HOW FAR ARE PEOPLE WILLING TO GO TO BECOME WINNERS? Share your view

crypto.piotr (64)in #steemit • 6 years ago (edited)

	This is my last post within next week or two (as I'm moving to Europe within few days . Long there is journey ahead of me). Guys wish me safe flight :)

INTRODUCTION

About a week ago, a friend of mine contacted me and suggested to join the second edition of this huge contest organized by @theycallmedan. Many of you, dear readers, are most likely familiar with @theycallmedan initiative and with rewards that were offered to winners.

To cut a long story short, the winning community would receive a total of 20k STEEM POWER delegation for an entire year. The only unfortunate catch is: the winner takes all.

After passing towards the second round (along with 20 other competing communities) and being placed at that time at 2nd place, I decided to "team up" with 2 other communities: @help.venezuela and @SteemChurch knowing, that by working together we may or may not have the chance to win main prize.

BUILDING ALLIANCES

	My main goal from that moment on was to give up my own goals and desires to become a "small whale" and instead help one of those two communities to win the main prize. I imagined that it would allow to build great trust between a few community leaders, which in return can benefit greatly many people involved.

After all is there any better way of building TRUST, than investing my own time, energy and resources to support someones else cause? Working closely together with they CEO @Emiliocabrera has been very refreshing and I only learned to respect this person more than I already did.

Past few days have brought us much closer and we learned to work together. For that reason I already feel victorious on so many levels. Regardless of the results of this contest.

Few people already asked me what was the end result and goal I was trying to achieve. Some people were not pleased that I'm getting involved in supporting community build on common passion towards religion. And since they may have a valid point, please allow me to share my vision with you all.

WHY @STEEMCHURCH?

	In my previous post BUILDING AN ALLIANCE: Ambitious goal? I introduced my idea of building alliance with my dear friend @achim03 (managing @help.venezuela) and one of Venezuelan community: @SteemChurch

Main vision behind our collaboration with @SteemChurch was simple: I believed and I still do, that learning to work together and building trust can benefit many people from both our communities in real life.

How?

I'm personally in touch with a large number of Venezuelans and since SteemChurch is a Venezuelan community of Christians, then naturally introducing my followers to a local strong group of people supporting each other.

On the other hand, SteemChirch leaders would introduce some people from their own community, who know decent english and share similar passion toward blockchain, crypto, economy etc. And together with few friends we were planning to take those people "under our wings" and help them grow.

After all (the way I see it) Venezuela is a frontliner when it comes to mass adoption of crypto by regular people. Because of their current situation and lack of stable currency. So my ultimate goal is to support those people with knowledge, experience and time.

Which I believe is in the interest of everyone involved in crypto.

ps. I also would like to mention, that leaders of SteemChurch agreed to my suggestion that in case of our victory (we were winning at that time with almost 20 votes) they will share some of received prize with 2-3 other competing communities. They proved that we have very similar values and view on life.

FULL RESPECT for that!

CONGRATULATION TO @SteemitBloggers

	Competition isn't over yet, but at this stage is pretty obvious that @SteemitBloggers managed by @jaynie and @zord189 are going to be a leaders in that contest. Congratulations to both of you.

Just yesterday SteemChurch finally has been strongly ahead leading this competition and then I started receiving messages asking me if it's true that we're playing dirty and paying people to vote on SteemChurch.

I'm sure anyone can imagine how surprising and shocking it has been for me, to realize that we were accused of "buying votes" it just to win.

The impact of those wildely promoted accusations has obviously an enormous impact on our campaign. I must be really naive, as I believed that contests like this one should get people and community leaders together. And I didn't expect that one can reach out for those resources and discredit so badly work of others.

Small (very mild) example of things I've learned about us:

I think we should all remember that Steemit is very small and many of us have mutual friends. And obviously seeing printscreens full of hate and accusations is simply painful. That's just wrong.

What I've heard about "myself" within the past 24 hours really put me off from participating in this contest for much longer. Is this what this platform has come to? Reduced to slandering other communities just to get ahead of a "competition"? Worst of all, there were no facts nor evidence of this blatant accusation.

