My response to @paulag’s analysis related to @ned’s SP delegation
Recently @paulag has published an article about the statistics related to @ned’s SP delegation and I am going to respond to it.
Being a (temporary) whale was not that easy, at least not as easy as you think. You will never know what it's like unless you reach there. Once I received the delegation, I was bombarded with messages on Steemit.chat and also Discord, and there were a lot of things to handle every single day, and many factors need to be taken into account.
There were two things mentioned in her article, selling votes and delegation. I don't regard it as selling. The reason that I did that is because I wanted to support the new African and Indonesian Steemians there, and I think we, the Chinese people were already given a lot of SP at that time so I wanted to share some of the benefits with the people from other countries, which are also growing in numbers. That’s also the reasons that I organised two Anime Drawing Challenges to let other talented people from other countries benefit. And also every day I was bombarded with tons of messages and post links and it really did annoy me, which was suffocating. I checked my wallet every day so it was no surprise that I would click into the memos and some posts did show great effort and content, some of them were even curated by @curie. For example, a local meet-up or use SBDs to buy a cup of coffee in the local community.
Well, you must be questioning my motives. Okay, LET’S DO THE MATHS. The amount of SBDs I received each day was generally less than $3. Do you really think that I would care about this tiny little amount of SBDs while I was holding over 500k SP in my hands at that time, WHICH WAS NOT EVEN ENOUGH FOR BUYING A F**KING HAMBURGER? Are you kidding me? Ask yourself, was it really worth doing it if you were me? In which way was it cost-effective for me? Couldn't I earn this $3 by other means? And I still needed to spend a lot of time to click the link, do a quick read and upvoted them one by one when Steemit was having lagging and instability issues, and just for less than $3 a day? How does it make any sense to you?
I am sure you, who are reading this post, is not a dumb person and you can make up your mind whether it's the case.
If I needed to use the delegated SP to earn some extra money for myself, I wouldn’t do it in this way that everyone can simply check my wallet and see. I CAN EASILY THINK OF OTHER WAYS TO DO THAT. Why didn’t I just upvote my own comments and create another account and upvote it, couldn’t I earn more and much harder to be noticed? Or are you insulting my intelligence that I don’t even know every transaction and activity is clearly written on the STEEM blockchain, letting you to trace after joining Steemit for five months? I didn’t hide any of my data and the data can be easily found on the STEEM blockchain.
In fact, many Steemians from other countries did not send any money to me and I still upvoted their posts because I have enjoyed their content, especially for those who attended my Anime Drawing Challenge, I gave a much much higher voting weight than those who have sent me the money.
Well, if you really think that this still isn’t appropriate. I can generate roughly $15 with MY OWN STEEM POWER every day. So clearly it is enough to upvote all the posts. Can’t I upvote any posts that I like? And clearly what do I do with my own SP is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
And yes, I did delegate SP to @justyy and this was an act to support his project, which was generally something like a Chinese version of a mix of minnowbooster and minnowsupportproject to help the newbies in the cn community and you can see that a lot of Chinese people are delegating their power to support his project, and there are 42 people delegating power to him in total when I checked. And again, that’s my OWN Steem Power, what’s the problem at all?
I can tell you that I have spent a lot of time here, in both writing and curating, and they were all done manually without the aid of robots, and I am sure the statistics can prove it. When it comes to curation, every one has his own preference and standards, and I am not sure that I can do very well but I have already tried my best to reach out to as many posts as possible.
One thing to clarify that I am not blaming @paulag, I think she is really doing a great job in trying to dig out the data, though I don’t know if all of her stats is correct. We all treasure freedom of speech, but I think it can be expressed in other ways than an unthoughtful and careless way.
You can read @dapeng’s recent post - Can the Gossip tell us Why Ned Undelegated SP? The answer is no to look for more statistics. When you want to truly understand what was going on, I am sure you need to make sure that you are not only listen to the opinions from one side.
Data is data, and it certainly reflects the reality, but can it really tell the whole picture? Especially when you are on outsider looking at the Chinese and Hong Kong community.
