RE: Donating 5000$ and raising money with this post for covering some of SteemData costs + server upgrade. (by @Furion)
A single person running SteemData handles System Administration, Database Administration, Network Administration, Development, Quality Assurance, Testing, Planning, and Customer Service.
As a systems administrator and senior developer I was making over $100k/year. At the prices you detailed above, that puts the income around $250k/year. If you don't feel like you are worth $250k/year, or if you think anyone making that much should always spend their own funds and never get help from outside sources, then thats your opinion.
Maybe you just don't realize the amount of time, work, and effort this type of business requires. The upkeep, the research, the optimizations, the idiot users that fuck things up, etc.
Furion isn't just hanging around https://steemit.chat all day. I think he deserves well over $250-300k+/year
Then pay him the money you think he deserves. The difference between this blockchain and a job as various tech administrators is that those jobs are typically paid by a company with revenue streams from their products and services, or from a third party who needs the particular administration services.
If furion needs or deserves $300,000 a year, then perhaps he should work on monetizing his services rather than relying on charity from the limited daily reward pool. From a business perspective, that is what would make sense when it comes to expansion and covering additional costs, not a bunch of “contribution comments” on a post.
And since you’re up-to-date on what furion is doing on the daily, maybe you can tell us what has been happening with Viewly and its ICO? Or maybe let furion know that he can always drop an update on us when he’s not working at his eight SteemData jobs.
He is getting what he deserves. You are claiming he shouldn't. Just salty, I think.
But hey, it is quite alright that we have users posting 10-20 times a day getting $300 on each while not giving back to the community so let's just attack developers that are actually hosting servers and developing and maintaining them.
If you feel this post is overvalued, or any other post, you are welcome to use that downvote button and make that clear.
Now ... perhaps you have some kind of personal issue with furion. To that, I can say or add nothing to. In fact, I am unaware of anything about Viewly ... however, I will likely look into it a bit since you bring it up here.
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