BAHAHAHA! That's the greatest! It's certainly not the easiest thing to hold your integrity close while you watch other people earn just as much if not more for 2% of the effort, but like I've said since I got here, an organic following is always going to be the best way to go.

I've just recently hit a bunch of big milestones... 1000 followers (now 1400), 60 rep (WOOT!), and my one year Steemit birthday...

Yeah, it took me a whole year to accomplish those "lower middle" milestones, and my SP is still just barely 400. Am I still happy with what I've built, and what's to come? Hell yeah! Have I caved in my stance against bid bots, and started using them myself? Every now and again, I sure have.

But one thing remains: Sweeney is not a shitposter, and never will be. The content I put onto this chain will be there forever, and I would hate for someone to come along in 5 to 10 years, and look upon what I was doing and laugh.