. Keep up Good Work.
Well good for you! I came here expecting you had a scheme to take it from the rewards pool, and I was going to say that that didn't feel right.
But to be honest, your gesture is a good one.
I still think Zear had shown his stripes for weeks or more...but sometimes our eyes are blinded to the bad behaviour of those we count as friends.
Let us all be more careful about speaking the praises of anyone if it means others trusting them with our money. And as a community we really need to police ourselves better, so that this NEVER happens again.
Thank you! Some 'victims' will still be hurting, and I hope in some crazy moment of repentance that he comes through....and gets them paid back in full. But until then, thank you.
Well said.
I too am not going to praise your actions, @neoxian as amazing. But you are attempting to make something right that perhaps could have been avoided. So you are earning my respect.
We are our brother's keepers. Let us all hold that noble responsibility with pride.
Thx
So sorry I did not see this post before! Would resteem and stuff! Very nice of you Bossman! I am sure 99% of other people would not do what you did, let me thank you as well even tho I had no part of this shitty situation. Making Steemit great!
Steembless for you!
Very nice, and rather expensive gesture. I wasn't burned myself but you have my witness vote to help recoup your losses.
You are really doing a great job.
Big thumbs up for your efforts.👍
Hey neoxian, I deposited $50 sbd in the bellyrubbank.
I own the risk I took, but if there is a fund and all! :)
Send you 15 SBD
So kind of you! Me and orcish are going to donate all of our votes to you're comments for the next couple days to try and help out a little.
Thank you neoxian @cryptopie is singing your praises in the votu discord. It's sad that @zeartul couldn't own up and honour his debts. I'm sure it wasn't just your recommendation but from what I've heard from a lot of people, that reputation score is very misleading and scam enabling. It's about time it was changed.
You are a great soul here on steemit. God will always reward you for it.
I think I get the vote from bellyrub everytime I paid for it, however, I did put 150 SBD in bellyrubbank :( I don't know how to send the link to the blockchain transaction, so here is the screen from my wallet:
I don't want to abuse your generosity @neoxian, but this attitude of yours shows the real power of this community, and for that, I want to say a big, BIG THANK YOU. Your selfless gesture to all zeartul's victims brings up the faith in people once again.
I have sent you 50 SBD
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I really don't know how to comment that...
Bro it is so kind of you to give back as much as you can. Really something money can never buy. I want to delegate my 200 SP to you so you can expedite your upvotes. Do you mind setting up a post on how to delegate? LOL I am only familar with minnowbooster and got hacked before for sending my key incorrectly on some scam link. Do not feel comfortable doing that again unless I have proper guidance. Thanks!
https://steemit.com/delegation/@timcliff/tutorial-how-to-delegate-sp-to-another-user-using-the-steemconnect-tool-from-busy-org
That's not necessary, but here is the guide so you know how to do it in general.
Well you gave me the link means I can do whatever I want with it. Hope you get to paying back everyone soon. Thanks.
@mawit07
Supported for being Generous.
Not sure what happened but that is an amazing thing to @neoxian.
People like you are the foundation to this place.
I lost 30SBD but I don't feel you are responsible for it mate. I'll just consider it the price of the lesson I learnt.
Take my $6 + sbd that you're offering to pay me and give it to someone who lost a lot more than I did.
It went to me - thank you very much for your generousity!
Thank you, will do.
Wow! That is too generous of you when it's really not your fault.
You sir, are the most generous person I have seen on steemit.. Thank you for helping the community.
I also lost a little but I don't compensation for that..
The users who lost the most must be preferred
You are very generous!!!
@neoxian Great effort on behalf of the steem community.
A big problem in this situation was the "powerful" taking advantage of the not so powerful. Great to see you stepping up to help out, regardless of your personal involvement or not. Well done.
Greetings @neoxian I appreciate this good action you are doing ... unfortunately I was also one of those who trusted the word of @zeartul ... and end up being scammed like many ... thanks for what you can do. Here are the screenshots of my deposits in the bellyrubbank, deposit exactly $340
I have sent you 102 SBD
Thank you very much for this @neoxian
I hope you see yourself rewarded in some way :)
I put 2 lots of 50 SBD in right near the start, at least partly due to what others were saying. At the time it was most of my SBD as I was still a really new user.
You are a champ for doing this, and a far better person than the scammer. Thank you.
I have sent you 30 SBD
You are a super champ. Thank you for going above and beyond
Amazing generosity. You must have been very aggessive in pushing people into bellyrub and feel rally bad about that decision you made.
Thankyou for doing this, you weren't obligated to and I'm so relieved cryptopie and darthnava have been repaid. Resteemed :)
I hate scammers. Thanks for doing everything you can to help everyone who got scammed.
These are the types of reasons why I still have faith in the Steemit community.
You are just too amazing! I almost sent them steem! Thanks my friend for all you do and all you are.
You are truly a steemian @neoxian, nice work
You are very responsible in this case, I salute you. Everyone concerned with this will be very happy to hear it, though not all of it. You are amazing, salute to you.
Have a nice day.
Thats an awesome thing you are doing @neoxian. I came to this post to claim that I have lost SBD and you have inspired me not to claim. I have placed a witness vote for you and @themarkymark. Its good to be part of a community where people have your back.
people like you exists otherwise it would have been a more big blunder damm
Ethics is something the world needs more of. Nice gesture.
I don't know what to make out of everything. I have kind of left steemit due to various reasons and real life problems and just came back on yesterday to check how things are and it was hard to grasp the situation. I had my 30 steem in the @bellyrubbank and was initially going to put in lot more but it is good I did not. Considering he was witness I have lost little more faith in steemit and how it works.
I have sent you 9 steem. If it makes you feel any better, he was unvoted as witness quite quickly as soon as this came to light.
Thank you mate! But it doesn't feel right you compensating everyone.
This is awesome of you. You got a new fan here!
Hy neoxian,
I also put $ 1000 into bellyrub bank.....i know....my mistake!
(i did receive $ 75 for 2 dividend payments)
but if there is a "fund" helping people out that lost money that would indeed be great....
i dont want to abuse of other peoples generosity!
joeblack1 transfer 1,000 SBD to bellyrubbank (Bank Deposit, 3 Month)
Aug 17
https://steemd.com/@joeblack1?page=108
any help is very appreciated :-) and unexpected!
also....maybe help the needier people first....then if anything is left over....
(he even convinced me to vote him for witness!)
i have sent you 255 SBD
(1000 - 75 - 75) * 0.3
WOW! neoxian!
Thank you so much!
damn that was fast!?
and by the way....
its absolutely NOT any of your fault!
so please dont feel terrible...
:-)
WOW! This is so nice of you @neoxian! I had a total of 95 Steem invested. Here are the screen shots
https://ibb.co/kLDELG
https://ibb.co/cDLGZb
Btw I resteemed and am going to upvote you for witness. Not sure why I hadnt before haha.
I have sent you 28.5 steem.
Thanks a million!
Honestly I can't believe that your offering this! Really made my day. Maybe even my month.
Great @neoxian. Your support to victims is appreciable.
Thank you @neoxian - He got me bad:
Yes that was a big one, I have sent you 2100 steem.
@neoxian your act of kindness is truly amazing! Thank you very much!
That is a generous effort buddy and hope some people will be get the share of their loss !
You are indeed doing a great thing buddy !
Very good thing you are doing Neoxian.