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barriexy (47) in homeless • 8 years ago

take my upvote and get them back on track.

brilliant idea

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brookdemar (60) · 8 years ago

It was remarkable how fast he got the concept, people giving to others. I'd love to have him do comments, but I literally called him on an old prepaid blackberry, he doesn't have any access.

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dunja (54) · 8 years ago

I love the idea of using steemit for charity! It would be better to have some confirmation for these kind of posts that accumulate a lot of traction without any verification. Not saying you are benefiting off of someone elses back but it did happen on this platform in the past.
I just created free stickers that I'am sending out to people. Worldwide. For free. People could for example use them in order to brand their post images and at the same time verify themself a bit.
They are available here: https://steemit.com/steemit/@dunja/free-steemit-stickers

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brookdemar (60) · 8 years ago

I have posted my linkedin, it is linked to my username. I am happy to provide any additional confirmation via slack.

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dunja (54) · 8 years ago

I missed the link! I didn't mean to say anything towards you of course just that we need some sort of proper verification for posts so people dont fraud the system. Besides upvoting maybe we could also open an account where people can send micro donations and we distribute the funds accumulated to charity?

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hrottie (54) · 8 years ago

I love steemit for this.
We can help anybody with just a click,and it costs us nothing.
It is amazing how we can help out other people.
Im glad that devs of steemit made it :)

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generalizethis (58) · 8 years ago

Actually, why isn't there a tweet about this from CEX.IO??? https://twitter.com/cex_io

Given how much scamming pervades online, i'd like to have more proof before I give to this cause--not personal, just more is better when dealing with money and I'd like to be assured it's going to the people it's supposed to go to.

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madhatting (52) · 8 years ago

Genius! This is so inspirational

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amitj (30) · 8 years ago

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brookdemar (60) · 8 years ago

I do not work for cex.io any longer.

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nippel66 (64) · 8 years ago

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james212 (56) · 8 years ago (edited)

Dunja I agree with your comment. I love this post, but one thing that is a bit disturbing is that I see no proof in this post, of this charity ever happening. I am sure brookdemar, is a great person and did has described in the post above. I applaud his actions. However this excellent system of charity that Steemit facilitates will be open to MAJOR abuse if we are not very careful with how me upvote, and thus allocated the community's resources for this type of activity.

As I member of the Bitshares community ( @Dantheman was the founder of Bitshares) I was privileged to be involved with the development of some of the basic ideas that Steemit employees. One of the important breakthroughs that developed early-on was the fact of paying for work that was done to improve the community/product was possible simply with the issuance of community (bitshares) tokens. This is much like steemit pays for content, charity, development etc. with Steem tokens. Using this system, however created a problem. Many people would be given tokens (read upvoted) on promises to do "XYZ" for the community. However, on many occasions- promises made, tokens issued, but the work would never get done, or would be very substandard. Similarly, the community would allocate tokens for someone to do charity and again many times, we could never be certain of the charity was actually competed.

The solution: These type of reward systems are excellent for fostering charity and improving our world, and we all want that. However if accept heart-felt stories and promises of charity in exchange for up- votes, in short order we will have a huge wave of fraudsters draining the resources for this community under false pretences. To be effective, the system of charity in Steemit needs to employ "pay (upvote) after the fact". ........ First do you charitable actions, the blog about it. Be very up front. Show receipts, smiling faces, whatever it takes to prove to the community the act was done. Only then should the community value the action with upvotes (I'll be the first! :-) .

Soon I foresee we will have a very large community at Steemit. I expect that we will see blogs dedicated exclusively to charity and charitable giving. Over-time these individuals or blogs will build a solid reputation here on Steemit for their charitable acts by following the recommendations above.

This is just one of the lessons we learned the hard way, in the initial experimentation of Bitshares and I hope to pass this lesson on to Steemit users so we can insure our community and platform remains strong.

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isaackola (12) · 8 years ago

i really agree with you all we need first is to ensure the rigidity and firmness of this plat form so as to continue the trend

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brookdemar (60) · 8 years ago (edited)

I understand your concerns. I will set the bar high for this one, that is all I can do. I didn't expect such reception. I hope that my update following this makes it clear what standard the community should expect.

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

you make very good points but personally I think that this post will give value to steemit even if it is a scam... if you understand what I mean!!!

PS we must be for sure very carefully what we upvote!

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angelast1 (36) · 8 years ago

I was just wondering about the issues you raise. I love cheritable deeds but I feel very suspicious about this here. Lots of people want to do good and help others, but I don't know what really happend here. I'm by no means an expert on crypto, social media platforms or anything around steemit. Just have a feeling that something is fishy. Having cruised around some Bitcoin forums, the feeling just got stronger, since people who do know a lot about this are talking. I would hate some poor guys plight being exploited for someones agenda.

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maximkichev (57) · 8 years ago

In a world of so many unfortunate people who have lost friends, family and home! and really want to help everyone to find their own happiness ! this man is very lucky ! I wish him good luck , now he can begin a completely different life ! Steemit can affect a lot of people ! Thanks to the creators !

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trogdor (64) · 8 years ago

That is one of the beautiful things about Steemit. It's opening the crypto world to loads of people of all backgrounds, and it's so easy to understand the concepts.

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bossubossilor (27) · 8 years ago

yeah that's why nobody is giving me shit

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nippel66 (64) · 8 years ago

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teamsteem (74) · 8 years ago

This post is one of the most brilliant and touching Steem has seen so far. This should be in the news. Thank you @creationlayer

So far the Steemit community has giving you $1518

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Steemit you're just way too awesome! Now let's take this story to the daily news. No matter how much time it'll take for this kind of story, these won't only make the daily news they will replace all news services like we know them today and make for a much better world, a world we can't even foresee right now.

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thefutureisnow (39) · 8 years ago

I'd love see steem gain mass adoption. This is a way to help make that happen while also helping this man. Win-win. Id try to do it. Ill try contacting my local newspaper.