The motivation comes in much like you would leave an upvote for someone else here on the platform: share the love, share the crypto, network, or just to say hi and thanks. Judging by your voting habits on this comment, and in general, this is indeed a bit of a foreign concept to you.
I have a difficult time rationalizing this logic. Giving away wealth is quite different than upvoting or congratulating someone. Tipping is a form of bribery which often depends on the creation of guilt within a consumer. If something is worthy of receiving compensation it should be properly monetized rather than relying on the so called goodwill of the general public which would then classify it as a charity.
Well, and there's the rub; if I see something on one of those other media that I feel should be properly monetized and have no option to do so... this tool allows me to use a currency of my choice to interact in that system without forcing me into another payment system. So saying that an upvote is very different than giving away wealth, but also saying that you cannot rely on the goodwill of others lest it be charity... would that then the basis for believing that the only proper monetization on Steemit would be self-voting?
Tipping and upvoting are exactly the same thing. This service let's you upvote people on other platforms.... that is incredible. Now if I want to I can upvote myself or sell my vote to a bot and use the money to get my Facebook friends to take Steem seriously. This is the best Steem service idea I have ever seen by a huge margin.
Since you think tipping and upvoting are the same thing I have delegated all my steempower to an upvote bot and I upvote you with no steem power. Thanks for giving me a justification for running a bot to increase my earnings.
thanks! and honestly, it's not monetized in our favour, so if people don't like the concept, there's no requirement to use it and we're committed to hosting and developing it no matter what. It's a simple way to share the love and spread the crypto, and if you end up earning lots of tips because you're engaged, or want to take your money out because you're not, either way you can withdraw all your STEEM without fees.
Yeah I think this project's lack of greed is what's going to make it very popular. More developers need to take advantage of the zero friction transactions and pay it forward.
here's to hoping. Part of the reason we were able to do this is because we're now top 20 witnesses. We've not actually taken any of the rewards or powered up any profit yet, because of the amount of bills for servers and redundancies, community donations, and payments to devs we work with when we need a bigger team. I fully understand why other devs aren't able to do as much when STEEM prices aren't as high or they aren't earning producer rewards. It's nice to be able to pay yourself, and for some, very necessary.
I'm interested to see what will happen when we do for the first time; there's a belief all the witnesses in the top 20 are whales getting fat and rich doing nothing, but that's certainly not always the case. There's always stuff going on behind the scenes for many of these chain custodians, and some of us are still minnows who've just hustled to stay solvent and worked to high heaven (although I'm angling for new dolphin soon when we actually cross into the green this month... :D )
Ive never used fakebook which was started by the cia front group inqtel. Nevertheless, I disagree that upvoting and tipping is the same thing. Upvoting doesnt cost anything but tipping is coming out of the pocket.
The motivation comes in much like you would leave an upvote for someone else here on the platform: share the love, share the crypto, network, or just to say hi and thanks. Judging by your voting habits on this comment, and in general, this is indeed a bit of a foreign concept to you.
I have a difficult time rationalizing this logic. Giving away wealth is quite different than upvoting or congratulating someone. Tipping is a form of bribery which often depends on the creation of guilt within a consumer. If something is worthy of receiving compensation it should be properly monetized rather than relying on the so called goodwill of the general public which would then classify it as a charity.
Well, and there's the rub; if I see something on one of those other media that I feel should be properly monetized and have no option to do so... this tool allows me to use a currency of my choice to interact in that system without forcing me into another payment system. So saying that an upvote is very different than giving away wealth, but also saying that you cannot rely on the goodwill of others lest it be charity... would that then the basis for believing that the only proper monetization on Steemit would be self-voting?
Self voting when no one else will. Works for me.
You are funny. Just be hopeful
Hahaha!
Tipping and upvoting are exactly the same thing. This service let's you upvote people on other platforms.... that is incredible. Now if I want to I can upvote myself or sell my vote to a bot and use the money to get my Facebook friends to take Steem seriously. This is the best Steem service idea I have ever seen by a huge margin.
Since you think tipping and upvoting are the same thing I have delegated all my steempower to an upvote bot and I upvote you with no steem power. Thanks for giving me a justification for running a bot to increase my earnings.
For now it's ok that you're greedy because you are also poor.
suddenly you are my accountant and can determine my level of personal wealth? Either you are poor or very ignorant to insult someone that way.
Calling you poor wasn't supposed to be the insulting part of that statement.
thanks! and honestly, it's not monetized in our favour, so if people don't like the concept, there's no requirement to use it and we're committed to hosting and developing it no matter what. It's a simple way to share the love and spread the crypto, and if you end up earning lots of tips because you're engaged, or want to take your money out because you're not, either way you can withdraw all your STEEM without fees.
Yeah I think this project's lack of greed is what's going to make it very popular. More developers need to take advantage of the zero friction transactions and pay it forward.
here's to hoping. Part of the reason we were able to do this is because we're now top 20 witnesses. We've not actually taken any of the rewards or powered up any profit yet, because of the amount of bills for servers and redundancies, community donations, and payments to devs we work with when we need a bigger team. I fully understand why other devs aren't able to do as much when STEEM prices aren't as high or they aren't earning producer rewards. It's nice to be able to pay yourself, and for some, very necessary.
I'm interested to see what will happen when we do for the first time; there's a belief all the witnesses in the top 20 are whales getting fat and rich doing nothing, but that's certainly not always the case. There's always stuff going on behind the scenes for many of these chain custodians, and some of us are still minnows who've just hustled to stay solvent and worked to high heaven (although I'm angling for new dolphin soon when we actually cross into the green this month... :D )
Ive never used fakebook which was started by the cia front group inqtel. Nevertheless, I disagree that upvoting and tipping is the same thing. Upvoting doesnt cost anything but tipping is coming out of the pocket.
It's exactly the same thing.