A: @berniesanders reaches deep into the hole that very few plummet into to pick over the philosophical chicken bones of life. His abyss provides the contrast that many ignore to their own detriment. Many see, but very few understand.
Q: Is @berniesanders good for Steemit?
7 years ago by mindhunter (72)
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I think he's good in his own way. A lot of people only see the brash, outspoken, and mostly controversial side of him. They completely miss the behind-the-scenes, quite-supportive-of-community-projects side of him.
Now, you on the other hand...I'm fairly certain that you're not very good or useful at all. Are you still doing that last-minute, vote-scheming bullshit with your whale buddy on your spam posts and comments?
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@ats-david
I still don't understand why @mindhunter was singled out and flagged for buying votes.
Was it because he wasn't buying them through @randowhale or is there a different reason?
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He was “singled out?” That’s news to me.
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Yeah, there were lots of flags, but I never understood the motives behind the flags.
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Yes absolutely agree he is so nice he even blocks people who just want to comment on some ones steemit page. That is a person who cares about community! lol he is a shit.
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reaches for popcorn*
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Salted variant please .... :)
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Let's say I hope Bernie notices Hindpunter is back, so Bernie can show again he can be a force for the good.
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Everyone is useful for a specific task.
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No, not everyone.
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Your becoming an existential nihilist in your old age @ats-david ;)
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You shouldn’t use words that you don’t understand.
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... or enter the #philosophy tag without advanced thinking :)
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Pros
Well, if you consider actions like flagging @heajin for raping the reward pool and pointing out and flagging things he considers to be bullshit, I love him for that, even when he did it to me. I've also seen him upvote cool shit that he likes including a couple of my posts and support good projects so he is obviously good for steemit for those reasons.
I've seen him piss a lot of people off too, including myself, but that's actually a cool thing sometimes in my opinion. In fact, his behavior has been the clearest sign of a truly decentralized community that I have seen.
Cons
I think the whole vote buying phenomenon that he pretty much started is not good for steemit. I mean it's the most profitable way to work with the platform in the short term right now so I can see why it's done, but if it gets to the point that good content isn't the driving force anymore that would ruin steemit in my opinion and I feel like we have moved that direction with all the voting bots.
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I appreciate you giving credit where credit is due.
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In a nutshell: In complexity theory @berniesanders is the shepherd of Steemit's bad actors. He constantly mutates between good shepherd and naughty sheep. Sometimes all you can see is sheep. Sometimes all you can see is shepherd.
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All people are a mixture of good and bad and I, personally, haven't got a problem with that. I do, however, have a problem with hypocrisy.
You had your own private vote buying whale, but why can't BernieS, or anyone, explain why that's different from the public vote buying schemes?
The way I see it: quality isn't a valid argument because there is no quality control on most vote buying schemes. Scale isn't a valid argument because there are many people using publiv vote-buying to vote themselves up to $500+. Also, I understood that the services were for minnows, but dolphins e.g. kaylyinart use them to massively up-vote themselves too.
Steemit has problems, and it seems to me that demonising a handful of individuals, like mindhunter or even haejin is never going to solve the problems.
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I understand voting bots , I don't understand people giving hundreds of dollars to someone just because they are "popular" , I imagine I will never know why the herd do what they do.
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He's used his power to counter some of the pool plundering that goes on, but he's also attacked people who didn't deserve it. He's a bit of a rogue who can be hard to predict. I guess it's just someone enjoying having some power and probably profiting well from it. Will we ever find out who he really is?
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Maybe like Neo in The Matrix he'll have to destroy himself to finally kill off all those bad actors on Steemit to bring about true Steemian peace ... I'll carry his body off to Machine City at the end ;)
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He's the greatest entertainer in steem show business.
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agreed, all you need is some popcorn
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Maybe, and a bottle of scotch.
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I have some good stuff in the cupboard ... the bernie show shall begin shortly :) ....
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Put the cup on the board and let's get this show on the road!