IMPORTANT STATEMENT

	I would like to reassure everyone here, that based on my knowledge noone supporting @SteemChurch, @help.venezuela or @crypto.piotr during this contest paid to anyone for voting on them.

I need to make it clear and I can only hope that those words were only said by our "competitors" in the heat of the contest. I do not hold hard feelings for anyone involved.

As a matter of fact, if somehow SteemChurch would win, then my suggestion of sharing part of 20k SP delegation with OTHER COMMUNITIES (mostly @SteemitBloggers) would still be on the table.

I understand that discrediting "opponents" is part of the strategy (politics). and I can only hope that this statement will help to clear out our name, as it has been really seriously damaged by non-factual accusations as mentioned above.

My main goal of this post is to "clear the air" and avoid escalating of tension between our few communities.

SPECIAL THANKS

	I invested long hours within the past few days to support @SteemChurch, but I wasn't the only one who did so. And today I would love to shout "BIG THX" to a few special people.

@juanmolina, @lanzjoseg - Many of you know those two already. Both are from Venezuela, with great heart and awesome knowledge about blockchain. If you're trying to get to know supportive and active Steemians then definetly you shold check out their profile.

@emiliocabrera, @sirknight, @uyobong - Those tree representatives of SteemChurch community proved to me, that we can still be "humans" even in a country with an economy as destroyed as the one in Venezuela. Loved their engagement and effort they invested. Especially Emilio - this is a kind of guy who has a real vision and determination to reach it.

@danielwrites, @neavvy, @flash07, @thetimetravelerz, @intellihandling, @edgarare1, @andyjem - I seriously wouldn't make it all happen without your constant support guys. It's so hard to express my gratitude for all you did to support this initiative.

Please accept my apology if I had failed to mention anyone else, as those were really few long days and my brain is half-dead already.

Link to contest:

https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@theycallmedan/which-steem-project-should-i-delegate-20k-steempower-to-for-1-year/?rep=33&sp=3&age=30&post_count=10&stake_based=0

Yours
Piotr

I would also like to thank everyone who nominated and voted for us

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#steem #competition #life #venezuela

6 years ago in #steemit by crypto.piotr (64)

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jackmiller (68) 6 years ago (edited)

I thought about the "hear say" and the "accusations" that have been allegedly thrown around and from what I see in your post obviously the case, not just a case of "hear say" and the following is what I concluded:

It all comes down to a "football supporter" type of mentality.

Why do I say this, well, just like in football, we all support a team and when it comes to some international match then we all unite and support the/our national team.

Well, I saw the united front when we Steemians were voting on a poll put out by Netcoins.

The entire blockchain was spammed with posts, comments, wallet messages and likewise all the other social medias were bombarded too.

Yet now when it is an internal match being played, then it all comes down to a "supporter" or even a "hooligan" mentality at times.

So, don't feel bad about it all.

Not worth losing your time or patience with any of it, as I keep saying:

"Technology changes, human nature doesn't".

Life is what it is and people will be people, no matter what one does it all comes down to "yesterday is in the past and it is what a person does today that matters".

Cheers, wish you a safe trip to Europe.

Gods speed.

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boyanpro (54) 6 years ago

You should really stop spamming people around Steem with Venezuela and stuff.

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littlenewthings (70) 6 years ago (edited)

Hello @crypto.piotr
Just here to wish you a safe journey back to Europe.

Do keep in touch.

I think through this competition we learned a lot of things. I am pretty sure organiser @theycallmedan would have learned a thing or two to improve his future contests.

It was a fierce fight, but I was more like observing from the side lines.

As you have mentioned that Steemit is still a small community and lightly knitted and interwoven, and I felt sad that as I tend to agree; technology changes, human nature don't.

No doubt that during competitions due to the zeal of contestants some unprocessed thoughts would spill out from the mouth.

That's how evil hearts can be at time.

That's why in the bible it speaks of the flesh vs the spirit many times. @steemchurch would know that fairly well. You can always feel free to strike a conversation with the founder and even with me.
(unfortunately you are going to be too far for us to meet for a cup of coffee and tea with the Mrs)

But let's let bygones be bygones. There are always a better day. And we hope that with that being said, congratulations to @steemitbloggers, you got a good run for your money over this round of contest.

