Whatever the split is, Jerry is benefiting. I will never support that witness, regardless of who is actually running it.
To me, it's a pretty sleazy deal to strike with Jerry. This jrswab may be a great guy with the best intentions, but this actually reflects very poorly on his judgement.
I read elsewhere in the comments that @jrswab took the deal on the condition that Banfield stop slinging shit about Steem on other platforms. In that case maybe it's not the worst thing ever.
I still wouldn't vote Banfield, not in a million years, but... yeah. I'm just gonna reserve judgement.
Yes this is the arrangement between Jerry and I. If he keeps bashing steem I'll turn off the witness. No one is asking you to vote for Jerry's witness. I understand why people don't want to and it alright with me.
That is fair enough but wouldn't it just be easier to let the fucker not be a part of the group? He has already said and done the actions that hurt us. Why do you think the former person running his witness dropped him?
@ats-david, no one is asking you to support Jerry's witness. I got into this fulling know some people would not be happy but how is this any different than privex hosting many witness servers or even someguy123 running servers for other people? Calling this deal sleezy you may as well call the others sleezy too.
The others do not involve Jerry, Jerry is the variable here that is different. This move will also put any other project you work on in the shadow of being associated with him. Did you not just witness the Dlive trust issue? Working with Jerry is like being part of the Dlive team and posting on Steemit.
It is interesting this has happened because back on Sept 1st I made a video response to @jerrybanfield to reactivate his witness node.
Ultimately he wanted me to pay him $49 / month to be a partner on his website or some BS just to watch my video. Well of course he had already watched the video because who doesn't watch a video addressed directly to them when his own videos are only getting a few hundred views typically.
The sad this is doing something like this is the only way to potential get into a position of profitability as a witness on this chain.
It is actually one of the most frustrating things to me that I can't run a witness node on this blockchain. There is no point in losing money on it here so I have to focus on other chains.
You can run a witness on this blockchain just like anyone else can. Doesn’t mean you are entitled to a top 20 spot or any other spot unless you get the votes for it.
Nah...... no thanks. I don't like being unprofitable. I'm running a witness on another chain. In 2+ years I was never popular enough here to consider wasting my time and money.
Message me on discord. I am happy to take a loss to be part of a witness node. There is much work to be done and doing things for the community has gotten a few in the top 20. Not everyone in the top twenty has to be a sleazeball.
So tell me your vision of Steemit on discord and I may be willing to foot the bill for service.
can I do this too @erodedthoughts, you don't even need to foot the bill. I am interested in setting up a witness, would like to start having these conversations.
Thanks for your enthusiasm but me reaching out to Jerry was my last attempt at trying to get anything done on this chain. It ends up being a time waster. I have been here since July of 2016 and have seen problem after problem. In general the witnesses in power here don't really care about what I have to say. Personally I think most of us are better off focusing on EOS at this point.
You make no sense. It has taken 20 HF and a few years to try and fix Steemit and you jump ship to Dan's new broken item which he will walk away from as soon as the problems start like he does with every project?
Have fun spending the next 5 years trying to fix EOS.
I'm not jumping ship to anywhere. I'm saying that it likely doesn't make sense to run a Witness node on this chain because those in power will seek to remain in power. With the amount of ram required you can easily spend $160 / month running it and if you want to be in the top 20 it would make sense to try to run a seed node also to convince people of power to possibly vote for you. So factor in $320 / month. Well a few months of doing that and trying to campaign to the God kings it will get old real fast.
Every project has it's issues including EOS. EOS is an open slate with 0.5s block times and is already cranking up the transactions.
Anyone can take the EOSIO software and build their own product on it. STEEM as well is open source so people can take the code base and expand on it.
I see our thoughts on being a witness are 100% different. I am in no need of the money so I don't care of the cost and want to make a community upvoter with what the witness makes. It should be a zero profit job if truly done for the good of the community, just as users should not self-vote in my opinion.
