Yes, I hear myself loud and clear. I wanted to know how you'd handle someone voting for themselves after you spent quite a lot to vote for yourself. I didn't know how you'd react but I suspected you'd take offense to it. I was right. So what? According to your reaction, it's fine for you to vote yourself all the way up to the trending page, but if self vote a comment, you will frown upon this behavior. There's a strong chance if I said something positive, praising you, even if it was a lie, and selfvoted that comment to the top, you'd have been fine with the self vote. Isn't humanity fun?

Studying your moves and reactions before I react. It's no different than a boxer taking a few shots while they study their opponent. I wouldn't be able to say anything I've said without first having something to react to. I don't like to jump to conclusions. I could have said, "I bet you'd be angry if I self voted this comment." That puts me in a position to be lied to though. It's better to have facts, then talk.

Bait? Are you not attempting to bait people into reading your post by pretending to be a popular blogger on a trending page? Is bait something else that is totally fine when you're doing it, but if you think others are doing it, it's wrong? If a boxer fakes with a left and goes in with a right, are they evil?

I don't care if you lost money. We all lost money. I don't care if you want to pout about it. I don't care if you want blame others for it. If you're attempting to manipulate me with this sorry display of emotions and if you think I'm going to feel bad for you; that's not going to happen.

If you're one of these "investors" who heard they could come here, produce whatever, and get an ROI by purchasing votes; and if you heard this from an advertisement on Youtube or an advertisement on the trending page here, I say you should have known you were going to lose money. It's your fault you lost money. I'm still 17k ahead after losing hundreds of thousands. You're making, what? 2 bucks from this post? Maybe 5? The rest of money already went to someone else, PLUS they'll get curation rewards. If that's how you manage your money, you deserve to lose money. That's life, deal with it. You're responsible for your own decisions. Do whatever you want with your money and deal with the consequences yourself. There's no point in trying to blame ME and my words. You lost money before all this. Take some responsibility for your actions. That's the ONE thing you've failed to do so far. I already know I'm not perfect, and I don't mind.