I totally DISAGREE with you.
She does not need to understand or speak English
She gives people great content
You can tell that a lot of time has gone into making her stuff
Her followers enjoy what she gives them
Her followers dont care who takes her pictures
You can unfollow her if you are still not getting Upvotes from her..
actually I follow her and this does matter to me. why would I want to look at something put together by a production crew? It's fraudulent to portray yourself as something you are not!!! I certainly hope that isn't the case. I will wait for now, but after careful thought and the backlash this person is getting over a question about authenticity is really troublesome. I read the white paper, it's beginning to appear that some others on here really need to revisit it.
Chris
You clearly don't understand the issue at hand. Organising witch hunts and spamming hundreds of defamatory replies making baseless claims is trolling. If you search for yourself and see where the conversation first started sweetsssj refuted his claims and then he launched an all out assault on her. I for one trust donkeypong as well as ned (the ceo) and the countless others who have encountered her and spoken with her in person to know she's the real deal.
This person has decided to make it a personal vendetta to try discredit an author who has been a large part of Steemit from very early on. It is ridiculous and disgusting.
Nobody should have to video verify who they are, it doesn't matter whether they make $1000 a post, or $1,000,000 a post. Can you imagine the precedent that would set on the platform ? How many people on Steemit operate completely anonymously, without disclosure of their names and personal pictures? Why then should one person be singled out who already has proven their integrity since the beginning of Steemit over a (also completely anonymous) vicious user who posts nothing but other people's content and then plays the victim.
I will look if they are still there, but for some reason I don't see why this guys would troll, but hey, I'll look. Thanks
Chris
The fact does not change that he was well and truly trolling. There are plenty of reasons that I can think of, a few obvious ones would be jealousy and immaturity.
He made a post boasting about how he gained followers whilst sweet lost some. Well, I honestly don't think sweet cares because people recognise valuable content when they see it, and randompic provides nothing close to that.
https://steemit.com/cats/@randompic/re-sweetsssj-re-sneakgeekz-re-sweetsssj-just-kitty-raising-kittens-from-birth-the-joys-of-being-a-crazy-cat-lady-20170702t052420842z
This is where it all started.
In the post about frogs, he then literally posts 200 comments making baseless, defamatory accusations, spamming almost every single reply from other users with a comment.
Some of those comments were downvoted leading to his lowered reputation. They were downvoted because the community does not condone trolling. He is welcome to have his enquiry, but spamming 200 comments, spreading lies is the exact definition of what cyber bullying is. How ironic that now plays the victim to cyber bullying FULLY knowing that he was the one to dish it out in the first place.
How pathetic.
Ok I actually used the last 2 hours milling over his and her comments replies etc. Here is what I noticed. It started about 6 days ago. By him, (of course) we know this and don't dispute it. However, the repetitive nature of what ppl are calling "trolling" yes to an extent it is I will agree partially, but the takeaway here for me is that @randompic didn't go all in ballistic until he got knocked down to 4, after getting his mildly few comments down voted, and some lunatic using profanity, aggression, and threats against him. That persons replies WERE NOT down voted by one whale.
I believe this is a problem as well. I read the white paper and both sides can claim fault easily. I did notice something tho about @sweetsssj she has posted comments, but when I go to find context in the comments section, I cannot find the comment that was hyperlinked. I scrolled through hundreds of comments to find the comment in her reply section and there isn't anything there. Now since the blockchain is recording everything, I am beginning to wonder how many comments were deleted after the fact.
I would like steemit founders to fix this. It is a worrisome problem that if spoken about enough outside the platform will damage the Steemit brand. As I said before this is a black eye for Steemit. I will continue to believe so until whale act appropriately.
BTW I was flagged by a whale after responding to a video where the author asked for responses. Nothing happened to him, all that happened was I got flagged, and then ignored by the Steemit help board.
They really need to get their heads out of their collective 4 points of contact and fix this. If this was my baby and my reputation (not just a number beside my name) was on the line, I'd be all over this issue. But hey, that is the way I was raised...
Chris
I don't even see how @amarie is upset.. I hope she can be matured again with her comments and not respond to you.
Please believe me...I am not upset at all. We are just having a debate and their's nothing to be mad about. We all have our views. But, no, it takes a lot more than this to get me upset. Life is too short and I'm a big advocate for a healthy mind, body and spirit and anger is like a cancer that eats on the host. I have love for all of yall in this chat, even if your views are not the same as mine. Like I mentioned above, which nobody commented on. We can maybe form some type of group to help each other to dolphin status, but there's got to be trust and loyalty. There's nothing wrong with people using their resources to make great blogs. It would be different if it was shit content on those blogs and the person is pulling that much money. But, the blog delivers great content and is probably in the top-50 blogs on Steemit. It's really good. But that doesn't mean any or our blogs can't be just as good. Like I said above, this thing is still in its infancy.
