I see no rationale given in this post as to why Steem should fork over $2000 to Steemvoter. I had to look hard to find your link to your previous post, just a couple days old, for crowdfunding this service: https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptodrive/steemvoter-rescue-steem-will-rise-again-today-we-stand-united-300-steem
I think the comments there present good criticism and skepticism about whether or not this service needs $2000 from other people.
Furthermore, just because the price of STEEM went sky-high and some posts including fundraising and upvotes for various efforts such as @xeroc's Piston.web reached tens of thousands of dollars doesn't by default mean that Steem is an unlimited font of money for all time for dubious fundraising for dubiously valued proprietary products.
Hi @pfunk, thank you for your participation. Without prejudice, please understand that I'm trying to unite the community here with a common cause, over 400 users are currently using the service and many don't want to see it go away. Steem is slowly declining from a buzzing hive of idealists, to realists and ultimately pessimists.
Sometimes overthinking things takes away the magic, believing and dreaming is what enables people to take risks and dare to innovate. If I can't pull this off as a veteran Steem crowdfunder and early adopter, what kind of message will that send? How could new users ever believe they can do great things?
I also wish to point out that I have put down over 1000$ from my own and own project funds VS 300$+ from the community in total, I'm not asking for everything from the community:
@steemdrive 734.298 SBD
@thecryptodrive 316 SBD
I do agree with you 2000$ on the post was a bit overboard, given current Steem prices and engagement, I should have looked at post values a bit better and shot for maybe 800 or 1000$ so as not to make it unattainable. I will amend now.
But I encourage you to dream a little and help the community believe rather than finding all the potential holes.
First, if you want to get that amount of upvotes, you should explain why. What I see here in this post is some air of entitlement that because previous things were funded from the Steem reward pool, this post should be upvoted just as well.
Second, I'm not sure that a third-party upvote bot service is worth what its creator is asking for it. Any request for money should be engaged critically.
Optimism is great but not when it's blind. I hope you're not asking others to throw money at something without thinking about it.
Hey @pfunk, please refer to my initial post on steemvoter
https://steemit.com/steemvoter/@thecryptodrive/steemvoter-com-business-rescue-crowdfund
In simple terms, people are using the service, they like the service and it adds value and makes the lives of many curators easier as you can see in their comments on that post. Many people are getting voted by all of my accounts using this service (not only this service I may add), my voting power on my main three accounts are all 80% or less because I believe in helping people receive votes even if they only count for a little.
Even @craig-grant, a veteran steemian has indicated his interest in Steemit would diminish without this service.
The amount is not set by me, it's what the developer wants. If you consider a developer's rate of 500$ to 1000$ per day you can see how this price can easily be racked up, also the domain itself is a fairly premium one in relation to Steem, so the value is there, and the potential for improvement is there.