RE: Scammer in the Making, or Just a Poor Strategist?
Hi @rhondak (I think I recall the name from the alliance???)
You are slandering a very nice and well-meaning man here.
Your logic seems to be centered on an ideal that if something isn't community-based then it's not legit. That's very poor reasoning and very ironic considering we are talking about a blockchain platform.
I've known @crypto.piotr for a while now and he is using his own unique method to encourage writers as well as build a network of writers, thinkers, and companies alike.
Last I checked, this was a decentralized platform meaning he DOESN'T NEED A COMPANY to operate. Just last month he almost single-handedly rallied a fundraiser for Venezuelan writers. He also worked with some blockchain firms last year and basically gave paid jobs to writers here on steemit.
He didn't need a company to do all this. His methods are HIS methods and he doesn't have to conform to YOUR standard or modus operandi to be called legit. This is the very tenet on which blockchain was built right? freedom of expression.
The only thing in your post that can be seen as a valid point is that his method of reaching out(the mass memos and perhaps comments) may be taken by some as spam. BUT I do believe some of those messages come with an "if you consider this spam please let me know and I won't bother you again"...
All in all, @crypto.piotr is a good person I can vouch for. I would say you owe him an apology.
thank you for your comment and I surely will always keep adding that sentence ""if you consider this spam please let me know and I won't bother you again""
yours
Piotr
No apology will be forthcoming. I think you mean “libel” rather than “slander,” and the fact that you don’t understand the difference means you don’t understand the definition. So I’d withhold using either of those terms until they’re better understood, if I were you.
Anyone who hijacks someone’s comment thread with blatant, self-aggrandizing marketing ploy is a bad actor on this platform. Does this guy do a good deed from time to time? Maybe. I’ve not seen it personally. All I’ve seen is wallet and comment spam, and a really nasty attitude when confronted.
"A really nasty attitude"? Nowhere in his replies to you or anywhere else has @crypto.piotr displayed a "nasty attitude." Actually, it's not in his nature to do so.
As for "spam," it's the quality that counts. I get spammed after every one of my posts by various resteem services. They're annoying, but now I just ignore them.
As for Piotr's memos, at least they have some substance and are well intentioned. And they are definitely not "blatant, self-aggrandizing marketing ploys." Quite the opposite, most of Piotr's memos are intended to benefit others, NOT HIMSELF. That's a simple verifiable fact, as many others are affirming.
If you do not like his memos, please ... just ignore them. And please rest assured that he is not out to take advantage of anyone on this platform. Many of us can confirm that.
“Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.” That’s from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming Nothing said at all about “quality.” Unsolicited messages are unsolicited messages. Furthermore, clogging up the nodes with spam transactions or using wallets as email services is a practice completely without foresight. HF20 effectively reduced content spam. Thanks to folks like y’all, HF21 may have to address wallet spam. As for the comment spam, well—there is always the downvote option.
Each day, there are currently over 50,000 posts made. And you're worried that a handful of short memos by Piotr will "clog up the nodes."
Rest assured, they won't. But there will always be plenty of shitposts that will do much more clogging than his memos ever can or will.
As for the "spam," Piotr does not use a "messaging system" (cf. Wikipedia)
No. He abuses our wallet feature instead. And that makes it better, somehow?
Are you familiar with MIRA, by any chance? And the reason for it?
OK, you've convinced me. Piotr's memos will bring about the end of this wonderful, blockchain-based enterprise, which will crack under the burden imposed by them.
And just when we thought we could save the world. Damn!
You didn't answer my question. Are you familiar with MIRA?
Yes. Why?