When I joined Steem over three years ago I saw great potential. It has yet to achieve that, but I am still here and working to build it up. Part of that has been being part of @SteemFlagRewards to deal with people who just take without giving back or adding value. It is supposed to be about rewarding good content with Proof of Brain and not Proof of Greed.
I seem to have picked up some 'enemies' along the way, but all they can do is downvote my posts and that is really no big deal. I am not depending on Steem income and anything I make is a bonus. For now it is all powered up anyway. I have not taken any out for ages and I do not self vote.
The last few days have seen this sort of behaviour.
It really does not matter. This person was abusive in comments to me, but I will not sink to their level. I cannot even remember if I downvoted them before, but that would only have been for disagreement over rewards and not out of spite. In any case they get downvoted to nothing by others anyway, so I will not waste my voting power on them.
This may result in some of my comments getting hidden by default, but some good people have been canceling them out. Big thanks to 
What keeps me coming back to Steem is the community. I have met so many good and dedicated people here. I know some of them are a bit dispirited by the lack of progress and the negative effects HF21 could have on many of us, but I am not going anywhere. There is still lots of important work to be done. I am still a fairly small fish with just a few cents in votes, but I will do what I can.
If you want to help out in making Steem better then I recommend talking to the @SteemFlagRewards community. Join their Discord. Even if you do not want to downvote you can give them some support. You will have free downvotes very soon, so consider using those. If we coordinate our actions it can have a big impact.
I am really not interested in getting into fights and arguments, but the positive vibes I get here more than make up for the negative.
Steem on!
The geeky guitarist and facilitator of the 10K Minnows Project.
