Absolutely on POINT! I have thought for a second, I wonder if I should finish this post about how I went to a protest, and got interviews, not covered in the news anywhere (and spent and lost money to do so) or whether I should just make a post about how my son broke his leg. Not to trivialize any tragedy but I think sometimes, in fact I know, people are doing exactly that to propel themselves up and to me its all about morals. I won't do it because it isnt my nature but its also in my nature to Resteem posts about tragedy and loss and try to help and give people the benefit of the doubt. But honestly if thats what people want to do just make a link to your gofundme. STEEMIT should be a place for creating content the internet needs and wants and not about raising funds. Its just too easy for people to scam others and there are tons of ways to do it. I hate feeling this cynical...it isn't natural but man, writing my first "successful post" ($42) and then watching it go to only $37 was a real kick in the motivation-to-create-content pants. Almost made me tap out and spend the money on some Radeon GPU's 😢