I wish to start by saying that this is not an official stand of Steemit Inc., and is merely based on my humble opinion from my short experience in the platform. In this series, I will try to present a value system I observed from steemians who do really well here.
We always tell our kids that being kind is as Important as being great. We hope that we are setting good examples to them in our daily dealings with humanity. I wouldn't dare say that we are perfect, we are far from it. We also do not have some unrealistic expectations that our kids will be all good. We believe after all that humans are not born naturally good, and because of that belief we try our hardest to try and keep a conscious effort do good.
We always try to make acts of kindness a big deal around the kids. We do this in such a way that helping an elderly, or being nice to another kid will be celebrated no less than being a top student in a grading period. Winning a declamation contest for example is just as big as a deal being courteous in day to day conversations.
@dandalion and I did not always belong to the same school of thought when it comes to this subject. Years ago, we were at each extreme of the spectrum. @dandalion believed that generally speaking, humanity is bad, and that people who believe otherwise becomes vulnerable to abuse. I on the otherhand believed that people are good unless you give them a reason to do you bad. Through our journey in life as employees, members of the community, later on spouses, and then parents to our kids; our beliefs evolved to this: People are not born naturally good, but everyone have a real potential to do good. This video we saw last year reaffirms that belief. Not that we needed confirmation, it's just beautiful to see your own belief in another person's perspective.
Now how do I say that this is a Steemit core value?
The very system is built in such a way that people will give and take, and an imbalance between giving and taking results to failure in the long run. This is why it is no surprise that we have project like @minnowsupport from Peace, Abundance, Liberty, or our very own @bayanihan curration project from Steemit Philippines through efforts from the Filipino curators and the love from @donkeypong, @acidyo, @surpassinggoogle, @jrcornel, and @hanshotfirst. It is in everybody's interest to make deserving minnows who really contribute to the system stay.
While Steemit do not take a very stern stance against abuse for the reason tackled in the white paper, the community understands that such behavior leads to failure soon enough. Even the whales with huge Steem Power restrain themselves from abuse, minnows just don't get a shot at success with abusive behavior.
Kindness is shown here by appreciating ones work with your upvotes, engagement through your meaningful comments, occasional support for someone in dire need, encouragement through sharing a well written content, and participating on enjoyable contests or challenges.
What have you got to loose from being kind?
- The inability to upvote your own comments because of depleted voting power that will recharge the next day
- The time you'd rather spend gaming the system or figuring out how to
What have you got to gain from being kind
- The support from the community who will soon enough notice your good behavior
- Leading to better reputation score and bigger rewards from upvotes
- Friends
- Helping hands when you really need them
- Engagement from your post or your comments
Thank you for reading this post. I hope I am making sense to you and did not waste your time. Please let me know your thoughts by commenting. If you like what I wrote and you feel it is worthy of your upvotes, I would really appreciate it if you do actually upvote it. It will encourage me to continue writing and sharing my thoughts to the community. As mentioned above this is going to be a series that'll talk about observed value system in Steemit. In the next post in this same series I will write about
Steemit Core Value - Stop Trying to be Interesting; Be Interested
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Give and Take Photo: Source
Abuse Photo: Source
Reward for Kindness Photo: Source
I agree give and take that say it all. Simply leaving a meaningful comment in their post can uplift someone, inspire them to create more quality content. Very true kindness will take you very far.
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Hi @steemitph
I think that this platform is the place for kind-hearted people and in fact you are in here and I am just lucky to find you in my quest to get a helping hand for my unusual and unbearable problem.
I just hope that more steemians would recognize your efforts to uplift and help others and while maybe you find it frustrating at times, just think of my condition in life and you will just find yours as lucky as you had won the sweepstakes.
God Bless you and your family.
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Incredible!!!! I just wrote a post along the same lines! but yours has some very nice information. I am re-steeming this for sure, and will come back to it a number of times, as well as add it to the references section of my post that I just wrote.
https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@inquiringtimes/your-values-might-be-what-s-holding-you-back-from-success-on-steemit
Thank you, friend! I look forward to getting to know you, and will see what else your blog has to offer. you are obviously experienced here!
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This is nice. Kindness can make a person be great. :)
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Hehehe thank you po ma'am sa pagbasa.
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You've done a great kindness by sharing this to us @steemitph ...I really learn from it. It's like what the Scripture says, "...you shall reap what you sow."
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Give and take, the golden rule of the community
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by steemitph from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews/crimsonclad, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
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@steemitph I believe in the value of Give and Take. If a person loves giving and doesnt get anything in return, I think he/she will grow tired of giving soon enough. We must all appreciate every effort given to us and reciprocate even through little things. 😊
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Hi @steemitph, I just stopped back to let you know your post was one of my favourite reads and I included it in my Steemit Ramble. You can read what I wrote about your post here.
If you’d like to nominate someone’s post just visit the Steemit Ramble Discord
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This post recieved an upvote from minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowpond on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond
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very interesting and true from both perspectives. It takes no effort to be kind to one another. Kindness is uplifting, and if we live by example we always get back what we hand out! blessings. You certainly have my vote!
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@steemitph
I dont regret reading your post from start to finish. I can see.and feel ur sincerity and.kindness to.help us and others...ur willingness to support and uplift others towards success really made u successful. You encouraged me and im very thankful ive joined here and be able to meet good people like u do. And at the same.time, earning.while learning....
Hope u find good in my posts. I.am.willing to receive comments and good ideas in order to succeed.. Hope ull help me, too.
Thanks much..Godblessumore
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