Oh I did want to say one thing about something people keep pointing at Dan about. The amount he made posting.
He was here when the platform started (he built it) and was posting occasionally (not often) during the crazy time when people were making $36K on make up posts. OF COURSE his value is going to be higher than yours.
As to when he points out he started declining payouts two months ago, people still bash him.
As far as I know you couldn't actually DECLINE payouts until a little while ago. So there likely was no way for him to actually do that until they implemented it. Same with the 100% power up option. Those were all added later.
Dan has a lot of followers, and so does Ned. They built the platform. When they share something we get excited and up vote them.
If there was no way to decline payout then he can't really be said to be milking the system. It was a catch 22... They could get complained to for not communicating enough, yet when they do communicate we all up vote the hell out of the posts. They are always well written.
Some of the people up voting you would have new authors join out of nowhere posting some simple recipe or travel blog with a few pictures (often plagiarized) and all of their posts would get up voted to several thousand dollars EVERY single time. This is when people started talking about sock puppets, and yes those accounts were bad, and were supported by many of the same whales that up vote you.
This is I believe a big part of why you ended up at the epicenter, though I do think it is clear you are no sock puppet.
That is incorrect. It wasn't implemented in the UI but the feature was available on the blockchain since June. I'm sure the lead developer could have figure out a way to use it if he really wanted to, or implemented a simple check box/menu in the UI, or he could have burned, donated, or otherwise returned his rewards if he likewise wanted to do so.
So does @ozchartart
Thanks for the clarification. I did not realize you could decline it via the CLI that long ago.
EDIT: That is also why I said "as far as I know".
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