RE: SteemFest blues and those who'll never show
I will be at STEEMFest, @tarazkp with the main goal of trying to find a way for larger accounts to support projects that minnows and redfish use to grow here. I've been posting about the death of small fish post-fork and have a lot of information I do not think the bigs know. Or maybe they can tell me why small fish really are not wanted here and that might change my path in life. Either way, we have carnage down in the depths.
I do not see myself in bars late at night, but I do plan to talk to every single STEEMer in Bangkok who does not run when they see me. And most definitely there will be a lot of posts coming during and after. I'm not doing this for my health.
So I really came to your page to ask why you and maybe a trail are down-voting jerrybanfield now. Obviously you do not need to tell me. But I do not notice anything like spam or plagiarism on his feed.
You may not know that he is now voting for minnows/redfish for free. He was the first of the bidbots to close and offered to vote for us once a day if we got on his list. He uses the blacklists and so is not voting for any of those people.
In a time of poor votes for the bottom of the pond, I'm hoping we do not drive off someone that really is helping.
I think there are smallfish that are growing at rates that were not possible earlier, but for those who are trying to live off steem, the price is definitely not high enough. Price is the thing that will eventually need to rise, but that takes more than distribution, it takes demand to buy Steem, something many are unwilling to do.
I downvote Jerry as someone who posts here but doesn't engage. He also uses Steem as a funnel for his urethra or whatever it is by offering upvotes to sign up to his list, something that results in him blindly upvoting a lot of plagiarists.
Many of which are plagiarists. Good job Jerry!
He also sold his witness position. Good job Jerry!
He is not in my opinion helping, and never has.
What plagiarists is he voting for,@tarazkp? He uses the blacklists.
And why can't he promote his other work on steem? Do you downvote steempress too?
You did not want him as a witness anyway.
the blacklists only contain those who have made it to the list, not those who make an account and sign up to Jerry's list.
He can do as he pleases, as can you. I can also.
While you might not understand why, I have my reasons and I think that @jerrybanfield is undeserving of rewards from the pool. His content is still there and readable if people care enough to read it. Do you? I haven't seen you comment on any of it yet you comment a great deal. Why is that?
And since you don't know Jerry so well,
Jerry has 2000 SP and is powering down further.
He is upvoting with 55,000 stake that hasn't been removed from delegators, but he stopped paying the delegators a return. This means that he is also earning about 100 SP a week in curation without paying those he owes.
Good Guy Jerry!
I am answering both of your comments here, @tarazkp. I actually do know jerry well. I already knew him and followed him on multiple platforms before I got here. He is a bull in a china shop on all of them.
Jerry is the person convinced me to come and try steem in June 2017. When he invested 60K of his own funds I decided to try. I did not want to mess with crypto at the time even though other content creating friends were already here and bugging me to come.
He is one of the people most responsible for teaching me how to work here and gave me a lot of good votes before bots came in. And now he is voting for me and MANY of my content-creating non-spamming non-plagiarizing, small-fish friends each day.
I talk to him by email when I do as he no longer interacts on STEEM for multiple reasons. I did recently send him prayers for his mom's illness on a recent post, but that was an exception.
I have seen several notifications to delegators telling them he is no longer paying. I see your point about this part of the issue.
Flag away! We'll see if he just stops posting and continues to vote.
STEEM - The place where everyone sucks, lol.
He brought a lot of people in and taught them a great deal about how to maximize selfvoting. Very few of them around today, very few made it past the highs.
You are free to upvote him all you want, but I believe he is not and never has been a great ambassador for Steem and has done a lot of damage. He won't stop posting because it is free for him to do so and it is another way for him to see his face on the internet.
I don't upvote Jerry, he upvotes me, @tarazkp.