My Dad said when you have nothing good to say then say nothing at all, but I can't stay quiet much longer.
I'm not going to write a post about how other users plagiarize my comments and cut and paste them as their own hoping to get an upvote from gentlebot.
I'm not going to write a post about empty comments.
I'm not going to write about the fact that crypto SBD are holding less value than the Solomon Island Dollar (SBD) at the moment.
I'm not going to write about self votes for one or three word comments that reward more than my rewards in a week.
I'm not going to write about the repetition of empty content.
I'm not going to write about comedy posts that are not funny but are just tag abusers.
I'm not going to write anything.
I'm just going to say "thank you" for the people who put up with this every day and continue to post on Steemit. We are here because of a dream. It is not a dream to get rich. It wouldn't matter if Steem was at 1,000 USD or 93 cents. It's a dream of decentralized media and communities that support content.
What I'm trying to say can be best expressed in a short story:
Once upon a time – of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve –old Spammer sat busy in his spamming-house. Old Spammer was a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! And dark cloud sat upon him.
So many had warned him of his negative behaviors.
All he answered was, "Bah" and "Humbug." External pressures and downvotes had little influence on old Spammer.
Until the ghost of his former partner Reward Raper came to visit him at night.
Old Spammer couldn't believe the super natural and took this visit from the ghost as the hallucination of a bit of undigested meat.
The spirit of Reward Raper was troubled and condemned to travel far and wide walking among his fellow men doomed to wander through the world in utter misery.
Spammer asked, "What are those chains?"
Raper answered, "These are the chains I forged in life. Every crap vote led to this and has wrapped around me. Pray tell this never happen to you my friend Spammer. By the end of the night you shall be visited by three spirits."
The first spirit was the spirit of Steemit Past. This Spirit was a Jolly Spirit who showed Spammer the way things were in 2016. It was not a perfect decentralized system. He saw a few people holding a lot of Steem. He saw huge crypto rewards go to those who would promote the steemit platform. Spammer also saw that people had fun making posts and meeting friends.
The second spirit was the spirit of Steemit Present. He saw cold money grabbers calling themselves capitalist investors. He saw bots taking over where friends once would chat. And in the corner he saw a bunch of spam piled from the floor to the ceiling saved up for "future profits". Spammer kind of blushed when he saw it. The spirit then brought him to the house of a gifted artist. For lack of other names let's call this hunger artist Tiny Tim. He lived on 20 dollars a day. And although he was crippled Tiny Tim continued with his craft faithfully day in and day out. He produced new creations of music and art, but the money he made from Steemit couldn't pay for the coal he needed to keep himself from frostbit fingers. Spammer shivered a little to think of Tiny Tim but then returned to his soft comfy bed.
The third spirit to visit was the spirit of Steemit future. This one was grim, a monster of a ghost holding a reaper in his hand. He brought spammer though blog after blog. There he found reports of a horrible man who stole rewards and filled the blockchain with meaningless comments until there was no more. His bots took over and bandwidth too was scarce. Now Spammer was angry and wanted to see who this man was. He followed the grim ghost of Steemit future until he came to an iron gate. It was an old churchyard. There he found the wretched man lay underneath the ground overrun by grass and weeds. He moved the dust away from the stone and there laid inscribed in the blockchain a name: "Spammer" forever locked there for shit comments and plagiarized posts repeated on logarithmic scale. This was blockchain hell.
Spammer screamed as he woke up in his bed. He looked out the window. No time to lose. He starting actually reading posts that he commented on and saying something about the content. He began to post pictures he took himself and write a few words in his native language. Maybe he couldn't become famous but he could become himself before it was too late.
I believe @comedyopenmic has helped engaged and rewarded original content powered by human interaction and initiative so well that they deserve something back. @idikuci was so exhausted last week that he sent my comedy open mic door prize twice. When I realized this I decided to make a donation of four more SBD to help the award the next winner. Comedy open mic cannot be rigged because it is real people looking for real comedy. We cannot be funny all the time but I have shared enough smiles there to know that they are doing something good.
I don't want to see witness blocks going to greedy reward raping capitalist. I would like to see new blocks to go to a witness that shares freely with community and rewards initiative, efforts and creativity. If you haven't already please consider voting @comedyopenmic as a witness.
