Thank you, Clayop. It's been a pleasure to work with this group on this proposal to make Steemit better.
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Thank you, Clayop. It's been a pleasure to work with this group on this proposal to make Steemit better.
It's been a broad-based effort to help 350-400 different content creators from diverse areas. And if this proposal is enacted, then I hope there will be much less need for large-scale distribution of whale rewards via guilds.
You have been nothing but abusive. I hope you and your 2000 bots get some mental help.
I have been as critical of curie and SG as anyone else. As far as I know, i was critical of curie and SG before anyone else. Im basically the steemit OG of talking shit on where the guild/curie/whatever payroll comes from.
Personally, as i have said many times, i feel that these @donkeypong projects do more harm than good.
However, one of the the reasons that he can have the magnitude of effect that he does, in spite of being barely a whale in SP balance, is because he is one of a very few people that can get come up with a plan and get the "steemit inc" whales on the same page as the "bernie and friends"(broadly defined) whales to support it. It seems very likely to me that if he had an agenda that anyone could see, one side or the other of these two loose groups would support his projects and the other would oppose it (like TDV or Ozchart). Becasuse frankly, their perspectives are so different that they rarely agree.
There are two possible explanations for this. Either DP is a cross between Svengali and Cardinal Richelieu -- a master manipulator playing each side against the other while keeping 6 balls in the air at once to further his exploitative agenda. Or there's just no agenda there, and DP's motives are what they appear to be on the surface.
Based on my limited interaction and observation, i think the second one is true. In my experience, sincerity is fairly difficult to convincingly fake over even the medium term with any degree of consistency.
I do believe that there are small number of people in these institutions who are there merely to manipulate the system to their own benefit at the expense of the platform, and that they are taking advantage of DP as much as they are of the platform as a whole. I also believe that there are many more well-meaning individuals in these institutions that have performed a significant amount of rationalization acrobatics to convince themselves that their own out-sized financial benefit coincides with the overall benefit of the platform, when it really does not. (and even some who are compensated reasonably for benefits that they bring to the platform).
Personally, i believe that DP is trying to solve a problem. I also personally believe that he isn't solving it (or even ameliorating it very much). But just trying and not succeeding isn't something that deserves conetempt.