Thanks for this Matt.
The post wasn't meant to throw any negativity your way, sorry if you feel it has.
Clearly the bad actors are not present in the comments, and it is those that are doing far more damage to our token than those producing the best content they can, once or twice a day.
I guess that declining rewards isn't the way to go, and I'll just continue engaging and encouraging as my part in the big wheel.
Cheers.
:)) We are all susceptible to being corrupt, and even though they are not in the comments, some of the actors who do subtract more value than they lock in are rather influential on the platform and are very senior and well respected. I won’t name any names of course, but you should be able to figure it out. It’s our job to hold this behaviour to account as a community. And the details behind my message here are a way for users to see a standard with which to measure and hold these actors to account. The problem is that said actors probably also have not understood this message and so I hope that the things I have said over the last couple days help in some small way to change the culture for the better on steem