Yeah, I guess I've always been big on "giving value", which I think a lot of people miss the point of these days.
Taking an article you wrote for your blog and copy/pasting it to reddit, isn't giving value, it's promoting yourself. Hiding a free ebook behind an e-mail capture is not giving value, it's selling something for an e-mail address.
Granted, this is a copy/paste from something I wrote the other day, but the original post was just a comment to someone else's post asking for help... and it's likely I'll be doing the same here on Steemit if I see someone posting a request for feedback.
And it's not completely selfless, either... I know that when I posted that a bunch of people on Reddit saw it, and checked out the site. If even one of those becomes a customer, or tells their friends about the site, it's easily worth my time
I wish you dropped this message earlier. I submitted this post for curation and it was rejected. I guess it was because it was copy and paste. Thats bad for me
Possibly, most of my content posted here will be original, but for the Brutal Teardowns I post here, it's a three step process:
You won't know what this has costed me. Please next time indicate
Sorry! Thought this bit at the top made it clear: