2 Wonderful folks answer the call to minnow service! A thank you note to @berniesanders and @stitchybitch!

The Minnow Support Project is never that far away from people willing to help us and support the project. We're a completely public, highly transparent, community project with a service mission and the broader Steemit community knows we're doing good. This account has made 40k votes to thousands of users giving away tens of thousands in earnings. We've been on the platform 2 months. Quite frankly, if you're a minnow and you're not part of the Minnow Support Project you're Steeming wrong.

Bernie

Bernie has a mixed rep in this community. He's a vigilante swinging his SP to fight abuse on Steemit of which there's plenty. He mocks those he finds abusing the system. There's a touch of the idgaf and 4thelulz attitude that comes along with his disposition. Crypto in general is the wild west of the modern world. He's not the hero anyone expected, but to date in a lot of ways he's the guy we've needed. You need a thick skin to enter the flag game, you need some giant whale balls, and you have to have a sense of justice and desire to help the little guy.

Bernie could be upvoting his own shit comments every day and pulling thousands from the platform. Instead he helps other people. He created @randowhale as an inexpensive voting bot which helps get lesser known minnows off to a great start. I know he's rubbed a lot of people the wrong way on this platform, but for the folks that don't know he's been a giant pillar of support especially among the Minnow community. You've probably gotten votes from his alts, of which there are many, I know I have on multiple occasions when I was starting.

I asked him to help us since we've recently lost 70k in delegation as @benjojo pulls starts powering down for personal financial reasons. Again Bernie answered the call to service to help this platform and support minnows. He's very generously delegated 15k SP. To the people he flames and downvotes he's hated, but to a lot of minnows he's frankly adored. I think he's a passionate advocate for Steemit and as I mentioned before he's a tender heart and a dedicated asshole. Bernie, thank you, this delegation will help thousands of Minnows on the platform get off to a stronger start and be a draw for our community!

Stitchy

@stichybitch received final confirmation today on becoming a moderator in the Minnow Support Project. She's charming, funny, a little raunchy, and really beloved by the community. She's active in chat, supports cooky authors, and has won a lot of support from other moderators and witnesses for her humor, kindness, and touch of naughty. She recently had her story about "The Legend of Swamp Ass" read by @isaria on Isaria's MSP Waves Radio show. I was laughing out loud at the quality of the reading and off the wall comedy of the writing.

Stichy, we're grateful to have you on the team as a moderator. You're going to continue to do great things in here and help spread the mission of Peace, Abundance, and Liberty. We're thrilled and we're so lucky to have you. Thank you for answering the call to service. Many minnows will benefit from your decision!

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@stitchybitch I'm really excited that you're a moderator! Thank you!

@berniesanders on behalf of all the minnows I'm really grateful!

💪🏼🙌🏼💯

What's with the 5 squares????

They are emojis lol ... most people can see them depending on the browser :)

They're emoji(s), but for some reason, I can't see them in Chrome either.

Where is @fyrstikken, I haven't seen him in a looooooong time, where is that stinky viking, I gave him some grief for fucking with me.

lol, that username though but congrats!

Congtatulation to @berniesanders and @stichybitch as minnow moderators

Many thanks for your generosity @berniesanders!

Welcome to team blue @stitchybitch!

Thanks to every member of msp and its moderators, witnesses and delegates.

You give me a reason to keep on truckin every day, even if sometimes I don't seem so happy about it, I am still thankful for giving me this chance to serve.

It is a wild ocean out there and without minnowsupport I know I personally would not have made it this far.

Huge props to @berniesanders for stepping up and a big thank you to @aggroed for reaching out.

Much love. <3

Thank you from the bottom of my hedonistic, snarky heart for bringing me onto the team! I will do everything I can to make you all feel proud! (and sometimes a little repulsed) ❤

And thank you, @berniesanders! You're awesome!

Awesome. Thanks @berniesanders, we appreciate it!

Your sentiments on @berniesanders are spot on. Being a steemit veteran, I can say in the early days when only a whale vote would earn you anything on a post. Bernie blessed my posts with an upvote several occasions.

@stitchybitch.....lord save use ;-p You are gonna be great girl!

i am very excited you are moderator. bundle of thanks @minnowsupport.

Great news!!
Thanks @stitchybitch and @berniesanders for supporting us minnows! ❤
People like you is what makes this platform great.

Love me some Stitchy! Thank you to you both for everything you do for the community!

Thanks to you @minnowsupport and to the other people that supports you to help us minnows like @berniesanders and @stitchybitch
There are also many other names that may not be known but help minnows by sharing their post SBD: like @nicnicy, @oleg326756, @lazarescu.irinel, @rkrijgsman, @infobunny, @sbd.giveaway, @digitalpro, @clixmoney, @public-money, @littlehelper, @msg768, @volajuyin and maybe many others that I dont know of.
Many thanks to all of you :D

Glad to hear your still around fighting the good fight @berniesanders. Thanks for watching out for us little fish. I never realized randowhale was your doing, it's a great service for minnows to show a little extra love to exemplary works when our votes are 2¢, as is the Minnow support project. I only wish they were used more for giving then receiving.

