When We Call a Heart a Heart!
@berniesanders earned 30% more author rewards than I did this week on just one of many profiles which also includes @nextgencrypto, @randowhale, and many more!
https://steemit.com/@berniesanders/author-rewards
https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield/author-rewards
Get Flagged!
In August 2017, @berniesanders was kind enough to let me know he would be downvoting my posts with his @nextgencrypto account on steemit.chat!
Interesting Case Studies!
Currently earning $600+ on https://steemit.com/steem/@randowhale/randowhale-is-up-and-running-the-og-vote-bot-is-back-submit-your-requests-now equal to $3,000+ USD in SBD rewards payouts.
Post about @blocktrades two weeks ago earning $600+ https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/blocktrades-throwing-another-bitch-fit
Win a cryptokitty post 2 days ago earning $200+ https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/vote-on-this-post-and-get-a-free-virgin-cryptokitty
$80 downvote on my recent Steem budget proposal launch post https://steemit.com/budget/@jerrybanfield/introducing-steem-budget-proposals
$166 earned for posting three sentences asking for witness votes at https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/i-have-multiple-witness-votes-available. 7 days later now there are 7 open witness vote spots at https://steemd.com/@berniesanders.
The comments are really the best at https://steemit.com/@berniesanders/comments
Voting Bots Providing Big Payouts!
As we can see, the @buildawhale voting bot by @themarkymark is the largest single source of upvotes for @berniesanders allowing for some of the highest author rewards on Steem using delegated Steem power in exchange for bids.
Delegations to @buildawhale can be viewed at https://steemworld.org/@buildawhale by selecting delegations in. @blocktrades provides the single largest delegation at 1,546,807.851 Steem Power equal to about $3 million dollars worth of voting power.
Self Voting The Rest!
With over a million Steem power, @berniesanders is one of the top Steem power holders in our community! Self-upvotes provide him the second biggest payout through @randowhale and the rest of the accounts under his control. @steemed-proxy has also added hundreds of dollars to recent posts while @blocktrades and @thejohalfiles provided two of the largest downvotes on the post about @blocktrades. We might get a good laugh remembering that @berniesanders wrote about @blocktrades and then voted the post up with @buildawhale twice as much as @blocktrades could vote it down.
Welcome to My World!
@berniesanders and @ats-david recently have been in my thoughts each day. Each are top downvoters and critics on many of our posts including mine. Do I have critical thoughts? Absolutely. I have fought back in my mind a hundred times. I have made devastating comebacks from entire post and video ideas to epic one liners. None of these have I shared. Today we see this in what we hope is a spirit of love, acceptance, and belonging from one member of our community featuring the amazing worth of another.
Anyone in my world is here to be loved and I have been falling short on loving the both of you. Starting yesterday as I was reading The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams, a very helpful meditation came up. For twenty minutes or so, I held both @berniesanders and @ats-david in my mind repeatedly thinking "I love you" and "I wish for you to have all of the joy in the world" along with seeing this post written. As I write this post I do that now even though I know neither of your "real names" or "identities."
Fortunately we have a direct heart to heart connection we can all feel if we are sensitive enough to experience it. Every day that each of you continues to summon me I shall ensure I remember to hold you in loving meditation to love you exactly as you are. All 500,000 of us here are equally valuable members of this community and today we join together in love to celebrate this.
Calling a Heart a Heart!
While I enjoyed a great laugh from the title "When ya call a spade a spade..." at https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/blocktrades-throwing-another-bitch-fit, it also inspired me to call a heart a heart because it takes one to know one.
Every one of us is loved no matter what we do here. Each of our contributions is meaningful regardless of how much it earns. Every witness is important from rank 1 to rank 400. Every upvote matters. Every thought matters.
Today I am grateful I have the courage to call a heart a heart and to be open to responding with love to whatever comes into my life. After many years of responding with hate and using hateful language and suffering in the hell of hateful isolation, today I am lucky to be here to have something else to share.
@berniesanders and @ats-david we love you and thank you for all you have done to add value to Steem! I am honored you have so much passion for the posts I share along with those shared by so many more of us. We love you and and value your contributions so much we thought it might be nice to all take a look at some of them here today!
I am therefore calling you both a beautiful heart that I love as much as my family, friends, and upvoters. Each time I see your names in votes and comments, I shall feel joy to remain connected with you and at your request to receive unconditional love.
Love,
Jerry Banfield
I have explained my downvoting of your posts. If you’re going to whine about it to try to make more money, it won’t turn out well for you. People have tried this in the past and just found themselves in a death spiral. Ask krnelol how it worked out for him.
I don’t have anything else to say, other than that I think you’re absolutely horrible for the image of this platform and I will downvote your posts that attempt to suck even more rewards from the pool to be wasted on bullshit “promoting” or “advertising” to your fake followers on other platforms. And that’s my right as a stakeholder. You’d do well to understand this simple concept, seeing as how you want to be one of the biggest (and most irritatingly punchable) faces for the platform.
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Any funds generated from this awesome GIF will go to the original author who will remain nameless until he d0x's himself.
it is very funny. lol )
I didn't read this pathetic post, but just the fact that you wrote one says a lot about you and the sad state of your life. I hope all of your readers finally see just how pathetic your attempt at swindling them really is.
This is a great last ditch effort to try to remain relevant here on Steemit, but, you're failing and eventually will fade away just like the other pathetic cucks before you. It's time to move on to another platform where you can try to scam money from other sheep, your time here is done.
To Jerry's followers, don't be sheep. If his pathetic rants make you feel better or fill some void in your life, I suggest you find some time away from Steemit.
We know you love @berniesanders jerry
Wow! How can I be like them Sir?
Life must be pretty dull forcing love and happiness on everything all the time
Scammers like Jerry will do/say anything to try to keep the sheep following.
Hi jerrybanfield,
Nice work sir
I actually enjoy reading both your blog and the posts written by bernie sanders. They are interesting and the feud is actually pretty interesting drama for a social network. I respect your attitude a lot jerry. Keep doing good for the steem community and know that there will always be roadblocks.
I just started using Steemit and am new to the whole platform, still trying to figure things out here... Do these Bots really add any value to quality content besides getting upvotes? I guess it's nice to get more upvotes on a blog post, but it makes more sense to get them from real people who appreciate the content versus a Bot.
You're doing great job to promote steemit. Don't waste your time and energy on stuff you can't change. Time will tell who is right and who is wrong. Keep grinding, my friend.
Agree!!!!!!
Curious what your opinion on this is now. :)
He was the only guy at that time who was promoting steem. He has a lot of followers outside the steem and I think he did bring a lot of good people to the platform. He's a weirdo and I don't like his approach but in a bigger picture, he's irrelevant.
Same with Craig grant and Trevon.
this is a really great chance to beginners like me to be able to make their posts read as much as possible.
I am following you for the last 5 months and your content is indeed valuable,, so thanks,, I even kept my SBD almost 50 SBD and did not sell them based on one your posts where you predicted Steem and SBD could be worth $10,, anyway I am a winner based on your writings.
Thanks & Cheers
Another flag war? I've been too busy with work to notice any of it and I am kinda glad I didn't. Seriously, you guys, is this flagging bullshit really worth your time?