My buddy told me a long time ago that Jerry worked for a company at one time and had access to the companies money. He used it to invest in the crypto space and apparently he lost the companies money. I couldn't verify if this is true or not.
I don't know the guy and never followed his content. My friend knew about him before he got on Steem. When I tried to search for content on him I didn't come up with anything back when he first joined Steem.
Someone I know looked him up on LinkedIn. He was something between a failed mall cop and a government worker. I think it was IRS but it could've been those census takers.
I can confirm this. I just found his biography for what it's worth. I scrolled through a large portion trying to find what I mentioned but it's extremely long. https://jerrybanfield.com/biography/
My buddy told me a long time ago that Jerry worked for a company at one time and had access to the companies money. He used it to invest in the crypto space and apparently he lost the companies money. I couldn't verify if this is true or not.
@pwny
Apparently this "Jerry Banfield" is not the most popular guy on the block anymore, but maybe we should stick to firsthand info? (makes us who are "pro-steemit" look like we have the "moral high ground" etc etc)... =)
Yeah I do not know him personally. He has since given his account away and now someone else is running it for him which is strange. I'm not trying to do a deep dive on him just dropping my 2 cents.
I sometimes thought this Jerry Banfield looked a bit like an advanced cgi computer animation or something, and his "bidding-bot" was not always very profitable...
Other then that I know nothing about the guy, I think it was in one of his videos on youtube (amongst other random videos and blogs) it was at least one of the first times I heard about steem/steemit and how you could mine crypto by blogging here (from Jerry Banfield... But I could remember wrong, it happens)...
Some of the comments on this post say jrswab (who took over the account) is a good guy. I dont use bid bots anymore. Only a curation trail. If I was going to use a bid bot I would use @crypto&custard or steemsmart.
Okay, yeah I saw that, just checking the video where Jerry Banfield is concluding how much money he made on steemit, he is not really slandering steemit or anything so far in the video, he is just saying he is grateful, but is now leaving, etc etc, he looks like someone who has gotten sick of a job and is leaving because he is fed up... But I have to watch the whole video... Okay, now he is kind of being openly critical, but its in his right, he just dosen't like crypto anymore...
About bidding bots:
I tried sneaky-ninja on my last post and got a result that probably will lead to a decent ROI, but other then that there is not that many bots that have worked very well, (unfortunately delivered a very low ROI or a negative result)...
I've always thought he was greedy. Coz it looked like he did not care if Steemit crashes and burns as long as he had profits from his bot. He thought highly of himself, it appears to me. Just my opinion. I actually do not like people who bite the hands that fed them, that's not classy.
Thanks for the info @markymark , I was not aware of the bashing of Steem from Jerry, maybe the cross of Steem Og with Pineapple Chunk should not be named after him, even though im sure it's going to make you more flexible after you smoke it, ;)
Well I never had too many dealings with Jerry but I have had many with @jrswab and can say I trust him fully. I support him as a witness and will trust his judgment. I do know Jerry brought a ton of traffic here and the consensus is he did this under false pretense. I trust that JR won't be playing games like this and appreciate his bold move to make positive changes to this platform, we need more people doing this in my opinion. Do what it takes to make this platform prosper is a small business move. you got my vote JR...now moving forward.
You can talk to him--he is accessible and cool, so there is not problem getting answers. This is important to me, I have spent the past 9 month learning about PEOPLE and their positive traits on the platform, we all have faults and it's about putting those behind use and finding out how we can bring some positive benefits and skills to benefit everyone. I get upvotes from Bernie so I am grateful and just keep working my butt off....come by my discord ..would love to talk more with you
Talk to bernie? I doubt that. He has flagged me into oblivion because I called him out for his abuses. I would never stoop so low as to kiss his dirty ass for upvotes. I do hear that he may be loosing control of his accounts, and rightfully so. How do I find you on discord?
