RE: Scammer in the Making, or Just a Poor Strategist?
Your accusations and judgements are really unfair @rhondak
First of all, memos are currently the only way to efficiently contact people here on Steemit. As model of Piotr's community is basically based on active users, in order to "improve" the community and gain "quality" members he needs to constantly contact new people. It's not a matter of one whale who decides to support him wirh huge delegation, but a chain of small delegations combined with huge engagement. What's important, if you want you can always be removed from his contact list.
I suppose that you do not understand the model of Piotr's community and that's where your concerns come from.
I don't want to focus on my personal affection for Piotr (as he has been incredibly supportive to me since march 2018), but on objective benefit that he made for steemit community.
Considering numbers, Piotr has delegated 3500 SP to 80 quality bloggers. I want to emphasise one thing: he has not earned anything in connection with that delegation. The only requirement to get delegation was to stay active on steemit and support (with comments) those who decided to add their own SP to this community.
So we have 3 parties that clearly benefit:
- Piotr, me, and others who decided to support community with their own SP: we got an opportunity to get new audience. Results are amazing, as number of comments and level of discussion has increased rapidly. That's what Steem is about, right?
- 80 amazing bloggers with delegation: is existence on this platform with 15 SP possible Those poeple need some support in order to survive.
- Whole Steem community: you may not like Piotr or whoever who suports his community. However, 80 people who stays on steem (most of them would probably left without a delegation) are undeniable benefit.
At the end I want to share one fact: I would probably left Steemit without Piotr support in 2018.
This. ^^^ This spotlights the root cause of my greatest concern here. Thank you, @neavvy, for validating my point.
Neavvy's statement is false. Multitudes of ways exist for Steemians to contact each other, and after conversations this morning with several people, I understand that Pied Piotr has blatantly spurned those better methods. So it isn't a lack of awareness. It's a deliberate attempt on his part to remain separatist and reject the wisdom of the greater community, where other options exist. This is a huge red flag for me. Words can't express how huge, or how red.
The fact that Pied Piotr's drone army is also unaware of the options is deeply troubling. Also, that so many of them blatantly disregard the fact that wallet memos en masse will ultimately impact transaction times is disturbing on a whole different level. Without the buffering influence of a knowledgable and invested community, what will ultimately result from this is a generation of takers who don't have a clue about the realities of blockchain dynamics.
What Pied Piotr and his drone army are missing are witness forums, live interaction with Steemit, Inc. representatives about leadership changes, MIRA, and power downs. They're completely missing any real connection to the heartbeat of this platform. They're missing the Business 101 lessons about putting in more than you take out in the interest of sustainability. The SOS polls. The opportunities to meet a whole world of Steemians who never have to send a wallet memo in order to communicate with each other.
It's sad, really. But it's their loss. However, the spam and valueless wallet transactions are very much my business, and I will continue to speak up about this until some clarity on the matter is reached.
Seems to me you are the one with bad attitude indirectly insulting others.
What else would you call them?