I still disagree with everything you write. Lets assume she is just a model and a "bigger" organization is writing and getting paid for her account, you don't have evidence of it yet. I will totally be a model like her too if i have good supporters like she does. Let's continue to assume that people write for her.. Do you know how 'millions' of people would rather be in her shoes, traveling the world and getting paid just to model? How many musicians agree that they have ghost writers? We are not in any position to start judging people! Let continue to assume she doesn't write anything and she gets paid little money. Do you know if that little money is helping to take care of her family? why write something that can destroy others when you don't have "any proof"?
You wrote "many steemit members frown on others who are here just for the money" My friend, thats not true :) 99% of the people on steemit are only here because of the money they can make from being on social media. Take the money out of steemit and I promise you that steemit will not grow again. Why get on steemit when you can write your stuff on facebook or post your videos on youtube? Please lets not be part of people who just want to destroy others. Think positive about others until they do otherwise..
What you just posted would have impact on her page if it went viral and you still don't have any solid proof yet.
Lastly, tell me one good thing you will gain from all of this if you were even 1% right?? Upvotes?? Pleeeeaase :)
I Upvote and Resteem only good contents. Where did you read that I am obliged to Up vote your content even when I don't support a single word you write?
Please give me evidence steem thinks we have to Upvote any post we comment on and I will totally give you my Upvote plus two of others :) Take care..
I happen to agree with everyting @yemmy4eva is saying here. It's not up to "us" to worry about what OTHERS are doing on Steemit; Especially when we do not know. For all we know her MUM does operate the drone; My mother is going on 70 years old and is way more technological than people her age; I learned a lot what I do on computers from her; she had one when I was a kid - again, before her peers; So I don't think it's Impossible that this woman has a mom, and possibly even a team of people that work with her. How much they earn, and what they do with it, is there business. The video you shared at the end; was super well done; People on YouTube make that kind of income for those kinda videos; Not sure why Steemit would be different; We should be CELEBRATING that someone is making that kind of money yere; as it's an indication of what is POSSIBLE for the rest of us. This hate here, is hate, no matter how you try to clean it up; Man, you can do better than this.
May be you are true.
then why does she admits that "ALL" work done on her account including coding, formatting is her whole and soul efforts even though she was always on the move?
May be, does she lying? or
Trying to take credit of her team?
It's funny how quickly you are called a hater for just wanting the truth and some honesty.
I see your point. But, dig if you will this picture (Prince lover here) ok, sorry for the digress. But let's imagine if the @sweetsssj account owner came out and said, "Ok. The girl in all our blogs is a paid model. Her name is So-in-So, and we have a professional photographer and photo editor to produce the pics. We also have a professional content writer (which is something I could totally do myself by the way, and would so take a job doing it; in fact, I think I'll make that my next Steemgig). Let's say this happened. Chances are that nobody would really care. They would still like the blog. Some people (like me) have not had the opportunity to travel places, so I enjoy reading the travel blogs. In fact, I'll be putting up some travel blogs myself. I'm in Kentucky, USA, and there are a lot of exciting tourist attractions that I could show and blog about.
I just don't think people would care that it is a produced blog by professionals. People upvote it because they like it and because they know that they can get some curation on it. People like to be entertained and they want to get paid. They don't care about that other stuff. They just don't.
You are a very very special person for all the effort you put in here. The girl is a really great girl and she did feel really bad about all that randompic did on her post and i can tell you that for a fact. China is censored when it comes to the internet and she does alot to help with that among other things. Just like @busy.org is creating an interface that is simliar to wechat, to appeal to china, where facebook and most popular web platforms are blocked. i am just leaving this comment to you, to show you how on the right track you been, even based on simple logic and human heart!
randompic talks of her pics and everything, yes, not like we can see his face. He took all these pictures of someone else that he says are too balling for regular use or for steemit and used it as his blog basically and he is earning for it, while defaming someone else without facts, all for nothing. this is the first time i am coming out on an issue like this and for the first time, i will come out in a full blown post. As for posts, ofcourse you can have some write on your behalf, proof reading or edit. do a steemgig for that and i can certainly find someone who can help. that is why you have posting keys. steemsports for instance has many editors but you already have your logic and ofcourse your human aspect intact.
Thanks for reaching out @surpassinggoogle. I was just voicing my views like all on the chat. Also, I am the one who can write, proofread and edit on someone's else's behalf. I do that professionally as a freelancer. I write, proofread and edit all of my own blog posts. But yeah, I appreciate your message.
Uh oh now don't mess with me about some Prince!
Everybody wanna take the stand
Mind your own mother****er, let a man be a man
Days of Wild
Sorry, I'm not cursing at you, just copying and pasting the lyrics. Prince was a master marketer and all for creative expression and being different and not conforming to what the masses think.
Source
@Ned is one of the founders of Steemit. He's one of the "Powers-that-Be". Like I said, you never know who you're talking about or who's watching. For all we now, he may be the one who is sponsoring her blog. But, if so, then so what? It's his platform. He can do what he wants.
As simple as A,B,C. Thank you alot for what happened here!