I'm glad that you and him have actually spoken and that you were both able to get your points across and learn some things you weren't aware of. This seems better than ranting in angry posts (although we'll see what the future holds there. More so for him than you).
There is clearly a demand for minnowbooster (and randowhale before he went into permanent sleep) and of course, people are going to look for loopholes to exploit them because there's a financial incentive to do so. I'm glad that you are keeping track of that and fixing the issues as they come up. Let's face it, there's not a lot more you can do since you can't anticipate every single issue.
I would also question those who think it's unfair you get paid for your services. How does giving all your time and skills generate new and better products/services? Financial incentives breed innovation and competition. That's just the way it is. I'm also guessing none of these people would do the amount of work you do on steemit for free.
So thank you. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
I am looking forward to how steem evolves. It will probably be a tough ride, but that is to be expected.
I'd work on steem itself, would I get payed for it. But I don't have the luxury to work for free. And innovation on steem would be a lot faster if developers earn from it. That our utopian-io founder had to donate his payouts to stay credible is not something I am looking forward to in the future...
especially since the profits don't just go to one person like every other upvote bot, but to a diverse group of investors... and actually, nobody has been mentioning this lately, but minnowbooster reduced roi on it's bot so it's only for visibility and is quite a bit more difficult to be used to for profit.