What It's Like to Be Harassed and Falsly Accused

Since the first week I joined Steemit I have been doing a weekly giveaway. I spend $100 on a coin with a low market cap and research it and make a small informative post about the basics of the coin. Then whoever leaves their address for that specific coin, I put their name in a website called randomresult.com and it picks one name out of the list. The prize is usually around $25 worth of the weekly cryptocurrency.

This week I just happened to pick Storj because it had an unusually low market cap and the giveaway got up to $150+ because the price of Storj went crazy in just a few days. Someone who I had a few good interactions with prior to the drawing kind of went off the deep end and started saying that I was using multiple accounts to enter my own giveaway.

Besides not making sense to me personally for such a small amount of money, this guy is also accusing people that I don't even know of being me, with alternate accounts. All six weeks that I have done this giveaway, everything was enjoyable. I got some interactions on my post, which is why most of us are here, and I was gaining followers every week. I looked forward to my day off on Monday so I could research a new coin that I thought had potential and share my hours of research with the few people that enjoyed reading my posts.

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Then right before I have to leave for work tonight I start getting harassed and called a liar and cheater. I even got submitted to #nuke on steemchat, and I'm still not sure exactly what that is. He says the whales will decide my fate.

So I'm thinking, great someone with a lot of power or a bot army is going to start aggressively flagging my posts. I've never been harassed or threatened before so I don't really know what he means by that. I checked out the page on steemchat and it looks like a legit thing, so I'm fine with him submitting my post to them. I only have one account. I'm not cheating anybody.

It sucked worrying about this BS at work tonight. I've been trying to get people to join Steemit with my posts, and they have. It's just so frustrating to actually try to do something good and fun and have some guy try to ruin it.

Is he doing this because he didn't win? Fine, I offered to send him a few Storj tokens. Surely if someone was having such a bad day that they would throw a tantrum over not winning a freebie contest, I could make his day with something I spent $3 on. Nope, that turned into me trying to bribe him to drop the whole thing.

I don't want to mute him because I enjoy his contests post. Maybe he is just trying to do the right thing and bring justice to those who would win their own contests. I'm not really sure what to do. He's just connecting so many dots that aren't there.

I know I won't get many people reading this but if anybody has any advice I'm open to suggestions. I don't want to be called a scammer and have people following me being called scammers either.

Oh, the ironic thing. I think what led him to my blog in the first place is when I upvoted a post he made where he was apologizing to certain users for falsely accusing them of being scammers.

Anyway, I'm not going to stop what I'm doing because of one bad apple. I'm still doing my giveaway every week. I'm not limiting the people that enter to only established users. I want new people to come on board because Steemit is already pretty special, and it can use as many good people as it can get!