Whales, Dolphins, and Minnows are in a battle for rewards. Create great content providing value to the community and receive steem rewards in return.
The more vests you have the more powerful your take of the rewards pool.
Before you see the video of the epic battle of the steem blockchain reward pool being fought over allow me to briefly summarize how user levels work on Steemit especially for all of the new users joining us now.
And by the way, WELCOME!
Now personally I prefer the way the steem blockchain categories users.
I would love to be called a superhero one day. And I know my kids would really love that too! Okay full disclosure in their eyes I already am.
So what is all of this Whales, Dolphins, and Minnows stuff that you keep hearing about?
Here is how it works.
There are Equities (vests) = Steem Power
There are Cash Equivalents = Steem is a cash equivalent
There are Bonds = Steem Backed Dollar (SBD)
Depending on much vests you have defines your level.
Whales > 100 MVEST
Dolphins >1 and <100 MVEST
Minnows < 1 MVEST
And now what you have all been waiting for...
The epic battle caught on video!
Africa: Cape
I've downvoted your posts for spamming people with transfer memos promoting a scam you're involved with.
https://steemit.com/@jordanlindsey/transfers
Thank you for the heads up. It is all very confusing. I see so many accusations against Steemit being a scam too but no proof either.
One billionaire (Bill Ackman) says Herbal Life is a MLM scam and bets against it (losing a fortune in the process) and another billionaires (Carl Icahn) says it is a legitimate business and has made a lot of money investing in it.
Being a MLM business does not make you a scam.
You should have not downvoted posts that had done nothing wrong and were unrelated to your complaint. That is an abuse.
That being said, point understood and I will not use the transfers in that way again.
I see sending transfer memos containing a link to a video promoting a scam you're involving yourself in to many people as an abuse, and since I can't stop that, I downvoted your posts. Eventually if your reputation score is below a certain threshold, people won't receive notifications from Steemit for those transfers. I don't like it, it's a dirty hack, but that's the tool available.
Please see my post here for more on why I believe disincentivizing Bitconnect promotion on Steem is a worthy use of downvotes. https://steemit.com/scam/@pfunk/promoting-a-scam-makes-you-a-scammer
Again, understood and it won't happen again.
That being said you abused the system by flagging stuff you should had not have. You should had sent a message expressing your opinion before anything else.
Lastly, how do you make reparation for what you did if it turns out your opinion is wrong?
"Flagging" on Steemit is a misnomer, on the database/blockchain level there's no actual "flag" like you would see on any other website featuring a function named that. On the blockchain it's a negatively weighted vote, or for short: a downvote.
The concept of flag is unfortunately a hack that has been stubbornly retained on the steemit.com front end.
I've removed my downvote from this post but cannot remove the downvotes from other posts because of their post age.
MLM Businesses resemble pyramid schemes , and in the case of Herbal life has absolutely destroyed the lives of many people at the bottom of the scheme (There are countless documentaries about the stuff).
Quite honestly, Whales on Steemit, like @pfunk, have been around longer, have had more experience with Steemit and want the community to strive and make leaps and bounds forward (it's in their financial and personal interests) and hence you have absolutely no right to tell him that there's "Nothing wrong", if he sees something potentially damaging to the community he has every right to, for lack of a better phrase; "Rep Fuck the shit out of you" such that no one will see the toxicity and hence the community can move forward.
Nevertheless I hope you learn from your mistake and stop spamming or 'Abusing' as you put it, people's wallets with crap they don't want/need.
Thanks for the support @jordanlindsey.
Glad to have you here. I notice you commenting which is the best way to spend your first week or two before making your intro post. But add value to the article in your comment and you will find people upvoting your comment more.
Thanks for your guide.. Counting on you for your support .. Pls follow me @jakemore
Well put together @Jordanlindsey
Fully enjoyed the info you have shared here. I am only a SHARK now, one day I want to be a WHALE.
Keep on keeping on!
@jordanlindsey lol this is actually pretty funny xD
I saw it with my daughter, loved it, and thought I need to share this with my friends!
Your dream is yours, do not let anyone intrude, congratulations for the content, thank you for sharing, The hard work is more worth, with time comes the result. I wish you the best! I hope it here works for you, Success!
Beautiful insight full of hope and inspiration:)
Looking forward to learning more from you.
Soon to be whale~ Nice connecting Jordan! 😎
Little by little until we are enormous
Nice info... I'm learning how things work here
We are glad you are here :)
Thanks @jordanlindsey. Please kindly follow back
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I remember watching. what Ill call the FULL version of the video above on PBS or nature or NOVA maybe. So many nature programs, so little time for details.
@Jordanlindsey - welcome to steemit. Hope you will enjoy ! All the best @digital-gypsy
Hello @Jordanlindsey its good to see more Steemians around. Have fun in this community. I wish you many followers and new friends :-) Cheers @chrisx
Welcome Jordanlindsey to Steemit!! . I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community :) Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me !
Hello @jordanlindsey. Welcome to Steemit. I am David. I wish you have a happy journey here.
Hello @jordanlindsey. Welcome to Steemit. I am David. I wish you have a happy journey here.
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the support @jordanlindsey.
GREAT WORK! And thanks for the help mate :))
Thank you jordanlindsey! I enjoyed reading this. It is way past my bedtime on a working weekend, though so I will have to come back and revisit this post later. :D
ty for the support!
Thanks man for this information i didn't know about that :)
Sweet ! Welcome to Steemit! Followed. Follow me back 😘