If you're anything like me, I'm tired of the negative trending on Steemit.  There's users poking and prodding at each other, drama that makes it to the front page, and people taking advantage of featuring someone else's work to make a profit on it.  This isn't what Steemit is supposed to be about.  Steemit isn't the news, and it certainly wasn't created with the intention of being a political drama station between users as if they're running for presidency.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to see some more postive and constructive things happening here on Steemit.  I've been fortunate enough to experience a vast majority of the responses to my work being genuine, constructive, and kind, but not everyone feels this way.

So henceforth, I shall be creating the Random Acts of Kindness (program?) on Steemit!

What is a Random Act of Kindness (RAK)?

Inspired by RAKs that take place in real life, and modified to work more efficiently on Steemit, a RAK from here on out will be something you can send to another user to show appreciation, received inspiration, or even just randomly with no reason at all.  They're meant to encourage other people to show kindness towards others, as well as just make people happy!  You might not know the person, maybe they're having a bad day, or maybe you just want to reward their efforts on Steemit, a RAK can do it for you!

A RAK here on Steemit would be specified by picking a user you want to receive your RAK and then transferring Steem Dollars to them at a minimum of $1.00 in SBD.

The reason for this requirement is to prevent spam; I don't think anyone wants to look at tens of transactions of 0.001 SBD in their log.  It's not only annoying, but insulting.  If you genuinely think someone's work here is worth less than your $1, then don't send anything.

How does it work?

I'm going to use my good friend @heretickitten as a guinea pig to show you how it's done.  First, go to your profile page and click on Wallet.  Everyone here is familiar with how to do that.  Once you've done that, click on the dollar amount of your Steem Dollars like so:

Then select Transfer, and another box will come up.  Fill this one out too, the boxes in red:

This is the Most Important part of a RAK!

In the Public Memo box, include "RAK" somewhere in your message, preferrably at the beginning!  You don't absolutely have to write something nice about the person, but it makes the RAK 10x better.  Sometimes people don't want money, sometimes they just want a genuine compliment that makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Once you've filled in your credentials and verified the sending of the transaction, you should see something like this in your transacation history:

This means your RAK is complete!  Congratulations, you just made someone's day a little bit better!  It's as easy as that to make someone's day, so let's get in the habit.  We're all here to share after all, right?

Important things to remember

• RAKs can be for anyone!  Someone you know or don't know, someone who commented on your post, someone whose content you enjoy, or someone completely random for no reason whatsoever!
• Always include RAK in the Public Memo of the transaction!
• RAKs must be at least $1.00 SBD!
• Inlcuding a little compliment (or a big one) in the Public Memo will make your RAK have a much bigger impact on the receiver!
• Please don't tag posts your write as RAK unless it's specifically about RAKs.  RAKs are not meant to be a way for you to promote!

Thanks for reading, and happy RAK-spreading!  For more interesting content, please be sure to Follow me @voltarius!  I will also be tossing around RAKs from now on until the end of time, even if nobody else does!