As this is my first (and hopefully not last) post, I've been pondering what or who deems one worthy to be here. Roughly I was turned on to the steemit platform 6 mos. ago roughly with expectations that this was an alternative to like a facebook platform minus the censorship. Game plan being build up some steem power through comments and start writing once my vote/rep was on the board (exposure if you will). I then see (yeah I love to gamble) the contests section....here we go.
To not bore you to death on how and when, I won a few sports type contests. F'n sweet, a few cents for the win and all I had to do was upvote and pick winners. Things went well until (no props for him further known as d-bag .5) says I'm no longer eligible for his (I think) contests due to "a lack of meaningful content - my interpretation" You know, his contest, his rules (never posted that one though), no problem. I enjoyed his contests, played in them until my dismissal, his show.
Now recently a new entertaining clown (no props for him further known as d-bag 1.0) who does not throw contests but sure as hell participates in them questions my worthiness to be in them. As if he's the almighty authority of steemit. His track record of cashing out as all of ours is open on the blockchain. Looking at 1.0's steempower (and even .5's), I notice he's way less than me but is supposed to be my authority? Being perplexed by this, my first post is born. As others see 1.0's tantrum evolve forward, right or wrong (I'm thinking way f'n wrong) he's not the one to regulate me, is he?
Back to my title question, does having dialogue with others without being in a proper post not worth any credibility? If I comment on a post and get an upvote, isn't that validation? I admit, my writing skills are ass, coming up with my magnificent opus ain't going to happen anytime soon. So should I be allowed to interact here as others claim no?
In closing, I feel that one that reinvests in their power and throws votes around is more worthy than one that cashes out frequently leaving little power to spread the wealth, pay it forward, etc. I can't just show some boobs and butt and make a living here (I'm a rough looking dude). Hopefully those that have been here a while can define to me and others what a worthy steemian is. Is there an X # of posts per week or month one should follow? I thought the author had the say so on all that. I guess I could crank some crap out to fill some quota but that gets old real quick. Thanks for reading.
P.S. I'm maybe gonna try one of those upvote bots, so you big bad wolves out there, get ready to blow my nickel down.