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I enjoy reading his posts, It's quite funny to see the hate that @haejin gets
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Best comment of this year
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aww cute, I got a lil flaggie :D
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Its good to have someone playing devils advocate to try to improve the platform, its bad that hes a complete asshole and doesn't articulate his points very well
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One does not need to articulate well to be a philosopher ;)
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He's aite
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Its an unpopular opinion, but it's none the less true. Bernie is a net positive to the platform. Yeah, you can think I'm an idiot for saying this, but he brings a lot of traffic to Steem as sircork pointed out. I may not agree with the methods most of the time, but that is a whole different story. Good to see you are back @mindhunter, I thought you had abandoned steem, good thing you did not.
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God bless my right hand. Steemit is indeed like 'Hotel California' - you can check in, but you can never leave! ;)
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"You can checkout... any time you like, but you can never leave!"
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I am not sure if I would say it is an unpopular opinion. I guess there is a question of whether he is fighting those who drain the reward pool or scaring off people from investing and reaping the benefits. All my math fell out of my brain when I hit puberty; I would probably have to move numbers around to figure out the truth and the idea hurts me.
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I'm nerdy or crazy enough to have ran numbers, its a net positive, i promise. :)
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Some would just call that smart:) (Hey look; we have the exact same reputation)
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Nice this posting @mindhunter.
I like this posting.
Vote posting me @yassir1
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The man sure has a way with words :)
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His musings are fistfuls of steel!
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hi brother, where have you been in these months? is your brother okay? brother still know me @berkat?
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Growing a beard. Yes and yes :)
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ooo really my brother
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My motto is to always treat others the way I want to be treated, irrespective of what they are doing.
We always have the choice to focus on the negative or the positive side, two sides of a coin yet glued together inseparably. Focusing on the negative only creates more of it and it is somewhat pointless, for it only adds on to our own suffering. Some will like it, others not. Instead of giving our power away on judging we should create own content.
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That sounds like a summation of your own profile Alex. Thank you :)
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Alex :)
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DEAL! Edit made ;)
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Yeah... He's one of the greatest
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I don't pay attention to @haejin or @berniesanders
Nothing really useful for me there.
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I pay attention to both :)
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I love how he got rid of TrevonJ, who clearly does not, or never will belong here on Steemit
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I am very new to platform, but right away I came across @berniesanders because he chased a Bitconnect and lending platform shill off the platform. I’m all for free speech, but these people shilling affiliates link is not good for anyone in crypto community and it has financially ruined many lives. I don’t competely blame the shills for people losing money, but when cease and desist letter came out and most people were thinking its time to get out, the guy @berniesanders chased away made videos convincing people it was just the jealous govt trying to keep the poor down to control them, and that they should use a vpn to get around block of service in the states that were blocked so that they could continue to make more loans instead of getting what money they could out. Needless to say I gave Bernie a follow.
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@berniesanders is a good shepherd to the naughty sheep on Steemit! He carries a large staff and does not need a Collie dog to round up the herd of bad actors! Welcome to Steemit @biga3723 :)
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He definitely is.
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Well, sometimes I agree with his actions, sometimes I don't. There's no denying though that he shakes things up around here and I do think that can be a good thing. Some things need to be dragged out into the daylight and honestly, by him doing this, others can stay out of the line of fire. He's taking first hits, while everyone who agrees with him and follows him doesn't take as big a risk at retaliation as he does.
One of the comments says he might chase away investors, but I don't think many people will get chased away by the actions of one man (unless he's got it out for them).
Besides, isn't this what Steemit is all about? Freedom to do what you feel is right? If he wants to flag people he thinks rape the reward pool, that's his choice. The main thing I could say against the man is that he's not very subtle and he doesn't sugarcoat his words. Some might say that's a good thing and if you can afford to make enemies and risk many flags, I'd say go for it. For me, Steemit is the only way of earning anything right now, so I can't affort to be that blunt. Sometimes that annoys me, because I can only battle the smaller fishies.
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