Am I a newb?
Whatever profit I made, I paid for it dearly with time, worries, risks, stress, realizations of risks and lost opportunities.
I even got downvoted more than once by haters, jealous people whom would deny their jealousy in words, but expose it either by words, or actions, or both.
There is even some good in their downvotes:
It exposes them, angers them and wastes their VP, while I keep doing my thing.
I do not do what I do only for profits (as a hint for this claim, I do not eat ass), I also enjoy it at times, learn new things, know new people, both good, bad and near the middle of the scale and gather some experiences, good, bad and interesting which you spare yourself from.

And I repeat, the reward pool was created to be used, it gets filled and it draws people to this place.
It is a good idea.
The spammers, scammers and shitposters should be fought, not the usage itself.
One way to fight them, is to compete, another is to downvote.
You choose to do neither and I do both.

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And you did not decline rewards in this (very) post of yours.