I want to nominate @oddbot and @chrisroborts to make a post with the tag #comedyopnmic. Please also include the words "comedy open mic round 18" in the title.
very interesting post @mineopoly..I didn't know that people actually copy and paste comments and use them as their own! I guess I'm naive.
I will vote @comedyopenmic for witness.
thank you sir!
That's great news @janton. I'm glad you could vote @comedyopenmic as a witness.
I'm thankful for your articles and original Texan point of view. Feel free to ask any questions you have about Steemit. I probably won't be able to answer them but then again you never know.
And yes there are some rascals that copy my comments word for word. Sometimes they show up on the same post or sometimes on another post. They see that I got an upvote for that comment and they also want an upvote. So instead of reading the article and writing a response they copy my response and hope to be rewarded. They especially like gentlebot who is programmed to find original comments that may be meaningful to promote steemit. They just don't get that gentle bot never gives votes for words that are repeated. He likes new words and ideas that have never been seen before in the community.
Naive is a great place to be. It is fun there.
haha! classic last line. like ignorance is bliss!
I've never heard of Gentlebot before, do you use any
bots? that's a raging debate on here isn't it?
I don't have a question about Steemit at the moment but I was
wondering if you plan on returning to the U.S. sometime or just
stay there for the rest of your life?
And is it as free there as the U.S. or not as free or more free?
you have elections so I assume it's a type of democracy.
Yup... you ask those 100 dollar questions.
First, not all bots are evil. They are programmed to do a specific task.
I don't think anyone ever complained about @gentlebot or @banjo.
They do much more good than harm.
The debate is about upvote bots that lease SP through a delegation then upvote people who pay them money (bid bots). I'm not interested in debating anything now.
I'm visiting the US for two and a half weeks in August. I will stay in Korea until it is clear to me that I should leave.
The last question is relative to your definition of freedom so it is hard to answer.
South Korea is similar to the United States in many ways.
In some ways more free in other ways less.
It is a democracy.
You may enjoy this article:
https://www.byfaith.co.uk/paulbyfaithtvmathewthoughts18.htm
Thus, why would you request for my gender and location?
I called you to compliment you on your good work for community and minnow support.
You did not ask me that either. Is my shared internet connection confusing our conversation?
thank you sir, I really appreciate your help and information, I will look at that article.
Good story,
I like it
Did you like the spam part?
Your donation is so gracious my friend, one of these days I will make a donation too, comedy openmic is the best sincerely.
Thanks for your comment @josediccus. The efforts put in to keep comedyopenmic grass roots and organic is more than anyone can fathom... maybe @dj123 has the stats. This community may be the beginning of a free Steemit (I hope).
It’s good to see this in print Christopher. Many feel the same way but haven’t expressed it so eloquently. I am happy to have met you and other wonderful caring people on Steemit that it outweighs the negatives. Keep steeming! ❤️
Thank you @redheadpei for following my posts even when other people might consider them "weird".
I am so happy to know you and always encouraged by your comments. Keep healthy and happy and enjoy the summer. Every year more and more Koreans want to visit Canada for summer vacation. You are lucky. You live there :-)
The content of your publication is extremely creative. You are always looking for a harmonious way of screaming what stifles you and this is no exception. I love your sarcastic criticism, but with good words. You are a great teacher and you teach everything you prepare. Good job, @mineopoly!
You got it exactly right @zeleiracordero. I opened up Steemit that day to find my comments copied and pasted by others for at least the third time and really didn't feel like writing any post. As I began to write this story came up. I would rather history look at us and laugh than just reveal our cruel selfishness and carelessness. I hope that everyone can get a visit from the ghost of Steemit future.
I'm not going to write about angry clowns, I'm not writing about foul farts, I just wrote "thank you for sharing your story
Thank you for your "nice comment"
Last night the ghost of Charles Dickens rose from the dead and down voted this post!!
I'm so upset.
He said I plagiarized his manuscript.
Luckily his SP is so low it doesn't really matter.
This is a really nice post, @mineopoly. Great job and great sentiment. Thanks for acknowledging how hard @idikuci works for us all.
What you probably don't know is that he also has syphilis and that is the real reason he forgets doing things.
A few too many toots in a Singapore brothel.
Thanks for letting me know @profanereviews. That's why people call him "itchy"? Then @idikuci really does need all the help he can get. I guess he can't afford antibiotics. I should have sent more Solomon Islands Dollars.