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Rule No. 3: Upvote = Steem Dollar. NoVote/Downvote = no Steem Dollar.

Downvoted: buying upvotes is cheating

I didn't know there were rules.... sorry officer. Fixed it for ya!

And here's a shiny Steem Dollar.... because you care!

ah ok ... maybe starting to make sense... sorry for being dumb....

He probably imagined it,but he doesn't care about it apparently. Here's an upvote for you.

Thank you for being a defender good intentions!

I did not see it as buying upvotes, the post actually made me smile for the fact he was sharing and not being selfish... for me its not about the money it was about the fact someone was doing an act of kindness...? paying in back to the steemit society i guess you do not agree? please tell me how you do see it? as a tiny little insignificant fish who is learning i am genuinely interested to know

"Upvote = Steem Dollar" is a statement about buying upvotes. I'm not judging OP's intentions but his action. If OP's intention was genuinely to giveaway Steem dollars without expecting a return, downvoting his post should be harmless to him.

You must be new around here. :)

No upvotes = never to be seen by anyone except Jacques Cousteau.

Now, Jacques is a great guy and all, but he didn't help me out on Steemit. So why should I write a post for Jacques?

If you need the post to have visibility avoid any wording that suggests that you are buying votes in your future giveaway posts. We want people to vote for content they think is good and be rewarded for helping promoting good posts. A direct reward for upvote shortcuts the curating process and diverts rewards from content producers and curators which is a bad thing for the network.

I agree with everything you said.

And curating gets you $0.001. I'll give you $1. If I had an ulterior motive I wouldn't tell you. But people like you are why Steemit will survive. And thrive. Well, and people like me. It's a ying and yang. But whatever, thank you for caring, caring is awesome!

Without upvotes no one will see this, and if no one sees this, I can't share. Only whale upvotes will get you paid and I assumed, correctly, that I would not get any whale love for this. I think recursive has good intentions too.

Rule #8: I (altoz) will also share my Steem Dollars from this post. Evenly divided among those who upvote.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Damn this just got serious! @altoz you da man!

  • I second you and @johnsmith & will do the same! Anything I make from this comment or this post I will be giving out! Pay it forward.

I decided to do one better, I just donated $1000 to St Jude Children's Hospital! I am also going to donate every SteemDollar I make from this post: https://steemit.com/donations/@blueorgy/i-will-donate-every-steemdollar-earned-from-this-post-to-st-jude-children-s-research-hospital

Let's change the world!

Have an upvote! Lots of steem hoarders out there. Why not spread it around a little?


I love this place. And you.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I challenge you to donate as well! This place is AWESOME!
https://steemit.com/donations/@blueorgy/i-will-donate-every-steemdollar-earned-from-this-post-to-st-jude-children-s-research-hospital

@johnsmith better yet you can go onto their website right now and donate the $100! Or if you need you can transfer the $100 to my account andI will use my cc to make the donation for you. I'll add the confirmation here :)


How about I send you $100 and you donate it?
It will mean 100 less Steemians get $1.
But you sound like nice a person.
So I will trust you.
This one time.


I like the way you think. Have a dollar!

LOVING IT!


It's amazing how generous people become, in the face of a sudden increase of wealth. :) I ever hit a 7K post in a week, I'll be doing the same as you. Thank you!

Keep it Clean!

TheCleanGame Blog Posts, Neatly Categorized


And this is why giving is better than getting! You just stole my punchline, and it makes me happy.

LOL


There you again. That's like 30 cents per letter. I wrote entire posts for less.

@johnsmith is for realz


This is going to be like an auction, isn't it? Without the fun little paddles.

Just below the fold under "hot". Rapidly approaching the 100 mark.


Put on your party dress!

That is also nice of you. The one thing that amazes me is that some people are happy to share their success where as many are out for themselves. Well done to you too... i have much admiration for you both..

Have an upvote! You seem like a nice person.

Thank you.. i try to be :) and so are you xx


Such love!

Have an upvote man! Have loads of it!! :D The more the better for everybody! :)


I think you're catching on!

Wow thanks


Thanks for being here!

generous god

I think you're the $11 winner?


Thank you! I would have completely missed it.

Front page of "hot"!!!


Nice!

I believe so too, kind sir!!











