Hello, @jd-alden and thank you for taking the time to both try out SteemPress and also share your point of view.

I already replied to your review on wordpress.org, which can be read here. As stated, I agree it would have been better to make this clear from the beginning in the WordPress description. I take that fully on me as something I could and should have done.

However, SteemPress has been in beta until 6 hours ago, and thus a lot has been lacking. Informing about the benefactor rewards was always in the draft for the post introducing the Version1.0, and the text explaining benefactor rewards was literally written days ago, long before your post and review. The description used at wordpress.org at the time contained many typos and was fully incomplete as we expected only our testers to really be finding and using the plugin before our announcement post. Again, my mistake.

I would recommend you not to be so quick to jump at conclusions regarding other peoples intentions. We did not withhold this information purposefully hoping that somehow people would not notice. This is merely what you get when 2 people work weekends and late nights to make a product and leave out polishing details until the main parts are finished.

On a side note, if you want to understand more of how benefactor rewards are used by virtually all app developers on STEEM, you may want to look into how dtube, dsound, dmania, utopian, zappl, steepshot, etc, all rely on benefactor rewards. Most charge as much as 25%. So if you feel 10% is a robbery, you may want to do some outreach to people about that too. Mind that the percentage only affects the vested reward, meaning Steem Power, and not at all affecting the Steem Dollars you earn posting with these Apps.

Once again, I'm sorry for the mistake, but am fully convinced that we are, and will be, building great tools to help the STEEM ecosystem grow.

Steem on buddy.

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