Let Giving Be Incentivized By Receiving: An Experiment Inspired By @valblomqvist & @wanderingdanish

in #life6 years ago (edited)

I decided to experiment with something that might spread some happiness by merely "sharing your influence" and getting rewarded for sharing it.

This experiment is inspired by a humane response by my very good friend @valblomqvist to one of my earlier posts and by @wanderingdanish to my last post.

Here's the experiment:

I will 100% upvote all pledges made in the comment to share at least 75% of the comment reward SBDs with those who are in need of help. The comments should be:
i) relevant and pledge 75% of the comment upvote reward with a person who is in need of help,
ii) In grammatically correct English & without typos.

So to receive comment rewards you have to pledge passing on 75% of the reward SBD to anyone needy. As an added incentive if you make a post on how you used the rewarded SBD in grammatically correct language (English) I will 100% upvote your post with more SBD reward that you can again share with the needy. If you have difficulty in making the post in grammatically correct English, I had already offered to help you in one of my earlier posts.

This way you improve the quality of content, increase your own reward earnings and boost your reputation at the same time.

If this works I'll make it a weekly activity and also add some more Steem Power to my account to further boost the rewards, which currently stands at $3.5 (current lower SBD price reduced it to $2.75 at 100%)

Good luck

Cheers :)

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I have also shared my influence by adding 50% upvotes in support of this great cause of helping those in need. Looking forward to the results of this experiment. :D

well really you are a good man to call people for a good work and help others who needy
i also pledge that my give 100% reward to a person who will need it @sharonomics

good job , I wanna try this.

Upvoting 100% assuming by saying "I wanna try this" you mean: "I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person"

helping those in need is very noble @sharonomics

Adding my 100% upvote.

My 6 cents too added. Let's see how this works out. Looking forward to see the results in 7 days. Good luck

nice to see your work and i am happy to hear it and now i am also pledge i will give my 75% reward to atleast one person who need it

Great @freemanx, you got my full 100% vote. Cheers :)

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person. It looks kinda interesting.

OK buddy you got the reward, and I can see others are also upvoting to increase your reward value.
Cheers :)

Thanks everyone for the support. I was thinking fo dividing the reward among multiple people's.

Adding my vote to this one, as well.

Nice initiative @sharonomics. Indeed, the more we give, the more we receive.

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person.

OK @denski here's your SBD reward.
Cheers :)

Hi @sharonomics. Thank you. Just yesterday a fire has affected 30 families in Cebu including my colleague here. My SBD reward goes to them. I'll be posting how I will spend it for them very soon. Thanks again for this initiative. It is so fulfilling. 😚

OK I am giving you another 2.77 SBD upvote so you have more cash to help the families. Hope others also pitch in.

Do the good work and you will be blessed. :)

Thank you @sharonomics for your generosity. God bless you too. The families will be happy to hear this.

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person..Absolutely... @sharonomics

Excellent. You got the reward, Hope you put it to good use. Cheers :)

@sharonomics you have made a very nice post.Thank you for being so sensitive.I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person.

Thanks Happy sharing. Cheers :)

yes sir i am also pledge i will share my rewards to some one who is needy and really in penic
well its good work and i am happy to see your post and also i am new member and found it a good platfarm

Well welcome to Steemit. Happy sharing your SBD reward. Cheers :)

If you guys want to try this you will have to clearly mention in your comment: "I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person"
Thanks :)

i am waiting for your next post

I like the project very much. Always share with homeless dogs and cats. 🐶🐱🙇‍♀️

Hey @tugbabeauty are you interested in participating in this experiment? Let me know so I can upvote you. :)

Yes why not :)

Great you got the SBDs to support your cause.

Share your influence & spread the wealth
Cheers :)

Thank you Cheers! 👍

I pledge to share 75% of my reward from this comment to a fellow struggling steemian in need, on top of the reward from our last conversation. Not sure how yet, if it'll be 1 SBD to as many people I can cover or one person who get's a bigger boost. Feel free to share your thoughts :)

How you use your SBD reward is entirely your judgment call as long as it helps someone in need. As it is this is an experiment to try and see how this initiative incentivizes sharing with the less fortunate. Cheers :)

It’s always good to pay it forward 😂
Kudos to people who likes to share to the people in need.

Let’s always do good deeds 😂

I live in Turkey and had people fleeing from war..I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person.