I'll take you word for it! If anyone else has an problem with aish winning, take it up with aish and altoz. See how a community works? It's nice. Altoz and aish are also now volunteered to tell me when we hit 1001 and cause I'm going to have no idea. This is crazy fun! Minnows FTW!

Thank you so much! Can't believe i got $11 wow!!! so..so.. grateful!!
Once I am in a position I am going to do the same :)


Ooops, now it's 12!

Rule No. 7: I can defecate as needed.

Yes, everyone should be able to excrete feces as needed. But why must this be a rule?

Cos its his post and he said so?


I like how you think! And yes. So very yes.


Just wanted to be clear, no surprises. I value my alone time.

What would you do for 1000 comments?


Let's find out...

A wild party with champagne.


How about brandy?

Is it decent brandy? you can not have cheap brandy it is awful.. the good stuff or none :)


Let's say its somewhere between awful and decent. I'm a middle-class Steemian citizen.

I agree with champagne and always up for a party :)


WOOT!

Here we have a very good person that treats his colleagues very well,well done sir.

I think you are a secret party animal mr smith !

Steemit Cat Approves this Message


I don't like cats. But I like Steemit. So maybe it balances out.

So then if I ask you for $2 Steem Dollars... will you give me $1, $2, or $3?




But only this one time.

Thanks man, I hope you catch a whale!


That would be a really fun photo op!

Hay not bad, give some steemdollars away & get some back from votes & posts. But you really out did yourself in a great way of showing people how to make a great post! Great job. well done! & thanks for the lesson !

Rule #1 dont talk about Rule #1!


It had to happen.

@johnsmith Make it Steem my friend :)


Bam!

I don't have much free money to give out, but this is definitely something I would do if I were backed up by a few whales! Keeping the money in rotation for the newbies is a great way to encourage users to keep coming back to Steemit and share content! I learned from @berniesanders and now from you @johnsmith
You two are doing an amazing job! I will be sharing majority of the Steem dollars I make from now on, back into the community to get more people connected.

Thanks bro :)



Sharing is caring! And your comment was amazing. So I'm going to double down. Steem on!

You must be tired of clicking.


You have no idea. Or maybe you do, which would make sense because you commented on it. But damn, yes I'm tired of clicking and typing. You know what I'm not tired of? You guys!

Do you want your dollar back? :)


Nope... and I want to give you another one!

Nooo way!!! So nice of you! I hit you with a follow!

You can use steemd.com to count the upvotes and comments to accurately give the 1001 comment post reward :D


Now that is... helpful. Thank you!

Is this a hustle? Serious question not understanding the logic! But good sh..!


Do you want it to be a hustle? We can hustle.

I'm always game to to gain as-long as no harm done to anyone or platform, sh.. put me on to something new! 4real Be nice to build power on here make some real influential up-votes!!!


This is where it starts...

Hope someone doesn't mass spam here just to get to 100/1001.


Me too.

Don't think it will be needed, it will get up there quickly.


I think I might be limiting factor here. Like a sphincter to a gush of pure joy.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

This is from my motivational post:

Don't worry about yesterday, yesterday is gone.
Don't worry about tomorrow, tomorrow isn't here yet.
All we have is now so start making your dream come true today.


He has a funny nose. But your words are nice. Thank you!

Thank you for your kindness.


Thank you for your kind words!


couldn't resist so I didn't. . . Arriba, Arriba! Andale, Andale!

Is that really how you spell andale? I'm kinda disappoint. But the dude in the hat is funny.

this shit seriously made me laugh... I'm so dumb & easily amused sometimes lmfao

I see what you did there.

Okay, let's try then!

Well you're fashionably late... like five years in Steemit time. But hey, why not?

Maybe this can help me to have a little more Steem Power.
I NEEEEEDDD it...


If you use the internal exchange you get a little more than you should. Shhhhh... it's a secret.

Very thanks, John! Advice taken and executed.


Very welcome! And here's some more so you can execute some more!

I dont believe you. Send me some mula to try it out ;)


Ooooh... I like challenges.

It works... WE LIT

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Well, what kind a dream do you saw?

It did not involve a paycheck signed by not me. And a bikini. Briefly. And probably a blender. Definitely ice cubes. I love ice cubes.

I also created this one!


I sat and watched that for at least 90 seconds.

Spare a square?

