RE: "it's nice. You upvote me now" and other terrible things. Plus a cat!
Oh no, I can feel it coming! I can´t control myself! (my face turns red)... aaaarrrgggggghhhh..... NICE POST!
Sorry, I just got posessed by the spirit of a troll for a little while there.
Let me shed some light on the subject:
The ARE stupid people out there that believe that they are going to farm likes with no effort at all, so they use the beggar strategy. Their mindset is to bother thousands of people with one liners, and even if they get a few votes, they are happy. That´s virtual panhandling, and these people don´t get that they are just wasting their time, because their time is worth only cents...
A slightly less sad version of that is the "minimum effort" approach, which is the one people like the one who took the flower-shoe photo you mentioned have: it´s basically doing something just well enough so people won´t flag you but without putting any real effort into it, and reap the rewards. Again, what these people don´t see, is that the rewards when you don´t put any effort are so little that its not even worth it.
What is truly sad is that the problem does not come from the steemit network, but from the sad state culture is in some parts of the world. You give them a wonderful tool for communication and authorship rewards, and all they see is a begging platform.
We must change the culture of scarcity and minimum effort, or else those humans will have no future. And yes, I bet their doing the same thing in their real life too.
I only hope that eventually they will get bored and go away.
In my experience, they eventually do. I once trolled one of them leaving him replais like: "do you even read this?", or "you should be ashamed of yourself, you get an F for effort", but they don´t read the replies, at all. Ignoring them has been the best course...
Just like in the real world. There are two types of beggars. They both want your money, but one actually looks at you and tries to connect with you, and the second one it´s like a panhandling robot.
The first type gets to me, and I´ve been known to even buy them food like hamburgers and stuff on occasions, and I´ve even stayed half an hour chatting them up every now and then, since like every human being down on the weather, they need company too. Usually they are just normal people who had troubles they couldn´t recover from.
The second type had lost touch with their humanity, and yours too, and are out there just to scam you.
It´s quite easy to distinguish between both of them once you get used to it...
I missed this whole post of yours. I've met some interesting people with stories to share. A homeless gentleman in Kingston Jamaica by the name of Donovan gave me some very helpful advice about love once.
All culture has been homogenized with the internet and Tv. All we have left are small holdouts that will be called unsocial or old time thinkers that need to learn the new world views. Get along or get away. I wish us all luck in the future.
There are some cheerful thoughts! Sadly, they are true nonetheless. However, I still have faith in humanity... am I too naive for having it? maybe...
Naive is how we all should be. Simple and sweat. Loving and helpful. I just wish there were more like you. Best wishes to you wolfenlord.