OK buddy you got it. Help the needy and you will be blessed. Cheers :)

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person.

OK you got my upvote in support of your pledge :)

pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person.

I support your pledge. Cheers :)

wow , you have such a kind heart
'I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person"

Thanks @monjan for your kind words. Let's see if my upvote serves any purpose. Cheers :)

I like the idea of what you're trying to do here, although the "anyone needy" part is a bit vague for me. Do we me mean someone here on Steemit where we can show "proof of act done" or do we also mean the guy who pokes through the garbage cans behind my workplace, looking for cigarette butts?

That's not a criticism, more of an exploration of how to really turn this into "something."

If I wrote my answer as "I intend to share the gift with ****** who's facing medical bills" that might offer more specific intentions... AND it might inspire readers to the page (I know I would!) to give generous upvotes of their own to various comments whose "Causes" they found appealing.

Imagine this: An entire comment thread of worthy causes with multiple upvotes!

In place of posting something of my own (as I don't have anyone specific in mind), I'll give a 100% upvote to anyone else who's agreed to do this!

Hey @denmarkguy Thank you for your support. It means a lot to me personally and immensely contributes to the cause of spreading some goodness across the planet.

This is just an experiment, so couldn't add too many conditions, and in any case I personally don't like to add too many caveats to whatever I offer for the good of community. I think trust not only begets trust, it conquers untrust. So I always begin with trust no matter how untrustworthy someone's reputation is, and I've seen it work most of the time. And, if someone disrespects my trust, it his loss not mine, because losing a few bucks makes hardly any difference to me, but he forever kills the opportunity to gain from my trust.

But you are right, if this experiment works, at some point, we have to clearly define the rules.

Thanks again for your support.
Cheers :)

Sorry if I came off a bit heavy handed there!

I'm very much onboard with the whole idea of Steemit as the basis for a "gift economy" as @stellabelle wrote about, many many months back. Because of the way rewards here work, this is an ideal "training ground" in the principles of giving and "paying it forward." Agreed, there should be trust!

Anyway, you have a new follower and I will keep an eye on things here as they unfold!

Not at all my dear @denmarkguy. You have a good heart, and good hearts can't be heavy handed. I perfectly understand that unregulated human behavior tends to go astray. But then as long as giving is incentivized by receiving something, I believe most with conscience will not take a bite from a slice that's meant for the one who's impoverished and hungry. If you read my Tears of Joy post on @valblomqvist's voluntary gesture sharing SBD rewards with hungry kids, you will what I am saying.

Thanks one more time for your support :)

In a direct connection to our talk in the other thread I'll be hosting a give away "contest" one of these coming days, sharing some of the reward I received from @sharonomics from those comments.
I was thinking of "needy" in that context as those accounts on steemit that struggles to be recognized and get attention, despite having real "quality" content.
Obviously, talking about the real needy people outside steemit, but who can be helped somehow by steemians, is a whole other matter that I hadn't really thought about. Though, it really opens up a lot of possibilities to reach out, even outside steemit.

Will be interesting to see how your rules and definitions will be shaped in the future.

OK good @wanderingdanish. You got another $3+ upvote in my previous post and two $3+ upvotes on this one. That totals to about $10 in rewards. I guess that's plenty of incentive to spread the goodness around.
Cheers :)

Good job sir,
Thanks for shaing.

I also upvoted. But this meaningless GIF is only distracting and digressing from the cause. Why would you upload it @sumonsha?

All right you got the upvote reward. But what this car GIF got to do with participating in this experiment?

Ok sir,i'm sorry for gif

Well if you are sorry why don't you delete it?

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person

You got it @darksea. Good luck :)

All right my friend here's your SBD reward to share it with the one in need.
Cheers :)

The prize needs to reach the owners.

You are doing a great job sharon.I am impressed, go ahead.I am with you.

Do you mean you "pledge to share the SBD reward from this comment with at least one needy person". If yes I will upvote you 100%

Yes I want.But how can I share, please explain it.

OK I upvoted you 100%. You have to decide how you want to use the reward SBD for helping the needy. It could be feeding the hungry as @valblomqvist did or helping the sick with medical bills as @denmarkguy mentions in his comment. If you make a good post of how you used the reward, you will again get a 100% upvote if your post is well drafted.
Cheers :)

Oh, thanks for your suggetion. I would like to help the needy people when I cash out my sbd.Yeah, it will be a very peacefull work.

