This wasnt a simple question to me like you put it, else you would have waited for me to answer before putting so many comments in the comments section talking to others about me based on very limited information. You know very little about me and what i do and if you do, please state that too and if you think i am bad or not-so-good, you can sift the not-so-good to find good in it. Speaking of analogies like "If a police officer saved 10,000 innocent lives, then intentially killed 10 innocent lives" etc to others here; you would have spoken that to me or waited to speak it to me, if your question here was a simple question to me. I am not triggered though as my answer here is because i choose to answer you. I have done so much life to be shaken by simple events and i have been on steemit long enough and know too much of history here to be upset at moments like this. As for the conversions into usd value, it doesnt work that way, even in real life. It is like going to different countries and not wanting to purchase anything cos one wants to calculate and do conversions to the new currency each time and compare it to what it would have been in his currency. There are bigger things than that.
i have roles to play here long term and i know the communities i cater to here and you may know that i was delegated power but do you know why as well? "No", cos most of the value on steemit is created behind the scenes etc and not everyone does posts or updates on what they do. Too, not every information is known to everyone and not information is given to everyone.
I know how many times i have posted within a month and i know what i am doing. I know of the reward pool and especially the SP tokens, not the usd value.
There is transparency on steemit but there should also be respect, so it should not be expected that i have to air everything i do to answer to everyone. Though, it is transparent, i will not come to you and even question the value of your post let alone your contributions cos isnt it priceless plus, i certainly wont measure earnings on your post by dollar value becos we use steem tokens here and what if steem tokens are 5000usd tomorrow. Then in usd perhaps even liners will earn 50 usd each in payout, so, will go questioning each one and when steem was 7 cents, ofcourse the post value may be at 20 usd, did we question it then. Overall, i can never truly know your motives and who am i to question it, when you are adult like me and will i do it real life, if you where physically next to me? I so wont. Cos i will sift even the not-so-good to find good in it, for if the creator heartily looks for our faults, who will stand. We are mere dust and there a bigger things in life.
in my case, it doesnt work that way. I have a responsibility here and while you may look at dollar value, i look at my responsibility and especially with regards to many others and the steem power required to accomplish this down the road and now. Yes, steem is 6 usd but how about steem power. I have been here when steem was 0.07, so why hurriedly do conversions. it doesnt work that way. If steem becomes 1000 usd, even a simple 1 percent vote on a simple comment will give out perhaps $50 on it, will you start questioning the value of each of these comments? The answer is no. Becos, ofcourse in the long term, what if steem goes down too. I have never powered down and i was here even when it was 7 cents so please look at history as well not just now because alot of history's involved here and speaking of taking, you never fully know that because you have very limited data. Do you know how much is used for steem behind the scenes? How about sponsored steem meetups etc how about a full rpc node 256 gb, how about the steemgigs interface being developed and the server its staging is running on, how about surpassinggoogle.com (and the server for it) to fix content discovery and curation (app) and my witness servers or my last contest that had 900 post entries and 5k plus comments and delegation of roles and contribution to leaders of projects and my roles as witness, did you also know all this? I have a role here and it is long term and down the road my steem power will be essential and becos of this responsibility, it more about this than any dollar value, for whether it is 7 cents or 6 dollars i am here. Steemit is not only about steemit and content creation for there is also steem and much of the value created behind the scenes rewarded on the scenes in simple-looking post.
I now answer to perhaps 3000 or more steemians, with the steemgigs community alone constituting of going to 2000 steemians and entire nations and the masses from these nations are coming. And i know how many times i post a month for the sole reason of letting others earn. I dont post each day for this sole reason and many times i dont post in 3 to 5 days except for reasons that very much involve scenes in the background. Many times my posts are "in the role of community leader" to fix things in the background. Would you have know how many discussions before this post that prompted this post today and how many groups i have spoken in and how many chats and fone calls i have been in before this post? Steemit doesnt provide us with those date.
