I have never seen someone get seen negatively for buying SP.
It's the opposite.
People buy STEEM and power up, are very well thought of...
The only time they aren't is if they do that (buy and power up) and then use that power to abuse users on the system by downvoting non-stop or other things.
If you power up and behave... everyone loves you.
Awesome, thanks! Yes, I love Steemit and fully support the mission behind it. I'm bringing as many new people as I can over to the platform too from places like Google+ and FascistBook.
That's another thing that @timcliff was stressing on a recent @steemittalk podcast:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemittalk/stp-episode-043-07-08-2017-w-special-guest-timcliff
He basically said, if you bake a bigger pie, everyone gets a larger piece.
Most new users to steemit, makes steemit a bigger reward pie for everyone.
So yes, please bring more new users here. We need them. Steemit is designed to scale large.
Oh yeah, my dream come true would be for the censoring content filtering "do no evil" Google+ and jail house FascistBook to go the way of Myspace. Steemit is the better alternative to walk away from the two disasters those places have become.