By the way, it's nice to see @surpassinggoogle was doing really good and I have to say that I am impressed and happy to see him keeping his delegation, contributing more to the whole Steemit community in the future. To show my little support, I have voted @steemgigs for witness.
At last, once again thank you @ned for the power delegation and it certainly brought more new Chinese and Hong Kong users in, he has already helped a lot and I am totally grateful for that, I am not an influential person with a large amount of Steem Power
but I can pledge that I am not going to power down any Steem Power that I own in the next couples of years to support the growth of Hong Kong and Chinese community
, and let’s hope that Steemit will thrive in the near future. That's all I want to say. Thanks for reading.
Well said in the Reply @htliao
I hope you remember ”With Greater Power come Greater Responsibility!” I said before.
,My offer still open for your CN HK community.
at #whalepower Discord app . I am growing the community.
Haha thank you and sorry for that I didn’t have time to check the messages both at Discord and Steemit.chat. I will contact you later
It all have been set up for months already at the Whalepower Discordapp.
All you have to do is being there; @htliao You do have a position there in the room to be fill in.
very well said @bullionstackers
@htliao i have never realy know you, but those gossiping outside is never really usefull. I know that you have supported slsome artist by making drawing challenge is already a prooff that you had use your power wisely.
I would also hate being bombared by link everyday.
anyway, whalepower is open. 😃😃😃
Well, said @ekavieka
Thanks for the support.
Thank you @htliso for coming out to share with us what goes on at your end. This is very helpful to clarify a lot of hidden issues so that people like us who have no idea of what goes on to understand the situation. I think open communication is very important so that we are not left with judgment given by outsiders who are not in the delegated team. I hope the others will follow along to speak out so that people are not with guess work.
Thank you for your understanding and support. :) It’s nice to have you here. Actually we had a Halloween party yesterday in Hong Kong, maybe you can join our next gathering. You will soon get to know more about our gathering yesterday, stay tuned. xD
keep the spirit of friends, there are always people who will make judgments against others. good deeds we do as well as bad deeds. the most important in responding to each issue that blows steadily and smiling.
Support :)
Thanks :)
You used the delegation power wisely 💪🏼🙌🏼💯
Thanks @stackin You used your power wisely too and I can see that you have supported many great posts as well. :D
After I joined steemit, I didn't have any personal communication with @htliao, but he upvote me many times in order to support the growth of #cn community as he mentioned in this post. Moreover, @htliao upvote my post with different weights according to my quality of post, which is not like a bot! This is the best way to lead high-class steemians boom the whole community!
Thank you for your support :D
The contribution from @htliao to Steemit is tremendous. The time and effort that he spent that are uncountable as well. @htliao does not only devote his time for writing in Steemit, but also promoting Steemit in other media to help Steemit growth. I am one of the steemians who read the article writing by @htliao in forum of Hong Kong and decided to write on Steemit everyday. Thanks must be given to @htliao. 🌈🌈🌈
Thank you @goodboyphilip :) Your blogs are always good and interesting and share with us many useful information in Japan.
As far as I know, you have spent a great effort to the curation since you got the delegation. I am proud of your work during the delegation! Thank you!
Thanks, I can tell that you have spent a lot of effort to support the whole cn community too. :)
Thank you for your support @htliao. I know it is never an easy task to get the delegated power in the first place and I think you have done a very awesome job in terms of curating different contents in CN as well as other communities as well. I mean you have a full time job yourself and the time you devoted to Steemit means a lot to us.
I found @paulag conclusion is a bit funny and I don't think any professional statistician would make conclusion without considering the significance of the action. Like any of you guys will sell vote for few SBD... I guess this is how people make name for themselves nowadays... and by delegating around 500 SP to @justyy who @justyy is also trying his best to help the CN community is also an evidence of selling vote? I hope people would do some research before putting down an argument in the article.
I agree with you
Yes, It is not easy
A big responsibility during the delegation
Anyway you did a great job and you used it so wisely
Thank you
Thanks for your support as alway :)