I appreciate your interest in my posts, and the time it took you to throw this together. I wouldn't have expected this to ever be written, I thought I was just venting a bit to bernie, but I guess you can't really do that without get noticed by at least a few people.
Just a few points for clarification, I've said all along that I've been converting the SBD to bitBucks over time to kind of reverse dollar cost average, and when I say cashing out I mean transferring it in that manner to a (hopefully) more crash-resistant place.
And if you're wondering why I worded it like that in my other post, it's because he said that he was going to flag me out of existence, and had actually begun the process of flagging all of my pending earnings. That was what led me to post the blog post and state that I was glad that I had already received the bulk of my SBD and converted it, as opposed to them still being within the 7 day window and allowing him to nuke several hundred dollars worth of votes.
I've actually been powering up my account (I detail that in another post) in the off-chance that the EuroTether printer can take us all to crypto Valhalla, but the money sitting on the side is still going to be used to buy SP and perhaps leases if the price drops. Lease prices themselves are astronomical and not that economical if I'm looking to grow the account long-term, but the 500 SP vote slider is kind of necessary for what I want to do. Believe me or not, I don't care really, I haven't been asking people for donations and most of my income here has been coming from people voting on my comments or acidyo's meme voting.
I'm not trying to phone it in though, I don't try to purposefully shitpost to get a stipend for no effort, and I try to get people to either think or feel with most of my posts. I'm not here to be a cheerleader, there's enough of them here, I want people to not be so shocked if things turn out differently than what they've been told by almost everyone else here.
Bernie and I settled it within the thread as you could see, he's a pretty reasonable person, and I was just venting because, well, I don't know, I wasn't so much just mad at him shitting on one person, so much as I've been uncomfortable with how lots of people here are treated when they want to express their opinion. If they weren't already making money in the first place, why would they bother trying to express what they believed was wrong with things, if they're just going to get further punished for saying so?
Lots of people have these dysfunctional ego issues and they're all around us here on steemit. Look at this realpup guy, he downvotes people because he has a thin skin and can't handle the occasional truth.
Sorry buddy, but listening to what is wrong with things and being open to change is the only way you, me, or this place will improve. Steemit isn't perfect, so stop flagging people for pointing out the obvious flaws.
And when I'm mashing my keyboard I'm not directly attacking every single person here, there's obviously great degrees of differences in how people act here and how they really are, so don't take it personally if you feel like I've clumped you in with this group or that group. I've stated many times before that there are actually a lot of chill people here.
Thanks for the comment... Although I don't endorse personal attacks there are, again, some things you say that make sense.
There are sick boiler room communities here, people don't say what they think, circle jerks and the cult of the great leader.
But then there's some obvious bullshit on your words as well.
All in all, your input brings more value then most posts around here, and I can note that.
Yeah there's a lot of bullshit I'm sure, I haven't been here long enough to know the whole story but I've seen the charts, I've seen old threads here, I've seen some new threads here, I've seen how people view this place on reddit or bitcoin forums, and I know that our PR isn't really that great for a couple of good reasons yet people sort of just... push those thoughts aside when they write up their next steemit is great blog post.
But again, thanks, and I hope you have a swell day.