In the last year, I have grown my stake from 250 sp on two blogs to over 1700 sp on three blogs. I work 14-18 hours a day here trying to help other small people grow their blogs too. I believe in STEEM enough to work that hard, and thankfully it has been able to keep me under a roof and fed. I understand you do not think any one should ever take money out of STEEM, but bigger accounts take far more that I or other small blogs do.
I am on the trufflepig post a few times a month for some of my posts. When that happens, I go in and support some of the others as I can. I have never once seen a poop post there in over one year I have been doing this.
Qurator supports your first post of the day if you are a member. All of their curation posts are done by humans who are then looking to make sure there are no bad characters. Under NewSTEEM they are making a lot of change to their procedures of support right now.
I think that the down-vote armies have cleared out a majority of our bad actors and I am all in favor of this and the NewSTEEM changes. If you make a practice of looking in the places I recommend in my "Whale Tip Pre-Curated posts" post, it is easier to find posts to support than looking on your own. In the "Whale Tip Contest Post", you can find hard working people running contests with very little support. Somehow we need to grow a middle class. Contests are a way for many to start and grow here, and so helping the organizers with your vote helps many more.
Curation is hard for anyone. For bigger accounts that used to delegate or only vote for each other, is it even more difficult. This is the reason I am doing these posts now, with more to come. I have seen all the posts of big fish saying how hard it is to find good posts, and this is my effort to steer them in an easier direction.
I already drop links in the c-squared discord and will continue.
I actually didn’t say I didn’t think anyone should ever take money out - I said those taking money out shouldn’t look to those who decided to invest instead of take out and tell them they owe them something. They don’t.
You came to my blog, again, to tell me to “pass my bounty down” and directed me to your post to show me how.. your post that directed me to the project I run. Did you really feel I needed to be directed to such?
I’m just saying before you complain about lack of support for small accounts and try to “help out some bigger accounts” to find content, maybe take a few seconds to look at who you are offering “advice” to. I don’t need you to direct me to content, I curate all day, and have for nearly 2 years.. I’m not a whale who doesn’t know how to use my VP, in fact I help the whales use their VP. So please.. don’t lecture me or give me advice on how to curate, as I don’t need it. Thanks.