RE: 3 WAYS OF JOINING OUR EFFORTS + PROJECT "HOPE" ECONOMY EXPLAINED

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I was asked for my comments and here they are, although you may not like what I have to say:

This project is just another form of circle-jerk (although in reality, the entire system is mostly a circle-jerk and it is designed to perpetuate it), so I have no problem with that.

There are far more than 5 people from Venezuela struggling to earn a few cents on this platform and I would like to see the most needy get help instead of a select few. How can we determine who actually needs help the most?

At what point do we/you determine that your chosen 5 have learned to fish well enough that another 5 should be supported?

It seems discriminatory to choose certain topics that will be supported while anything you don't find interesting should be rejected as bad content no matter how good it is or how much effort goes into creating it. At least when people curate naturally, they choose what to read and vote on their interests. This "system" seems to kind of force the votes that may not otherwise have been given; or taken a vote away from someone else because the vote was used in the system and now the VP has run out for what might otherwise have been curated by the voter.

Please don't take my comments as hateful or as an attack; It is not my intention at all. It is just that I don't beat around the bush with my words and I say it as I see it. Under normal circumstances, I would simply not say anything at all, but I was invited to come here and give my opinion. I have always believed that the truth is better than a lie and that it is better to hear the truth than to believe everything is fine when it is not.

At least you know that I've read your content and I made an effort to give you my honest opinion.



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Dear @happyme

I'm grateful for your comment. We clearly disagree, however I always appreciate opinion coming from those who do see things differently.

It's quite very first time someone called our efforts "circle-jerking" and I wonder what does it mean in your opinion. >

There are far more than 5 people from Venezuela struggling to earn a few cents on this platform and I would like to see the most needy get help instead of a select few

I'm sure you've heard saying 'think globaly, act localy'.

Right now within past 9 months (since @project.hope started) I've spend already so far around 10k steem of my own money to support several people from struggling countries, who I tried to help. And I will be most likely spending my own funds for next 3-4 months, before this project will become fully financially independent.

I collaborated with other Venezuelans, with few Nigerians, few from Bangladesh and different part of the world.

Out of those several people only those 5 worked really hard (and didn't disappear after recent hard fork). So I'm focusing my efforts on helping them in the first place.

So to answer your question: How can we determine who actually needs help the most?

Just look into our own hearts and that's where we will find the answer. I'm not here to help those who needs help the most. I'm here to help those that I care about and who work hard to change something in their life.

I looked into mine and I found my answer. I got to know all those few guys very well. I learned about their lifes, about their hopes and families. And I learned to care about them.

Please don't take my comments as hateful or as an attack; It is not my intention at all.

Of course. I fully understand that I'm not being attacked here and it's obvious to me, that not everyone out there will support this idea. However great and noble I may think it is.

Please allow me to reassure you, that I actually value your feedback greately.

Thank you,
Yours, Piotr

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Dear Piotr,
I'm very touched by your response. This tells me a lot about who you are.

Thanks for the explanation about how you chose the 5 people in the core team. I can understand the logic there.

You asked: "circle-jerking" and I wonder what does it mean in your opinion.
It is simply a group of people who keep their votes among themselves. As stated before, it is a very common practice here on this platform.

As you are probably well aware, I too have been trying to help others in my own small way for as long as I've been here. It is natural to gravitate to those who work hard on this platform, however working hard does not necessarily equate to need and could be strictly because of greed. In fact, the priest who performed my marriage ceremony was one heck of a greedy, lying and cheating life form who thought he was superior to everyone else. I didn't fully understand how bad a creature he was until I met him once again at someone else's wedding.

Speaking of priests: Don't assume because of a chosen profession that this makes anyone somehow a better person. The Christian religion has a history of child-abuse among their pastors and my own cousin was sexually abused by a priest. To me, sexual child abuse is one of the most despicable acts one can imagine.

Perhaps now you understand why I got a sour taste in my mouth while reading your post.

It is impossible to really get to know anyone from afar. It is difficult enough to know those who are close to us. Sometimes ignorance is bliss and it is definitely easier.

I too invested some of my own money in an effort to give out bigger votes on this platform. Unfortunately, immediately after I invested, the value of Steem went down and on top of that, they changed the algorithm for payments. That has severely hurt my ability to accomplish what I had intended to do. Perhaps it was a sign from God, or simply bad luck. I don't know, so I just keep plugging along, doing what I had been doing until I get a clearer message.

I do hope that you will be able to help a wider audience eventually. In the meantime, I respect what you are doing and understand that we need to start somewhere and it is natural to gravitate to those who resonate with your own thoughts and beliefs.

I haven't put nearly as much effort as you did into gathering a following and it shows. I simply allow those interested to come to my pages to decide for themselves if what I'm offering appeals to them or not. It seems most people here are seeking the quick fix instead of the slow and steady approach. I see the same kind of responses in the political arena and that hasn't done anything to improve our living conditions either. Sometimes people are their own worst enemy; they vote emotionally rather than logically. Then again, there often are no real good candidates to vote for anyway, and one political party is as bad as the other.

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Hi @happyme

I just realized that somehow I didn't see your comment and I just read it now. Thx for being so responsive :)

ps.
Hope you don't mind if i take few minutes of your time?

Are you using steemauto.com? We've launched "Project HOPE" curation trail lately and I figured that perhaps you would like to join and support our efforts with 30-50% voting power

The way this curation trail is organized will benefit you: on average we trigger this curation trail only 4 times a day. And all upvotes from curation trial are being placed, solid upvote from @project.hope (almost 300k SP) will follow. This way your curation rewards should be quite decent :)

Also if you're wondering what content do we support, then please visit @project.hope and check out resteemed posts.

How does it sound? If you like this idea, then consider joining our trail
Cheers, Piotr

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Hello @crypto.piotr,
Thanks for the invitation. I've not found curation to provide much of an income, especially since the last fork where more of our earnings are scraped off for those who already make a ton more than most. Additionally, I need to preserve my VP for those who participate in my own offerings so that I can reward those who support me and allow my account to grow in order to have more VP to then help others with.

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