Hey Klye,
Thank you for your kind words! 100% of all SBD earnings have been paid out to the authors.
I have invested around 20.000 $ in USD into Steem (i bought around 6500 Steem) and I build up my network (which is super hard work)
I got a lot help from others, @donkeypong @kevinwong @andrachy so I always try to follow their example of helping others.
where I am paying 10% of all my SBD earnings to authors, I find while reading articles. You can check in the comments how much i paid out so far.I have started this https://steemit.com/giveback/@knozaki2015/paging-all-fellow-steemians-let-s-give-back-part-of-our-earnings-to-make-steemit-better
I would like to point out, that i am not powering down any SP as i really believe in Steemit and Steem! I would only considering powering down SP, if the authors asked me for the Steem, this has not happened so far and everybody seemed to be happy.
why does this article only have earned 15$??
Hey knozaki thank you man for the reply!
100% of all SBD is a great start man and awesome. In the future should you choose to power down some you can always power up your authors accounts with the STEEM withdrawn weekly. You've got great drive and initiative, personally I think you've got a bright future here.
I'm powering down currently. The only reasoning behind this is I have some SP I owe to a few folks that I'd planned on doing a talk show with but had to back out due to reasons of my own stupidity.
This article's first version was ok but I did fail to even think about or mention a business aspect of it. I was looking at it from the angle that these people were sort of taking advantage of these people under a pretense of helping them.. But now I see it's more of a business thing and not so much people trying to help people in some of the cases. I do still see good intent here from most parties, it's just what I would personally call acceptable fees for services may be crossed in some cases. :/