I pledge to share my SBD reward with @alimamasstory a friend of mine whom I introduced steemit to. She's gonna be delivering her 2nd child in February and is in need financially as last year wasn't a really great year for her and her family job wise.

I'm pledging 100% of the comment upvote to her :)

Hey @danielwong, you still think your influence can't make a difference, and standing together we can't change the world?

Thank you :)

Always believe we could and we can! :D

nice to see your efforts for giving help from all of us rewards
i pledge i also will share my rewards up to 75 percent to atleast person who really need this sir

Thank you. God bless you.
Cheers :)

yes sir i pledge i will share 75% of the comment upvote reward with a person who is in need of help

@marygrac: God bless you. :)

feel too good to listen that you are on this mission for fininsh poverty as you can and we all should pledge on this and
i also pledge i will share my 100% rewards to atleast one needy person.. and i share this photo again thats seems like your post we all with you on this great mission

Thanks @ilyonse for pledging your support.
Cheers :)

yes i also pledge to share my SBD's reward with needy person.. which i already sharing in my parent hometown pakistan because i see many poor person around my parent home
goo job @sharonomics your work is best for poverty i alwasy suggest you to make an charity account and give all the earning of that acount to poors

OK dear here's my 100% upvote. Let's wait until the next week to see to what good use you put reward SBD.

Cheers :)

ok but i think we would not wait for only share from this reward we always try to every reward and i pledge to GOD that when i cashout my rewards my every 10% will for poors for always till i die man

well it is a more good idea and sure i will share the rewards with that who need it....best work sharonomics hope every one will do it

Thanks @robrowe. You got my full upvote.
Cheers :)

I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person. It looks

Great gesture @mdarifk10. Let's use our influence to spread some goodness.
Cheers :)

thats good i also pledge that i will spent my these rewards fully and my some others to poor persons which really need these @sharonomics

Thanks for pledging the reward with those in need. Cheers :)

i pledge i will give my rewards from this and also from others to a needy person who will feel painic without money sir

@fastg0w:Let's together make a difference in this world.
Cheers :)

ok i got it
to start i can say you must correct the post (correct English I had already offered to help you in one of my earlier pasts. Post ! and will be nice a hight light link direct to early post !!
Cheers !!

@ormus I did not understand what you meant.

what pasts means ?

wooow, what a nice surprise my friend!! Jajajaj it's so sweet thank you very much. I has been so bussy this days but I'm back, I'm glad with this @sharonomics jaja ! Lets keep sharing for those who in need, cool :D

You just disappeared. Nice to see you back though. We missed you.

Oh I'm so so soorry, yes I was a little bit bussy, and I miss you too guys! Thanks, see you later! :D

OMG ! Sorry, I try to vote but I can't I don't know why T. T *

you are very good @sharonomics I am very happy to meet you friend.

Congratulations @wandaringdanish 😊

Good job @sharonimics keep it up!

I pledge to share my SBD.

i liked in your post your all post is good post it s good job may be a question

Greet job my dear friend
Keep it up
Resteem and upvote this post

this is very helpful for small fish like me @sharonomics

@aaaaaalif: Any small fish can participate in this experiment and earn SBD and reputation. :)

Great works, I wish you success @sharonomics

Great works, I wish you successThis is wonderful!
Really very nice idea.thanks for sharing with
Its so amazing to you all join forces
100% supported by tha snakey!
That looks amazing! Thank you for sharing :)

very nice

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SBD used to be 3 times Steem. Now it is less than Steem. Do you want to try this experiment? If yes, please let everyone know so I can also upvote your comment.

I vow to share my SBD compensate with no less than one penniless individual.
yes, I want to try this experiment @bitbulls

Great you got the full upvote. I suggest you keep your comment relevant to the post content if you wanna keep earning my upvotes.
Cheers :)

thanks for sharing keep it up

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life that's all i wanna say.. @sharonomics sharing is caring :D

excellent my dear

It is so much informative and very gratetful.

excellent job and excellent idea friend @sharonomics, I feel that you are making a great chain to help us.

for the first time I saw such a share. It's strange, but it's especially beautiful.
Upvoting 100% assuming by saying "I wanna try this" you mean: "I pledge to share my SBD reward with at least one needy person"

I didn't quite get it what you mean.

good job, so informative and great.