Hi, I have been send over here after your brother told me about you and your decision to leave the giveaways behind. I was one of the strong supporters against low quality giveaways who circle-jerk SPT out of the supply. I wouldn't count any of your posts among that kind of behavior that I was criticizing. Also, I cannot speak for @jarvie but I believe that he would agree with me in that and that he wasn't indicating at targeting people like you, who actually work on their posts.

I have been for 2.5 years on the Steem blockchain and I have seen so much in all directions, that to me it has become clear, that quality is the key to both success of the platform as well as the individual. Whatever that might mean because that is highly subjective. But still, I like to create amazing posts and consume amazing posts. This is why I was speaking out on the Mavericks channel against these kind of posts.

Interestingly, you are speaking badly about reward share posts, which in my opinion are not worse or better than giveaways (sure, others don't get a direct value out of those posts, unlike with giveaways). But I think they can also be awesome and cool and look amazing.

The biggest issue is, that it is tough to find good content to upvote because of the lack of effort people put into their posts, no matter what the content is. Again, you are apparently not meant by that because you write plenty of text, style your posts and use decent imagery (although a bit repetitive for my personal taste but still way better than most others).

After we were all super emotional and argued back and forth, we were actually realizing on Discord that we all want the same: support the smaller accounts who put in effort. And believe me, even though I own some very valuable cards, I am barely able to pay my rent and provide for my family, so please don't jump the gun so quickly and think that others who criticize certain behaviors and mentality (not directed at you) of low effort content creators, are doing so out of their elevated financial position.

My conclusion: I have been realizing that there is a strong demand for giveaways and I had to reconsider my own opinion about them. In fact, I want to support those posts more in the future with both my own upvotes as well as the #spt curation trail that I am leading - provided that effort has been put into these posts. The monetary value of the cards is irrelevant for that.

Please reconsider coming back and continue your giveaways, or else we end up with the low quality giveaways, while your stuff is fading out.

I go one step further: I would like to help you with styling tips, hand-made graphics and even a few of my own cards to give away in your posts. We can all work together to make the best out of this and grow a s community. No one is looking or talking down at you. I am looking forward to your reply!