RE: ⚠️ Rip-Off Alert ⚠️ @jerrybanfield Is At It Again To Rip People Off by drakos

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witness-category · @drakos · Oct 10 '17

$0.06

Did you read the other people's comments on this post and Jerry's two recent posts? Are they over-reacting too?

I deal with stuck accounts on a daily basis, go to the #help channel on steemit.chat and see what goes on there, how many frustrated users show up daily and how we deal with them by giving them the best **affordable** advice we can, in public and in private messages. Ask any of them, how has @drakos or @timcliff helped you recently.

So when I saw that $50 flashing in my face, I had to react accordingly, because it's an insult to my and other helping volunteers efforts, and it's an insult to the community.

👍 lexiconical, em3

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@themarkymark · Oct 10 '17

$0.04

$50, more like $85 + $13-25 tip he begged for at the end of the "checkout process".

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@lexiconical · Oct 11 '17

$1.56

I think the "suggested tip" was rolled into the $50, wasn't it?

It was 30 steem account creation fee + ~$14 suggested tip totalling approx. $50?

Could be wrong there.

👍 nikez452

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@themarkymark · Oct 11 '17

$0.12

It was 50 Steem, (14 Steem was a tip) but at the end of the check out he asked for another 10-20 Stem tip to make you "feel good".  This was steem not SBD so another 15-50% more than SBD.

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@lexiconical · Oct 11 '17 (edited)

$7.09

*"Did you read the other people's comments on this post and Jerry's two recent posts? Are they over-reacting too?"*

Yeah, kinda. Nobody is giving the stupidity explanation due consideration.

Frankly, the fact that I had to go on MSP Waves to get people to realize that I write all the witness posts and I don't think Jerry even reads them (because I also proof-read them) was just __staggering__.

Nobody around here is developing an informed, dispassionate opinion based on the facts...except, like, me (harhar). 

But again, I apparently am the only person who read the posts where it states over and over again  the posts are my words.

*"So when I saw that $50 flashing in my face, I had to react accordingly, because it's an insult to my and other helping volunteers efforts, and it's an insult to the community."*

Are Rolex's watches an insult to Timex's watches?

If you prefer something more comparable...

Is Whole Foods' milk an insult to Wal-Mart's milk?

If I negotiate a contract for pay twice that of a similar coworker, is my job an insult to theirs?

Why are you guys so pissed off at a self-admitted reformed alcoholic who keeps going to AA not knowing some shit about the Steemit platform? Of course a guy like that is going to make some dumb mistakes, especially given we ALL do.

Is it not obvious what Jerry's value here would be (sign-ups?)

👍 nikez452

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@drakos · Oct 11 '17 (edited)

$0.04

I really don't care if he's AA or not, I wasn't even aware of it, and it's not even part of the issue. His personal life is his own, I'm not debating that. We all have our own sad stories, and it's not the key to redemption when someone messes up repeatedly. So throwing his AA story to get pity doesn't work on me. Marketers can manipulate people into selling their mother's soul if they wanted to.

Oh look, cute eyes, let's forgive him... NO!
https://www.pbfingers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/puss-in-boots.png

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@lexiconical · Oct 11 '17

$6.97

*"So throwing his AA story to get pity doesn't work on me."*

It's not about pity. You brought that up, not me. It's about a rational explanation for what has happened leading to a determination of what he can offer the community.

*"Marketers can manipulate people into selling their mother's soul if they wanted to."*

Yes, the idea is Jerry might be able to do that for Steem in a way that increases adoption.

Do you see how he has pros and cons?

👍 nikez452

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@nikez452 · Oct 16 '17

$0.42

timex kind of an insult to rolex actually...

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@lexiconical · Oct 17 '17

Hah, a fair point, but in this case we're talking about totally different levels of quality and aesthetics. It's a poor analogy, to be fair.

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@theleapingkoala · Oct 20 '17

So you do speak?!!!
I thought you are a shadow bot!
Glad to know you are human

👍 coachme, theleapingkoala, nikez452

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