haha very cool. I love it
I may be being a little thick/stupid or some such thing, however, would it be an imposition if I were to request an explanation of the msg you are sending regarding you recent decision to decline payouts on your posts and comments?
I relish any questions you might have.
By voting for my "payout declined" comments and posts, you are supporting the highest-quality-community-approved-content of the top-earners!!!
When you vote for something that's "payout declined" your contribution goes directly into the "reward pool" which gets distributed to all the posts that make more than $20 steem, with the highest percentage of the pool getting distributed to the top-earners who are providing the highest-quality-community-approved-content!!!
So you're not contributing your steem to me, you're contributing your steem to whoever the whales decide "deserves" your steem (but I still get a small rep boost).
Why am I declining rewards?
Imagine a "democratic" system, where you could vote for your elected officials, but your vote only "counted" as much as you "invested" in the election system itself (election tokens)... Now that by itself sounds reasonably "fair".
bUT, now imagine that anyone with a larger "investment" in the election system could ERASE your vote?
Would you continue voting? Or would you just give directly to the candidate of your choosing?
Also, imagine steem without voting. Imagine they just Hard-Forked voting right out of the whole thing altogether.
What's left?
A lot of really awesome stuff, that's what!!
The delegation system is amazing (way better than pa.treon). The steem-token transfer system is amazing (way better than v.enmo or credit-cards or banks). The blogging system is amazing (way better than tw.itter or fa.cebuk). It's all super-awesome!!
I could see it if a number of the top earners were actually writing stuff worthy of consideration to have your rewards randomly thrown and distributed into the pool at them but there are many in that group who aren't deserving of any more reward for the meaningless crap they write then they are already getting. It makes no logical sense at all.
No, the little guy was true to himself, he was true to the others it's just as with anything in life there's always that one that makes life harder on others and takes more than he should for his own selfish advantage.
Well stated.
Part of what I'm trying to illustrate is the insanity of books and news stories about "how I got rich".
The idiots don't know why they got rich and naturally assume it's because they're superior in some way.
What worked for J.D. Rockefeller or Steve Jobs or Bill Gates years and years ago, WON'T WORK FOR YOU NOW. Stop buying their books!!
They've specifically changed the laws to PREVENT anyone from using the same tactics that they used back then.
There are a zillion and one contemporaries of J.D. Rockefeller who were just as "smart" or "smarter" who were "100% true to themselves" and worked hard all day every day and they didn't "make it to the top".
What we're dealing with is SAMPLE-BIAS, more specifically SURVIVOR-BIAS.
...and the fundamental-attribution-error.
It makes perfect sense.
If you don't vote at all, THEY still get your share of the reward-pool.
I'm opting-out of the reward-pool-game specifically because of all the unpaid-voluntary-vigilante-"protectors" of the magical-"community"-reward-pool.
And it works.
I haven't seen cheetahbot anywhere!!
The voting system is fundamentally broken, it's only good for rep.
If you want to support what you consider "high-quality-content", I would ask you to consider delegating (arbitrary-loan, ARLO) to those you like, BECAUSE that can't be "canceled" by our fearless army of intrepid unpaid-voluntary-vigilante-"protectors" of the magical-"community"-reward-pool.
The delegation system (arbitrary-loan, ARLO) is similar to pa.treon, but vastly superior because there is no centralized control, and you don't have to divulge any personal or credit-card information to anyone, AND you can easily cancel at any time to get all of your funds back, so there's ZERO-RISK.
If you're curious about anything more specific, I'm all ears.