To be honest: I don’t know in which part of the SteemIt world you live in, but in my part the only thing minnows do is support minnows. @newbieresteemday, @newbiegames, @asapers, @greetersguild, @helpie, just to name a few, are communities that have all grown because some little guys wanted to help some other little guys. Meanwhile, there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of minnows involved in the support and education of other minnows. And that number is growing every day.
So I would like to ask you to stop generalizing.
I agree that there will be minnows who do what you say and try to make friends with the bigger guys, not looking further than that. But, I’ve never met one, and I spend 99% of my SteemIt time amongst red fish and minnows.
I can only say that your post offended me, because from where I’m standing, I see hundreds of red fish and minnows work their ass off (often voluntarily, so without any form of payment - heck, I’m actually losing money on it) to help other minnows and red fish find their way around the platform, help them to get more visibilty and self-esteem.
And then you come around pointing your finger to all these people and say they don’t care about each other and don’t support each other...??!
Sitting on that high throne, it may look different than from down here. Maybe you could spend a week in our shoes, just follow us around, do what we do, ...
Just live the life of one of our newbies for a week. Maybe you’ll remember what it was like, maybe you will see what all these little guys are doing for other little guys, and understand how offensive your post is. Maybe afterwards, you will see how hard it is to help others when you have barely nothing yourself, and who knows, might even reach down and support a little
Thank you for the comment @simplymike.
I am sorry you are offended by what I wrote but I stand by it.
Yes there are communities that look to bring smaller accounts together and help them along. There are also accounts like minnowbooster that do all they can to help newer people.
But the numbers do not lie. You cite hundreds, I can cite thousands. I just looked at the top post on the trending page...over $1000...of course, bot voted up there...however,looking at the breakdown, 440 votes, 20 gave over $.50...the rest are under that...and most that were between .20 and .50 are voting at 100%. I wont even go into all the others that were sub .05.
That is one post, and I will be generous and say 10% (or 40) of them were either bots or decent sized accounts. That leaves 400 small accounts...on one post.
You want me to stop generalizing...sorry but that is the norm. You are the exception...I commend you fully for that but we need to stop making like the majority of the small accounts are even remotely doing what you describe.
As for the high horse, walk in our shoes and the other statements you made, well I will leave that one alone. You want to attack me thinking Im on my high horse, well my track record stands for itself.
Perhaps you should look at someone delegation list before levying attacking like "might even reach down and support a little"...
I’m sorry I got carried away yesterday.
The last part, it’s completely not like me for saying such things. I guess it was just the last drop that was needed for the bucket to overflow after a very rough day at the office. I’ll take the last part back, and hope you can accept my apologies.
I guess you’re right if you indicate that I should look further than my own little part of SteemIt, where minnows look out for each other and work together to grow together.
I’m going to pay mote attention to what happens in the world outside my world. Maybe it’s not too late too educate some of those people act differently. Perhaps not, but I think I should at least give it a try.
Thanks for replying to my comment, which was not very polite, to say the least.
Takes a strong person to reply like this. Good for you.
Thanks :0)