This thread right here is why Steemit Kicksass over FB n Twitter .. because people are giving money away and donating .. Very Human of you all..keep it up .. shoot me a vote

https://steemit.com/steemit/@skyzalimit/steemit-is-kickass-upvote-this-to-the-moon

Upvoted and ...



Yea!

Thanks alot Johnny!! Your a real Human

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

@johnsmith, you'll make a great whale someday. (Maybe someday soon)
Whale Watching


Aw shucks, thank you. I can't wait for the whale suit parties. I hear they're fun.

The secret of life is sex, bacon, rock and roll, and marijuana






You sir, win.

Thanks my man! Truly felt that way when I typed it, just wish I could have them all at once right now, only have a few of those things in my back pocket, gotta work for the rest!


Now go write a post about it, and I'll upvote you!

DiCaprio to Dicaprio


That was violent. But entertaining. Only a human could say that. It's awful. But so true.

Its raining !


Little steem coins. See what I did there?

No love for my username?




Goddamn that's good. So good.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Bam!

Hottest thread LOL.....why not use your money to travelling into tahiti or africa LOOOL
and post your traveling experience and tadaaaa you get a lot of money

Well that only works if you're young and look good with very little clothing. So that not being the case... I'd rather have this convo with you!

My family have been kidnapped by ninjas and I need money for karate lessons.

Well... ok. I guess. But don't come back asking for mo' money for ninjitsu lessons when you get your ass whooped. :D


Cha ching!

Thank you.

I just signed up; found this by accident.
If you were me, what would you do next ?

I would read some of the posts flying around .. the ones that teach you about steemit and learn from them personally .. although no expert like these guys


That too.


I would keep posting here and thank the Chinese food guy for your fortune cookie.

Thanks
Thank you.


That is awesome. And what I feel every time I'm on Steemit.

When you defecate, if your feced are green, don't worry. It just moved thru your system too fast. That is just unprocessed bile. Don't worry, you'll be fine.


This sounds like useful information. Given your name and all.

As soon as I read the rules, I checked the number of comments!! It was 35!

So I waited and refreshed the page and waited some more, to pounce at the 11 Steem Dollars. Did I do it? Only time will tell!


Nope that other guy did. At least according to him. I went with it cause I'm too busy retyping your name into my wallet. It takes time.

@johnsmith....you sir, are going to be one of the greatest whale the world has ever seen!! you have made a follower out of me by this GRAND GESTURE!


The fact that I give you money each time you say something makes me question your motives. But I'm going to bask anyway. Oh yes, I'm going to bask!

Something interesting, well... one time I was walking down the street and I saw three guys walk into a bar, then the fourth one ducked.


I'm going to need to meditate on that.

i dont like to be 101,
now you are making the rulz :))


How about 1001?

OMG !!! THS :D:D:D:D !!!
you change my day !!

Way to go! Is John Smith your real name?


Thank you, and no.

Thanks I got it, you're an inspiration. I guess I can learn a lot watching your posts.


Thanks you! And good to know all this typing is doing what I think it's doing. Actually, that's really important. On that note.


  ·  8 years ago (edited)

What do you think are the best and worst parts of Steem?


Best is you and me right now. Worst is when the corporations show up.

I might be the caterpillar you whales might inexplicably love and upvote, then again who knows.


Upvotes and steem dollars for you!

I don't want your steem and your post is useless, but.. it made me laugh, so let's say it's good enough..


If you got a laugh out of it, the world is a better place than if you hadn't laughed. So we made the world a better place. Together. Wanna hug? I'd like to hug. It's nice.

Exactly, but don't push too much for the hug. I should have registered as johndoe for that.


You only live once. And that means you only get so many hugs.

Johnsmith you are certainly sharing the love tonight...( I think he does want that hug)


Who doesn't want a hug?

Steem is been invented to share the wealthy intelligence of people through words.


Yes! Yes! Yes!

Will you be cashing out your steem dollars? If so, will you convert them to Bitcoin, Ethereum, US Dollars, or some other currency?


Nope, giving a bunch of them to this awesome community, then converting to Steem Power. Which is also like giving them to community, except I keep them.

I´m really new at this thing. What do you think it´s better to do: write about something or vote every day on posts and comment them?
My nativa language is not English. Do you thing it is time to other languages to appear here? Probably there will be very little upvotes in my language at this time and I don´t know how long it would take to brazilian portuguese to be a significant language on Steemit.

