Wow...@tcpolymath, your whole post is a shameless effrontery.

You say within your post:

"Steem isn't a money tree, it's a money sapling. It needs nurturing to become its best self, and I see that as both personally and financially rewarding."

The same time you are writing this, you're buying upvotes big time for your post, that otherwise would only have got the value of a few bucks. Which I think would be totally equitable.

Abusing the platform and honest authors that are putting up great quality content and then you writing about how to help steemit grow and whatever is such a bad kind of hypocrisy and double attitude that I MUST condemn. # I hope that some whale sets in and flags this post with most voting power he has.

You are not helping the platform grow, "nurturing" (how ridicolous is that), not in any kind of way , instead people like you destroy it.