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@stimialiti, yes it is my original work and research. Of course there's no way for me to make you see that. You believe what you want.

I've read your comment below about whether or not I got this idea from tv or the radio. That's a for sure no because my tv broke years ago and I never replaced it and I don't tend to listen to the radio except when I feel like tapping into the hive mind and checking out what they are shilling on NPR. I'm not a big fan of programming.

As far as my resteeming content that I think should be seen by others, is that not what the feature is for? Not that I need to defend myself to you, but I post somewhat regularly, when I can find the time, and I share quality content from people I appreciate. Take that how you will.

Knowing how things usually are, I remain skeptical.

I hear you there. It seems all over Steemit these days there are people just looking to cash in with garbage posts and comments, not really adding anything of value. It is easy to see who is just after money in this blockchain world, sometimes their voting bots follow them everywhere they go. For me, I'm not after the money. I did buy Steem when I came back online early last year as I was excited about it's possibilities, but any liquid Steem I earn these days I give away to support people whose content I value.

I imagine you will reply and then get some more upvotes, have at the rewards pool for this post. That's what it's there for, right?

I'll leave you with this thought. I'm not here to make a living, I want this ride to stop and I'm just trying to do my part. If you read my post, I thank you. Glad you stopped by. And don't feel bad for jumping to conclusions, after posting this I'll feel fine about your doubts and you not giving me your upvote. That's not why I'm here. Have a great day.

I did not give you an upvote because I have more pressing issues to use my VP on.
I was not born, and did not start to use STEEM with this thread, and if I voted every good thread I saw, I would have hovered around 70% instead of above 97%.
Thank for these bots, I can spare my VP from voting on my own comments in some cases.
I use these bots to play this game well, and to hurt spammers' and abusers' ROI.
If you play the STEEM game well, you should know my vote has little effect.
I am not making a living here either.
Does it mean that I should forfeit any hope of growing my influence here?
It may be your original idea and it is well done.
You may as well deserve your rewards or more.
I too resteem content, but I think before I do, and I still regret at least one time that I resteemed content because it was quite a fraud and once resteemed, I could not undo it.
Once in a while I trigger haters' flags.
There are at least 3 goods in it:

  1. Exposes bad people
  2. Wastes their VP
  3. Angers them

And I already explained shortly why bidbots should be used by decent posters such as I.
I also feel that the owners of the bots I currently use deserve to be paid for their decency and for offering a decent alternatives to scams.

Do not like them, do not use them.
Your loss, not mine.
If I waited for people here to reward me, I would have still hovered below a reputation of 45 and had less SP than I have.
There are things I will not do to gain influence here, but bidbots usage is not one of these things.

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@stimialiti @camille1234 is one of the best researchers I know. Looks at things from every possible angle, from all sources. As a friend of mine says...she gets all the liars in the room.

I tend to believe you all about camille1234.
She may be a great researcher.
This thread is illuminating regardless of where it originated, which may be camille1234 and if it is the case, she is a great original thinker as well as researcher.
What I still do not believe you about, and every time that I asked about I was initially or eventually ignored, is about the "legal kidnaps", you know what I mean.
I never got close to a satisfying explanation to why would the government or its workers want to remove children from their parents without a good justification.

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Thank you, Sarah!

I am curious if you bothered to look into her previous posts

I did to some extent, and multitude of resteemed content increased my skepticism.

or looked around on the internet to see if anyone anywhere has suggested this theory before leaving this comment.

First, the internet is just a little too big and deep for my ability to search for such a thing.
Second, I was about to write somewhere on the internet, but decided to write what I wrote, because it may as well come from outside of the internet.
Radio, TV, people's talk, etc.

Skepticism has it's place for sure and we should all be using critical thinking skills but simply saying something like this without anything to back it up does not validate your comment.

I did not say anything.

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