I think you should do a little bit of both. I would say 66% vote/comment and 34% write posts. You will eventually get better with the writing. So, you will benefit from both frontiers.
Also, other languages WILL appear on steem but it depends on how fast new users from all around the globe adopt steem.



Well said!


All languages will be here soon. Because you're here.

Very thanks, @johnsmith!
I´ve already converted your generous gift into STEMM POWER to make it rain!

Something interesting? Alright then.
Albert Einstein was asked once: "How does it feel to be the smartest man alive?" He replied: "I don't know, you'll have to ask Nicola Tesla."


Did he say that? I'll bet he did. He was smart, and so was Tesla. Einstein had a better watch though.

Yeah.. Did you know that Tesla did not believe in Radio Waves? Also, he was very sceptical about Einstein's work :)


I did not know that. But I believe you.

I do not lie to you. Google it :)
Also, wanted to say thank you! You are such a generous person. Your money will go to my SP right away ;)


SP you say? Well why didn't you say it sooner?



Wanna hear a joke? I posted it 2 months ago not sure if anyone got it:
https://steemit.com/jokes/@acidyo/whats-one-positive-thing-about-a-pedophile

Eh. Ah. Yeah. No coin for you. But you can try again anytime!

tOO!

I'm good.

Ok. Me to.

too. *

I replied yesterday to you with a funny comment so I can get upvotes. I got 2. Yay!

So... knock knock @johnsmith!


Shameless. And upvotes for you!

Thank you!
You are a role model for me!

Your dearest,


Oh that's good. I want.

sO gOOD.

You with the others right.

Oh! One more thing: Do you look in the "new" section for posts to vote? or the "active" section? I'm trying to become a better curator.


New. Always new. It's harder but better. Like most things.

Sweet! Thanks @johnsmith. So happy to finally break the one steem dollar mark!


Now you just broke the two steem dollar mark!

I'm curious, why are you doing this? Aswesome post regardless


Because I wish someone had done it for me. Lot of lottery winners out there...

You're a man of your word. Thanks, buddy

jerkin it harder than a prostitute down on her luck here, lmao


That sounds chafing.

Forgive me if it's been asked before, but if you could give your former self one bit of advice starting out on Steemit, what would you say?


Comment until you are inspired!

Can i have a few million Satoshi worth of Steem please? X


Well done!

Do you think that post was worth more? I think so i would say at least ten times more.. lol


You know what the best part was? So many minnows working together to get a post to the top. We had some whales, but not as many as most of the top posts. Minnow power FTW!

Because someone put some effort into making her hair do that. I don't know what else to say.

There are some really good articles out there that deserve to be paid more. Instead of giving out your Steem dollars, you could maybe send some to authors who took the time to write quality posts that were underpaid for the work.


Excellent idea! Except I'm sending them to you, because I'm here, and you're here, and you took the time to write a quality comment, and they didn't. Or maybe you're one of them, so we just wrapped this up. But I'll think about it. And upvote your posts.

Well thank you, i'm not sure i really deserve it ( trust issue maybe) but you did what you said and that's very honorable.


Oops, there you go again. What comes your way you deserve, because if it didn't, you wouldn't.

Sometimes you just gotta drop trou and squeeze out a Cleveland Steamer on someone's chest, man. Not judging.


I concur. Get this man a drink. Don't use Google for the next 20 minutes.

Bro.. you're a dolphin.


We need a measuring stick for these titles. I feel like a badass minnow, but maybe I'm a runty dolphin. How will I know?

We need an official Steemit food chain


@johnsmith is the real Robin Hood of steemit!

Fuck yea!

No. Your intelligent = my intelligence ^10. Thank you for existing!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

every time i need to laugh i watch this video...


hope you enjoy it as much as i do...i'll watch it again...
keep on steeming...


I laughed. Thank you!

I'm used to begging, my dignity is long gone as you can see in this post:
https://steemit.com/retirement/@moonjelly/help-me-retire-early-with-steem

Do what thou wilt.

ps: Leo, is that really you?

No, it's not me. Me being Leo. Who I am not.

I upvoted you because wilt. Good luck!

I will need it, thank you dear Sir!

Fishing for comments are we? Haha


Aren't you the clever one?