When i dont spend 5 mins of rest a day cos in the chats too many people need hours of talk from me, i care much about these people that i am break myself. My mum just died recently after not seeing here for 5 years and i saw her for just 16 days only for her to die and i just buried her and i break myself to help even hours in the chats and when i am too broken, i do a post so i can reach out to many.
This is a role of responsibility and my post even with its reward is a reflection of much except one of responsibilty becos i know where i am headed with this and perhaps many know this too but i dont need to say a history of what i do here because i am not one to annoucne it for those who know know and those who choose to look more closely too. Yes, and just yesterday i gave out steem power and even steem to encourage leaders when i talk to a group and can empower all. You use the words evil, bad etc please read this comment and its undertone. I choose not to be hurt with all your comments here on a post that i did with all love and i cant be offended for i forgive a hundred times. There are things in life bigger than these things. I responded here mostly becos you spoke your comments to others and i do care about that and i do care about you
Many things are priceless. The reward here has way nothing to do with the posts and many things are priceless and even my posts cos they contain many things in the underlying having to do with life itself which is priceless to me and i can't say your post and excerpts of you etc isn't priceless, so i cant even tag an amount on it in reality, so my reward to the post has nothing much to do with the post. This is my response. Saying those other comments you made to others wasnt necessary, if you see me as the culprit, then speak those words to me instead
i vote at (80 percent or so or below) voting power mostly always after my curation for the day for the sake of the reward pool
You have said it all and for those of us that understand what you are saying we are ok with your explanation even if you don't explain it we understood you so much. Thank you for sharing this information at least those that want to know will now know.
Am always a fan and I believe in all that you are doing on this platform. Keep up the good job and continue to make more impact.
Like I will always say " you good virtue cannot be overlooked". Boy Terry I celebrate you and all that you represent.
Hey bro @surpassinggoogle. I think you have said everything that needs to be said. Your works speak for you. Next time you shouldn't even waste your time answering some of these people. Thanks for everything bro!
I just did it to educate the world on the true state of the world still unknown to the world and for the sake of others. No worries! I visited air clinic earlier before this post to listen to @jeline but i think i was late or maybe early, the voice channel had two participants who were mute
Look, you do a lot. Your previous response that many things are priceless was enough of a response.
I've seen the work you do and the effort that you put into Steemit. It's extraordinary.
With all of the controversy around Steemit about reward pool concerns, I was stating that a 100% upvote (with 80% voting power?) for yourself doesn't give off a positive perception, especially when you have so much delegated SP.
If I wanted, I could find who is delegating the SP to you and for how much and possibly find a post where they describe why they're doing it. But that doesn't accomplish anything. The gesture of delegating you the SP tells me that people value the efforts that you are doing and want to help you with them.
My examples.. Well, yeah, they needed to be extreme because I was getting responses from people other than you about something that they could not control or know the answer to. They aren't you, so they can't answer the original question. Oh, and they were jumping on me like I just punched a child, simply because I did something as simple as asking a question. That's unacceptable to me, and I decided to give them some life lessons that they apparently were lacking.
That's the thing, I don't see you as a culprit. I was just asking for more information. And the comments that I received were not as courteous as the message that you sent. So I responded with less courtesy. Respect is not simply given, it is earned. Your tone (consistently) has earned a respectful response from me.
I'm not going to say what your post should be worth or how much you should be taking from the rewards pool. My humble suggestion would simply be to take smaller amounts more frequently. It looks better "perception-wise" than taking $200 in one shot. And considering the real world "Fiat" value is something that all of us should consider, especially with a rising value of Steem/SBD. It's an important time to keep track of that type of value.
I wish you the best of luck with your efforts.
Yes i understand. My posts have a responsibility to it and many times are triggered by events for the most part and except i decline payment, it requires visibility as well. Apart from rewards on posts there is so also visibility which is very important in this case. As for smaller votes, i don't post several times and i don't post daily and if you look at my posts, they are for specific reasons and for many reasons behind the scenes. Posting for me at this point is more of a responsibilty than rewards. My comment section shows this as well.