Hey @retiredinsamar reach out to me on discord. There are a growing group of individuals who are also sick of this tyrants abuse. It is just a matter of time before he gets what is coming to him. Same username on discord
Bernie Sanders is scum, he is one of the bottom feeders on this platform. He acts like a dictator and is one of the reason people leave the platform. It amazes me how more people don't realize this. He personally censors people who disagree with him. The most ironic part is his username, cause he doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself
Seems evident that the big inactive accounts just dont care about steem. Otherwise why keep your vote for a guy like jerry instead of changing the vote.
Got a link to where Jerry is bashing Steem? If so I hope it's not because a lot of people downvoted his really bad idea for Steem that demonstrated a gross misunderstanding of it and cryptocurrency in general.
I'll have to dig, it's in his YouTube videos and I got to prepare myself before watching, but I did watch one not too long ago where he said he will spend his time telling people Steem is a scam and use it to funnel users. Give me a few minutes.
UPDATE: I believe this was the video I don't watch his stuff in general. I just watch some of the Steem ones and hear from others.
Whatever the split is, Jerry is benefiting. I will never support that witness, regardless of who is actually running it.
To me, it's a pretty sleazy deal to strike with Jerry. This jrswab may be a great guy with the best intentions, but this actually reflects very poorly on his judgement.
I read elsewhere in the comments that @jrswab took the deal on the condition that Banfield stop slinging shit about Steem on other platforms. In that case maybe it's not the worst thing ever.
I still wouldn't vote Banfield, not in a million years, but... yeah. I'm just gonna reserve judgement.
Yes this is the arrangement between Jerry and I. If he keeps bashing steem I'll turn off the witness. No one is asking you to vote for Jerry's witness. I understand why people don't want to and it alright with me.
That is fair enough but wouldn't it just be easier to let the fucker not be a part of the group? He has already said and done the actions that hurt us. Why do you think the former person running his witness dropped him?
@ats-david, no one is asking you to support Jerry's witness. I got into this fulling know some people would not be happy but how is this any different than privex hosting many witness servers or even someguy123 running servers for other people? Calling this deal sleezy you may as well call the others sleezy too.
The others do not involve Jerry, Jerry is the variable here that is different. This move will also put any other project you work on in the shadow of being associated with him. Did you not just witness the Dlive trust issue? Working with Jerry is like being part of the Dlive team and posting on Steemit.
It is interesting this has happened because back on Sept 1st I made a video response to @jerrybanfield to reactivate his witness node.
Ultimately he wanted me to pay him $49 / month to be a partner on his website or some BS just to watch my video. Well of course he had already watched the video because who doesn't watch a video addressed directly to them when his own videos are only getting a few hundred views typically.
The sad this is doing something like this is the only way to potential get into a position of profitability as a witness on this chain.
It is actually one of the most frustrating things to me that I can't run a witness node on this blockchain. There is no point in losing money on it here so I have to focus on other chains.
You can run a witness on this blockchain just like anyone else can. Doesn’t mean you are entitled to a top 20 spot or any other spot unless you get the votes for it.
Nah...... no thanks. I don't like being unprofitable. I'm running a witness on another chain. In 2+ years I was never popular enough here to consider wasting my time and money.
Message me on discord. I am happy to take a loss to be part of a witness node. There is much work to be done and doing things for the community has gotten a few in the top 20. Not everyone in the top twenty has to be a sleazeball.
So tell me your vision of Steemit on discord and I may be willing to foot the bill for service.
can I do this too @erodedthoughts, you don't even need to foot the bill. I am interested in setting up a witness, would like to start having these conversations.
This offer is open to anyone if their thoughts and ideas of what Steemit is are in line with my own.
erodedthoughts#6809
Thanks for your enthusiasm but me reaching out to Jerry was my last attempt at trying to get anything done on this chain. It ends up being a time waster. I have been here since July of 2016 and have seen problem after problem. In general the witnesses in power here don't really care about what I have to say. Personally I think most of us are better off focusing on EOS at this point.
You make no sense. It has taken 20 HF and a few years to try and fix Steemit and you jump ship to Dan's new broken item which he will walk away from as soon as the problems start like he does with every project?
