RE: An Update On My Curation Habits and Why You're Better Off Buying Your Votes and Earning Peanuts
Thanks for taking a shot at me in your post just now. I voted it at 50%, which is about as high as I can go in order to be able to vote for about 19 other posts, hopefully, before my voting power gets depleted.
In your screen shot here, you show me $1.21 and say that's not enough. My vote was worth $1.37. I've built up enough SP over nearly two years of grinding here to be able to give you what isn't enough, while I've sacrificed many things here at home for nearly two years. I could have spent this money, but instead I keep it here so I can help people.
"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins." You singled me out and said that in your post.
Guess what happens if I start buying votes. I take the reason you buy votes away from you and you sink right back down. More and more people keep pushing me to stop what I'm doing and go out there to crush all of you minnows. I have the money to do it, but I'm sorry, I'm not that kind of guy.
Be pissed off with me all you want. I tried to help you numerous times.
I don't feel like defending myself and I won't. If you knew my story, I don't think you would judge me.
Thanks for the support and up-votes you have given me since my start here, my reaction may come across as ungrateful, but I'm just being real with you.
How am I judging you though? Seriously dude. I'm not talking about your life or your past. People need to learn that when they come to Steemit, they must work their way up. I've seen so many who started at the same time as you earn more and they are not using bots, ever.
SP is what's needed to have a high powered vote. People delegate away their SP to bots; they can't vote for your work. You're paying them to look away. The more you guys pay them to look away, the more they earn looking away. You guys should have been working together, paying attention to each other, working hard and giving those people a reason to look, but you pay them to look away. Thousands of people. That's why you folks struggle so much. You pay for it. You encourage it.
I didn't earn everything I have here on my first day or even within the first four months. I came back in December and have already earned about 7000 SP since then, no bots. There was a time since you've been here when SBD was valued so high, we were able to get 3 or 4 Steem for each SBD we traded. I jumped all over that opportunity. While so many of you were cashing out or buying votes, we were sitting here raking in the dough, and we tried to tell everyone but they didn't listen. We tried. I gave people $10 votes back then with the hopes they would power it up, they didn't, and now so many are still scratching their heads trying to figure this place out.
Use bots all you want, but that's a really shitty way to make money here. Probably the worst.
Well, I've always been shitty at making money, I'm here on an art mission though.
Ok, how do you feel about me taking the challenge to not use any up-vote bots (besides the ones I'm subscribed too) for a month?