"Prickly Pear Cactus"

And now for something completely different...(I'm a huge Monty Python fan!)....a pen and ink drawing....

”Prickly Pear Cactus” approx. 6”x8” (#3404) pen and India ink on smooth bristol paper
by Lee Gordon Seebach

Integrity and Being Skeptical

Let's face it: relatively few people have integrity.

From my dictionary:

1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness: he is known to be a man of integrity.

Since I've been a member of this wonderful Steemit community for almost a year, I've been able to watch this platform grow and therefore have some perspective on the users and how it has evolved. I've been very impressed with the high quality of Steemians and the platform itself. I joined Steemit to promote my art because the idea of Steemit appealed to me: a decentralized network on a blockchain with its own economy and tokens. Getting a small reward was nice, too.

Now that Steemit is starting to take off, it doesn't hurt to have a bit of skepticism about the new users coming onto the Steemit platform.

For the benefit of my followers, please watch out for those without integrity who are here to take advantage of your trusting nature, game the system, and get rich quick. That's not what Steemit is about, at least to me.

What prompted me to write this is that yesterday, a new user commented on one of my posts and claimed that they upvoted and resteemed that post. Of course, they included a link back to one of their posts (something I would never do and never have done). Curious, I checked to see if they followed through. They didn't. I then did some more digging and found that they did the same thing on a friend's blog.

In short, be careful with all of the new users coming in. Don't just assume that everyone on here has integrity. It's not like "the old days" of Steemit when those of us who believed in the idea during "the dark ages" (as I've heard them called) stuck with the platform and kept posting and supporting it.

I flagged that user's comment and I encourage you to check up on what commenters say and call them out on their bullshit if needed. We do not need or want people without integrity on Steemit, do we?

I would hate to see the beauty of Steemit get ruined by liars and scammers, and we need to be on guard so we can continue to build and grow this great community.

Thanks for hearing me out on this.

Lee aka @chessmonster

What a great thing it is to be a painter living on a beautiful planet.
"So many beautiful subjects, so little time!"

Working on a large watercolor of Canyon de Chelley in my new studio near Artesia, New Mexico.

My website: Seebach Fine Art