First of all, to me and many others, this post is nothing but a bunch of spam and a "poor me I never got a curie vote." Are you hoping that by publicly calling out every single person who's received curie votes and never voted for their witness, that you might get some curie attention on your own work? That's a really poor way to go about it. The best way to get curie votes is to write exceptional, quality content! Public shaming is not going to get it done.
And another thing, until I proxied my votes, I WAS voting for the curie witness. I can't help if my proxy doesn't vote for curie, and I'm not going to force them to. How DARE you call me out like that when you know NOTHING about the people on these lists. Voting for witnesses is a CHOICE, and people shouldn't be guilted and shamed into voting for a witness. That is unethical.
Hi there,
To your first point, I am 100% sure that trying to garner curie attention wasn't Asher's intention at all. With his consistent level of reward from his other followers, he has no need for a curie upvote and is way beyond the "new / unrewarded" level of a poster that curie looks out for. Basically, he'd never get a curie in a month of Sundays :)
Its good to know that you were voting for curie as a witness prior to proxying your vote. If possible, I would be interested in knowing which proxy you are using to cast your votes just to see what they are voting for. If you don't want to divulge that information, then that is fair enough, I'm just interested to know which proxies people are using.
Many thanks
Mark
To be clear, this is @abh12345 making this post and not @curie. Curie does not now, nor ever will, ask authors for anything in return for the upvotes. You should of course make your own determination on who to vote for, and I would certainly hope in any case that you wouldn't vote for someone just because another user told you to. Cheers
I'm quite aware of that. My comments were directed towards @abh12345, not @curie.
As Mark has stated, this was absolutely not my intention. Neither was it my intention for anyone to feel 'shamed' or 'forced' into voting having received a @curie vote in the past 6 months.
With @ginabot, there is a new method to bring a set of users to information that may concern them.
As a user who holds this blockchain close to his heart, delegates a large chunk of Steem Power out to newer users for free, does not vote for himself, and tries to interact and respond to as many comments as possible, my sole intention was to bring awareness for @curie's dire need for support in these difficult times.
I have been called a 'son of a bitch today' and more, but I'm willing to be the fall guy for a day if it means eyes are focused on the @curie project, which I believe has been one of the best additions to the platform over the past 18 months.
Thanks for your time.
While I understand your desire to help the curie project, I believe there is a better way to do it. The way you've done it makes people feel like they HAVE to vote for curie based on the fact that they've received a curie vote. It's no different than a parent throwing a guilt-trip on their child to get said child to do something they don't want to do.
Calling people out publicly like you did is a form of punishment or chastisement. What if many of the people you tagged simply don't understand anything about witness voting, or don't even know it's a thing? You've basically slapped them on the hand for something they didn't even know about. What about those who made an informed choice to not vote for curie? You've shamed them for thinking for themselves.
While I would like to believe that shaming people and making them feel forced into voting wasn't your intention, this is how it came across. What's your course of action now, then? Are you gonna just say "sorry, my bad, deal with it"? Or will you change your approach so that you don't come across as an asshole?
For what it's worth, I was one of the folks on this list and appreciated being informed in this way. I didn't realize curie was a witness, and I had witness votes to spare. If I can help an account that I believe helps the platform, and it's no sweat off my back, I'm happy to do it! I can see how the post might come across as annoying and rude to some, but it comes across in other ways as well. Just another example of the wide variety of perspectives on steemit.
I totally agree to @uniwhisp!
And even if one does not like what @abh12345 has written, there would also be better ways for the criticism that is practiced here! No?
Calm down, nothing really happened!!
This is how it came across to you, and a few others. The majority of the comments on this post are supportive.
However, what cannot be confused is you stating that i have 'come across as an asshole'.
Add you to my ignore list, along with the other person who called me 'a son of a bitch'.
These comments are disgraceful and are genuine reasons to be ashamed.
I have seen several comments about him shaming people. That is not what he is doing. He is simply asking people to think about supporting a person that has supported them. What he has done is shown people that he supports @curie. That he thinks they are a good witness. There are several people who on there blog resteem or blog about the witnesses they support. He has not asked anyone to Blindly follow anyone. He has provided the links to for individuals to make there own choice. I have proxied my witness vote to Asher, you have proxied your vote to someone. I proxied because I did not have the time or energy to search for 30 witnesses, I got up to I think 17, before proxying my vote.
He has not shamed anyone, he has sent out a request, "a request" for those individuals on the list to consider voting for @curie. There is absolutely nothing unethical about what he has done. It is not unethical to ask people to think about something. He has done each and everyone on that list a huge service. he has Let all of us know, here are the people that have been curried, and everyone knows that to be curried knows that person has some QUALITY content to look through. If you think his asking you to change your mind or to investigate @curie as a witness, while showing me a shit load of quality content providers is unethical.....I just don't know what else to say.