Have fun spending the next 5 years trying to fix EOS.
I'm not jumping ship to anywhere. I'm saying that it likely doesn't make sense to run a Witness node on this chain because those in power will seek to remain in power. With the amount of ram required you can easily spend $160 / month running it and if you want to be in the top 20 it would make sense to try to run a seed node also to convince people of power to possibly vote for you. So factor in $320 / month. Well a few months of doing that and trying to campaign to the God kings it will get old real fast.
Every project has it's issues including EOS. EOS is an open slate with 0.5s block times and is already cranking up the transactions.
Anyone can take the EOSIO software and build their own product on it. STEEM as well is open source so people can take the code base and expand on it.
I see our thoughts on being a witness are 100% different. I am in no need of the money so I don't care of the cost and want to make a community upvoter with what the witness makes. It should be a zero profit job if truly done for the good of the community, just as users should not self-vote in my opinion.
"because those in power will seek to remain in power."??? You mean Steemit is NOT decentralized? Oh, that's news! 🙄EOS is shit
Wtf! Man... ugh i hate greasy people.
My buddy told me a long time ago that Jerry worked for a company at one time and had access to the companies money. He used it to invest in the crypto space and apparently he lost the companies money. I couldn't verify if this is true or not.
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Not sure how accurate it is but here is the Jerry Banfield linkedin page.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrybanfield/
Hmmm not much there it didn't seem. Maybe someone else knows how to deep dive a supposed ex IRS workers criminal records.😄
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Didn't he work for the IRS?
I don't know the guy and never followed his content. My friend knew about him before he got on Steem. When I tried to search for content on him I didn't come up with anything back when he first joined Steem.
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Someone I know looked him up on LinkedIn. He was something between a failed mall cop and a government worker. I think it was IRS but it could've been those census takers.
Well here is his biography.
https://jerrybanfield.com/biography/
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He wrote a war and peace sized novel about himself.
Personally I don't think it was long enough. Lol
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He was a police officer for a bit.
He was a cop? Holy shit talk about life imitating comedy.
Hey! I like that show! Lol
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AH :))))) Nooooo
I can confirm this. I just found his biography for what it's worth. I scrolled through a large portion trying to find what I mentioned but it's extremely long.
https://jerrybanfield.com/biography/
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I bet that was fascinating - did he talk about his hobby of sucking his own dick? (really, I'm not kidding here, he did a video about it)
Maybe I didn't get to that part. Lol
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@pwny
Apparently this "Jerry Banfield" is not the most popular guy on the block anymore, but maybe we should stick to firsthand info? (makes us who are "pro-steemit" look like we have the "moral high ground" etc etc)... =)
/FF
Yeah I do not know him personally. He has since given his account away and now someone else is running it for him which is strange. I'm not trying to do a deep dive on him just dropping my 2 cents.
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Well, lets hope things don't get any worse.
I sometimes thought this Jerry Banfield looked a bit like an advanced cgi computer animation or something, and his "bidding-bot" was not always very profitable...
Other then that I know nothing about the guy, I think it was in one of his videos on youtube (amongst other random videos and blogs) it was at least one of the first times I heard about steem/steemit and how you could mine crypto by blogging here (from Jerry Banfield... But I could remember wrong, it happens)...
/FF
Some of the comments on this post say jrswab (who took over the account) is a good guy. I dont use bid bots anymore. Only a curation trail. If I was going to use a bid bot I would use @crypto&custard or steemsmart.
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Okay, yeah I saw that, just checking the video where Jerry Banfield is concluding how much money he made on steemit, he is not really slandering steemit or anything so far in the video, he is just saying he is grateful, but is now leaving, etc etc, he looks like someone who has gotten sick of a job and is leaving because he is fed up... But I have to watch the whole video... Okay, now he is kind of being openly critical, but its in his right, he just dosen't like crypto anymore...