I can not believe just how many steem dollars you got for that article. You are pretty amazing, although it was good and I did enjoy reading it. hmm hustling is not my strong point ... maybe as I am just too nice? Haha okay maybe not, I am just rubbish at it. Anyway congratulations on making it big on steemit :) I hope one day to follow in your footsteps :)


The best hustle in life is to be nice. Steem on!
And I like your writing, so I upvoted some stuff.

why thank you mr smith, I do actually appreciate your words.... as you say .. working together benefits everyone :)


Except at buffets. I don't like working together at buffets and don't feel there is any net benefit. Stay awesome!

right so @johnsmith how has your post gone from making money to 0 while i have been asleep? one donwnvote? really is that all it can take? ( you know im still learning so excuse me if you think im dumb)

All it takes is one self-anointed patriot. Actually, a few hours before my No. 1 top of Steemit blog was supposed to be paid out like 22 downvotes came out of the woodwork. Apparently downvoting posts on the principle of general douchery and reasons that are not even worth a comment is a thing. Who knew? I asked to chat but was denied. So I think the answer is yes, one downvote is all it takes? The irony is thick, like icing on cheap cake.

Well that seems incredibly unfair! So the voice of many is outweighed by one person?

I agree it is so very unfair :( power going to peoples heads i guess :(... well i know my vote so far is worth no money to you, but I like your work and you inspire me so I will continue to follow and comment and ( if and when) i hit the big time i owe u a huge upvote :)

OK Here is a very tough question. I understand if you don't want to answer...
What is your most controversial opinion?

Poverty is profitable for everyone except the poor. This is why poverty still exists.

Well that, and false flag terrorism. If you go down the rabbit hole it's sick. But hard to deny. And shemitah. Oh yes. Shemitah.

This is beautiful. I value truth more than comfort.

I'd do lots of things to share a bit of motivation and caring around the world. Here have an upvote on a few comments :)

You are lovely. And wondeful. Like a super-nova. Which is actually incredibly violent. But you mean what I say. And what I say is... thank you!

What is your reason for wanting to defecate your steem all over us so much? Did you just have a big payout? Are you just feeling like being nice? What are the positives that come out of spreading the wealth this way? (I'm a noob and would like to hear your perspective)


I'll just point you here while awkwardly flexing my bicep and giving you a shot of my deoderent: https://steemit.com/motivational/@johnsmith/why-the-steemwhales-are-upvoting-crap-instead-of-your-masterpiece-and-why-you-should-be-happy-about-it

So it's like this. I wrote a post. People liked it. We talked. A lot. Made a difference to the leaderboard. Used our collective minnow might to reward good writing and hard work. No headshot. No bikini. Now we're partying. Cause that's what you do when you do something awesome. Which we did.

How did you do it? How did you manage to make yourself look so much like Leonardo DiCaprio?

Did you spend your $7500 on plastic surgery? Where did you go for the procedure?

For supporting Steemit Voting Poll addition: https://steemit.com/steemit/@jamesbrown/suggestion-give-the-steemit-community-a-voice-add-a-poll-feature


I could look like Leo. Or better. Or worse. But no one knows.

Upvoted!

who are you ?


John Smith! And maybe part leprechaun.

I upvoted all your comments, does that count too?




How's that for your answer? I think you just made like a 1000000% ROI, but my math is a little rusty.

This was a great post. Cheers bro!

It was good for me too. Cheers!

Enjoy it! Spend it in good health...


Exactly what I'm doing. Thank you!

why people upvote their own post?

Steemitcalafragiliciousexpialadocious! <---Registered TM ;)


P.S.: Since when does people earning money likes to give money? I might be born in the wrong side of earth ha, anyways, thank you <3

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

@johnsmith
What is your biggest regret in life?


Not signing up for Steemit two months ago.
Or going to university instead of travelling the world.
Maybe both. Can I do both?

Thanks for answering. Honestly I think that's one of the most horrible questions to ask anyone. I asked a girl that once and she burst out crying. Oops! In fairness, not the best chat up line. Thanks for the tip also! Following you :)


Well at least I didn't cry. Well...

in image you say/or Leonardo have Steem Dollars, and you will give us!?
let' see if these is true @johnsmith :)


You tell me, is it true? Cause I actually don't know if anyone is getting these. I hope so. Cause my fingers are sore.