My point as regards the reason behind the delegation is "many things happen behind the scenes". It was by Ned too, so there was no post about it. And the communities and nations i cater to is large. Ofcourse, this is a community and my ways can't please everyone. I do hundreds of comments as well; i dont vote these except in very few cases when it is essential etc When you say take you should emphasize the give just as equally. My interface the will be on surpassinggoogle.com to fix content curation and discovery is a give and there are many gives. Now the steem is 6 usd, i didnt increase post frequency and nothing has changed with me. I maintain my responsibility as i have been since minnow and if steem goes to 100 usd, i will be this same Terry, so its not about rewards for me. I dont pursue money because there are bigger things than that. So rewards on my posts have way bigger reasons than the post itself
Your comments to the others where all directed at me as well and if you don't know these things can hurt really bad and in places where i am from even wreck especially when you can have been wrong but there are many bigger things to life than these things.
I understand community and steemit and i so know about perception and a reputation model and paradigm, so i keep that in check even with my posts and votes. My focus for votes is sp for more good down the road because i have a responsibility for the communities i cater to and have catered to since my minnow days i large and growing. I have the responsibility. I am not in position to post frequently with all i do. The alpha for steemgigs will be ready soon etc, i am looking at bigger things than posting for rewards. I take all this to mind though and i will ofcourse learn from it but ofcourse i regard the needs of many too and the bigger picture. Ofcourse i respect you too as others will hurriedly do posts about this and so boldly defaming me, using very limited info and even go report me different steemians even passionately. I respect how you took my response as well. I am very responsible and if you see me, i dont have a dime etc but i wont shake at the opportunity to earn big cos i will not purse after money as it should be the other way around
Yeah, there are definitely some accounts who report community members for small "infractions"? (not sure if that's really the right word), when they could simply have a conversation with the person they're complaining about first. At no point have I intended on, or considered doing that for this post. I posted on here to speak with you "one-on-one", and discuss your intentions.
In any case, I'm not going to "report" this post. Nor do I believe that your post deserves any "flags" or to be reported in any negative way. You're doing a great service to many communities.
Let me discuss why I agree with this statement. You are responsible to the community to provide clear, clean, organized, and useful posts that will benefit the community. While potentially useful, this post has none of the other attributes.
To quote a cheesy comic book: "With great power comes great responsibility".
The way I see this post, and why I originally commented, is because it is not exactly organized (which you did admit at the beginning of your post), and not exactly a "valuable" post. I have been on Steemit for 7 months and have seen posts like this literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times. As such, a value of $200+ from a self-upvote looked suspicious and suspect to me. I would say this about ANY account with a post having these attributes; I am in no way trying to single you out.
Here's my suggestion: No matter how busy you are with comments and voting and re-steeming community members, you still have the responsibility to share a message in a directed and organized manner. You've been on here for a long time, and that's amazing. I do honestly believe that you're not here for the rewards. You work way too hard for that to be true.
But for the people who are here for rewards ... which there are many ... if they read your post and see all of the disjointed information and screenshots and poor structure.. then they look at the post payout of $200+ .. they may get the idea that "Steemit is EASY MONEY. All I need to do is post like @surpassinggoogle does and BOOM, I'll be a MILLIONAIRE!" ... and that's the last thing that we (Loyal Steemians) need.
Again, you're doing amazing things for many communities. I don't think that anyone can deny that. I would just ask that you take a little extra time to present yourself, and the communities that you're representing, with a more deliberate and organized message.
Please take this as constructive criticism, and not as a hateful message. My intent is solely to assist you. I am not trying to discourage or put you down in any way.
Hahaha i understand but don't worry about that. I know the tone in which i speak and the communities i cater to and these they may not look concise contain info about life underlying "no books" involved and that"s what i am about, so no worries. My posts are deliberate and organized and the essence of my statement about is to instill "read between the lines and what's underlying" and this has been my tone since day one and where my voice lies. Not everyone will value this style but when friends come to ask "how do i become like you" my answer to them is, "to be like me, you will have to stubbornly be the awesomest version of you". So no worries. I took it constructively and learned from it. As for time, i put a ton of it, a piece of me and lots of love in it. I dont want people to read, i want to feel and be moved.