About bidding bots:
I tried sneaky-ninja on my last post and got a result that probably will lead to a decent ROI, but other then that there is not that many bots that have worked very well, (unfortunately delivered a very low ROI or a negative result)...
/FF
This was the video I was watching:
I've always thought he was greedy. Coz it looked like he did not care if Steemit crashes and burns as long as he had profits from his bot. He thought highly of himself, it appears to me. Just my opinion. I actually do not like people who bite the hands that fed them, that's not classy.
Saklap.naman nyan sis
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Thanks for the info @markymark , I was not aware of the bashing of Steem from Jerry, maybe the cross of Steem Og with Pineapple Chunk should not be named after him, even though im sure it's going to make you more flexible after you smoke it, ;)
It's all a bunch of bullshit with all these fucking fraudulent accounts running around here, they all make me want to throw up!
Steemit is dead
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I believe you're right😁
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Me too, but when I'm feeling really nauseous, I make sure berniesanders account is loaded on my screen just in case of a projectile vomit!
Can't stand him either, but it would be a shame to mess up your own screen with vomit everywhere😁😁😁
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Ha, tounge in cheek comment! lol
I know😂
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Well I never had too many dealings with Jerry but I have had many with @jrswab and can say I trust him fully. I support him as a witness and will trust his judgment. I do know Jerry brought a ton of traffic here and the consensus is he did this under false pretense. I trust that JR won't be playing games like this and appreciate his bold move to make positive changes to this platform, we need more people doing this in my opinion. Do what it takes to make this platform prosper is a small business move. you got my vote JR...now moving forward.
Yeah, JR is a great developer and has done a lot to make Steem and DTube better.
yes he is, and a really cool guy. Always available to help and answer questions on discord and really humble....all traits I respect
Thank you for the kind words. My door is always open in any wants to have a conversation.
Great to hear. Maybe he can go to work and get rid of the likes of berniesanders and all his scamming multiple personalities!
You can talk to him--he is accessible and cool, so there is not problem getting answers. This is important to me, I have spent the past 9 month learning about PEOPLE and their positive traits on the platform, we all have faults and it's about putting those behind use and finding out how we can bring some positive benefits and skills to benefit everyone. I get upvotes from Bernie so I am grateful and just keep working my butt off....come by my discord ..would love to talk more with you
Talk to bernie? I doubt that. He has flagged me into oblivion because I called him out for his abuses. I would never stoop so low as to kiss his dirty ass for upvotes. I do hear that he may be loosing control of his accounts, and rightfully so. How do I find you on discord?
Losing control of my accounts? You really are a fucking retard.
Hey @retiredinsamar reach out to me on discord. There are a growing group of individuals who are also sick of this tyrants abuse. It is just a matter of time before he gets what is coming to him. Same username on discord
Yay! I can't wait for my surprise!
You're making yourself look pretty stupid here, Jason. Keep up the good work!
P.S. - It doesn't do any good to flag posts >7 days old, moron...
You are on the @abusereports blacklist and have been flagged. Enjoy the !popcorn.
Bernie Sanders is scum, he is one of the bottom feeders on this platform. He acts like a dictator and is one of the reason people leave the platform. It amazes me how more people don't realize this. He personally censors people who disagree with him. The most ironic part is his username, cause he doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself
You are on the @abusereports blacklist and have been flagged. Enjoy the !popcorn.
Seems evident that the big inactive accounts just dont care about steem. Otherwise why keep your vote for a guy like jerry instead of changing the vote.
ahahahaha lol
Got a link to where Jerry is bashing Steem? If so I hope it's not because a lot of people downvoted his really bad idea for Steem that demonstrated a gross misunderstanding of it and cryptocurrency in general.
I'll have to dig, it's in his YouTube videos and I got to prepare myself before watching, but I did watch one not too long ago where he said he will spend his time telling people Steem is a scam and use it to funnel users. Give me a few minutes.
UPDATE: I believe this was the video I don't watch his stuff in general. I just watch some of the Steem ones and hear from others.