Let's look forward to collaboration and not create constant strive amongst human beings because one event. Life is too short for that.

Take care and bon voyage!

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fitinfun (71) 6 years ago

I did not know you were actually moving to Europe @crypto.piotr. Best of luck to you.

This dpoll contest (and the last) brought out the worst of all teams of people I have ever seen in my life. If we never have another poll, I will be very happy. There is no way to win this thing without vote begging against steem terms of service and boy did we every get that.

At least people showed their true colors and speaking as an accountant I will never forget this valuable information.

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crypto.piotr (64) 6 years ago

Dear @fitinfun

Indeed we're moving to europe. Malaysian immigration and their goverment pro-muslim policies are the reason why thousands of expats moved out from Malaysia lately. I found it to troublesome to live there at the moment. I hope you will be well in KL.

This dpoll contest (and the last) brought out the worst of all teams of people I have ever seen in my life.

I hope I didn't make bad impression on you. I treated this contest as a opportunity to build healthy connection with few other leaders. I tried to reach out to few such a leaders in the past but I was always flushed away. So right now I figured that supporting other community could help me achieve that. And it really did. I was treated very fairly by both founder and CEO of @SteemChurch. I felt like we're equal.

It's pretty obvious that I invested in Steemit tons of hours and I would not like it to fail. We've loads of IT savy guys doing great jobs. But community leaders simply do not seem to be willing to work together. Most of them think of their "followers" as their "property". I'm very passionate to change that, as I believe that the real strenght will come from working united together.

Of course Im fully aware, that amount of spam we all produced has been awful. I can only hope that I didn't give you or anyone else other reasons to doubt in me.

If we never have another poll, I will be very happy

I surely will not attend any more for very long time either.

Yours
Piotr

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fitinfun (71) 6 years ago

I feel like these polls did a service. I learned a lot by them. I am sure you did as well. As long as I have been here we have had these "communities" that are nothing more than ways to get self-votes. And now some are stronger. Oh well. I did not join in the past and will sure not be joining now. I will just keep doing what I am doing and hopefully succeed. So far, so good.

I love it here in kl and hope to be able to stay a long time, but I will love the next country too so I am not worried about it. I will leave next at the end of April and hope for a smooth return back in. I haven't had any warnings, so I am good at least until August. After that, we will see.

I've always had doubts in you lol. Just keep trying. This is a crazy place. Try not to make the same mistake twice and press on :)

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crypto.piotr (64) 6 years ago

Hi @fitinfun

I've always had doubts in you lol.

I'm lost. You always doubted in me? OMG.

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futuremind (72) 6 years ago

I'm pretty lost too man, by everything I'm witnessing here.

What really has me lost about this particular comment, is the fact that someone would willingly spend copious amounts of time, in a (virtual) world, where they cannot trust others, or at the very least, give benefit of doubt to the fact that we are real humans, engaging with each other with a tool.

I'm really confused by this logic, and maybe I've been up too many hours reading comments here, idk... But I would not spend time in a world where I couldn't trust anyone..

This is only my opinion here, but I think a complete lack of ability to give people the benefit of the doubt, speaks volumes on a persons character. What does it indicate? Not sure, but every "partner" I've ever had who couldn't trust me, ended up being a cheater 🤔

I certainly would not want to have interactions with someone, only to find out, they never trusted me the entire time. I would rather they tell me upfront and get it out of the way, or maybe, just not interact with me at all.

Spending time in a world where you can trust no one.... damn..

My mind is officially blown.

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HOW FAR ARE PEOPLE WILLING TO GO TO BECOME WINNERS? Share your view

INTRODUCTION

BUILDING ALLIANCES

WHY @STEEMCHURCH?

FULL RESPECT for that!

CONGRATULATION TO @SteemitBloggers

IMPORTANT STATEMENT

SPECIAL THANKS

Link to contest:

Good trip friend, how long is Asia if this great man?

Steemchurch doesn’t discriminate, Steemchurch is about love, care and freedom!