So great to see these guys and gals stepping up to the plate. Thanks so much!! :)

Thanks to @minnowsupport, and welcome to join @berniesanders and @stitchybitch! Hopefully we can feel the touch of your generosity together.

Success continues for all of us and steemit platforms.

Great article I really don't know too many people here yet or much about the politics but I know the minnowsupport project has helped me personally and I am grateful for it and anyone helping the project and the community is a good guy by me so thank you Bernie sanders and congratulations stichy

This is really good news, thanks two both of you and also thanks to everyone in MSP doing a fantastic job everyday!

Thank you both so very much!

Excelente trabajo, éxitos para todos desde los mas grandes hasta los pequeñitos

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just now read this. sorry to have missed isaria's reading, bet it was funny as heck. grats stitchy and bernie!

I need to get involved with this project.
That's my mission for today.

I'm surprised to find Bernie and I have anything in common, though he delegated far more than I did (though less by overall SP percentage, I imagine). His flagging of my posts for many weeks and months, right before payout and even flagging my friends who have known me in person for many years is not something I'll easily forgot or push aside. As you rightfully say, he's a dedicated asshole.

The question we, as a community, should ask ourselves is this: should we turn a blind eye to an asshole who has no regard for harming others if, once in a while, they provide us some benefit?

I'd really like to think Bernie acts rationally in the best interests of themselves and the community, but what I see again and again in Steemit chat is constant whining which drones on and on about how terrible of a job Steemit, Inc is doing and how shitty everything here seems to be in their eyes.

But I don't fault them. I've tried to chat with them and understand their reasoning and rationale, but mostly I've been left with a snapshot of a personality which is paranoid, scared, and confused. They are desperately working to preserve their investment in ways they see as fit while, from my perspective, leaving a heap of relational bodies in their wake. I hope they figure out how to be civil, learn some non-violent communication, and align their goals with the platform. Randowhale is, in many ways, just a money-making venture, not some altruistic gesture to clear an asshole's name. Again though, I find no fault in it. They are doing what they think is right. I hope their thinking will align with that of the community of witnesses and influencers here who put up with Bernie's bullshit purely because of his Steem Power.

Yes, we need good actors and those who will actively flag abusers and call out the problems they see. No, we don't need assholes who act childish and resort to name calling when called out for their abusive behavior.

I've said my piece and didn't intent to drag this out, but I had a mighty big margarita tonight, so I ask your forgiveness.

I'm glad you're finding the support you need to help support the minnows in the community, even if they do come from assholes. Congrats and may you continue to find success.

I am no one to make a judgement on anyone here, as I have been here for less than 2 months.. But in the time I have been here, I have noticed majority of the time when @berniesanders is being spoken about, it's been very negative.. But it's nice to see another, more positive side to the story! :)

Awesome stuff. Keep it up guys!

@stichybitch I wish you a lovely time and hope you will be a great moderator

I am looking to buy a house for myself as soon as I have my house I will be able to stay home and use Discord all day London
Hopefully I will become a moderator

I saw a thread where Bernie was getting smashed with downvotes by higher reps. I suppose opinions are always going to differ on a social media site, pity to see it taken that far though.

Yep, this place would be better if the leaders would deescalate conflicts rather than amplify them.

Wouldn't it be nice if Bernie learned how to do this. I wouldn't call him a "leader" as much as a massive influencer due to Steem Power holdings mined early. If he could learn some non-violent communication instead of name-calling and auto-flagging, he might be a real force for good around here.

I was talking about the guy flagging him...

Sorry for not being clear. I was just thinking of too many flag wars where influencers throw their weight around and end up escalating things far worse then they started. The line between leader and influencer is so faint, some don't even see it. I used your words as a spring board for my own but I didn't intend to them in your mouth. Again, sorry I wasn't very clear.

I cannot find the exact thread i read when that happened, they were accusing randowhale and bernie of profiteering at minnows expense, which led me to do this test
https://steemit.com/randowhale/@prime-cleric/putting-randowhale-to-the-test-full-results

A mistake I made which I see a number of others have as well, I gave @minnowsupport 1sbd with a link to a post, thinking that would get a vote by minnowsupport, but that didn't happen. Probably got confused with minnowbooster and randowhale offering similar services. Is there a way that those who have made that same mistake can get a refund, or at least an upvote on the post, thanks

We offer refunds for 10% fees but over 1 sbd.

Muchísimas gracias a todos por su apoyo y generosidad y felicidades por tu participación @stichybitch :)

Thank you @berniesanders!
And congrats to @stitchybitch!
Much love <3

Congratulations @minnowsupport!
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Hi ! Thanks for this project and helping for minnows to began faster on Steemit! Good continuation !

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I'm really grateful! invite me. From the Minnow Support Project to invite me. Steemit begin in just 45 days.
I hope your guide in many cases. I want to work forever. Thank minnowsupport.

Thanks for both of you stepping up and being advocates in your own ways. The community is all the better for it.

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@minnowsupport I mistakenly sent you 1SBD with memo to my lastest post . I wanted to send it to @@@minnowbooster pls send back the SBD to my wallet-thanks